The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on Tuesday released a draft request for proposal for LUNO A, a program that will replace the agency’s current Economic Indicator Monitoring (EIM) contract.
Responses to the draft solicitation are due by November 7.
Winners under the eventual contract will leverage unclassified, commercial data to produce products, data, and services for use by NGA and National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) “analysts to add context to analytic assessments, and have unparalleled insight into and data to quantify worldwide economic and environmental activity and military capabilities,” the agency said in a notice published on the government procurement website Sam.gov.
The NSG includes the intelligence community, the Joint Staff, the military departments and combatant commands, international partners, National Applications Office and Civil Applications Committee members.
The existing EIM contract was awarded in August 2021 to BAE Systems, Ball Aerospace [BALL], BlackSky Technology [BKSY], Continental Mapping Consultants, and Royce Geospatial Consultants. The original award, considered a pilot effort, was for $29 million and was later boosted to $60 million. The companies compete for delivery orders under the contract.
NGA said the new contract will give it more access to data and services, “accelerate Analysis Workflow Modernization objectives and integrate data and services into enterprise capabilities.”
NGA officials have said that LUNO will build on the lessons learned from EIM and expand to include additional activities and make them operationally relevant. EIM has offered NGA the opportunity to examine different commercial activities and services, and even apply technologies such as computer vision.