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On Monday, GovConWire reported that President Trump would nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to succeed Dan Coats as the director of National Intelligence.  “I think that John Ratcliffe is going to do an incredible job, if he gets approved,” Trump told reporters at the White House via CNN. “I think …

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has been selected to integrate, launch and operate a space-based instrument built to help NASA scientists conduct monitor air quality and measure pollutants across North America.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 17, 2019 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) and Esri have entered into an agreement for the former to continue to supply satellite imagery mosaics for Esri’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World geographic information database under a three-year contract extension, ExecutiveBiz reported July 9.

Following Jacobs Engineering Group’s (JEC) official acquisition of KeyW on June 12th, United Technologies Corp. (UTX) has replaced KeyW as a member of the GovConIndex. You can find the daily performance of the GovCon industry, the latest financial news and expert analysis on the GovConIndex right here. UTX joins the …

Executive Mosaic management has updated the GovConIndex to replace KeyW as a member of the “GovCon30” with United Technologies Corp. (UTX) following the completion of Jacobs Engineering Group’s (JEC) acquisition of KeyW on June 12th. UTC joins the GovConIndex as one of 30 publicly traded GovCon firms to represent a cross-industry analysis of the overall performance of the GovCon sector.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2019 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) showcased a cloud-based object identification tool at the recent GEOINT 2019 Symposium, previously demonstrating how it analyzes satellite imagery using Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) Geospatial Big Data platform, ExecutiveBiz reported June 6. The Global Automated Target Recognition system works …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 7, 2019 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) posted more than $95M in contracts from public sector customers — the U.S. Air Force, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and U.S. Special Operations Command — for Earth intelligence services, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday the contracts, which were …

The National Reconnaissance Office selected three companies to conduct satellite imagery studies that aim to evaluate industry’s capacity to help the U.S. government address geospatial intelligence requirements by 2023.

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has received a potential $375M contract to build and demonstrate a power and propulsion component for NASA’s proposed lunar space station intended to support the agency’s planned 2024 moon landing. Maxar said Thursday it will lead a team that includes Draper and Blue Origin to develop …

NASA has awarded eight U.S. firms a total of $4M to investigate concepts that will aid existing and future space transmission systems. The goal of their five-month research period is to gain data that will assist near-Earth missions that are scheduled to begin in the mid-2020s. The agency said Thursday …