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NGA Awards Maxar $192 Million To Provide Commercial Imagery Products To Allies And Partners

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

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NGA Awards Maxar $192 Million To Provide Commercial Imagery Products To Allies And Partners

Plaza de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, April 1, 2022. Image from Maxar's Worldview-3 satellite. Image: Maxar Technologies

Maxar Technologies [MAXR] on Wednesday said it has received a potential $192 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide U.S. allies and partners with commercial satellite imagery and related products over the next five years. Maxar listed four products it will leverage under the Foreign Commercial Imagery Program that will include electro-optical, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and 3D products. The products include SecureWatch, which provides on-demand access to recent high accuracy and high-resolution satellite imagery and analytics;…

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