Darkhorse Geospatial

Press · Recognition · Performance

Notes from the field.

In the Press

January 11, 2024

Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series: Developing a Next-Generation Wildland Fire Intelligence Platform

USDA Forest Service · Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory · RMRS · FFS Program

Presenting at the Fire Lab Seminar Series, Darkhorse Geospatial's owner Emmy Harbo discusses the importance the Interagency Data Management Environment (IDME) plays in the future of wildland fire intelligence. In 2023, Darkhorse Geospatial designed the wildland fire modern data architecture and built three Proof of Concepts related to fuel moisture, wildland fire incident occurrence, and publishing reference data to a data marketplace. This work was performed under the National Interagency Fire Center's Data Management Program.

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2023

Wildfire Open Data is Driving Innovation and Improving Public Safety

U.S. Department of the Interior

Darkhorse Geospatial's owner, Emmy Harbo, discusses how the company's work with wildfire open data is driving innovation and improving public safety. "It's important to me because I can see what a difference it makes every day in people's lives," said Harbo, reflecting on the countless news stories she saw over the summer that pulled data from the site.

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Recognition

2021

2021 Federal Chief Data Officers Council — Distinguished Achievement in Federal Data Award

U.S. Department of the Interior

Darkhorse Geospatial was the single industry team member on the 6-person government team that won the inaugural 2021 Federal Chief Data Officers Council Distinguished Achievement in Federal Data Award. Presented by the DOI Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Safety, Resource Protection, and Emergency Services.

Ongoing

Certified 8(a) and EDWOSB Small Business

U.S. Small Business Administration

Darkhorse Geospatial maintains its certifications as a Certified 8(a) Company and an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business — supporting our continued partnership with US federal programs.

Contracts / Past Performance

Prime
2025 – 2030

Wildland Fire Information and Technology (WFIT) — Current Contract

8(a) Sole Source Contract #140D0425C0048 · $1.6M · 5-Year

Darkhorse enables the wildland fire enterprise to achieve better management, utilization, and protection of data. Data governance is unique to each organization; Darkhorse supports strategic and future-minded data capture, dissemination, and initiatives. Creates and manages foundational datasets (National Boundary Layers), feature services, and GIS Applications on the NIFC Open Data Site and NIFC AGOL to provide wildland fire operational data to firefighters, dispatch, and the public — connecting billions of users with vital real-time data on current and historical fire information.

Prime
Sep 2023 – Sep 2024

Data Management Support — Department of the Interior, Office of Wildland Fire

8(a) Sole Source Contract #0040623382 (P0001)

The Department of the Interior's Office of Wildland Fire is the lead for developing an interagency, enterprise-level Data Management Program. This contract provides program management and technical expertise needed to support and inform wildland fire data and information requirements for effective incident decisions, management, and reporting.

Prime
Sep 2022 – Sep 2023

Data Architecture Design — Department of the Interior, Office of Wildland Fire

8(a) Sole Source Contract #0040623382

Darkhorse Geospatial was selected as the sole source prime contractor to define the modern Enterprise Data Architecture for all wildland fire. The team developed a vendor-agnostic architecture, interagency authoritative data sources and data flows, and provided recommendations and guidance for using the Wildland Fire Data Architecture (IDME) to support the wildland fire business and technology programs.

Subcontractor
Jul 2020 – May 2023

National Park Service Wildland Fire Program — GIS Support Services

Department of the Interior, National Park Service · Contract #40P2118

Darkhorse Geospatial designed and implemented the data architecture and public data distribution for the national, interagency wildland fire community. Work included guiding the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) in the development of data standards, creation of data services, development of plans to move disparate datasets into single interagency datasets, and developing web portals to provide data to the public.

Subcontractor
Sep 2017 – Sep 2019

Wildland Fire Geospatial Analysis and Data Standards — Office of Wildland Fire, NIFC

Subcontractor to SAIC

Our team provided metadata standards, ontology expertise, and NWCG business analysis and coordination experience for Wildland Fire IT and NIFC. We coordinated data across interagency business subject areas and excelled at communication across federal, state, and local wildland fire agencies.

Subcontractor
Sep 2018 – Present

Data Science — National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Maritime Safety Office

Multi-Intelligence Analytical and Collection Support Services · GEOINT Task Order 29 · HM1575-17-D-010

Our Data Scientists in the Maritime Safety Office quantitatively improve the mission areas of Maritime Features, Surfaces, Publications, Events, Dissemination, Source Assessment, and Metrics. We develop scripts to automate processes and enable the use of big data for Maritime Safety — supporting worldwide Safety of Navigation.

Subcontractor
Dec 2017 – Oct 2022

Full Motion Video (FMV) Analysis — National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Multi-Intelligence Analytical and Collection Support Services · FMV Task Order 1 · Subcontractor to CACI

Our team provided direct FMV intelligence support to overseas contingency operations in a 24/7/365 high-tempo special operations environment. We provided multi-INT fusion capabilities to deliver actionable information on unfolding events, and used Activity-Based Intelligence (ABI) and Pattern-of-Life (PoL) analysis to predict activities.