Advent International to acquire Maxar in mid-2023. The satellite firm is a major provider of space-based imaging for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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Hyperspectral imagery could allow analysts at NRO’s sister agency, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), to do things like identify drug production facilities or find evidence of chemical weapons production.
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“As an agency, we’ve been pretty clear that there really isn’t a material difference … between tactical ISR or strategic ISR. It’s just ISR. It’s taking pictures from space,” said Pete Muend, NRO’s director of commercial operations.
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Another idea, said SSC’s Col. Dennis Birchenough, is for SSC to serve as a kind of “matchmaker” to pair ISR sensor developers with commercial operators with capacity to carry payloads extraneous to their own capabilities.
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Frank Calvelli says he will use the congressionally mandated Space Acquisition Council to herd the various Space Force acquisition cats.
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The subcommittee is “encouraging the use of commercially available data” to help fill ISR gaps identified by military commanders, but there’s also has concerns about overlap in acquisition of commercial ISR.
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The markup also calls for a comprehensive report on how DoD plans to leverage ISR data from commercial radio frequency (RF) satellites, noting that lawmakers have been “encouraged” by the successful use of RF geolocation in exercises, including by European Command.
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“We’re talking to a lot of different organizations in the government — Space Force, the Army, the Air Force — many that are looking at how you could leverage commercial technologies and tactical ISR,” BlackSky CEO Brian O’Toole told Breaking Defense.
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CEO Pieter Fossel explained how the temperature of the ground, for instance, can be a critical factor for helicopter-borne special operations missions.
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Leidos’ investment raises Hawkeye 360’s total amount of Series D funding — typically the last round of private investment before a startup goes public — to $150 million.
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NGA’s Chief Information Office Mark Andress said he has an entire engineering team dedicated to certifying the accuracy and validity of imagery products and the metadata around them.
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The COMSPOC analysis shows that the bulk of the some 1,500 debris pieces being tracked by Space Command’s 18th Space Control Squadron will de-orbit within about three years time.
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NRO use of shutter control on commercial electro-optical imagery would be “very rare,” and “limited in both area and time,” said Peter Muend, head of the spy agency’s commercial office.
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