Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
BAE Systems (Mt. Laurel, NJ) was selected as the Grand Award winner of the inaugural PA-MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition for their project “PAMAP: The Keystone to Intelligence Decisions”. The accomplishment was recognized at a ceremony during the PaGIS Conference on May 25 in Grantville, PA. Learn More
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
MAPPS, the national association of private sector geospatial firms, praised the adoption of an amendment in the U.S. House of Representatives this week that placed a moratorium on insourcing of commercial activities in the Department of Defense. The amendment to H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), was sponsored by Representative Nan Hayworth (R-NY)
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
A bill to develop a current, accurate Federal cadastre to inventory all Federal real property has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, earning praise from MAPPS, the national association of private geospatial firms. The Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (“FLAIR”) Act, H.R. 1620, was introduced April 15 by U.S. Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI)
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
DHS has issued a request for qualifications from private firms for “Remote Sensing to Support Incident Management and Homeland Security”. Under the contract to be awarded, approximately four teams of firms will be under Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) firm-fixed price contracts for five years. Services to be provided via task orders under the contract will
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Nicholas “Miki” Schmidt, Coastal Geospatial Services Division Chief, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center, Charleston, SC, has been presented the MAPPS Public Service Award. Mr. Schmidt was recognized for forging public-private partnerships, and inter-agency and inter-governmental arrangements to carry out NOAA projects that promote economic development and environmental balance in
Monday, March 14th, 2011
“There is a critical need to refocus the mission and priorities of the USGS, and to align its budget with this new direction,” John Palatiello, Executive Director of MAPPS, told a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives March 9. Palatiello’s testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the House Committee on
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
MAPPS, the national association of private sector geospatial firms, has submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission opposing regulatory language that would limit the collection, sharing or use of “precise geolocation data”. The association said a draft regulation, proposed in a Federal Trade Commission staff report, threatens data collection, applications and growth in the private
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Major L. Clark III, Assistant Chief Counsel for Procurement at the Small Business Administration (SBA), was presented the MAPPS Public Service Award on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at the MAPPS Fall Policy Conference in Orlando, FL. Mr. Clark was recognized for his role in revising the “retainage” regulation. His leadership led to the revision of
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Michael Baker Jr., Inc. has been selected as the Grand Award winner in the 4th Annual MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition presented November 17 in Kissimmee, FL. Baker’s project, “U.S. Bureau of Census – Accurate Coordinate Datasets Collection”, generated spatial ground control for 1,018 counties/municipalities, spanning 37 different U.S. States and five
Friday, October 29th, 2010
The MAPPS Political Action Committee (MAPPS PAC) today announced it has contributed $50,000 in support of 45 candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for the November 2 election. The MAPPS PAC is a bi-partisan PAC that supports Republicans and Democrats who have records of demonstrated support for the private geospatial community and
