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The U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule last week that makes it easier for small businesses that belong to the same trade or professional association to offer retirement plans to their employees. Under the DOL rule, Association Retirement Plans (ARPs) could be offered by associations of employers in the same city, county, state or metropolitan area, or by a particular industry nationwide.
President Trump’s pick for managing federal lands doesn't think the federal government should have any. Last week, Trump's Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed an order making Wyoming native William Perry Pendley the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management. Pendley, former president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, was a senior official in Ronald Reagan's administration. The appointment comes as a critical time for the BLM, which manages more than a tenth of the nation's land and oversees the federal government's oil, gas and coal leasing program. Two weeks ago, Interior officials announced the department would reassign 84 percent of the bureau's D.C. staff out West by the end of next year. Only a few dozen employees, including Pendley, would remain in Washington. After more than two and-a-half years in office, Trump has yet to nominate a permanent director for BLM. By placing Pendley in charge of the agency, Bernhardt has installed a longtime crusader for curtailing the federal government's control of public lands.
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The Department of the Interior (DOI) is seeking nominations to serve on the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC). The NGAC is a Federal Advisory Committee first created administratively in 2008 by then-Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, and recently authorized in the Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (GDA). The Committee provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of the Interior through the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) related to management of Federal geospatial programs, development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and the implementation of the GDA. The Committee reviews and comments on geospatial policy and management issues and provides a forum for views of non-Federal stakeholders in the geospatial community. NSPS member Gary Thompson was re-appointed on the NGAC in April. The GDA requires the appointment of "licensed geospatial data acquisition professionals" to shift away from the current membership’s preponderance of data users. Nominations to participate on this Committee must be received by August 27.
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FEMA's Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC) met last week in Arlington, VA. During the two-day meeting, TMAC members conducted a final review and discussion of the TMAC 2018 Annual Report and voted to submit it to FEMA. The TMAC also received public input on the report recommendations and content, including by NSPS Federal Lobbyist John "JB" Byrd. NSPS member Jim Nadeau was appointed earlier this year to the FEMA TMAC for a three-year term and is pictured (on the right side of the photo) with TMAC Chairman Jeff Sparrow and former NSPS representative to TMAC Wendy Lathrop.
Jim Nadeau
On July 31, 2019, the TMAC met for the first time since their last official meeting on September 25 and 26, in Reston, VA. The 11-month hiatus between in-person meetings was primarily due to there being too few members to have a voting quorum as a result of the Trump Administration’s delay in vetting new members and reappointing existing members. Appointments were delivered via email to members in March 2019, and phone meetings followed to bring all members back to current.
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As the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) continues to move into the future, a big change tentatively set to occur next year is Risk Rating 2.0, an initiative which will allow FEMA to focus on "building a culture of preparedness" by closing the insurance gap. Risk Rating 2.0 is intended to include benefits such as: creating an individualized picture of a property's risk; providing rates that are easier to understand by agents and policyholders; reflecting more types of flood risk in rates; using the latest actuarial practices to set risk based fees; and reducing the complexity for agents to generate a quote. As an example, one of the characteristics of Risk Rating 2.0 pertains to delivering fair rates for owners of lower-value homes as it relates to the cost to rebuild (FEMA, 2019).
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The geospatial community is witnessing a golden era of innovation when it comes to sensor technologies, data-processing power and modeling algorithms. We are taking advantage of a revolution in electronics and integrated circuitry, data-processing techniques and algorithms, sensor manufacturing and geolocation technologies.
These innovations have positively affected our industry, but they also have resulted in negative implications when it comes to standards of practice.
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Land Survey Party Chief needed for high rise construction projects in the Greater Boston Area. MORE
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Inside GNSS
Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency to build the European component of the SMILE satellite (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer). SMILE will be the first joint satellite mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, following on from the success of the Double Star / Tan Ce mission which flew between 2003 and 2008.
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The American Surveyor
Across the board, software technology is increasingly innovating the way business processes evolve, allowing for greater efficiency and accuracy than ever before.
Surveying industry processes are no exception, with the future trending toward integrated software and collaboration among project teams to extract valuable information from an ever increasing amount of data.
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State Scoop
Internet service providers will have to provide the Federal Communications Commission with detailed geospatial maps of their coverage areas, rather than just covered census blocks, after the commission voted to change the submission process last week.
The vote will establish a new "Digital Opportunity Data Collection" service, which was hinted at in June as FCC chairman Ajit Pai's answer to critics of the current data-collection process.
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Directions Magazine
Location data forms the foundation for all geospatial operations. With that truism in mind, Esri provides our users essential, ready-to-use location data to reveal patterns, relationships and situations.
Data accuracy matters, and like all systems, inaccurate input yields inaccurate output. In this era of Big Data, with more data created than ever before, what often gets lost is the question of data quality.
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No matter what the future holds, prepare to meet challenges head on. Future-proof your resume by becoming a Certified Survey Technician (CST). This unique four-level certification program indicates official recognition by NSPS that a person can perform surveying tasks at a specific technical level.
Show what you can do! Decide between the field or office track. Visit http://www.cstnsps.com for details.
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Did you know that you can invite a CST Board member to provide a presentation about the CST Program during a surveyor's meeting or conference?
C4ISRNET
One of the United States' top intelligence agencies wants to develop a publicly available, 3-D map of the globe.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is teaming up with the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota and The Ohio State University to produce digital elevation models of the world through a project called EarthDEM.
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GPS World
Galileo is on the march with a new generation of satellites bearing improved atomic clocks. The first of the Batch 3 navigation payloads was delivered in June by Surrey Satellite Technology in the UK to OHB System AG in Bremen, Germany.
SSTL's payload for Batch 3 is a recurrent build of the existing FOC payload, with an evolution of the atomic clocks to incorporate advances made under the European GNSS Evolution Programme.
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| President, Lisa Van Horn (WI) |
Director, Cotton Jones (WY) |
| President-Elect, Mark Sargent (NH) |
Director, Thomas Brooks (AL) |
| Vice President, Tim Burch (IL) |
Director, Bob Neathamer (OR) |
| Treasurer, Bob Miller (PA) |
Director, Danny Martinez (NE) |
| Secretary, Craig Amey (MI) |
Executive Director, Curt Sumner (MD) |
| Immediate Past President, Kim Leavitt (ID) |
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