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GeoEye Exec Confident EnhancedView Will Get Congressional Funding

Friday, July 6th, 2012

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A GeoEye Inc. [GEOY] executive is confident Congress will restore funding for commercial satellite imagery thanks to support from a key committee and an influential lawmaker. “GeoEye continues to receive positive signals from both the House and Senate committees of jurisdiction that there is significant member interest and support to restore funding for commercial imagery,” GeoEye Senior Vice President for National Security Strategy Steve Wallach said in an e-mail regarding EnhancedView, which is a program to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence…

Space

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