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DigitalGlobe Gets Potential $600M NRO Follow-On Contract for EnhancedView Satellite Imagery


Maxar Technologies™ (NYSE: MAXR) DigitalGlobe subsidiary has received a potential two-year, $600M contract from the National Reconnaissance Office to continue to provide the U.S. government access to the company™s WorldView satellite constellation and image archive.

The EnhancedView Follow-On contract has a one-year base term and an option year worth approximately $300M per year, NGA said Tuesday.

NRO awarded the recompete on Aug. 29 after the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency transitioned the EnhancedView imagery acquisition contract to the former.

The EnhancedView program seeks to provide authorized government staff with access to high-resolution commercial imagery derived from DigitalGlobe™s WorldView-1, 2 and 3 satellites to support homeland defense, national security, disaster and emergency response missions.

œThe award of the EVFO is an important first step in the NRO™s strategy of embracing commercial imagery as a key element of our current overhead architecture and a critical and integral element of our future overhead architecture, said NRO Director Betty Sapp.

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