White House Proposes Executive Branch Reorganization
The White House today announced an interesting proposal to reorganize a number of federal agencies to better meet the economic and business needs of the nation and improve efficiency. The proposal would merge a number of commerce and trade agencies including the Office of the U.S. Trade ...
Voyager GIS Data Discovery
Voyager is a powerful search tool that allows an organization or individual to manage, audit and search for all GIS files across an organization. Voyager allows a user to search for files by a spatial query through a map interface or by a text search. In addition to these search methods, data can ...
Upcoming Webinar: QWI and Shift-Share Analysis – Tapping a Powerful Resource
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) welcomes Mr. Grundvig as he shares the potential advantages and caveats when using shift-share analysis with the QWIs. When coupled together there ...
Ten years of successful working relationship with DC GIS Program
New Light Technologies, Inc.’s (NLT) first prime-contract client was the DC GIS Program in the spring of 2002. Ever since then NLT has had a successful engagement with DC GIS on a variety of GIS related contracts. CEO Ghermay Araya says,
Reduced Opportunity Voters
This study analyzes findings from extant research on voter identification legislation, population growth, and the influence of geography on political participation. Research was conducted to determine the impact of photo ID voting requirements on voter turnout among African Americans in a number of ...
NLT Team Helps U.S. Census Bureau Release OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version
OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 3 was released June 15 2012.The public data tool provides an easy-to-use web-based interface for accessing U.S. population and workforce statistics, in real time, for areas being affected by natural disasters. The tool allows users to easily retrieve ...
NLT Team provides Enterprise Class Geospatial Technology Software to DC Government GIS Program
New Light Technologies, Inc. (NLT) partners with Arc2Earth to provide enterprise class Geospatial Technology to the Washington, DC GIS Program. The team developed server side KMZ updated KML network link data feeds to provide District users with a more complete and enjoyable user experience through ...
NLT Will be Participating in Upcoming FOSE Conference
New Light Technologies (NLT) will be highlighting its many exciting recent projects at this year’s FOSE Conference, to be held in the District May 13-15.
NLT Put the Giving in Thanksgiving this year at SOME’s 11th Annual Trot for Hunger
Did you know 1 out of 5 D.C. residents live at or below the poverty line?
NLT Presents on Data Integration at ESRI UC 2013
Data Integration Challenges & Strategies for Advanced GeoAnalytics Robert Pitts, Director of Geospatial Services for New Light technologies presented on data integration challenges and strategies at the ESRI UC in San Diego last week. The presentation was part of the Meeting Data ...
NLT Sponsors Maryland’s Geospatial Conference – TUgus 2015
New Light Technologies, Inc. (NLT) is sponsoring the 2015 TUgis 2015 conference to be held at Towson University. TUgis is Maryland’s Geospatial conference and hosted by the Towson University College of Liberal Arts. “TUgis features hands-on training workshops, dynamic lightning talks and poster ...
FEMA Extends GIS Contract To New Light Technologies
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently doubled a contract to support geospatial information systems (GIS) for disaster response and recovery operations.
NLT Participates in Small Business Saturday
As the tradition sets in for consumers going to small businesses on Small Business Saturday, we at NLT were pondering how to participate. As a small business, our services teams mostly work invisibly behind the scenes on projects for other businesses and government customers and we don not normally ...
NLT part of DC Government 2003 Best of the Web Contracting Team
In 2003, New Light Technologies, Inc. (NLT) was a part of the DC Government’s E-Government contracting team that was selected for the National 2003 Best of the Web in its Best of Breed Report for the year. The Centers for Digital Government and Education would like to congratulate all of the Best ...
Consulting Service Engagements for Deploying ArcGIS Online
I attended the May 24, 2012 ESRI Business Partner Webinar, which discussed consulting service opportunities for business partners deploying ArcGIS Online. The webinar went over the new possibilities with ArcGIS Online to reach customers who currently use ArcGIS Desktop but because of a lack of ...