RUEIL-MALMAISON, France, Jan. 20, 2022 — (PRNewswire) — Schneider Electric^[1], the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, is introducing Infrastructure of the Future, an integrated solutions suite tailored to creating smart, green infrastructure.

Infrastructure of the Future is a powerful holistic approach to power tomorrow's businesses and economies while tackling the challenges of ongoing global urbanization and the causes and impacts of climate change. Its integrated solutions encompass software for data-driven insights, services for enhanced operations and business continuity, solutions for electric mobility and green technologies and programs to accelerate the energy transition.

The need for green infrastructure

"Resilient infrastructure is a key enabler of productivity and economic development. However, climate change and rapid growth in urbanization have made it even more crucial for governments, municipalities, public infrastructure owners, energy networks, and transport providers to make well-planned investments in smarter, greener solutions to support economic growth," said Frédéric Godemel, Executive Vice President for Power Systems and Services at Schneider Electric.

"In a time of climate change, intensifying natural disasters and rapid urbanization, infrastructure systems are under immense pressure to deliver resilient and reliable services. With urban environments also relying heavily on infrastructure's ability to handle electrification of public transport, we need a green revolution in infrastructure to keep energy...

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NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2022 — (PRNewswire) —Mainstream fully autonomous vehicles are not an if, they are a when. The bigger question is what it is going to take from a technical end to get self-driving cars and trucks safely maneuvering along every side street and highway. As one can imagine, the2022 Consumer Electronics Show^[1]in Las Vegas this month was once again a hotbed of activity featuring the future of autonomous vehicles. The opening keynote was presented by Mary Barra, chair and CEO of General Motors, detailing the automaker's vision of GM leading the industry transformation underpinned by connectivity, electrification and autonomy. How the industry reaches that end is the subject of different business models, but it seems a safe bet that it will include a confluence of technologies, including the powers of LiDAR to make autonomous driving as commonplace as power windows and brakes.

GM has partnered with the LiDAR experts at Cepton Technologies, which plans to come public early this year via a highly anticipated SPAC merger with Growth Capital Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: GCAC^[2]) ( Profile^[3]). Cepton is in the thick of the industry that provides investors exposure to autonomous vehicles through multiple avenues, having engagements with all of...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — January 20, 2022 — PredaSAR, a Terran Orbital Corporation, has been selected for contract award under the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Systems Acquisition Directorate’s Closed Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Strategic Collection Enhancements (SCE) in the Commercial Radar focus area.

PredaSAR is fielding one of the most technologically advanced commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems available in the satellite imaging industry. The PredaSAR constellation will offer robust capabilities to commercial and national security customers, including a flexible and responsive remote sensing platform, low latency, frequent revisit times, and the ability to host secondary payloads. The NRO BAA award includes six months of modeling and simulation activities and 24 months to demonstrate and validate on-orbit and end-to-end mission performance. This award complements PredaSAR’s recent Air Force Research Laboratory award to host and demonstrate optical inter-satellite links.

“We are honored by the NRO’s selection of PredaSAR to participate in this BAA,” said Roger Teague, President of Earth Observation Solutions for Terran Orbital. Teague continued, “This award will enable PredaSAR to demonstrate our capabilities to the National Security Space Community and provides a path to integrate PredaSAR’s compelling commercial products and services...

BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EagleView Technologies, Inc., a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners and Clearlake Capital Group, today announced the promotion of Patrick Gill to Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Government Solutions. Patrick will report to Robert Locke, President of Government Solutions, and will be responsible for defining EagleView’s brand and marketing positioning as an innovative leader in the  Government^[1] sector.  

“Patrick’s work with EagleView has already contributed to our business success by enhancing our brand awareness, messaging alignment and marketing mix model,” said Robert Locke. “That he accomplished all of this while also managing part of our corporate communications, brand governance and talent marketing made the promotion an easy decision. I look forward to what he will do in 2022 and beyond here at EagleView.

Patrick has focused his career on using data, partnerships and critical thinking to develop and implement product and brand marketing that drives business growth and customer retention.  He has held leadership positions at Nationwide Insurance as well as Accenture and Sabre-Holdings. Patrick was hired in April 2021 as EagleView’s VP of Marketing, Government Solutions. 

“I joined EagleView because it offered the opportunity to build a new marketing organization that could help the business soar to new heights,” said Patrick. “In 2021 the mixture of an amazing Sales team combined with a burgeoning Marketing group resulted in a record year for sales. I can’t wait to see what 2022 holds in store for our team and...

Firm announces new organizational structure and enabling strategies to further broaden its capabilities, services and solutions to become a full-service engineering and consulting firm

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 20, 2022 — (PRNewswire) — Michael Baker International^[1], a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, announced today that the firm is implementing a new organizational structure to Reimagine Michael Baker, which will better position the company for accelerated  growth and broaden its capabilities, services and solutions over the next five years to execute its vision of evolving to become a full-service engineering and consulting firm. This requires the firm's leaders and every colleague to redefine how the firm will protect and grow its core business in Transportation, Bridge, Water, Planning, Construction Services and other areas, while accelerating growth in Federal and dramatically advancing innovative, technology-based solutions. The firm will also attract new clients who benefit from the company's expanded offerings in the consulting space to grow and provide limitless opportunity for colleagues to develop professionally and personally.

Bolton, Massachusetts and New York, New York, Jan. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Headwall Photonics^[1] (“Headwall“) today announced that it has completed a recapitalization led by Arsenal Capital Partners (“Arsenal”), a private equity firm that specializes in investments in industrial and healthcare companies. The recapitalization was completed in partnership with existing management and ownership, resulting in Arsenal becoming majority owner.  The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Headwall is a world-leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance hyperspectral imaging systems, spectral instrumentation, and optical components used in a variety of applications such as remote sensing, space and earth monitoring, life sciences, food production and safety monitoring, agriculture monitoring, and machine vision, among others. The Company offers a range of precision optical components, including holographic diffraction gratings, custom OEM spectrometers, and sensors, as well as fully integrated hardware/software hyperspectral imaging systems, each of which is built upon proprietary technology from the component level all the way through the systems and solutions software.

Headwall’s products identify the unique spectral signature of various materials, allowing customers to non-destructively determine material composition and variation on a chemical and elemental level, providing highly valuable insights to customers. The Company serves a global customer base and enjoys a market leadership position through the design and manufacture of spectral instrumentation customized for application-specific performance. The sale of...

DULUTH, Ga., Jan. 20, 2022 — (PRNewswire) —Viasat Inc.^[1](NASDAQ:VSAT^[2]), a global communications company, today announced the availability of its most advanced class of large-aperture antennas, which will be capable of providing the United States and other spacefaring nations with enhanced space-to-ground communications for upcoming Earth observation missions, manned and unmanned missions to the Moon, Mars and other deep space and Department of Defense (DoD) initiatives.

The new class of full-motion multi-band antennas, which range from 19.7 to 24.0 meters in diameter, offer revolutionary capability enhancements when compared to other legacy solutions that still use decades old technology. Viasat's key antenna enhancements include:...

• Full-motion high-dynamic pedestal with precise tracking that will support current and future multi-orbit missions from low earth orbit (LEO) to Lunar and beyond;
• An integrated radio frequency (RF) architecture paired with precision reflector surface accuracy to enable enhanced operation from L-band to above Ka-band;
• Robust suite of software leveraging 20 years of delivering the highest levels of cyber security standards;
• RF designs that support use of extremely high-power amplifiers in multiple bands enabling advanced mission requirements; and
• Advanced high-rate modems that will support emerging industry standard interfaces and software defined

Rome, NY, Jan. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Traditionally, the documentation of As-Built construction surveys relied on conventional methods such as total stations and digital photogrammetry. However, the team at Spatial Data Consultants (SDC), an expert geospatial consulting firm in High Point, North Carolina, is using drone LiDAR technology to more efficiently create accurate and precise As-Built Surveys. CLICK HERE^[1] and see how to become drone survey experts, in these all new episodes of Down to Earth, Spatial Experts.

“Down to Earth” is a documentary-style reality series that shows how real surveyors collect data and turn it into real deliverables, despite challenging conditions, hidden dangers, and inclement weather.  

In this 1st episode, Mark Schall, Owner and Chief Professional Officer at Spatial Data Consultants explains how the company has transitioned from using manned fixed wing and helicopter aircraft to drone surveying systems. “Initially the company was based off traditional photogrammetry using fixed wing and helicopter aircrafts,” said Schall. “We’ve now transitioned into drone and UAS systems for all of our Lidar and photogrammetry. The one thing we pride ourselves on is the level and competence and expertise we have in our personnel, like Fred Johnson, our current director of UAS Services.”

The episode continues with a brief analysis of a previous drone LiDAR point...

Capella will demonstrate high-resolution SAR imagery capabilities as part of the National Reconnaissance Office's Broad Agency Announcement Framework for Strategic Commercial Enhancements

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20, 2022 — (PRNewswire) — Capella Space, an information services company providing high-quality, high-speed Earth observation data on demand, today announced a new contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to demonstrate the company's synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery capabilities. Through this contract, Capella will work with the NRO to provide SAR data modeling and simulation, end-to-end regional imagery responsiveness demonstrations, theater downlink demonstrations and sample imagery delivery.