Maxar Earth Intelligence Solutions Expands its Support for the U.S. National Security Community
June 03 2019 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Company awarded $95M of new contracts from
the U.S. Air Force, Special Operations Command and National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) today announced that
it was awarded multiple contracts in the first quarter of 2019 to
provide innovative Earth intelligence solutions to U.S. government
agencies, with a total value of more than $95 million.
As announced in January, Maxar is now fully domesticated in the
U.S. and has a combined team of over 1,550 cleared professionals.
U.S. domestication has made it easier for Maxar to bring its
integrated capabilities to bear for national security customers
seeking to apply commercial innovation to support classified
mission requirements. Recent contract wins include:
- The U.S. Air Force awarded Maxar a
multi-year contract worth more than $70 million to deliver a
testbed for the development and integration of automated
intelligence and machine learning capabilities into operations.
Maxar will work closely with the Air Force to demonstrate the
operational value of advanced analytics in day-to-day
operations.
- U.S. Special Operations Command
(USSOCOM) awarded Maxar a five-year
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract and three
task orders under that contract for a program called the 3D Data
Engineering Lab. Maxar will leverage its advanced expertise in
machine learning, computer vision, crowdsourcing, software
engineering and geospatial analysis to enable USSOCOM to rapidly
sift through massive amounts of geospatial data to reveal
actionable insight. Maxar will be eligible for multiple future
awards over the five-year ordering period of the contract and up to
a cumulative value of $6 million.
- The U.S. National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded Maxar two delivery
order contracts worth $7 million to continue providing updates and
enhancements for its sophisticated change detection and land cover
and classification solutions. Maxar-developed machine learning
algorithms allow analysts to quickly and effectively focus their
attention on locations where change persists over at least three
different dates of satellite imagery collection. And the company's
global-scale land cover and classification capabilities support
NGA's geospatial modeling and mission planning applications.
- Maxar was also awarded a number of
classified contracts generating an additional value of more than
$12 million.
“These contract awards reflect Maxar’s unwavering commitment to
serving the U.S. national security community with innovative
solutions that meet their most demanding requirements,” said Tony
Frazier, Maxar’s Executive Vice President of Global Field
Operations. “Now that the company is operating as one Maxar, it
offers an unrivaled portfolio of solutions that include spacecraft
manufacturing and robotics, electro-optical and radar satellite
imagery, industry-leading AI and geospatial machine learning
capabilities. All of these capabilities are built on a commercial
foundation that enables us to rapidly address the needs of the U.S.
government and other global defense and intelligence
customers.”
Maxar has been a trusted mission partner to the U.S. defense and
intelligence community for decades and has continued to gain
momentum over the last year. For the U.S. National Reconnaissance
Office, the company continues to provide the highest resolution and
most accurate and reliable commercial satellite imagery available.
Maxar has served NGA since 1999 and recently announced that it is
leading a team to provide content management of community-sourced
topographic and human geography data for the agency’s Janus
Geography program. Maxar is also expanding the development of
machine learning and crowdsourcing capabilities to augment global
GEOINT missions on the NGA’s Small Business Innovation Research
program and providing on-demand access to mission-ready satellite
imagery through the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program.
The operations of DigitalGlobe, SSL (Space Systems Loral) and
Radiant Solutions were unified under the Maxar brand in February;
MDA continues to operate as an independent business unit within the
Maxar organization.
About Maxar Technologies
As a global leader of advanced space technology solutions, Maxar
is at the nexus of the new space economy, developing and sustaining
the infrastructure and delivering the information, services,
systems that unlock the promise of space for commercial and
government markets. The operations of DigitalGlobe, SSL (Space
Systems Loral) and Radiant Solutions were unified under the Maxar
brand in February; MDA continues to operate as an independent
business unit within the Maxar organization. As a trusted partner
with 5,900 employees in over 30 global locations, Maxar provides
vertically integrated capabilities and expertise including
satellites, Earth imagery, robotics, geospatial data and analytics
to help customers anticipate and address their most complex
mission-critical challenges with confidence. Every day, billions of
people rely on Maxar to communicate, share information and data,
and deliver insights that Build a Better World. Maxar trades on the
New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange as MAXR. For
more information, visit www.maxar.com.
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