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Intelligence Community

Vantor Nabs $70 Million NGA Award For GEOINT Portal Use

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, May 4th, 2026

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Vantor on Monday said it has received a $70 million award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for the first option year of a program that gives the agency and vetted federal and allied users access to a company database of unclassified satellite-based and other sensor imagery. The award was made under NGA’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program that the company, previously called Maxar, has managed for more than a decade. The company in 2024 won the follow-on contract,…

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