NRO Cracks Open Commercial Imagery To More Providers
The plan for multiple contracts represents a sea-change from past Intelligence Community practice in buying commercial satellite imagery.
New Satellite Imagery Rules Hover In Interagency Limbo
"You can't hide very well" in space, one industry official said, "So, I think the government is going to have to get over that, and recognize space is a free place."
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Air Force Testing Novel ISR Sensors For LEO Sats
Aerospace was able to build and test both sats within 16 months, and launch them after only 18 months -- a fraction of the average seven to eight years it traditionally has taken the service.
New Space Debris Rules Stalled By Year-Long Interagency Spat
"Of all people, it's the 'space warmongers' doing the most to try to sustain the (space) environment," one DoD official said.
NGA Re-Ups Maxar Imagery Contract
NGA's Global EGD program is a good example of how the 2017 bifurcation of authority over commercial remote sensing acquisition between the NGA and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- a transition that remains somewhat troubled --is supposed to work.
SATCOM Experts: AsiaSat Sales Not Threat to National Security
UPDATED WASHINGTON: US commercial satellite sales to AsiaSat, and the company’s leasing of communications bandwidth to China, are not threats to US national security, say experts — contrary to charges by Republican Senators Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst. Instead, US export control law very deliberately has been crafted to encourage such sales in a […]
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Industry Worries Friction Twixt NRO-NGA On Commercial Imagery
NGA and NRO "have significantly overlapping Venn diagrams," one industry source said, and they are still trying to "sort that through." He added, "It's not a nice clean line."
NRO Taps Start-Ups, Eager To Probe Commercial Tech
"To be quite honest most of our space systems are not the leading edge technologies," Troy Meink, head of GEOINT at NRO, said. "We've not kept up in many cases with the commercial environment."