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SpaceX has developed into a major contractor supporting U.S. military and intelligence agencies, demonstrating the need of national security organizations for commercial partners that could quickly develop and launch classified satellites. The Elon Musk-founded rocket company received a potential $1.8 billion classified contract from the U.S. govern...

Firefly Aerospace has been qualified to compete for task orders under a potential 10-year, $700 million contract to provide its Alpha rocket to launch small satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office. The company will serve as a launch service provider under the Streamlined Launch Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract to deploy NRO...

Historically, acquisition processes within the United States federal government have not been associated with speed or efficiency. In fact, government officials often point to bureaucratic and tedious acquisition processes as a major hurdle in delivering cutting-edge technologies to government agencies and military forces in a timely manner. Today, ...

Lathan Turner, a more than two-decade military and business leader, has joined public-benefit software company Second Front Systems as executive vice president of global public sector. Turner will be responsible for managing Second Front’s business unit focused on serving U.S. and international government customers, driving revenue growth and ...

The National Reconnaissance Office has issued a request for proposals to potential sources of commercial electro-optical capabilities, according to a tweet posted by NRO on Wednesday. SpaceNews reported that NRO released a broad agency announcement in July and is interested in non-Earth imaging, nighttime imaging, video, multispectral imaging and in...

The National Reconnaissance Office has released a draft request for proposals to seek information on commercial companies that could provide remote sensing capabilities through electro-optical cameras, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “Actually, it just was announced this morning, on the electro-optical side a draft RFP came out re-looking at th...

The global race for technological dominance is heating up, and the United States is targeting rapid technology innovation in what officials believe is a “decisive decade.” Executive Mosaic spoke with Dr. Aaron Weiner, director of the advanced systems and technology directorate at the National Reconnaissance Office, to better understand how the ...

Six companies have received contracts from the National Reconnaissance Office to study commercial hyperspectral imagery capabilities. BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY), HyperSat, Orbital Sidekick, Pixxel, Planet (NYSE: PL) and Xplore secured the study contracts under NRO’s Strategic Commercial Enhancement broad agency announcement, the agency said ...