Tag Archives: remote sensing

The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit has started to seek offers from U.S. operators of remote sensing satellites that can provide data analytics and imagery services, SpaceNews reported Monday.

Solis Applied Science has received a potential five-year, $77.4M contract from the U.S. Army to provide remote sensing and image science support to the National Ground Intelligence Center. Army Contracting Command solicited three bids and received one response for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

The National Reconnaissance Office selected three companies to conduct satellite imagery studies that aim to evaluate industry’s capacity to help the U.S. government address geospatial intelligence requirements by 2023.

Engility (NYSE: EGL) has received a potential $71M contract to help the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center engineer and integrate remote sensing systems. The company said Tuesday it will provide systems engineering support for the missile warning and defense and battlespace awareness missions of the SMC RSS directorate. …

Alion Science and Technology has secured a $769M task order under the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract to boost the U.S. armed forces’ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. The company said Tuesday its work under the Joint Capability Embedded Technology Insertion and Integration task order …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 6, 2018 — Dewberry Vice President Amar Nayegandhi, who has worked on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lidar project, has been named director of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing’s lidar division, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Nayegandhi, who also serves as director of remote sensing and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 13, 2017 — Tony Frazier, president of Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) Radiant Solutions business unit, has said the use of big data analytics, artificial intelligence and other technologies to generate insights from data continues to drive the remote sensing sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. “Applying artificial intelligence, machine …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 14, 2017 — DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) and Esri have teamed to provide users of the ArcGIS mapping platform access to satellite images as well as deep learning and analytical tools to derive insights from the images, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. DigitalGlobe said Monday it will combine …

Exelis (NYSE: XLS) will support NASA research on climate change by providing a modified Multi-Functional Fiber Laser LIDAR under a $3.5 million contract as part of the Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America project. The company said Monday that the research is centered on monitoring how weather systems move gases such as carbon …

Startup aerospace firm Sensintel Inc. has purchased the unmanned aircraft programs business of BAE Systems for an undisclosed amount, sUAS News reported Saturday. The publication reports Sensintel develops unmanned aerial systems and provides training, modification and engineering services. “The decision to acquire this business and form Sensintel was an easy …