“NGA expects unclassified space-based geospatial data to become ubiquitous and widely available,” says NGA’s David Gauthier.
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“This language from the SASC serves notice that they intend to keep a close eye on the NRO’s commercial remote sensing program,” observed Keith Masback, a former senior defense and intelligence official.
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SIA is hopeful that the COVID-19 pandemic will have only limited effects on the satellite industry, since it has been “generally deemed essential by governments.”
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“It seems that, within the US government and elsewhere, there are agencies that want to have more and more access more times a day over the areas that they care about,” Jim Thomason, VP of Imagery Product at Planet told me in an interview this week.
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“[T]he trend is that a larger percentage of our work will be able to be accomplished using commercial systems than in the past,” says Gauthier.
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The plan for multiple contracts represents a sea-change from past Intelligence Community practice in buying commercial satellite imagery.
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“Basically, if that’s where the bulk of the data is, then we will work where the data exists,” David Gauthier, head of NGA’s Commercial and Business Operations Group, said about using commercial imagery analysis.
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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.
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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.”
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“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.”
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Venture capital funds are pouring money into space start-ups — including a number of firms being eyed by DoD –with investment in 2018 hitting a record high of $3.2 billion.
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