The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) last Thursday released a synopsis for a new contract effort, LUNO B, which will be a multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract over five years.
The LUNO B contract, which has a $200 million ceiling, closely parallels NGA’s LUNO A effort, which has a $290 million ceiling and will replace the Economic Indicator Modeling (EIM) contract awarded in August 2021. Bids for LUNO A were due on March 26.
“Similar to LUNO A, LUNO B is focused on commercial analytics, but with an emphasis on domain awareness, custody services and emerging products/services,” an NGA spokeswoman told Defense Daily last Friday in an email response to questions.
Demand for services under the EIM contract has been robust and led NGA to increase the original ceiling from $29 million to $60 million. LUNO A will leverage computer vision technologies such as object detection, object classification, object segmentation, pattern detection, broad area search and monitoring, and feature mapping in six areas of interest.
The EIM awardees that compete for task orders are BAE Systems, BlackSky Technology [BKSY], Continental Mapping Consultants, and Royce Geospatial Consultants.