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Hawkeye Cluster 3 satellites (Hawkeye image)
GEOINT 2022: The National Reconnaissance Office this summer will ask satellite companies providing radio frequency geolocation data to make a pitch for study contracts, the agency’s head of commercial operations said on Monday.
Pete Muend, director of the NRO Commercial Systems Program Office, told the USGIF GEOINT 2022 conference that the spy satellite agency will issue a Broad Agency Announcement calling on commercial industry, just like it did last year to launch study contracts with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) providers. Using a BAA, rather than a more formal request for proposal (RFP) allows the agency to more rapidly open the study effort, using nontraditional contracting methods.
“Under our strategic commercial enhancements, I do want to mention and announce that that is going to be focused on commercial RF,…
