A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlights the federal use of commercial imagery provided through the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the National Geospatial Agency (NGA) by eight of 10 departments/agencies examined by GAO. “Eight of 10 departments and agencies ...
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The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has issued a solicitation for the commercial provision of hyperspectral imagery. NRO Director Chris Scolese announced the new NRO effort during a Nov. 15 Leadership Dinner speech at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA). “We value our ...
The General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper is included in a possibly $2.3 billion, seven-year contract awarded last month to an SMX team for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Atomics said on Nov. 14. The Reaper “will continue to support prime contractor SMX who was recently awarded a task order ...
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md.–The Northrop Grumman [NOC] campus here has a more than five-decade history, beginning as Westinghouse, and today developing a variety of systems, including the Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor (EMRIS) that is to be able to switch ...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is reviewing its current acquisition structure in favor of adopting an architecture widely used across the Department of Defense, the program executive office (PEO), an agency official said this week. The PEO model will be used for acquisition ...
Virginia-based HawkEye 360 plans to have 60 satellites–20 clusters of three satellites–on orbit by 2025, Alex Fox, the company’s chief growth officer, said this week. The company said that the 20 clusters will have a global revisit rate of 12 to 20 minutes, as opposed to the 90 ...