Maxar Intelligence, provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, announces three new multi-year strategic contracts totaling $204.7 million that will help accelerate sovereign defense and intelligence capabilities and space leadership across the Middle East and Africa (MEA).
The contracts, which expand on Maxar’s two decades-long leadership in the region, are built around Maxar’s Direct Access Program (DAP) offering. The MEA customers will have direct access to Maxar’s industry-leading satellite constellation and geospatial intelligence products, including very high-resolution satellite imagery, 3D terrain data and advanced analytics for persistent monitoring in near real-time.
Access to Maxar’s geospatial intelligence products will also help these customers build more advanced space-based C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) systems, unlocking new opportunities in multi-domain operations, persistent surveillance and advanced mission coordination. For example, the contract includes access to the AI-powered change detection capabilities used to build Sentry, Maxar’s new predictive intelligence solution. These technologies can identify mission-relevant activity and patterns to enable site monitoring across multiple sites at once.
“The ongoing digitalization of modern defense and security operations has driven a big growth in international demand for sovereign geospatial intelligence capabilities, particularly for near real-time situational awareness over key areas of interest,” said Anders Linder, General Manager, International Government at Maxar. “The MEA region has long been on the forefront of investing in technological innovation, and our expanded partnerships reflect the strategic importance of sovereign space-based capabilities. These deals underscore Maxar’s deep commitment to supporting our international customers’ needs to gain real-time decision advantage for the most demanding missions.”
Maxar’s DAP offering enables its international defense and intelligence customers to integrate ground stations with Maxar’s satellites, giving them dedicated capacity with guaranteed delivery speeds. Customers can task Maxar satellites up to 15 minutes prior to an imaging event and receive data in real time.
