Tag Archives: GEOINT

NASA has partnered with its European and Japanese counterparts to leverage their respective geospatial intelligence resources to collect data on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. NASA that the agency has teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to deploy Earth-observing satellites to document the pandemic’s potential long-term impacts as part of the initiative. 

Dovarious Peoples, chief information officer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), said the Army component is leveraging data repositories to enable the use of artificial intelligence for geospatial-related applications, Federal News Network reported Monday.

Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, has published a document expressing his intent to realign the GEOINT community’s priorities to meet mission needs in an evolving operational environment.

NASA has partnered with the European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to launch a “virtual hackathon” to support COVID-19 research and development efforts.

PredaSAR Corporation has appointed Intelligence Community (IC) veteran Eric Truitt, as chief solutions officer (CSO), effective April 15, 2020, the company announced on Wednesday. 

PAR Government Systems has re-launched its GV3.0 raster imagery and full-motion video viewing package as a commercial product to provide full-motion video (FMV) capabilities, the company reported on Tuesday. 

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued updates in its privacy impact assessment of a geospatial imaging tool built to provide information such as land ownership limits at the southern border.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected an undisclosed company to prototype image scanning technology to support the agency’s efforts to digitize its geospatial mapping data, C4ISRnet reported Thursday.

Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a 2019 Wash100 award winner, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Wednesday about adopting his predecessor’s NGA strategy, which focuses on people, partnerships, mission today and mission tomorrow.

Maxar Technologies has received a $14 million contract to develop Red Wing, an automated, cloud-based geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis architecture for the Air Force Research Laboratory, Maxar announced on Monday.