Op-ed | How to increase the intelligence community’s geospatial innovation

Until the intelligence community defines cost and value by measuring geospatial information, it has to rely on one measurement—six inches. The length of an American dollar.

Maritime ISR Global Summit

Maritime ISR Global 2019 will welcome 150 senior leaders from the UK, Australia, Sweden, Germany, NATO and many others to set a roadmap for delivering persistent maritime ISR.

For the maritime intelligence community, the application of geo…

4th GEOINT & Open Source Analytics Summit

The 2019 Summit will address the challenges of integrating emerging technology and commercial expertise into the government GEOINT Enterprise. With the exponential growth of technology in recent years in the private sector, Government GEOINT opera…

Parsons planning more merger and acquisition moves

Fresh off its purchase of geospatial intelligence firm OGSystems in January, Parsons is searching for more companies to buy that would further expand its presence in space, among other industries.

Lockheed Martin offering new satellite image analysis service

Lockheed senior fellow Mark Pritt: “Today there’s still a lot of manual labor involved in identifying what you’re seeing in those images."

First Hawkeye 360 satellites pinpointing signals

Hawkeye 360 announced Feb. 26 it can pinpoint the location of radio frequency signals with its first three satellites launched in December on the SpaceX rideshare mission

Planet to acquire software specialist Boundless Spatial

Earth observation company Planet plans to acquire Boundless Spatial Inc., a geospatial software specialist “to accelerate the adoption by government and enterprise customers of commercial geospatial information services,” said Robbie Schingler, Planet co-founder and chief strategy officer.

Intelligence official: ‘Incredibly powerful insight’ drawn from open source data

Answers to some of the toughest problems that intelligence agencies are trying to solve today come from open source data.

Orbital Insight acquires computer vision startup FeatureX

Orbital Insight, a Silicon Valley geospatial analytics company, announced the purchase Sept. 18 of FeatureX, a Boston-based artificial intelligence firm specializing in computer vision for satellite imagery. The terms of the purchase were not disclosed.

PlanetWatchers to target sugar cane, energy markets

PlanetWatchers, a geospatial analytics startup focused to date on forestry, is preparing to expand its focus from forestry to sugar cane and energy, said Ariel Smoliar, PlanetWatchers chief executive and co-founder.

Op-ed | Geospatial Intelligence: The totally made-up term that’s changing the world

USGIF proposes that geospatial intelligence is ready to take its place alongside business intelligence, artificial intelligence and competitive intelligence in the business world.

Maxar’s data analytics division adds jobs to sate U.S. government appetite for artificial intelligence

“There is a strong desire to take capabilities to teach machines to recognize objects in optical and radar imagery," said Radiant Solutions president Tony Frazier.

Can artificial intelligence help U.S. SOCOM track weapons of mass destruction?

Countering WMDs is a major intelligence fusion challenge. Thomas: “Even for an organization that prides itself in agility, which we do, this is some incredibly problem solving.”

To keep foothold in government market, satellite imaging companies have to gain trust

NGA Director Cardillo: “I want the market to work … but government shouldn’t be their first customer. We should be their second customer.”

Defense intelligence chief: ‘A lot of technology remains untapped’

USD Kernan: "we really haven’t taken all the advantage we can of technology.”