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Chad Davis led the National Reconnaissance Office’s Office of Space Launch for four years before retiring.
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. has been selected by the National Reconnaissance Office to serve as a launch provider with its Alpha rocket.
Firefly Aerospace will support a responsive on-orbit mission for the National Reconnaissance Office onboard its Elytra vehicle in 2024.
The agreement with the National Reconnaissance Office has a 10-year ordering period with a ceiling value of $700 million across all firm fixed-price task orders.
On 2024-01-25, Firefly Aerospace was selected by the National Reconnaissance Office to serve as a launch provider with its Alpha rocket.
Firefly will support a responsive on-orbit mission for the National Reconnaissance Office onboard its Elytra vehicle in 2024.
The selection is part of the NRO’s Streamlined Launch Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract (SLIC) which has a 10-year ordering period and a ceiling value of $700,000,000 across all firm fixed-price task orders.
The contract qualifies Firefly’s Alpha rocket to launch satellites for the NRO from both Vandenberg Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
In November, the National Reconnaissance Office selected Muon Space to provide multispectral electro-optical and infrared data collected by Muon Space’s future climate-monitoring constellation.
The National Reconnaissance Office will evaluate multispectral electro-optical and infrared data from Muon Space and assess the company’s capabilities to support future intelligence needs.
The NRO began development of the KH-11 KENNEN near-real-time reconnaissance satellite in 1971.
In April, HawkEye 360 and Maxar won a two-year option to provide data for the NRO’s Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcement program.
HawkEye 360 and Maxar RF Solutions have been collaborating to provide RF data to the National Reconnaissance Office.
The National Reconnaissance Office selected Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Albedo Space, Hydrosat, Muon Space, and Turion Space to provide new and emerging electro-optical imaging capabilities.
Muon Space was awarded a contract by the National Reconnaissance Office under the NRO Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcement Framework, commercial electro-optical capabilities Focus Area, to provide commercial electro-optical capabilities at both the sensor and constellation level for assessment and potential contribution to the NRO mission.
Muon Space will provide multispectral electro-optical and infrared data collected by the company’s climate monitoring constellation for NRO assessment.
Contracts awarded under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements program allow the NRO to study the imagery and techniques used by the selected companies.
Albedo will collaborate with the NRO to provide near- and long-term electro-optical remote sensing capabilities via modeling, simulation, and data evaluation.
Albedo has been awarded a 2.5-year contract, with additional flexibility to extend it further, from the National Reconnaissance Office’s Commercial Systems Program Office under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcement Framework in the Commercial Electro-Optical Capabilities Focus Area.
The NRO previously awarded five commercial radar contracts in January 2022.