NGA Solicits Proposals for Commercial Radar Imagery
 Posted on September 14th 2009
The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) plans to issue contracts worth up to $85 million apiece for radar satellite data to as many as four commercial satellite operators, according to an Aug. 11 posting on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site.

No U.S. companies currently operate commercial radar imaging satellites due in part to strict U.S. regulation of the technology, but several international firms are marketing radar data collected by government-funded spacecraft. To participate, U.S. companies will have to serve as resellers of this data; industry sources said such brokering arrangements likely will be necessary because of the sensitivities associated with NGA operations.

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