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Monday, August 8th, 2016
Patrick T. Biltgen, Ph.D., Technical Director for Analytics, Vencore, Inc., talked with GISCafe Voice about their offerings. Vencore is a provider of information solutions, engineering and analytics for the U.S. Government with more than 40 years of experience working in the defense, civilian and intelligence communities. This summer Vencore, a company that spun off from Lockheed Martin about four years ago, was awarded a prime contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to deliver research in the area of enhanced cyber defense by developing a fully air-gapped detection system based on analysis of involuntary analog emissions. The four-year contract has a total ceiling value of $8.3M and will be performed as part of DARPA’s Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security (LADS) program.
GISCafe Voice: How are you able to decipher which information is potentially significant and which is not?
Open sources and social media provide a wealth of information, but each source must be vetted carefully. We have developed a structured method for evaluating the quality and reliability of open sources based on their social network, past reporting, credentials, and other factors. We also have highly trained, contextually aware analysts with years of experience studying conflict around the world. Many of our analysts have spent time overseas and are fluent in multiple languages.
This holistic perspective allows us to weigh and judge information instead of accepting open source data at face value.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, satellite imagery, Vencore
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
PenBay Solutions’ chief technology officer, Stuart Rich, spoke with me at Esri UC 2016 in San Diego about the company’s leveraging of GIS to solve facilities management problems.
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Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, smartphones
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Friday, July 29th, 2016
Dr. Harold Trease, DataFission’s Chief Scientist spoke with GISCafe Voice about the new DataFission DataHunter, Digital Universe Search Engine – DUSE, a content-based, search engine for use in digesting and searching unstructured data.
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Tags: cloud, data, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, navigation, social media
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
At Esri UC 2016, GISCafe Voice spoke with Matt Zenus, vice president, Product Strategy Go-To-Market, Digital Enterprise Platform Group at SAP and Marie Goodell, Head of Marketing, SAP HANA Platform at SAP about their recent announcements.
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Tags: cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, HANA, imagery, SAP
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
The ArcGIS Apps technical sessions in the Exhibit Hall were among the most popular attractions at the Esri User Conference 2016 this year. This technical session was about managing and deploying your data on devices, namely, the iPad with ArcPad, presented by Esri’s Denise King.
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Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, ESRI, geospatial, GIS
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
One of the perks of coming to GISCafe’s booth in the Exhibit Hall at major industry events is the possibility of becoming a winner.
 Forrest Lamb, GS (801) 12 CFM, CFMJ (more…)
Tags: Esri UC 2016, GISCafe, Kindlefire
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
What was the most exciting attraction in the Exhibit Hall at the Esri User Conference 2016? Hard to say, as the 14,000+ attendees flocked to see the plethora of exciting exhibits from third party companies, and of course the numerous demonstrations of Esri products and services. Drones, imagery, field solutions, utilities, navigation, spatially enabled business apps, data management, all vied for an audience at the conference. Esri’s Drone2Map was a huge hit, and Collector for ArcGIS was a product that garnered an enormous amount of attention at its demonstrations and technical workshops, offering the promise of providing mapping to professionals in the field workforce that would in turn, improve the accuracy and currency of spatial data.
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Tags: cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Harris Geospatial, location, mapping, maps, mobile, remote sensing, SAP HANA, satellite imagery
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2016
The question: what do we do with all this data? Is one that really runs parallel with the theme of this year’s Esri User Conference held in San Diego, entitled, “GIS Enabling a Smarter World.”
 Jack Dangermond, CEO and President of Esri (more…)
Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, navigation, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery, small sats, smartphones, USGS
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
GISCafe will be attending and exhibiting at the Esri User Conference 2016 held in San Diego this week, June 24th-July 1st. Come visit us at booth #133, where president Sanjay Gangal will be recording video interviews. Contact Sanjay at sanjay.gangal@ibsystems.com or 408-850-9202 if you would like to schedule a video interview. We also have a Kindlefire Sweepstakes, so be sure to leave your business card.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, Esri User Conference 2016, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, Jack Dangermond, LiDAR, location, mapping, mobile, remote sensing
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Friday, June 17th, 2016
Stephen P. Welby, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD(R&E)) who also serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the principal advisor to the Secretary on all matters relating to science, technology, research and engineering, spoke at the GEOINT 2016 Symposium in May on “Wrestling with Technology” and how the department is dealing with technological challenges.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, Department of Defense, GEOINT 2016, geospatial, Stephen P. Welby
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