Tag Archives: GEOINT

Maxar Technologies has secured a $48.3 million contract to help the U.S. Army gather, analyze and apply geospatial intelligence. The company will use predictive analysis and signature analyst tools to perform these support services, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

Microsatellite technology maker Umbra has received $32 million during a recent funding round and is planning to use the financing to continue spacecraft production and support commercial launch efforts.

Octo has appointed Letitia “Tish” Long, a former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, to the company's board of directors. Long's appointment will place greater focus on the Intelligence Community (IC) as Octo's core customer. “Having Long on our Board of Directors is a massive boon to our ability to understand and support the Intelligence Community,” said Mehul Sanghani, CEO of Octo. 

HawkEye 360 will use its satellite constellation to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency with radio frequency data and analytics in support of a pilot program centered on the use of commercial RF GEOINT. The company said Wednesday it will offer the service to help analysts perform augmented intelligence works to support various NGA missions.

Air Force Life Cycle Management Center seeks market information on signal and geospatial intelligence technologies that would transmit information to support rapid targeting. AFLCMC said Monday in a SAM notice that it requires these on-platform SIGINT and GEOINT technologies to address requirements under the country's Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Dominance Flight Plan and National Defense Strategy.

Geospatial intelligence company Slingshot Aerospace has raised $8M during an ATX Venture Partners-led Series A funding round and plans to use the investment to support the development of situational awareness offerings.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Descartes Labs a $2.2M contract for the company’s cloud-based analytics platform to support targeting operations for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky subsidiary has completed preliminary design review activities for its proposed next-generation satellite for a U.S. Army program focused on tactical geospatial intelligence.

Robert Cardillo, a member of the advisory board at HawkEye 360 and a four-time Wash100 awardee, shared in an interview posted Thursday his insights on geospatial intelligence and the need for the government to adopt commercial radiofrequency geospatial innovation.

Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky subsidiary has received a contract to support the U.S. Air Force's efforts to monitor COVID-19 activity at military bases through the company’s proprietary geospatial intelligence technologies.

HawkEye 360 has finished environmental testing activities for a new cluster of radio frequency-based geospatial intelligence satellites slated to launch later this year.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is conducting market research as part of its efforts to launch a prototype other transaction authority program focused on modernizing GEOINT data processes.

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.

Defense and intelligence services firm Mission Essential has received a five-year task order to support the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.

Private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners has invested an undisclosed amount in Continental Mapping Consultants to support the latter’s geospatial intelligence efforts.