The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has tapped 10 companies for content management of community-sourced data on topographic and human geography under a potential 10-year contract worth $920 million. Work for NGA’s Janus Geography initiative will take place at the contractors’ facilities, the agency said in a notice posted Th...
Adam Marks, formerly vice president of strategy and corporate development at Thales Group, has joined Maxar Technologies™ (NYSE: MAXR) SSL subsidiary, as chief strategy officer. Marks will oversee the development of new partnerships and markets and seek new business opportunities for space systems and communications platforms in support of gove...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 30, 2018 ” A team comprised of Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) Radiant Solutions business and partners CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA has received an award from the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation for the company’s work in GEOINT, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Radiant said Tuesday th...
Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer of the government systems group at Maxar Technologies˜ (NYSE: MAXR) SSL business, has received an award for his leadership role in Executive Mosaic‘s 4×24 program, designed for the government contracting industry™s most senior and most influential executives. Jim Garrett...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 6, 2018 ” NASA™s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected SSL, a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), to design and build a critical system for spacecraft designed to perform investigative flybys to explore Jupiter™s Europa moon, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. SSL said Tuesday it will develop the Rem...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 7, 2018 ” Radiant Solutions, a business of Maxar Technologies, will help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Defense Innovation Unit Experimental launch the 2018 DIUx xView Detection Challenge by providing access to high-resolution satellite images, ExecutiveBiz reported. The company said ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 25, 2018 ” Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) SSL business, has secured a seat on the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s newly created panel of private-sector advisers, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. INSA said Tuesday&...
Weekly Roundup January 15 – January 19, 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week we™re going to take a look at some of the recent executive moves in the GovCon marketplace. In the past few weeks there have been numerous changes in leadership including:...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 10, 2018 ” Richard White, president of government systems at Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) SSL subsidiary, has said he believes future satellite production and other operations will occur on orbit as associated government projects continue, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 27. “The satellite-manufacturing facili...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 8, 2018 ” An SSL-built spacecraft developed for NASA‘s in-orbit satellite servicing effort has completed the space agency’s mission preliminary design review that would advance the program to the Key Decision Point C phase, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 21. The Maxar Technologies busines...
