MOUnTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) — the agency that in 2022 signed contracts for more than $4 billion over 10 years for optical imagery from Maxar, BlackSky and Planet Labs — is preparing two new contracting vehicles for 2025 to measure commercial industry’s capacity to deliver.
The first, called a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), is for a wide variety of imagery from new companies, even those whose satellites are in development but not yet launched. The second, whose structure . . .
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