Maxar Technologies [MAXR] on Tuesday said it has received a $44 million contract option from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to continue providing satellite imagery to the government and other partners under the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. The award, which was ...

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded BlackSky [BKSY] a second award to support a research program to automate analysis of satellite imagery. On Thursday, BlackSky announced the $4.4 million award to support the second phase of the multi-year Space-based ...

The U.S. Space Force established the National Space Intelligence Centerin Dayton, Ohio on Friday, to provide intelligence and technical expertise in the space domain. NSIC is led by the Space Force’s newest unit, Space Delta 18, also established on Friday. Space Delta 18 is named in honor of ...

President Biden on Monday issued a National Security Memorandum (NSM) aimed at combatting illegal fishing by distant water fleets in the world’s oceans and directed several departments and agencies to bring various technologies to bear to increase maritime domain awareness. NSM-11 calls for the ...

The U.S. Space Force is looking to modernize its Satellite Control Network (SCN), including the future SCN use of a mesh network to improve SCN’s defense against adversary cyber attacks. “Our scheduling system still operates off DOS [disk operating system]–1990s technology,” ...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) suggested on May 10 that the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper could provide significant intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)/strike benefits to U.S. and allied forces in the future, even against higher technology adversaries. “The Air Force has been ...