Umbra, an American space technology company, announced it has been awarded a sole-source contract by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) through its Commercial Systems Program Office (CSPO) for radar commercial augmentation (RCA) services. The award is a follow-on to four years of contracted work together, expanding the agency’s access to U.S. commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) capabilities. Under the program, Umbra will provide the NRO with assured, global tasking capacity across its constellation and deliver high-resolution radar imagery with rapid revisit and low latency directly to government users.
“We’re honored by the trust the NRO has placed in Umbra to support U.S. intelligence missions,” said David Langan, Chief Executive Officer of Umbra. “Today’s announcement is an important new chapter in a partnership built on years of consistent delivery for the missions that CSPO supports. Our team is focused on solving the hardest remote sensing challenges in space, and we move at speed to turn new ideas and U.S. technology into better capabilities for national security. We are proud to serve the NRO, and we’ll keep proving that American innovation can meet the mission, every day.”
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Over the past four years, Umbra has been a dedicated partner of the NRO and CSPO, providing more than 100,000 images over critical areas of interest to support U.S. operations worldwide. In that time, Umbra has continued to perform and deliver imagery in all weather conditions, day and night, and through complex environments, demonstrating the operational resilience, reliability, and responsiveness that its U.S. commercial radar brings to the national security space enterprise.
This award builds on Umbra’s continued investment in American space capabilities. The company recently announced a new 20,000-square-foot facility in Reston, Virginia, expanding its engineering operations, and is now also operating from its new 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in California, where its spacecraft and components are built.
The firm-fixed-price contract includes a one-year base period of performance with two one-year options. The contract positions Umbra to continue investing in U.S. space-based systems and scaling its constellation and services in support of U.S. Government and allied missions.
