U.S. Defense Department Buys Over $7 Billion of Commercial Satellite Imagery Support
Filed under: Business Line, Companies, Contract Awards, Department of Defense, Events, logistics, NGIA, Satellites, Services, space
U.S. Defense Department Buys Over $7 Billion of Commercial Satellite Imagery Support
The United States Department of Defense contracted with two commercial companies providing satellite imagery to support its operations across the globe. The value of the contracts announced over the last few days is $7.35 billion.
GeoEye Imagery Collection Systems (GEOY) and DigitalGlobe (DGI) will share work on this effort. Both companies will utilize part of the funds to build new satellites and get them into orbit.
The contracts will last for ten years and the companies will be paid an amount monthly for the data they provide to the Pentagon’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGIA).
The NGIA makes maps and charts among other duties while also supporting the American and its Allies military forces with imagery and other data. As anyone who has used Google Maps or Earth knows commercially provided imagery is getting to be of higher-and-higher quality and while it won’t provide the real time intelligence that classified assets might it does support operational planning.
The fact that the Pentagon plans to spend over $700 million a year on this type of support demonstrates its usefulness.
Despite Gates’ Proposed Reforms New Satellites to go Forward
Filed under: Business Line, Congress, Department of Defense, development program, Events, Federal Budget Process, NGIA, Proposal, Satellites, Services, space, U.S. Air Force
As Federal Computer Week writes the Obama administration has decided to go ahead and begin development of a new spy satellite. In the past these black space programs have been heavily criticized for not only cost and schedule growth but the fact that due to their secret nature that there is no public oversight. Part of the impetus for this system is the recent North Korean missile launch. For monitoring programs like this and the Iranian nuclear one satellites are the most efficient way of doing so. This system will also utilize commercial imagery systems that are available. Of interest an earlier attempt at upgrading the U.S. capability, the Future Imagery Architecture project, was not successful. Perhaps this program will be able to demonstrate that Secretary Gates has been able to reform some aspects of acquisition at the Pentagon.
Lockheed Martin to train intelligence analysts
Filed under: Contract Awards, Lockheed Martin, logistics, NGIA, space, training
Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGIA) to provide training to its employees and other intelligence analysts across DoD. See a press release here. The contract has a value of $32 M and is an option on an existing contract. Lockheed Martin is responsible for running the in-house training for the agency. NGIA is what used to be called the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) and provides maps, charts and other information to the US defense services and other agencies.
-
Search This Site
Custom Search -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Recent Posts
-
FREE Business Downloads
-
Latest Defense News
- CHINA: Mandatory Spyware
- WARPLANES: A Reliable Veteran Gets Around
- LOGISTICS: Germany Fixes Army Transport Disaster
- The Navy’s Newest Aircraft Carrier Has No Urinals
- SYRIA: Ending The War Will Not Stop The Fighting
- ARTILLERY: Short Range, Mobile And Nuclear
- WARPLANES: Reaper 2.0
- Analysis: The Dangerous Politicization of the Military
- Trump’s Special Ops Pick Says Terror Drones Might Soon Reach the US from Africa. How Worried Should We Be?
- INDIA-PAKISTAN: Justifying The Black Budgets
- ARMOR: Belgium Goes Big
- ARTILLERY: When Cheaper Is Better And More Popular
- STRATEGIC WEAPONS: North Korea Hustles To Get Paid
- Pentagon Logistics Agency Sold Sensitive Military Surplus to GAO Sleeper Purchasers
- PHILIPPINES: Not A Sanctuary But A Deathtrap
- ELECTRONIC WEAPONS: Australia Thinks Smaller
- DIUx Wins Support — and More Cash — from Trump’s Pentagon
- COLOMBIA: Venezuela Crumbles Into Uncertainty
- SURFACE FORCES : China Tries Relentless
- SURFACE FORCES :
- Negotiating Missile Defense in the Turkish Bazar
- The Army Seeks Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, Distributed Bot Swarms
- BOOK REVIEW: The Church at War: The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and Other Clergy in England, c. 900-1200
- IRAQ: The Avengers
- LEADERSHIP: Britain Establishes An Exclusive Club For Rough Men
- SPECIAL OPERATIONS: A German Custom Ride
- ON POINT: Mosul and Urban Warfare
- PHOTO: Air Cushioned
- Russia, Iran Highlight Combat Tested Hardware at the Russian MAKS Airshow
- RUSSIA: Too Many Threats
- ELECTRONIC WEAPONS: Bahrain Goes To Ground Attack Mode
- AIR WEAPONS: Suicide Attacks No Longer Mandatory
- PHOTO: See Ya’ On The Flip-Side
- IRAN: Sorting Out Syria
- SURFACE FORCES : A Bloody Huge Frigate
- PHOTO: F-35B Night Ops
- BOOK REVIEW: Agente: Female Secret Agents in World Wars, Cold Wars and Civil Wars
- WEAPONS: A Better AK-47 But So What?
- Weekly Top Posts: 2017-07-16
- PHOTO: SA-2 Menace
- SPACE: Long March Stumbles
- Army Looking to Integrate Network Soldiers with Tactical Units
- Mislabeled Weapons Raise Risk of Accidental Explosions in South Korea
- PHOTO: Ready to Support South Korea
- BOOK REVIEW: The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine
- SOMALIA: Dividing By Factions
- AIR DEFENSE: Poland Finds Another Way To Annoy Russia
- PHOTO: Thunderbirds Over Loch Ness
- Pentagon Watchdog Compiles Recommendations That Could Save $34 Billion
- U.S. Won’t Launch a Military Space Corps—For Now
- DOD Officials: Use AI-Fueled Systems to Inform Policy-Makers, Not To Kill
- How Will The Pentagon Create Its AIs? The Algorithmic-Warfare Team Is Charting a Path
- The US Must Rethink How It Uses Special Operators, Says Incoming SOLIC Secretary
- THAILAND: Royalists Want Their Powers Back
- ATTRITION: Justified
- AIR TRANSPORTATION: Satisfied
- PHOTO: Globemaster Coming In
- White House Objects to Ban on New BRAC in Defense Bill
- Ceasefire or No, U.S. and Russia Remain ‘A Second or Two Away’ from Accidental War Over Syria
- BOOK REVIEW: The Victory at Sea
- MALI: Discretion Available If The Price Is Right
- AIR WEAPONS: Norway Delivers Stealth And Surprise
- INFORMATION WARFARE: Israel Plays Rough
- ON POINT: Responding to North Korea’s Fourth of July ICBM
- PHOTO: Missiles Ready For NorKs
- Russia Threatens to Expel 30 U.S. Diplomats
- 16 Dead in Military Plane Crash in Mississippi
- THAAD Succserfully Intercepts an IRBM Target from Alaska
- NIGERIA: Unexpected Losses
- INFANTRY: NLAW Blocks The Alpine Passes
- WARPLANES: Making European Skies Safe For Robots
- PHOTO: A Herc Fourth
- As Trump and Putin Met, US and UK Defense Chiefs Discussed Ways to Deter Russia
- Spooked by North Korea, Lawmakers Resurrect an Old Missile-Defense Idea
- AFGHANISTAN: The Land Of A Thousand Factions
- WARPLANES: A Jet Trainer For The Cheapskates and Scoundrels
- PHOTO: NorK ICBM
- BOOK REVIEW: The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 – April 1944
- SPECIAL OPERATIONS: Too Reliable To Replace
- Weekly Top Posts: 2017-07-09
- AIR DEFENSE: Aegis Comes Ashore In Japan
- PHOTO: Fourth of July Launch
- BOOK REVIEW: Failure to Pursue: How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War
- YEMEN: All Muddled On The Western Front
- AIR WEAPONS: Only The Best For Russia, China And Iran
- TALK: Missile Primer
- PHOTO: Marines On The Prowl
- Trump Weighs a ‘Pretty Severe’ Response to North Korea’s ICBM Test
- BOOK REVIEW: Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania
- ALGERIA: Quiet, Too Quiet
- ARMOR: The Swiss Solution
- ARTILLERY: More Militarized Shipping Containers
- PHOTO: BONE Mirage
- Why Trump Should Embrace America’s Immigrant Soldiers
- Why Trump Should Embrace America’s Immigrant Soldiers
- North Korea Crisis: U.S. and South Korea Respond
- MYANMAR: China Makes Stuff Happen
- SURFACE FORCES : South Korean Bottom Mine Surprise
- AIR TRANSPORTATION: Ukraine Makes Another Friend
- PHOTO: Flaring
More Defense News -->
