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Satellite imagery startups to challenge Maxar for big government contracts
The NRO is ready to start buying products from new vendors and move beyond the single-supplier arrangement with Maxar Technologies.
NRO shares plans for commercial imagery acquisition
"We expect our investment in commercial in total to increase going forward," said Troy Meink, who leads NRO’s Geospatial Intelligence Directorate. "As you can imagine with the increase in requirements, there's going to be an increase in the cost.
NRO awards study contracts to BlackSky, Maxar and Planet
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded commercial imagery study contracts to BlackSky Global, Maxar Technologies and Planet, Troy Meink, who leads NRO’s Geospatial Intelligence Directorate, announced June 3.
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency challenged to keep up with volatile world
NGA Director Vice Adm. Robert Sharp said the agency needs to change its business practices.
Q&A: Cardillo touts industry partnerships as he leaves NGA
Cardillo: The future is about automation. We estimated we would have to hire six million analysts to exploit all the imagery we’re getting.
NGA official: Artificial intelligence is changing everything, ‘We need a different mentality’
NGA is modernizing its cloud architecture “to allow our analysts to live in the data."
Intelligence agencies rethinking how to buy data from new Earth imaging companies
Officials are working on a transition plan to transfer commercial imagery acquisition from NGA to NRO in fiscal year 2019.
NGA’s GEOWorks platform will continue to evolve with new datasets, tools and challenges, CTO says
NGA plans to continue adding datasets, tools and challenges to GEOWorks, the collaborative data sharing platform NGA Director Robert Cardillo unveiled Monday at the 2018 GEOINT Symposium.
To keep foothold in government market, satellite imaging companies have to gain trust
NGA Director Cardillo: “I want the market to work … but government shouldn’t be their first customer. We should be their second customer.”
NGA assembles jigsaw puzzle of diverse commercial, government geospatial data sets
"We are trying to effectively link air, land, sea and space. The geospatial context on the ground may give you some type of indications and warning of something happening in space," said Chirag Parikh, director of NGA's Office of Source Strategies.
NRO aims to move fast by relying on commercial products, expanding internal research and development
“Commercial space will be fully leveraged in satisfying user needs and fully considered in the development of every future space system,” said NRO Director Betty Sapp. “Just as we do in other areas, we want to design only what we must and buy everything that we can.”
NASA planning to purchase Earth science data from commercial smallsat systems
NASA expects to purchase Earth science data from constellations of commercial satellites early next year to see how useful they are in meeting the agency’s research needs.
NGA & NRO Leaderboard compares agency’s needs with industry capabilities
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office are eager to compare their near-term needs with the capabilities of companies that obtain data from small satellites or have innovative ways of using space-based data to make sense of activity on the ground.
NGA director supports commercial remote sensing regulatory reform
Facing increasing pressure from both industry and Congress, the head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency said the federal government is taking steps to streamline the licensing process for commercial remote sensing satellites.
NGA director hopes to foster next “unicorn” by inviting innovators to feed at agency’s data trough
“Our idea is to invest the data into the U.S. economy, U.S. companies, universities and inventors,” NGA Director Robert Cardillo said Aug. 7 at the annual Conference on Small Satellites. “We give data and get back data and technology in return.”
Planet wins second NGA satellite-imagery contract
Planet has won a second contract to provide satellite imagery to the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), taking a sole-source award while UrtheCast, Orbital Insight and Sky Hawk Drone Services offered noncompetitive capability statements.
