{"id":54398,"date":"2022-11-17T17:07:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nro-issues-solicitation-for-commercial-hyperspectral-satellite-data\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:07:36","slug":"nro-issues-solicitation-for-commercial-hyperspectral-satellite-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nro-issues-solicitation-for-commercial-hyperspectral-satellite-data\/","title":{"rendered":"NRO Issues Solicitation for Commercial Hyperspectral Satellite Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The National Reconnaissance Office<\/strong> (NRO) has issued a solicitation for the commercial provision of hyperspectral imagery. NRO Director Chris Scolese announced the new NRO effort during a Nov. 15 Leadership Dinner speech at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe value our commercial partnerships and there have been a lot of investments by commercial entities in a lot of different phenomenologies,\u201d Scolese told INSA during his speech, according to an NRO transcript.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had great success with the electro-optical [award] because I think we\u2019ve seen in the Ukraine situation where they\u2019ve been made available, and the collaboration and the partnership between national technical and commercial has really been extremely positive,\u201d he said. \u201cAs we\u2019re seeing more and more capabilities out there being developed, we of course want to take advantage of it, and as we\u2019ve learned from \u2026 the electro-optical award, working early with potential partners is really good because they get to understand us and we get to understand them\u2026Today, we announced another Broad Agency Announcement, this time for hyperspectral. We\u2019re looking forward to seeing what\u2019s available out there, and we see that as the next such phenomenology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pete Muend, director of NRO\u2019s commercial systems program office, said in an NRO statement in September that \u201csince the early days of Ukraine crisis, NRO\u2019s commercial data providers have been collecting electro-optical and radar imagery as well as commercial RF [radio frequency] data over the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Jeremy Banik, deputy director of the NRO\u2019s Commercial Systems Program Office, said that the NRO planned to release the hyperspectral imagery solicitation by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The NRO has focused on acquiring new phenomenologies in commercial imagery and sensing data through the Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Framework announced last year. The agency awarded contracts under the BAA to commercial companies for synthetic aperture radar in January, and radio frequency in September.<\/p>\n

While hyperspectral imaging collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum, Banik said this month that the NRO is not interested in buying a discrete band such as thermal infrared imagery, but wants to buy many individual bands.<\/p>\n

The agile study contract approach the NRO is taking is designed with low barriers to entry to make it easier for small, emerging, or non-traditional providers to work with the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilar to NRO\u2019s first two Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcements (BAA), the hyperspectral imaging Request for Proposal (RFP) includes modeling and assessment of planned and on-orbit capabilities as well as demonstrations, if a company has on-orbit capabilities,\u201d the NRO said on Nov. 16. \u201cIt also includes options to order products and services for mission use-case validation and operational support.\u201d<\/p>\n

A number of commercial satellite companies offer hyperspectral imaging or are working to provide such capabilities like Orbital Insight and Planet\u2019s upcoming Tanager constellation.<\/p>\n

This article was first published by Via Satellite sister outlet Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n

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