Maxar Technologies announces new contract awards from NGA worth up to $35.8M

Maxar Technologies announced new contract awards worth up to $35.8M from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The first award is a one-year Period of Performance contract worth up to $22.5 million with $11.3M initially funded under NGA’s Janus Geography program. This new award builds upon Maxar’s more than 20 years of experience delivering foundational geospatial intelligence data to NGA by characterizing land cover at high resolution over numerous previously unmapped areas. Under the second award, worth up to $13.3M, Maxar will provide NGA’s Foundation Program with a modern, enhanced application programming interface capable of querying, discovering and downloading Maxar products derived from the company’s 125-petabyte high-resolution commercial imagery archive. Additionally, this enhanced API will deliver content to the end user’s cloud account rather than via legacy dissemination methods. Additional options include third-party content integration, full business analytics and greater production capacity. The enhanced API award is for a performance period of up to 4.5 years consisting of a base of six months and four full option years. The new API will support computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.