
The U.S. intelligence community and Department of Defense have had ample time to study the use of satellite-based commercial remote sensing imagery and related data analytics and now should accelerate their purchases of these products, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said last week. Various impediments to the purchase of commercial remote sensing products include a more than two-year delay in the National Reconnaissance Office awarding contract for electro-optical imagery, negatively impacting the financial performance of companies in the program, the…