Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has appointed Jon Love, former head of public sector partner development at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), as vice president of strategic growth, responsible for driving company efforts to secure opportunities in the global public sector. “In this role, he is going to lead efforts to help our U.S. Government customers, our closest allies, and ecosystem of industry partners harness commercial innovation in Earth Intelligence create mission force multipliers across our community,” said Tony Frazier, executive VP of global field operations at Maxar and a four-time Wash100 awardee.

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.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 5, 2020 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will supply remote ground terminals to the U.S. Army Geospatial Center under a potential eight-year, $49M contract that includes an initial $8M award for the first two task orders, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 21.

Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and four-time Wash100 Award recipient, will serve on the expert panel during Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual Army Forum on August 27th. 

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 29, 2020 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) renewed four multiyear agreements during the second quarter to provide international defense and intelligence customers access to its constellation of Earth imaging satellites via the Direct Access Program, ExecutiveBiz reported July 20.

Gilman Louie, most recently chairman of Vricon’s board of directors, became a board member at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) after the latter company acquired the McLean, Va.-based geospatial technology provider.

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) announced Wednesday that it has wrapped up its acquisition of Vricon, a 3D data and analytics company, for approximately $140M.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 30, 2020 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will help the Department of Homeland Security build a system to characterize and track vehicle behavior in real time across multiple domains under a potential five-year, $23M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported June 22.

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) plans to exercise its call option to fully acquire Vricon, a 3D data and analytics company, for approximately $140M as part of efforts to advance growth initiatives in Earth intelligence and 3D technology markets.

A consortium of investors led by Toronto-based private investment firm Northern Private Capital has closed its acquisition of MDA from Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) for approximately $765M.