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The National Reconnaissance Office has been working for years on a strategy to acquire emerging commercial satellite capabilities.
The 2022 GEOINT Innovation Summit will feature Didi Kuo, DISES, PhD, Chief Architect of the Geospatial Intelligence Systems Acquisition Directorate at the National Reconnaissance Office, as a senior-level speaker.
Commercial providers, on average, deliver over 75,000 images every week into the National Reconnaissance Office’s ground enterprise.
The National Reconnaissance Office is the U.S. intelligence agency responsible for developing, launching, and operating the nation’s spy satellites.
In January the National Reconnaissance Office selected five suppliers of commercial synthetic aperture radar imagery.
The National Reconnaissance Office has not awarded similar long-term contracts to providers of radar, RF, and hyperspectral imagery.
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to sign agreements that give the agency access to data collected by companies’ commercial satellites to enable government analysts to evaluate data quality.
BlackSky won the Electro Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) award with the National Reconnaissance Office with a total value up to $1,021,000,000 over the next 10 years.
Maxar won a $3,200,000,000 contract from the National Reconnaissance Office to supply satellite imagery over 10 years.
The U.S. Army plans to use commercial imagery services in addition to imagery it receives from the National Reconnaissance Office.
BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet Labs won 10-year contracts from the National Reconnaissance Office to provide satellite imagery for U.S. intelligence, defense, and federal civil agencies.
BlackSky was awarded the Electro Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contract with the National Reconnaissance Office valued at up to $1,021,000,000 over the next 10 years.
The NROL-199 payload was designed, built, and is operated by the National Reconnaissance Office in partnership with the Australian Department of Defence.
NROL-199 and NROL-162 were awarded to Rocket Lab by the National Reconnaissance Office under the Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract.
The National Reconnaissance Office worked closely with the New Zealand Space Agency, which licensed the NROL-199 launch, and with Rocket Lab as the launch provider.
The National Reconnaissance Office plans for a mix of small and large satellites launched to different orbits to become the norm.
For lower-cost smallsat missions, the National Reconnaissance Office will buy satellite buses from the open market like the ones used by commercial operators.
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to use the capability to launch from almost anywhere in the world to increase operational flexibility, add resilience, and enable reconstitution of capabilities after a mission failure or during a conflict.
The National Reconnaissance Office previously launched NROL-151 on 2020-01-31 from New Zealand using a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.
Launch services for NROL-162 and NROL-199 were acquired through the National Reconnaissance Office’s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract.