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Intelligence Community

10,000 “Operationally Relevant” Commercial EO Images Provided to NGA Per Week

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, November 2nd, 2023

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10,000 “Operationally Relevant” Commercial EO Images Provided to NGA Per Week

A PlanetScope satellite image shows fighting between Sudanese Army factions and paramilitary forces in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, in March last year (Planet Labs Photo)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) had said that companies provide NGA and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) 50,000 electro-optical (EO) commercial images weekly. NGA is now further delineating that figure. The 50,000 EO commercial images provided weekly through the NRO Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) program are raw files/raw data, and of that number 10,000 are "operationally relevant" images that NGA analysts use. In May last year, NRO awarded EOCL contracts that the agency said it values at $4 billion over…

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