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Intelligence Community

NGA Plans Upcoming Commercial Analytics Awards In Several Areas

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, May 19th, 2025

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NGA Plans Upcoming Commercial Analytics Awards In Several Areas

NGA names 13 companies to the Luno B award. Photo: NGA

ST. LOUIS—The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded initial task orders under its new commercial analytics service programs and has more to come in the next few weeks and months, the agency’s deputy director said on Sunday. The upcoming awards under Luno A will for petroleum, oil, liquefied natural gas, storage and pipeline monitoring, raw area search, and facility monitoring, Brett Markham said in a keynote address at the opening day of the annual GEOINT Symposium. NGA last September selected…

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