Friday, February 13. 2009

Federal Government Contract Spending: A Look at Geospatial

Poynter.org tipped me off that FederalSpending.gov has been updated and renamed USAspending.gov. There you can query to hearts delight and learn where federally money goes. You can search by type of contract, congressional district, name of contractor...

I queried for how much a few big companies involved in geospatial received in federal contracts for 2008. Here's what I found:

ESRI: $54,342,900 Top contracting agencies: Army, DHS, USGS, Navy, BLM
Intergraph: $48,380,48 (as COBALT HOLDING COMPANY), Top agencies: Navy, State, Air Force, NASA, Army
Autodesk: $26,805 Surface Mining, Army, Veterans Affairs
Microsoft: $63,210,421 Customs, Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy
Google: $81,046 State, Army, FERC, Veterans Affairs, NIH
Hexagon AB: (owns ERDAS): $6,901,657 Army, Forest Service, Navy USGS, Air Force

You can dump out the data of interest, so expect some interesting mashups.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 13:46 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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One can only assume Autodesk and Google sell through partners, VARs, and other channels while ESRI is known for its direct sales and services model.

For ESRI, it is interesting to note the seven year trend is basically flat and slightly down.

Facinating to view the details at the web site. Can't wait for a map mash-up showing spending by state and district.

#1 Tim on 2009-02-15 20:02 (Reply)

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