Consolidated Safety Services acquires satellite data services provider

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CSS wants to further enable remote sensing data collection efforts by agencies that face health, defense and environmental challenges

Consolidated Safety Services, a provider of scientific services to help agencies manage environmental resources, has acquired a similar company that touts experience in working with satellite data.

Riverside Technology is a four-decade-old small business that employs environmental engineers and scientists focused on stewardship of the environment.

By acquiring Riverside, CSS is looking to further incorporate satellite data into environmental intelligence applications. Terms of the transaction announced Thursday were not disclosed.

CSS touts the combination as helping it further provide methodologies to agencies for in-field, ground-based, airborne and satellite remote sensing data collection. Those offerings are aimed at assessing environmental changes and developing technologies to address health, defense and environmental challenges.

Riverside has posted $36.5 million in unclassified prime contract revenue over the trailing 12 months with all of it from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to USASpending.gov data.

CSS has recorded $28.3 million in unclassified prime sales over that same time frame with 71.2% of that from NOAA and 18.7% from the Environmental Protection Agency. The National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and NASA represent the rest of CSS’ five largest customers.