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NGA Planning Second Contract Under LUNO Effort

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, March 29th, 2024

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NGA Planning Second Contract Under LUNO Effort

BlackSky Technology, which is on NGA's current Economic Indicator Monitoring contract, can provide its customers with data on changing activity over time. Image: BlackSky

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) last Thursday released a synopsis for a new contract effort, LUNO B, which will be a multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract over five years. The LUNO B contract, which has a $200 million ceiling, closely parallels NGA’s LUNO A effort, which has a $290 million ceiling and will replace the Economic Indicator Modeling (EIM) contract awarded in August 2021. Bids for LUNO A were due on March 26. “Similar to LUNO A, LUNO B…

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