NRO Cracks Open Commercial Imagery To More Providers

Breaking Defense: The NRO is making a major shift in its strategy for buying commercial satellite imagery later this year, abandoning the Intelligence Community’s long-standing monogamous relationship with Maxar Technologies to make way for new vendors as it moves beyond its current EnhancedView program.

“This next phase includes the release of a future Request for Proposal (anticipated in the 3rd quarter of FY20), followed by the award of multiple commercial imagery contracts in the 4th quarter of FY20,” NRO spokeswoman Laura Lundin told me in an email.

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