Dewberry has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to map roughly nearly 14-thousand square miles of land in Utah, and analyze the produced data, the company reported on Thursday.

“This project will help USGS, FEMA, and other partner agencies acquire baseline elevation data at the required accuracy and resolution to protect our natural resources and provide thousands of residents with updated reference data that they can use to keep their families and property safe,” said Dewberry project manager and senior associate, Elise MacPherson, PMP. 

Under the contract award, Dewberry will collect lidar data across Emery, Carbon, Grand, Cache, Weber, Morgan, Summit, Dagget, Uintah, Duchesne, Iron and Washington counties during the fall and winter seasons of 2020 through May 2021. 

Dewberry’s work will support the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP); the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (MAP) program; and the National Resources Conservation Service high resolution elevation enterprise program. 

The company’s efforts will also help inform the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service conservation and management of watersheds; and resources related to the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program.

“Increased development, urbanization, and the effects of global climate change have resulted in the need for up-to-date information,” added MacPherson. 

About Dewberry 

Dewberry is a nationwide firm of planning, design, and construction professionals. We create responsible and innovative solutions for those who own, operate, and maintain natural and built environments. We value lasting relationships, achieving our clients’ visions, and celebrating in their success.

Tamr has been awarded a potential five-year, $60 million contract from the U.S. Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office (AFSEO) to accelerate and automate the flight certification process and provide recommendations for new flight configurations, the company announced on Thursday.

AFSEO has selected Tamr to mine the technical content in historical documents using their machine learning software and technical expertise to quickly identify relevant antecedents that can support the engineering decisions to protect pilots and aircraft as well as meet the evolving mission. 

Tamr will integrate machine learning to quickly search and sift through more than 30 years of data to automatically make recommendations 'by analogy'. This recommendation would take weeks for an engineer to develop manually. 

Tamr will enable AFSEO to predict if a configuration is safe based on previously approved configurations. Tamr’s work will result in increased ROI and utilization of existing Air Force aircraft and efficiency of AFSEO engineers and analysts. Tamr will also save time per request and will automatically tag more than 60 thousand historical documents, enabling analysts to find relevant studies faster.

 AFSEO is responsible for verifying safe flight operating conditions for planes loaded with new stores, including sensors, weapons, electronic warfare pods and other aeronautic devices, as well as new configurations.

"AFSEO performs difficult tasks to deliver a very important capability to current and future generations of aircraft," said Mike Gormley, lead for Tamr Government Solutions. "This contract demonstrates their confidence in Tamr to improve the organization's current throughput and agility for future mission requirements."

About Tamr, Inc.

Tamr and through its subsidiary, Tamr Government Solutions, is the leading data mastering company that accelerates data-driven business outcomes for large organizations. Public sector leaders like: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Army, U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy trust Tamr to manage their enterprise data as an asset. 

 Tamr's unique approach of using human-guided machine learning algorithms to accelerate data mastering projects lets the world's largest organizations enhance their data operations, rapidly activate latent data, and increase the velocity of business outcomes through data-driven insights. With a co-founding team led by Andy Palmer (founding CEO of Vertica) and Mike Stonebraker (Turing Award winner) and backed by investors including NEA and Google Ventures, Tamr is transforming how companies get value from their data.

DLT Solutions has been awarded a state, local and education (SLED) software indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by Region 4 Education Service Center to enable SLED organizations to purchase solutions from the technology vendors included in the contract award, DLT announced on Thursday.

"The addition of this contract vehicle to DLT's portfolio increases our technology partners' ability to supply the entire U.S. SLED community with the solutions they need to modernize their technology environments and meet their missions," said Chris Wilkinson, president, DLT Solutions, a Tech Data company. 

The OMNIA Partners cooperative program will streamline access to DLT's IT portfolio and deliver additional savings to SLED organizations. DLT's award has included a variety of companies that enable SLED organizations to access additional work and resources. 

The companies on the contract include: Checkmarx, CloudBees, Cobalt Iron, Crowdstrike, Idaptive, Infor, LogRhythm, NETSCOUT, Novetta, Polyverse, Red Hat and Sumo Logic. New technology vendors can be added over the life of the contract.

"It also provides our channel partners with SLED reach nationwide, enabling their customers to source technology leveraging OMNIA Partner's immense purchasing power," added Wilkinson. 

The OMNIA Partners, Public Sector Software IDIQ initial contract award will be active from January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2022, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods.

About DLT Solutions

DLT Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tech Data, the world's leading end-to-end distributor of technology products, services and solutions. DLT is the premier government solutions aggregator that specializes in understanding the IT needs of the federal, state, local and education markets. 

We help simplify the process for independent software vendors, federal systems integrators and value-added resellers doing business in the public sector. Leveraging Tech Data's end-to-end portfolio, an extensive array of public sector contract vehicles, and dedicated channel and enablement services, DLT provides government agencies and channel partners with the means to rapidly and cost effectively transform technology to achieve mission success.