{"id":461988,"date":"2026-02-11T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461988\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:37:09","slug":"heo-satvu-sierra-nevada-nab-first-of-nros-new-commercial-imagery-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461988\/","title":{"rendered":"HEO, SatVu, Sierra Nevada nab first of NRO&#8217;s new commercial imagery contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/national-reconnaissance-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Reconnaissance Office<\/a> has granted the first three contracts under its newest contracting vehicle for commercial imagery providers, designed to allow the spy satellite agency to take advantage of new and innovative technology, NRO deputy director Maj. Gen. Christopher Povak said today.<\/p>\n<p>The three winners, he told the National Security Space Association\u2019s annual Defense and Intelligence Space Conference here are: <\/p>\n<p>Australian start-up HEO, to provide up-close imagery of other satellites from its suite of sensors hosted as payloads on numerous spacecraft;<\/p>\n<p>British start-up SatVu, for thermal imagery provided by its HotSpot satellites carrying medium-wave infrared cameras; and<\/p>\n<p>US firm Sierra Nevada Corporation, for radio-frequency geolocation data. <\/p>\n<p>The awards are the first to be let under NRO\u2019s Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) contract mechanism issued <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2025\/12\/nro-extends-contracts-for-4-providers-readies-new-acquisition-approach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last July<\/a> that features a revolving five-year window and allows vendors to pitch unsolicited proposals.<\/p>\n<p>The CSO covers a range of difference phenomenologies for gathering <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/intelligence-surveillance-and-reconnaissance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)<\/a> data from space \u2014 from traditional electro-optical cameras to hyperspectral sensors \u2014 and allows vendors to pitch unsolicited proposals.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release issued today, the NRO said that \u201cbudget permitting,\u201d it \u201canticipates issuing additional awards later this year to expand these multi-phenomenology capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Povak encouraged other companies to send in proposals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to working with all three of those, but for the rest of the commercial ISR providers that are out there or listening in, this offering window is open for an extended period of time, for the next four plus years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have ways of putting new demand signal out, and we\u2019ll always have an open way of receiving proposals from from you. So we look forward to your ideas,\u201d Povak added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The National Reconnaissance Office has granted the first three contracts under its newest contracting vehicle for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[4862,116360,121205,14928,105699,215424,79,193,11716],"class_list":["post-461988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-commercial-space","tag-infrared","tag-intelligence-surveillance-and-reconnaissance","tag-national-reconnaissance-office","tag-non-earth-imaging","tag-radio-frequency-geolocation","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}