Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC
The US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded Maxar Technologies new contracts worth up to US$35.8 million.
The first award is a one-year Period of Performance contract worth up to US$22.5 million with US$11.3 million initially funded under NGA’s Janus Geography program. Janus is a cloud environment that will enable near-real time access to commercially created and enriched content.
Under the second award, worth up to US$13.3 million, Maxar will provide NGA’s Foundation Program with a modern, enhanced application programming interface (API) capable of querying, discovering and downloading Maxar products derived from the company’s 125-petabyte (PB) high-resolution commercial imagery archive.
Additionally, this enhanced API will deliver content to the end user’s cloud account rather than via legacy dissemination methods. Additional options include third-party content integration, full business analytics and greater production capacity.
The enhanced API award is for a performance period of up to 4.5 years consisting of a base of six months and four full option years. The new API will support computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.
