The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) said on Jan. 26 that it has awarded a $794 million umbrella contract to Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH], Lockheed Martin [LMT], Fairfax, Va.-based Reinventing Geospatial, Inc., founded in 2009, and Charlottesville, Va.’s Solis Applied Science, LLC, a small business founded in 2019.
The companies are to compete for contract task orders to support NGA’s research and development directorate.
NGA said that it will solicit the first Research Development Contract (RDC) task order next month and five total this year. NGA awarded a related $344 million Research (RECON) contract to Booz Allen Hamilton in 2018.
“Supported RDC projects include research into foundational geospatial-intelligence, advanced phenomenologies and analytic technologies,” according to the agency.
The task orders may span a wide area, including the use of “multiple methods of imaging, analytics, and data, including non-traditional sources, in the development of studies,” modeling of “unique environments, topography, geography or gravity measurements to capture human activity in various OCONUS regions and/or terrain,” geospatial intelligence sensors and instruments, and prototypes “to gather, display, and manipulate imagery, geolocation coordinates, satellite photography or imagery, and historical data to accurately determine the geolocation and coordinates of objects, features or define the boundaries or borders around an area or space of interest,” NGA said.
In addition to the RDC contract award, NGA this month also said it plans to choose companies by Oct. 1 to compete for task orders under an expected $290 million LUNO A economic indicators analysis contract to monitor global economic and environmental activity and military capabilities (Defense Daily, Jan. 12).
LUNO A is to replace the $60 million Economic Indicator Monitoring (EIM) contract awarded in August 2021.