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Ursa Space Nabs NGA Luno A Task Order; Univ. of Illinois Gets High-Performance Compute Award

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025

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Ursa Space Nabs NGA Luno A Task Order; Univ. of Illinois Gets High-Performance Compute Award

Graph: Ursa Space Systems

ST. LOUIS—Ursa Space Systems this week received a $13.8 million task order for the Global Oil Awareness Tracker (GOAT) under a commercial data analytics contract focused on facility monitoring and change detection, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) said on Wednesday. The award to Ursa Space is the third under NGA’s $290 million multiple-vendor Luno A contract, with recent task orders given to Maxar Technologies for facility monitoring and Electromagnetic Systems Inc. for feature identification (Defense Daily, May 19). GOAT “will…

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