The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a total of $23M in two-year contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global for radio occultation data that the agency plans to use for operational weather forecasts. NOAA awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts on Nov. 20 under the Commercial Weather Data Pilot program for work that will run through 2022, the Department of Commerce's space commerce office said.

Spire Global has established an office in Washington, D.C., to serve as a hub for the cloud analytics company to develop enterprise platforms designed to support government space data requirements. The D.C. facility represents Spire's third office in the country and its sixth worldwide.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 22, 2019 — KeyW (Nasdaq: KEYW) has tapped Spire Global to provide hosted payload services in support of the former’s efforts to demonstrate its space technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported March 12. Spire, whose space-as-a-service offering enables it to host third-party payloads on its satellite constellations, will help …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2020 — Keith Johnson, vice president and general manager of Spire Global's federal business, said the company has embarked on data-driven projects that support the government's maritime domain awareness and transportation operations, ExecutiveBiz reported March 16.

ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has entered into a lease agreement for its next headquarters site in Reston, Va. "As we celebrate our 50th anniversary this year we are very pleased to announce a new headquarters that will inspire innovation, creativity and collaboration," said ICF CEO John Wasson.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 14, 2019 — Spire Global will supply automatic identification systems data for a BAE Systems software suite that works to enable users to discover, utilize and disseminate geospatial intelligence, ExecutiveBiz reported May 3. The space-to-cloud analytics firm said May 1 it will feed AIS data into …

Paul Damphousse, a 22-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former chief of advanced concepts in the Department of Defense’s National Security Space Office, has joined Spire Global as senior director of national security business development for its federal group. He brings three decades of leadership experience in the strategic business …

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has been awarded a  one-year, $8.5 million contract by the U.S. Space Force to develop prototype mission data processing applications for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing (FORGE MDP) program, the company announced Thursday. “Maxar has decades of commercial expertise in geospatial information and analytics, satellite technology and ground processing systems,” said Tony Frazier.

One of the many lessons to come out of the ongoing global health crisis is that, even amid quarantines, stay-home orders, and a drastic slowdown in business and economic activity, cyber threats never rest — and in some instances, even escalate.

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Mark Gray, president and CEO of ASRC Federal, his sixth consecutive Wash100 Award as part of the 2020 selection.