DigitalGlobe, a global provider of high-resolution earth
imagery solutions, announced that it has been awarded a one-year contract at a
funded level of $37.9 million by the U.S. Government under the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) new Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (EGD)
program.
The contract will enable value-added support to NGA, as
DigitalGlobe continues to meet more advanced imagery requirements and provide
final product deliverables.
“This program will better enable NGA to serve its
many constituents including our troops, first responders, relief workers and
others across many government agencies with near real time commercial imagery
delivered over the web,” said Jeffrey R. Tarr, president and chief
executive officer.
This award advances the production capabilities of the
company’s “Rapid Delivery of Online Geospatial Intelligence” (RDOG),
a capability first pioneered jointly by DigitalGlobe and
NGA in 2009.
NGA used to develop imagery and map-based intelligence
solutions for U.S. national defense, homeland security and safety of navigation
in multiple geographic locations around the world.
EGD expands the EnhancedView contract to meet the
government’s evolving requirements for ortho-rectified products in large
quantities. The new EGD product deliverables will include three elements: a
nearly cloud-free wide-area mapping layer; continuous delivery of daily images
via the web within 24 hours of collection; and quick-turnaround images of
NGA-designated high-priority geographic locations.
Recently, DigitalGlobe and Ball Aerospace &
Technologies jointly announced that they completed the
Critical Design Review (CDR) for DigitalGlobe’s next generation remote-sensing
satellite, WorldView-3.
The CDR was completed in late August and keeps
WorldView-3 on schedule for a planned launch in the middle of 2014. WorldView-3
will expand DigitalGlobe’s orbiting constellation to four remote-sensing
satellites, all of which were manufactured by Ball Aerospace.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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