Month: April 2017

Uber Looks to the Sky

Uber announced new partnerships with the cities of Dallas and Dubai, where the company plans to deploy Elevate—what it is billing as the world’s first commercially viable network of on-demand aircraft.

Smart IT for Smart Cities

Location and geospatial technology enable precise mapping of utility assets, urban properties, transportation infrastructure, and government facilities.

Weekly GEOINT Community News

NGA Releases New Mobile App; Boundless to Support NGA GEOINT Services; New Commercial Satellite Weather Bill Signed; CompassData Partners with Carahsoft

AI & Unmanned Fighter Jets

Air Force completes Have Raider II manned/unmanned teaming trial

Big Data from Small Sats

Speakers from government and industry discussed solutions for analyzing big data derived from small sats at USGIF’s “Powering GEOINT Analytics” workshop.

GEOINT and Homeland Security

David Lilley Jr., acting director of the DHS Geospatial Management Office, outlined his office’s main objectives and discussed the utility of GEOINT at USGIF’s GEOINTeraction Tuesday in March.

GEOINT 2017 Sneak Peek

NGA’s Robert Cardillo and Dustin Gard-Weiss as well as DIA’s Terry Busch discussed their GEOINT 2017 plans at a sneak peek event

Weekly GEOINT Community News

NGA Seeks Proposals for Airborne SAR BAA; HPE Software Achieves Information Processing Standard; Astro Digital Secures $16.65M in Series A Funding

The Social Component of Learning

In his monthly column, USGIF Vice President of Professional Development Dr. Darryl Murdock considers informal paths to learning and introduces USGIF’s burgeoning mentorship program

Weekly GEOINT Community News

KeyW Completes Sotera Defense Solutions Acquisition; VATC Selected as CACI Subcontractor for SOCOM Geospatial Support; Spaceflight Industries Unveils BlackSky Spectra