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Lockheed Martin submitted its proposal to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design and build the spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – Series R (GOES-R), the next generation geostationary environmental satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

eSpatial, a global enterprise geospatial software and technology company announced that telecommunications company Verizon, has won the prestigious GITA 2008 Innovator Award, with a web mapping application for Network planning, based on eSpatial’s iSMART product. VEGA (Verizon Enterprise Geospatial Application) is designed to streamline processes for planning and engineering of Verizon’s all fiber-optic network that supports its FiOS service offering in parts of 17 states.

ESRI recently welcomed Michael Kim to head its Technical Support Division. Kim comes to ESRI as a customer relationship management (CRM) and contact center senior executive with more than 15 years' experience servicing Fortune 100 clients in the United States and Asia-Pacific. He has proven executive-level experience implementing the design of enterprise-level CRM and contact center infrastructures in global organizations. Kim's responsibilities as technical support director include management of support services operations with the goal of maintaining and growing ESRI's world-class customer service.

Optech, a provider of advanced lidar survey instruments, announced that WHPacific, based in Anchorage, Alaska will be the first North American firm to take delivery of Optech’s new LYNX Mobile Mapper.

Safe Software announced new advancements in spatial data access with the release of FME 2008. The release includes the unveiling of FME Server, a scalable solution for data transformation and distribution, as well as a new version of FME Desktop, the recognized standard in spatial ETL (extract, transform and load). Both solutions add new dimensions to spatial data access, giving even more users access to their data when, where and how they need it.

Infoterra, a provider of geospatial products and services, announces that the new version of Erdas Imagine is now available to order by customers in the UK and Ireland.

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the release of Leica Titan 2008. This dynamic online solution allows users and communities to share geospatial data, web services and location-based content internal and external to an organization, and to a variety of client applications.

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces Erdas Imagine 9.2, the release of the industry’s collection of software tools designed to manipulate, process and understand imagery.

Blue Marble Geographics announces that they will be exhibiting at the ESRI Business Partner Conference in Palm Springs, CA on Sunday, March 16th. Come and visit booth 214 to learn why Blue Marble’s coordinate conversion technology is used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software companies, universities, oil and gas companies, civil engineering, surveying, technology, enterprise GIS groups, government and military organizations.