Longmont-based DigitalGlobe announced it will collect more than 276,000 square kilometers of U.S. aerial imagery at one-foot resolution with its aerial flight plan for the second half of this year. It will gather aerial imagery for more than 60 cities with populations larger than 50,000.
Boulder-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. said its Quick Scatterometer satellite completed eight years of on-orbit operations Tuesday, six years beyond its mission requirement. QuickSCAT gathers wind data to forecast hurricanes and El Niño effects, to pinpoint typhoons and other marine storms, and to measure the mass of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.
Ciber Inc., a Greenwood Village-based systems integrator and information technology consultancy, has been named among the top 10 global IT outsourcing vendors, and among the top 50 best-managed global outsourcing vendors, according to a Brown-Wilson Group survey.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Waltham, Mass., announced the opening of a new RNAi discovery and therapeutic services laboratory at its research and production center in Lafayette. The laboratory offers advanced RNAi screening and analysis services.
UQM Technologies Inc. of Frederick announced that it has developed and is taking orders for a new 150-kilowatt (200-horsepower) peak power magnet propulsion system. The system is suitable for high performance automotive applications and heavy-duty commercial and military vehicles.
XP Events of Denver has been selected by Global Brands Group to handle all on-site merchandise concessions for select International Basketball Federation events including the upcoming FIBA America Championship in Las Vegas and FIBA Eurobasket in Spain.
Broomfield-based eSoft Inc., a vendor of Internet security and content management solutions, announced the release of its InstaGate security software.
ProLogis, a Denver-based operator of distribution facilities, announced it has leased a 241,000-square-foot warehouse near London to Cinram International Inc., a manufacturer of prerecorded CDs, DVDs and other home-entertainment media products.
Denver-based Intermap Technologies Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced the launch of Microsoft’s enhanced Virtual Earth 3-D viewing platform based on Intermap’s elevation data for all of Great Britain.
