{"id":56554,"date":"2021-09-29T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hawkeye-360-awarded-long-term-government-geospatial-intelligence-contract\/"},"modified":"2021-09-29T17:27:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:27:14","slug":"hawkeye-360-awarded-long-term-government-geospatial-intelligence-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hawkeye-360-awarded-long-term-government-geospatial-intelligence-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"HawkEye 360 Awarded Long-Term Government Geospatial Intelligence Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>HawkEye 360<\/b> has received a $10 million contract from the <strong>National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency<\/strong> (NGA), turning a pilot program for commercial Radio Frequency (RF) data into a long-term contract.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Under the $10 million, base year plus four option years contract announced Monday, HawkEye will provide the NGA the means to develop global datasets, which can monitor a broad range of RF activity, including military activity and the trafficking of military, and transnational criminal activity. The contract will also support Combatant Commands and other mission partners.<\/p>\n<p>This follows after HawkEye entered into a pilot program with the NGA in 2020 to explore how the company\u2019s space-based commercial data can augment intelligence activities. Alex Fox, executive vice president for Business Development, Sales, and Marketing said NGA issued a competitive request for proposals in March 2021, and awarded this contract in July 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to be moving from the pilot into an NGA long-term operational contract, which showcases the value of unclassified, shareable commercial RF insights,\u201d said HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini. \u201cNGA is a leader within the United States government in leveraging the growing strengths of the commercial GEOINT sector to fulfill their mission to support policymakers and war fighters.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HawkEye 360 has a constellation of nine RF-monitoring satellites. The company plans for 21 additional satellites that are fully funded for launch in 2021 and 2022.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HawkEye 360 has received a $10 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), turning a pilot program for commercial Radio Frequency (RF) data into a long-term contract.&nbsp; Under the $10 million, base year plus four option years contract announced Monday, HawkEye will provide the NGA the means to develop global datasets, which can monitor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}