DigitalGlobe Announces Extension of NextView Service Level Agreement for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
June 29 2009 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global content provider of
high-resolution world imagery solutions, today announced that it
has signed a contract to extend DigitalGlobe�s Service Level
Agreement (SLA) with NGA for $12.5 million per month. The SLA
extension provides NGA with continued access to the WorldView-1
satellite. NGA has agreed to extend the SLA through March 31, 2010
for a total of $100 million during the extension period, with an
option for NGA to extend the contract for an additional nine months
on the same terms, from April 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010.
�This new contract extension is an important milestone in our
continuing support of NGA and the U.S. Government. I am very
pleased with the DigitalGlobe team�s performance in providing
service to NGA,� said Jill Smith, DigitalGlobe�s chairman, chief
executive officer and president.
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Longmont, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe
(http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a leading global provider of
commercial high-resolution world imagery products and services.
Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery
solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and
intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental
monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management as
well as internet portals and navigation technology.
Our two high-resolution imagery satellites offer among the
highest collection rates and resolution, and are capable of
collecting nearly 1 million square kilometers of imagery per day.
The planned launch of WorldView-2, our third satellite, in
September or early October 2009, is expected to increase our total
collection capabilities of imagery to nearly 2 million square
kilometers per day, and enable intra-day visits to those places of
greatest interest to our customers.
With our collection sources, comprehensive ImageLibrary
(containing 660 million square kilometers of earth imagery) and
imagery products, we offer a range of on- and off-line products and
services designed to enable customers to easily access and
integrate our imagery into their business operations and
applications.
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