The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is interested in “commercial unclassified non-Earth imaging and associated analytics"

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The council will delve into the ongoing tug-of-war between military and intelligence agency leaders.

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A U.S. Space Force online marketplace that taps into commercial satellite data has executed around $8 million worth of contracts over the past four months. 

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced its first commercial solutions opening to provide direct-to-warfighter commercial analytics for maritime domain awareness.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency seeks to leverage commercial satellite imagery and data analytics to enhance its global monitoring capabilities

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on Jan. 10 issued a solicitation for commercial satellite Earth observation data under a new program called Luno.

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Maxar Technologies announced Jan. 4 it secured a contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide advanced satellite imagery and data for 3D maps and models.

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The National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and U.S. Space Command last month signed an agreement to improve threat intelligence sharing with commercial satellite operators.

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Remote-sensing space companies worry that U.S. defense and intelligence agencies are not adopting commercial products and services at the pace and scale they hoped.

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The House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee is proposing legislation that would require DoD to share threat intelligence with commercial satellite operators. 

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is planning a new procurement of commercial services to monitor activities from space.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is working with NASA to develop a positioning and navigation system to guide visitors around the surface of the moon “as accurately and as safely as GPS does on Earth."

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded Maxar a five-year $192 million contract to provide satellite imagery to U.S. allied countries.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to double its spending on contracts to monitor global economic activity from space.

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In spite of progress, various Earth observation systems are not yet able to exchange information easily.

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NGA's Dave Gauthier said Sept. 15 the agency has a growing appetite for new types of analytics services offered by the private sector

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U.S. defense and intelligence agencies that increasingly rely on commercial satellites for imagery and other services are discussing how they might compensate companies if their spacecraft is damaged during an armed conflict.

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NGA is trying to match requirements with commercially available technology, said Frank Avila, commercial and business operations deputy director at the National Geospatial-intelligence Agency

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ManTech developed a model that uses open-source intelligence to measure the level of foreign influence in any country

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Leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence agencies more than doubled its procurement of commercial electro-optical imagery

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General Dynamics won a 10-year deal with a $4.5 billion ceiling to modernize the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency's cloud infrastructure

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President Biden has nominated U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth to be the next director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the. Defense Department announced Jan. 10.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is interested in keeping commercial datasets unclassified.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to conduct an annual assessment of commercial satellite imagery like the Olympic-themed evaluation the organization conducted earlier this year.

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