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  • DigitalGlobe, Spire, Planet to Provide Earth Science Data Under NASA Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Spire, Planet to Provide Earth Science Data Under NASA Contracts

    NASA has awarded blanket purchase agreements to three companies to provide the agency with Earth observation data sets derived from constellations of commercial small satellites. Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe subsidiary, Planet and Spire received the sole-source contracts under the agency’s Private Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot program, NASA said Friday. “This pilot program is […] More

  • NGA, Planet Sign CRADA for Imagery Extraction, Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA, Planet Sign CRADA for Imagery Extraction, Analytics

    Planet and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have partnered in an effort to increase the process for NGA to extract and analyze commercial imagery. Manuela McCabe, NGA’s Planet CRADA program manager, said in a statement published Thursday both parties signed a cooperative research and development agreement that could yield change detection services such as object monitoring, broad area search and baseline and […] More

  • Rocket Lab Conducts 2nd Orbital Launch Vehicle Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab Conducts 2nd Orbital Launch Vehicle Flight Test

    Rocket Lab has launched its second Electron orbital launch vehicle from the company’s launch complex on Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, into space. The rocket, nicknamed Still Testing, reached orbit 8.5 minutes after liftoff and deployed  Planet‘s Dove Pioneer satellite along with a pair of Spire‘s Lemur-2 satellites during the test flight, Rocket Lab said Sunday. Rocket Lab engineers will analyze launch data […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Help Deploy Planet's Earth Imagery Satellites Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Help Deploy Planet’s Earth Imagery Satellites Into Orbit

    Orbital ATK is scheduled to launch Planet‘s Earth imaging satellites at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Tuesday at 2:37 p.m. Pacific time. Orbital ATK said Monday its Minotaur C rocket will carry a total of 10 SkySat and Dove remote sensing satellites, which will work to collect medium- and high-resolution multispectral Earth imagery for commercial […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Rob Zitz, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer at SSL Government Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Rob Zitz, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer at SSL Government Systems

    “I have been the ‘change agent’ throughout my career…understanding end users’ unmet needs is an absolute priority.” EM: Can you tell us a little bit about SSL Government Systems? Rob Zitz: SSL’s Government Systems group is made up of highly experienced, cleared professionals with deep domain expertise in defense and intelligence missions. The group is […] More

  • Planet to Provide Imagery Access to DoD, Intelligence Community Under NGA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Planet to Provide Imagery Access to DoD, Intelligence Community Under NGA Contract

    Planet has entered a $14 million agreement with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community with access to the company’s imagery of more than 25 regions of interest. NGA said Wednesday that the one-year subscription agreement, which was made through the company’s General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule contract, will support ongoing foundation […] More

  • Planet to Provide NGA Global Nanosatellite Imagery Access; Robert Cardillo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Planet to Provide NGA Global Nanosatellite Imagery Access; Robert Cardillo Comments

    Commercial imagery provider Planet has been awarded a $20 million introductory contract to supply small satellite imagery of Earth’s landmass to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA will have access to a global imagery collection called the Planet Feed every 15 days and share the feed with the National System for Geospatial Intelligence and civil federal community, the agency said […] More

  • OGSystems, Planet Forge Strategic Alliance to Develop Location-Based Intelligence Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, Planet Forge Strategic Alliance to Develop Location-Based Intelligence Platform

    OGSystems will team with Planet to build a location-based intelligence platform that combines commercial remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics. The companies said Monday the BlueGlass platform will work to offer real-time insights delivered through situational awareness, anomaly alerting and reporting on activities that could lead to potential risks to user operations. “OGSystems’ vision for BlueGlass was born out of our […] More