Maxar Awarded $26M Contract to Continue Development and Support for NGA’s Open Mapping Platform
August 19 2021 - 6:00AM
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Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a trusted partner and
innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, today
announced it has been awarded a five-year contract worth up to
$26.4 million by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
(NGA) to sustain and enhance the National System for Geospatial
Intelligence Open Mapping Enclave (NOME). Under the agreement,
Maxar will continue to provide engineering, software development
and geospatial tradecraft in support of NOME.
The web-based NOME platform enables a community of vetted U.S.
government users to create and update geospatial features in a
crowdsourced “living map.” NOME was initially developed to support
NGA’s foundation mapping mission, but the platform emerged as a
powerful tool to perform unclassified mission support remotely
throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Increasingly, users also leverage
the platform to create features for further dissemination across
multiple networks and to train artificial intelligence and machine
learning (AI/ML) models.
“Maxar is excited to continue building upon the 10 years of
development that have gone into NOME,” said Tony Frazier, Maxar’s
Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations. “We look
forward to further advancing the platform and its applications, to
include NGA mission support, AI/ML initiatives and research.”
This award, which builds upon a previous Small Business
Innovation Research Phase III program, marks the first time NOME
has been funded through a standalone contract.
“NOME is a highly effective mission enabler for the agency’s
distributed workforce,” said James Griffith, Director of Source at
NGA. “Looking ahead, we will continue to integrate NOME with NGA’s
Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program and to leverage
opportunities for partnerships and participation across the
National System for Geospatial Intelligence.”
About Maxar Maxar is a trusted partner and innovator in
Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure. We deliver disruptive
value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor,
understand and navigate our changing planet; deliver global
broadband communications; and explore and advance the use of space.
Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding
and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions
and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost
effectiveness. Maxar’s 4,400 team members in over 20 global
locations are inspired to harness the potential of space to help
our customers create a better world. Maxar trades on the New York
Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange as MAXR. For more
information, visit www.maxar.com.
About NGA NGA delivers world-class geospatial
intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers,
warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders.
NGA is a unique combination of intelligence agency and combat
support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant,
accurate and actionable geospatial intelligence. NGA enables the
U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense to
fulfill the president’s national security priorities to protect the
nation.
For more information about NGA, visit us online at www.nga.mil,
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