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In a time where information is ubiquitous, and can be accessed by the wrong people, defense and intelligence agencies need to be assured that all sensitive data gets to the right people at the right time. As simple as this concept is, it will always ring true in the intelligence community.

Fortunately, there are technologies like the ones from member company, Owl Computing Technologies that allow for the secure transfer of information. The company delivers certified and accredited, secure one-way data transfer systems to transport and protect our nation’s most sensitive data. And, the data can be shared between discrete domains of varying security levels and policies, physical distance and network architecture types.

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FortiusOne clearly has a strategy aimed at bringing geospatial intelligence, GIS and the mapping world into the hands of the masses and to virtually any industry/government sector that can benefit from mapping data. We recently received a briefing on its Geocommons offering by Sean Gorman, who founded FortiusOne in 2005 when he was a student at George Mason University.

Side note: our readers may recall that in 2003, Mr. Gorman made the headlines for developing very detailed maps of U.S. infrastructure along with the fiber-optic network that connects businesses and government (all collected from public sources), which caused quite a stir.

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Creating advanced science and engineering solutions has been a 30-year mission for Areté Associates. An employee owned company, Areté provides innovative solutions to the most challenging technical problems faced by the United States Defense and Intelligence agencies.

The company’s name actually comes from the Greek word areté, which means achieving maximum performance and pursuing excellence. Originally founded to solve weak signals in a cluttered oceanic environment, Areté expanded its techniques to solve a set of national security issues and problems.

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USGIF member, Sycamore.US, provides software integration services to the intelligence community and aerospace industries. Headquartered in Frederick, MD, Sycamore.US is a HUBZone certified company that has received many industry awards and accolades for giving back to the community in the form of job creation and charitable donations.

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When the world’s largest technology company invests heavily in the Geospatial Intelligence sector, it could only mean good things for our tradecraft. From acquiring EDS (for $13.9 million), as well as 26 other companies in the past three years, Hewlett Packard sees a bright future in providing customized solutions for the defense and intelligence communities.

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The old adage that data is only good when you can analyze it, understand it and act on it certainly rings true in our sector today. At Applied Imagery, the goal is to provide software tools that enable end users to visualize and exploit LiDAR, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), or any source of 3-D terrain or point information. And the end result is 3D situational awareness.

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