Intelligence
“Commercial analytics-as-a-service, or the purchase of analysis vice pixels, means that we can integrate commercial capabilities faster into our existing products and services (e.g., object detection),” an NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
Making all-domain operations a warfighting capability means integrating, fusing, and disseminating a sensor picture appropriate for a particular theater segment, not all of them, says the Mitchell Institute’s David Deptula.
By Barry RosenbergHow to unlock innovation and savings for DoD: “commercial,” not COTS
Overmatch is fleeting and while traditional acquisitions can’t always keep up with new threats, a different and approved practice can.
While Capitol Hill has been pushing the IC to buy more commercial imagery and geospatial analysis, “we still see some level of underinvestment,” said Frank Garcia, professional staffer at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
By Theresa Hitchens
The subcommittee is “encouraging the use of commercially available data” to help fill ISR gaps identified by military commanders, but there’s also has concerns about overlap in acquisition of commercial ISR.
By Theresa Hitchens
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
Later in the contracting process, NRO potentially will “have the wherewithal to purchase ad hoc imagery, data products and the like,” said Pete Muend, director of the spy agency’s Commercial Systems Program Office.
By Theresa Hitchens
NGA’s Chief Information Office Mark Andress said he has an entire engineering team dedicated to certifying the accuracy and validity of imagery products and the metadata around them.
By Theresa Hitchens
Millennium Space Systems is delivering on critical missile tracking constellation
With programs like MTC, Millennium Space Systems is redefining what it means to be an operational prime – rapidly delivering operational small sat constellations on rapid timelines.
“Is the coin of the realm the 70 years of craft that they have, or is it about what they uniquely hold?” asked former ODNI deputy Sue Gordon.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We really view ourselves, not as a space company, not as a satellite company, but as a geospatial intelligence company,” says BlackSky’s Chief Technical Officer Peter Wegner.
By Theresa Hitchens
The new policy is inconsistent with efforts by DoD and NGA to expand the trusted supplier base by better integrating allied firms into their acquisition chains, critics say.
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ICEYE’s synthetic aperture radar system can now track changes at bases or at sea on a daily basis, which the company is touting as game-changing.
By Theresa Hitchens
The company plans at least 24 satellites, each with a patented SAR antenna that folds up “like origami” for launch and unfurls on orbit, says Umbra COO Todd Master.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I think before you hand off the ball, let’s make sure there won’t be a fumble — and the Space Force has a lot on it’s plate right now,” Rep. Jim Cooper says.
By Theresa Hitchens
The goal is to have an improved version of the Data Transformation Services (DTS) system up and running on classified NGA networks by next February, the agency’s request for information (RFI) says.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The Army needs information when and where they want it,” said Rob Zitz, a former Army intel official. “The IC should not get a vote on what Army needs or how Army executes combat missions.”
By Theresa Hitchens and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Gray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
