Premier Data Services is now a publicly held company. It acquired a public shell named Xedar Corporation on 12/31/06, and now trades on the over-the-counter market as XDRC.
XeDAR Acquires Land Links - 1/7/2007
The Premier Data Services division of XēDAR acquired Land Links Company, Ltd. on January 1, 2007. Land Links provides survey record raw data collection, adjustment computations, section subdivision, and parcel polygon attribution.
XeDAR Acquires Atlantic Systems - 3/23/2007
XeDAR has acquired Atlantic Systems Corporation in a stock for stock transaction. Virginia-based Atlantic Systems is one of the top technology marketing, strategic planning and government services firms in the Washington, D.C. area. It generated over $5,000,000 in revenues in 2006. It works extensively with the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and the U.S. Congress, as well as the Intelligence Agencies and NASA.
Contract Award by Department of Defense - 6/27/2007
Xedar's subsidiary, Point One, Inc. of Arlington, VA, has been awarded a competitive contract from the United States Department of Defense (DOD) under Point One’s General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule.The first year award is for $1.769M. Total contract estimate is $6.56 million.
Point One led a team comprised of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and IntePoint, LLC to win this competition to provide software development services and analytic support.The work is a continuation of previous work delivered to the DOD by the same Point One-led team.
Jeffrey Grime, President of Point One, said, “The Point One team is proud to be again recognized by the DOD for our continual efforts in developing new, innovative technologies for our military forces.”
Blanket Purchase Agreement Awarded by Department of State - 7/5/2007
Xedar's FuGEN subsidiary has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) by the Department of State. The Security Assurance Services and Innovation (SASI) BPA is for the Department of State to provide for a safe and secure IT environment. The effort encompasses technical, engineering, management, operational, logistical, administration, and other support necessary to provide for the security of the full range of information resources, including computation, communications, telecommunications, telephony, wireless, physical and logical monitoring and security systems, and other computer-managed or controlled systems or networks. The BPA ceiling is valued at $710 million in the aggregate for one year, plus four option years for the eight awarded BPAs. The other companies also awarded the BPA include CACI International, Computer Sciences Corporation, ManTech Advanced Systems International, and Northrop Grumman Information Technology.
XedAR Acquires Pixxures - 10/1/2007
XeDAR acquired Pixxures, Inc. on October 1, 2007. Colorado-based Pixxures is a leading provider of aerial photographic mapping products and services, direct-digital orthophotography, planimetric and topographic mapping, vector alignment, and GIS products and services via the Internet.
Point One Subsidiary Receives GSA Smart Buy Contract - 12/13/2007
Xedar's Point One subsidiary has been awarded the GSA Smart Buy contract for Meridio electronic Document and Records Management (eDRM) software and services. Meridio enables enterprises to meet their corporate governance needs including legislation, litigation, and business process optimization goals. Meridio with Microsoft provides complete lifecycle Enterprise Content Management (ECM), from document creation and modification to record declaration, policy driven retention, and disposal. Click here for more Meridio Smart Buy information.
Air Force Awards Contract Extension to Point One Subsidiary - 4/1/2008
The Air Force has exercised the first year option of a five-year blanket purchase agreement to a project team of which Xedar's Point One subsidiary is a member. Point One's portion of this contract award is estimated at $752,000. The total contract estimate for the five-year contract period for Point One is estimated at $4.1 million.
Point One is teaming with Addx Corporation to provide technical and management consultation to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Warfighting Integration & Chief Information Officer (SAF/XC), a headquarters Air Force office that is responsible for the management and control of over $40 billion of integration and information assets. Point One's services are focused on creating and maintaining an automated workflow processing system and developing, managing and maintaining a facilities and multi-media support center to include webpage/portal and communications support. SAF/XC will use this to provide connectivity to over 300,000 Air Force personnel.
DigitalGlobe Partners with Pixxures Subsidiary - 4/30/2008
Xedar's Pixxures subsidiary has been selected by DigitalGlobe as one of its partners to support aerial content collection and processing. Under the agreement, DigitalGlobe will make Pixxures' aerial imagery mapping products available through its leading online image library.
"Pixxures has a strong reputation in the GIS industry for delivering premier aerial imagery products and value-added services," said Mark Tremblay, vice president and general manager of DigitalGlobe's commercial business unit. "We chose Pixxures to support our aerial content growth because of their outstanding track record with image collection quality and production services."
XeDAR Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract - 6/26/2008
Xedar has been awarded a contract to develop interactive 3D maintenance training programs for the U.S. Air Force. Work under the contract will be performed by Xedar's Point One subsidiary in Arlington, Virginia, and is expected to be completed within 10 months.
"Readiness is the foundation of homeland security, and effective maintenance is the key to readiness. This Air Force program capitalizes on the inherent strengths of Xedar's interactive 3D technologies to create training materials and electronic technical manuals that will accelerate installation, maintenance, and repair and ensure first-time right-performance on the field," said Dale Smith, Director of Point One.
"By demonstrating how Xedar's 3D imaging technologies can improve readiness and reduce costs, this contract gives Xedar a toe-hold in an emerging market with enormous growth potential throughout the homeland security community," said Hugh Williamson, Chief Executive Officer of Xedar.
Xedar's technology offers an economical, effective, and expedient way to achieve training objectives associated with hard skills training using 3D digital models that allow maintenance personnel to familiarize themselves with equipment through virtual hands-on exploration, including disassembing/assembling, maintenance procedural animations and simulations, rotating, moving, cross-sectioning, x-ray/context view and zooming. Maintainers learn the properties for each part, including name, part number, and description, and have access to hyperlinks from each part to sub-assemblies and/or reference materials.
Parcel Rectification Project Awarded to Pixxures Subsidiary - 5/28/2008
Xedar's Pixxures subsidiary has been awarded a parcel rectification project by the County of Bruce in Ontario, Canada. The project area consists of approximately 1,544 square miles of Bruce County. Pixxures will rectify approximately 50,000 assessment parcel polygons, together with 3,000 road allowance and right-of-way polygons.
The County uses assessment parcel maps to support its internal planning needs as well as the needs of its lower tier municipalities, and has contracted with Pixxures to correct its assessment parcel vector dataset for a visual best fit with their 2006 ortho-imagery. "The problem that Bruce County is experiencing is common. Their source parcel data contains varying positional and accuracy errors that cannot be fixed with a single shift solution," said Wendy Luck, Senior Program Manager of Pixxures, Inc. "Pixxures' Lineworks Vector Alignment service was designed to address differential adjustments regardless of the direction or distance the adjacent parcels must move. Some parcels may require rotation and others will be locked in place so they don't move. All of this differential movement is accomodated by LineWorks and incorporated into the solution."
"Among the most appealing aspects of the LineWorks solution is the speed at which the work can be done. Of our alternatives, the next best proposal would have taken four months to complete, whereas the LineWorks solution can be completed in a matter of weeks," said Justin Kraemer, GIS Coordinator of Bruce County. "Perhaps best of all is that the solution for the parcel dataset can be applied to derivative products, such as zoning and official plan mapping, park boundaries, etc. We would have had to adjust each of these manually."
Event
Rocky Mtn Energy Epicenter - 7/9/2008
Premier Data Services will be exhibting at the July 9 - 11 section meeting of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association in Denver, CO.
ESRI Users Conference - 8/4/2008
Join our GIS divisions, Pixxures and Premier Data Services, at booths 1916 & 1918 during the ESRI 2008 International Users Conference at the San Diego Convention Center.
