
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) said on Sept. 28 that it has awarded study contracts for commercial radio frequency (RF) remote sensing to Denver's Aurora Insight, Virginia-based HawkEye 360 and Spire Global Inc. [SPIR], Luxembourg's Kleos Space [KSS], Terran Orbital's [LLAP] Florida-based PredaSAR, and Santa Barbara, Calif.'s Umbra Lab. NRO Director Chris Scolese said in a Sept. 28 statement that "since the 2019 award of an integration study contract for commercial RF, we’ve seen increasing demand for this data source…