Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and a four-time Wash100 awardee, said the company uses commercial technology advancements to help the U.S. government manage national security operations and address various threats from near peer competitors, the ongoing global health crisis and extreme weather events.

Maxar Technologies has been awarded a potential eight-year, $49 million, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Army Geospatial Center to deliver portable, direct-downlink tactical ground systems that will provide critical geospatial intelligence to users in remote locations. The contract includes two initial task orders worth a combined $8 million.

Walter Scott, chief technology officer of Maxar Technologies and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the company’s acquisition of 3D data and analytics company Vricon “enables a whole range of use cases,” Inside Defense reported Monday.

Maxar Technologies has appointed Jim McClelland as head of the company’s mission architecture function, reporting to Maxar chief technology officer (CTO) Dr. Walter Scott, Maxar reported on Thursday.

Maxar Technologies collaborated with Amazon Web Services to build a cloud-based computing technology designed to accelerate processing of global weather data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SiliconANGLE reported Tuesday. “We knew NOAA had capabilities of weather prediction models in traditional on-premises, big beefy high-performance supercomputers, but we wanted to do it in the cloud; we wanted to use AWS as a key partner,” said Travis Hartman, director of analytics and weather at Maxar.

Northrop Grumman has unveiled plans for the central module of NASA’s Lunar Gateway, including the module’s planned launch with Maxar Technologies’ Power and Propulsion Element from a spaceport in Florida by 2023, the NASASpaceflight website reported Friday.

Maxar Technologies has renewed four contracts and expanded a fifth contract with international defense and intelligence customers, with the total of all awards valued at approximately $120 million, for uninterrupted access to its current satellite constellation, the company announced Monday. 

Maxar Technologies has been awarded a five-year, $23 million contract by the Department of the Interior to develop an analytics system to probe the behavior of vehicles in multiple domains at scale and in near-real-time for the Department of Homeland Security, the company announced Monday.

Intelsat has signed a pair of deals to procure four satellites from Maxar Technologies and another two from Northrop Grumman in efforts to meet the Federal Communications Commission deadline for reallocating some C-band spectrum to support 5G network services.

Maxar Technologies has received a six-month, $350K contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to explore the possibility of integrating weather observation sensors with the company's new class of Earth imaging satellites, SpaceNews reported Friday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 12, 2020 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) received contracts worth $20M combined to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency classify land covers and detect georgraphical area changes, ExecutiveGov reported April 28.

Maxar Technologies plans to integrate its WorldView Legion observation satellites with Raytheon Technologies’ imaging sensors this summer ahead of a first launch slated for 2021, SpaceNews reported Friday.

Maxar Technologies has completed installing the fuel tank into the On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing-1 spacecraft. The company is developing for NASA the OSAM-1 spacecraft, which is based on the 1300-class spacecraft platform and designed to refuel satellites in low-Earth orbit, Maxar said Thursday.

Maxar has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to address the country’s imagery and mapping needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 24, 2020 — Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) and four-time Wash100 awardee, said the company has invested heavily into the development of its satellite constellation for Earth imaging, GovCon Wire reported March 13.