Company awarded $95M of new contracts from the U.S. Air Force,
Special Operations Command and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
WESTMINSTER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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:
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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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