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NGA Issues Draft Solicitation For New Approach To Economic Indicator Modeling

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

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NGA Issues Draft Solicitation For New Approach To Economic Indicator Modeling

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on Tuesday released a draft request for proposal for LUNO A, a program that will replace the agency’s current Economic Indicator Monitoring (EIM) contract. Responses to the draft solicitation are due by November 7. Winners under the eventual contract will leverage unclassified, commercial data to produce products, data, and services for use by NGA and National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) “analysts to add context to analytic assessments, and have unparalleled insight into and data…

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