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Monday, February 20th, 2017

Fugro Announces Partnership with Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE

Fugro today announced a partnership with the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE to support first round testing of the global, three-year competition, which incentivises development of rapid, unmanned and high resolution ocean mapping technologies. Fugro’s role is to provide high resolution deepwater baseline bathymetry data over a 500 km² competition area. The company has recently collected

Sunday, February 19th, 2017

International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) and ASPRS Annual Conference to Take Place Together in Denver in 2018

Diversified Communications, organizer of International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) and the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) announced that their annual geospatial events will take place together in Denver in 2018. Lisa Murray, Director of ILMF, made the announcement with ASPRS President Charles Toth during her opening remarks at the 2017 International LiDAR

Sunday, February 19th, 2017

Aerojet Rocketdyne Names John Schneider VP of Quality & Mission Assurance

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), today announced that John Schneider has been appointed vice president of Quality & Mission Assurance (Q&MA). He succeeds Jerry Tarnacki who was recently named senior vice president of the company’s Space Business Unit. Schneider joined Aerojet Rocketdyne in July 1988 and has

Sunday, February 19th, 2017

Dwell on Design Announces Sir David Adjaye As Featured Speaker

LOS ANGELES, February 2017— Dwell on Design returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center, June 23-25, 2017, and is excited to announce the first wave of new programming! The highly- anticipated annual fair will welcome 300 new and returning exhibitors, transforming 100,000 square feet of concrete into a design incubator where prefab comes to life and

Sunday, February 19th, 2017

Aerojet Rocketdyne Names Jerry Tarnacki to Lead Space Business Unit

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), today announced that Jerry Tarnacki has been appointed as the senior vice president of the company’s recently formed Space Business Unit. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/7703b2a6-4653-4f7b-9d55-a57569e2aa8a In his new role, Tarnacki will report directly to Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO

Friday, February 17th, 2017

Kaman Measuring Announces KD-5100 Differential Measurement System

Middletown, CT – The Measuring Division of Kaman Precision Products, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance, precision non-contact position measuring systems, announces the availability of its KD-5100 differential measurement system, which provides resolution to a nanometer of positional change. With its proven stable design, extremely small size, and low power

Friday, February 17th, 2017

Iridium Announces Target Date for Second Launch of Iridium NEXT

MCLEAN, Va. – Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) announced it has received a targeted launch date of mid-June for the second mission of ten Iridium NEXT satellites.  Originally anticipated for mid-April of 2017, the date has shifted due to a backlog in SpaceX’s launch manifest as a result of last year’s September 1st anomaly.  This second

Friday, February 17th, 2017

Geoscience Australia, Lockheed Collaborate on Multi-GNSS SBAS Research

Geoscience Australia, an agency of the Commonwealth of Australia, and Lockheed Martin have entered into a collaborative research project to show how augmenting signals from multiple GNSS constellations can enhance positioning, navigation and timing for a range of applications. Other partners are Inmarsat and GMV. The research project aims to demonstrate how a second-generation Satellite-Based

Friday, February 17th, 2017

PCI Geomatics Welcomes Advanced Groundwater Technologies to its Reseller Partner Network

MARKHAM, Ontario, Canada : PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that Advanced Groundwater Technologies (AGWT) has joined its reseller network. AGWT will provide Serbian and Croatian customers with Geomatica® software products, support, and training. The PCI Geomatics Reseller Partner Network includes companies from over 40 countries

Friday, February 17th, 2017

DigitalGlobe Announces Launch of SecureWatch, Advancing Mission Preparedness and Success When Decisions Matter Most

WESTMINSTER, Colo.- DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced the launch of a new product, SecureWatch, optimized for International Defense and Intelligence customers. SecureWatch is a web-based subscription service that gives intelligence agencies and defense organizations access to DigitalGlobe’s industry-leading 7 billion sq. km.