Data.gov Portal to be Made Available to Governments Around the World; Jeanne Holm Comments
January 3, 2013 No Comment
Data.gov managers are now making available the open-source version of its open data portal that would allow governments across the globe to stand up similar information transparency gateways. According to a GCN article, the company is working with the National Informatics Centre of the Indian government in developing the Open Government Platform, which is an [...]
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InfoZen Inc. has won a $40 million firm-fixed-price contract to maintain websites and applications for NASA and migrate them to the cloud, according to Washington Technology The deal comes under the Web enterprise service technologies blanket purchase agreement with one base year and four option years. According to Nick Wakeman, the Rockville, Md.-based company will also provide [...]
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Google and NASA have partnered to add nighttime satellite imagery to Google Maps, Information Week reports. The collaboration came shortly after NASA released “Black Marble,” a set of high-resolution images of the Earth at night, featuring images captured over 22 days between April and October 2012. According to J. Nicholas Hoover’s report, Google Maps users [...]
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United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has completed the final phase of its Space Act agreement for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA said ULA detailed how the launch system hardware on its Atlas V rocket would ensure crew safety during launch and ascent as part of its Commercial Crew [...]
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NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Energy Department are co-sponsoring an innovation challenge aimed at harnessing the potential of big data, NASA announced Wednesday. Through the Big Data Challenge hosted by NASA’s tournament lab, competitors will come up with new analytical techniques and software tools that use big data from discrete government information domains. [...]
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NASA is preparing its astronauts for an asteroid exploration mission by using iPads for training, Information Week reports. David Carr writes the agency is using the iPads to simulate time-delayed radio communications, organize mission pans and deliver training. Used for the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operation training at the Aquarius Reef Base at Key Largo, [...]
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Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has delivered two of the 18 primary mirrors needed for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The agency said it is inspecting the mirrors and storing them at the Goddard cleanroom until engineers are ready to assemble them onto the telescope’s backplane structure [...]
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