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NRO Soon Plans Solicitation For Commercial Radio Frequency Sensing

NRO Soon Plans Solicitation For Commercial Radio Frequency Sensing
HawkEye 360, a provider of commercial satellite-based radar imagery, in March 2022 said its sensors picked up GPS interference by Russian forces in and around Ukraine. Image: HawkEye 360

AURORA, Colo.—The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) this summer expects to seek proposals from commercial providers of satellite-based radio frequency (RF) sensing capabilities to help it better understand how to make use of this phenomenology for geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of warfighters and decision makers, an agency official said on Monday. Also, this summer the agency expects to award multiple contracts for next-generation satellite-based electro-optical (EO) imagery to commercial entities, building on established capabilities and contracts already in place, according…

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