{"id":58732,"date":"2020-10-30T22:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/maxar-receives-us-space-force-contract-for-data-processing\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T22:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:47:50","slug":"maxar-receives-us-space-force-contract-for-data-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/maxar-receives-us-space-force-contract-for-data-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxar Receives US Space Force Contract for Data Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maxar Technologies<\/strong> was selected by the <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong> to develop prototype mission data processing applications for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing (FORGE MDP) program, the company revealed last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The program is located within the Cross-Mission Ground and Communications Enterprise at the Space and Missile Systems Center. The contract is valued at $8.5 million over a 12 months period and was awarded through the Space Enterprise Consortium, managed by <strong>Advanced Technology International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Space Force must process and manage large amounts of satellite data. Maxar\u2019s prototype applications aim to provide rapid mission data processing and dissemination services for Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) data from the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellites. Maxar assembled a team for the project with experts from <strong>Numerica<\/strong>, <strong>Sandia National Laboratories<\/strong>, and the <strong>University Corporation for Atmospheric Research<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaxar has decades of commercial expertise in geospatial information and analytics, satellite technology and ground processing systems,\u201d said Tony Frazier, Maxar\u2019s Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations. \u201cWe\u2019re honored to leverage this experience, in combination with the world-class experience of our subcontractors, to deliver innovative solutions that support national security and a more resilient American space enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxar Technologies was selected by the U.S. Space Force to develop prototype mission data processing applications for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing (FORGE MDP) program, the company revealed last Thursday. The program is located within the Cross-Mission Ground and Communications Enterprise at the Space and Missile Systems Center. The contract is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52717,"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-58732","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\/58732"}],"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=58732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}