{"id":25429,"date":"2019-12-11T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/12\/11\/nro-looks-to-add-new-types-of-commercial-imagery\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:08:08","slug":"nro-looks-to-add-new-types-of-commercial-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2019\/12\/11\/nro-looks-to-add-new-types-of-commercial-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"NRO looks to add new types of commercial imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The National Reconnaissance Office is considering adding new commercial capabilities to its growing portfolio that can take satellite images despite inclement weather and geolocate a broad range of radio frequency signals from space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Dec. 11, the agency announced that it was awarding two data integration study contracts: One to Capella Space for commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and one to Hawkeye 360 for commercial radio frequency (RF) remote sensing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe NRO is interested in better understanding the current capabilities of a variety of commercial vendors and assessing how those capabilities could potentially support the NRO\u2019s national security mission,\u201d said Pete Muend, director of the NRO Commercial Systems Program Office. The NRO oversees the development, acquisition and operation of the nation\u2019s intelligence satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\t