U.S Government Awards Maxar Technologies with Four-Year Global EGD Contract
“The Global EGD program has proven to be an essential capability for NGA and a broad array of U.S. Government users,” said Dan Jablonsky, Maxar CEO. “With this contract, Maxar extends its decades-long standing as a trusted partner to the U.S. Government. We are proud to continue providing American troops, intelligence analysts and first responders with the information and insight to make decisions with confidence.”
Maxar Technologies is a global leading Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure partner. As a team of over 5000 people located in a number of locations, they have the sole mission of fully utilizing the benefits of space to provide their customers with a better chance at living. Their customers range from government officials to commercial customers and they serve them by providing them with highly valued disruptive solution that helps them in observing, understanding and navigating the planet.
This new contract with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global EGD) program is set to begin on the 1st of September 2019 and should last through till August 2023 with its base year value at $44 million.
The global EGD program is one that has been on since 2011, providing soldiers, first responders, intelligence analysts and civil government users with easy access to Maxar’s 100-petabyte historical imagery library and daily imagery collections for time sensitive, mission-critical planning and operations.
The program has consistently proven itself over the years to be one that is extremely essential for use by Non-Governmental Agencies as well as government agencies.
