
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on Tuesday selected Orbital Insight for up to $2 million in funding for a new maritime domain awareness effort based on using commercial analytics. The award for the pilot funding under Project Aegir is NGA’s first using a Commercial Solutions Opening, a rapid approach to acquiring and piloting commercial capabilities, and follows by just over two months the release of the solicitation (Defense Daily, May 6). The project was launched to meet increasing demand from…