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Maxar receives about $300,000,000 a year under the EnhancedView contract and Maxar’s sales to the NRO will likely continue at that level for the next several years.
The National Reconnaissance Office intends to purchase imagery from commercial providers where possible and build systems only when commercial sources are not available to meet unique tailored needs.
The National Reconnaissance Office is modifying its architecture and interfaces to ingest and work with radar and radio-frequency phenomenology data, and progress on those modifications is well underway with initial instantiations beginning.
The National Reconnaissance Office intends to complete architecture modifications at least to a reasonable extent by the time it awards operational imagery contracts later 2020.
The National Reconnaissance Office is working closely with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the rest of the user community on its architecture for ingesting commercial imagery and other data.
Since taking over acquisition in 2018, the National Reconnaissance Office has surveyed the capabilities of the rapidly expanding U.S. commercial satellite industry.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts in 2019 to BlackSky Global, HyspecIQ, Maxar Technologies, and Planet to compare each company’s current and planned capabilities with imagery requirements established by NGA.
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to issue a Request for Information to seek industry feedback on creating standard license agreements for imagery.
The National Reconnaissance Office took over the acquisition of commercial satellite imagery from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2018.
The 2020 NDAA directed the National Reconnaissance Office to submit a report on commercial space-based radio frequency mapping, and the 2021 draft bill directs the Chief of Operations of the Space Force to deliver an assessment of how U.S. commercial space-based radio frequency capabilities could support the U.S. military.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts in late last year to radar satellite startup Capella Space and to HawkEye 360.
The two NRO-contracted Electron launches will take place from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand from pads LC-1A and LC-1B.
The NRO used the RASR contract vehicle to launch three payloads on an Electron rocket on 2020-06-13.
Rocket Lab announced on 2020-06-18 that it received the National Reconnaissance Office contracts for two Electron missions that were awarded in the late spring of 2021.
The 2020-06-11 Electron launch includes three unidentified payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Barry Behnken served a 20-year Air Force career that included work as a National Reconnaissance Office program director.
Martin Faga led the National Reconnaissance Office during the George H.W. Bush administration.
Maj. Gen. Michael Guetlein is the deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office.
The National Reconnaissance Office expects a growing demand for commercial geospatial data and analytics.
Rocket Lab was preparing to launch an Electron rocket with three National Reconnaissance Office payloads when New Zealand moved to Level 4 pandemic restrictions in March, forcing postponement of the launch.