The HATTERAS RFI is posted on the classified Intelligence Community Acquisition Research Center (ARC) website at https://acq-ui.ace.proj.nro.ic.gov.

How to access the classified ARC website

Interested parties must have a TS/SCI clearance as this effort is being posted on the classified ARC website. You must also have a classified ARC account, to access the classified ARC website. To obtain a classified ARC account, interested parties must contact the ACE IT Helpdesk which can be reached at (703) 230-6300 or acehelpdesk@westfields.net. Be sure to include your classified email address as you will not be able to access your classified account without it.

To log into the classified ARC, visit https://acq.nro.ic.gov/ from a TS network such as NMIS, NSAnet, CWE, AWAN, CWAN, JWICS, etc. If you do not have access to a TS network but possess a TS/SCI clearance, you can arrange a visit to the reading room
by calling 703-230-6100.

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Astrea’s focus is on the measurement of surface optical properties and bulk properties of materials, the development of models that use the measurements to create signatures of interest, and the curation of material databases created by other organizations not software development, maintenance of existing software or exploitation.

The Astrea RFP was released on the Acquisition Center of Excellence, CLASSIFIED Acquisition Research Center, 8 May 2026. Questions shall be submitted IAW the RFP instructions, to Contracting POCs Joseph Cloft and Kelvin Chau no later than 1400 ET on 22 May 2026.

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Under this follow-on award, Vantor delivers and operates GEGD Pro, a secure, web-based geospatial intelligence platform that leverages Vantor’s Tensorglobe software suite. Designed exclusively for NGA as the primary commercial GEOINT platform for the U.S. government, GEGD Pro provides secure access to commercial and government furnished GEOINT content for more than 1.2 million government users across 250+ organizations.

GEGD Pro is a source-agnostic platform that integrates multiple geospatial data sources, including digital maps, refined persistent change model data, and other derived products. It also enables secure viewing, streaming, and analysis of petabyte-scale datasets, including commercial electro-optical, radar, and other NGA-procured data—a scale unmatched by other hosting platforms.

“GEGD Pro demonstrates how a flexible, integrated platform can support critical national security missions today while scaling for tomorrow,” said Susanne Hake, executive vice president and general manager, U.S. government at Vantor. “The platform delivers uninterrupted, trusted access to GEOINT, enabling faster, more informed operational decisions and delivering capabilities that can extend beyond a single agency to other mission partners.”

While GEGD Pro is NGA-specific, Vantor can configure its Tensorglobe spatial intelligence platform to serve as a foundation for other government and large enterprise programs. The platform’s underlying components—Cortex for intelligent tasking, Forge for production and fusion, and Nexus for content hosting and access—can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge for maximum flexibility and security. These components deliver core platform capabilities to any environment, orchestrating data flows across tasking, collection, content production, fusion, and AI-driven analytics.

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The Astrea contract, a follow-on to the Spectrum contract, will produce a database that provides a system of data, parameters, and models that allow for the characterization of effective reflectivity, emissivity, and radiance as a function of arbitrary source, sensor, and target geometry, while estimating the errors associated with the computed values.

It is contemplated that the solicitation will be posted to the CLASSIFIED Intelligence Community-Acquisition Research Center (IC-ARC) website https://acq.nro.ic.gov. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541715.

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Under the $2.3 million contract, Vantor will utilize its high-resolution imagery of space objects, also known as non-Earth Imagery (NEI), to deliver intelligence on priority objects in low Earth orbit, including providing alerts when anomalies are present. The analysis will be largely automated, marking a significant step forward in eliminating manual processing and accelerating timely and actionable insights for Space Domain Awareness.

“In a contested domain like space, awareness is everything,” said Susanne Hake, executive vice president and general manager, U.S. government at Vantor.  “Still, it’s the one domain where exquisite visual intelligence is extremely hard to come by, creating literal and figurative blind spots. Our NEI capabilities are one of the few technologies that can provide high-resolution visual intelligence of objects in space, providing intelligence analysts and decisionmakers with a deeper understanding of the behavior and intent of high-interest space objects—a decisive edge in an increasingly complex environment.”

Vantor’s orbital intelligence capabilities can provide insights into a space object’s features, health, velocity, and movements, including whether an object is changing orbit—a situation that could endanger the safety of U.S. assets in space. Vantor satellites can capture images of other spacecraft at an industry-leading resolution of less than 10 cm from hundreds of kilometers away, making it possible to quickly characterize those space objects and determine their health and status.

This award marks the third win for Vantor under NGA’s Luno program. Vantor previously announced a Luno contract to automatically detect land use land cover change at global scale, enabling NGA to anticipate where maps and their features may require updates. And in June, Vantor was awarded a Luno contract to deliver AI/ML-generated object detection services to identify assets across air, maritime, land, and rail domains; determine counts at specified locations; detect trends and anomalies; and perform advanced spatial and temporal geospatial intelligence analysis.

“These awards reflect the core of Vantor’s mission—to deliver real-time intelligence faster than the speed of threat, from space to ground,” said Hake. “By integrating our persistent monitoring, change detection, and space-domain awareness capabilities, we’re empowering our partners to understand and act on threats across every domain, before they emerge.”

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NGA in support of the Office of Counterintelligence (SIC) is seeking information on how an interested contractor could provide security support services to integrate, enhance, and optimize technical security and signals countermeasures programs in support of the protection of national intelligence, sources, and methods, including sensitive compartmented information, and the facilities, systems, and networks that house them.

The purpose of this sources sought is to determine if adequate competition exists in the commercial marketplace to meet the requirements outlined in the NGA TSCM Draft Statement of Work (SOW) dated 25 March 2026.

NGA has a mission-critical need for technical security support services to the Office of Counterintelligence necessary to complete associated tasks and responsibilities in the following functional areas outlined below:

• Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM): Pre-Construction Surveys, Emergency Surveys, Routine Surveys, In-Place Monitoring
• Data Engineering: Database design, implementation, and management
• Software Development: Application design, coding, testing, and maintenance
• Front-End Development: User interface design and implementation
• Back-End Development: Server-side logic and API development
• Technical Security and Signals

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“We are on the verge of proving that small, affordable satellites can deliver the high-quality magnetic data our nation depends on,” said Mike Paniccia, NGA’s program manager for the World Magnetic Model. “These teams have spent the past few years pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with CubeSat technology, and this launch is the moment where all of that ingenuity meets the ultimate test.”

This mission represents the first-ever effort to collect reliable geomagnetic data using CubeSat technology. Once in orbit, the three CubeSats, equipped with novel solutions for precisely measuring Earth’s magnetic field, will provide data to update the World Magnetic Model — a critical infrastructure that underpins navigation for military operations, commercial aviation, and everyday mobile devices worldwide.

The current World Magnetic Model, WMM2025, is maintained using data from the European Space Agency’s Swarm mission, launched in 2013. NGA launched the MagQuest competition in 2019, seeking new, more resilient ways to collect geomagnetic data.

The CubeSat solutions developed through MagQuest can be built, launched, and operated for a fraction of the cost of the current system. MagQuest also demonstrates the effectiveness of open innovation and interagency collaboration in tackling a vital national security challenge.  Testing facilities and experts at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, supported technology evaluations and analysis; NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation administered the challenge; and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information provided technical support.

MagQuest’s open innovation approach intentionally attracted novel solutions from a unique group of innovators. Each team has developed a distinct CubeSat solution for collecting high-quality geomagnetic data from low-Earth orbit:

• Compact Spaceborne Magnetic Observatory CubeSat, University of Colorado Boulder
• Diamond-Powered Geomagnetic Data Collection from LEO, Spire Global and SBQuantum
• Io-1, Iota Technology

The teams delivered their completed satellites to Exolaunch for final integration for launch. Following a successful launch and satellite deployment, each team will begin geomagnetic data collection and compare their findings to WMM2025.

An expert review panel will evaluate each team’s data across key milestones. The results of MagQuest will inform NGA’s acquisition strategy for a WMM global magnetic field data collection capability, to support production of the next global update, WMM2030.

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VADM Whitworth brings decades of leadership across the U.S. defense and intelligence communities. Most recently, he served as the eighth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from June 2022 until his retirement in late 2025, where he led the delivery of geospatial intelligence to support national security operations worldwide. Notably, he oversaw the maturation of NGA Maven, the Department of Defense’s primary initiative for operationalizing AI and Machine Learning, transitioning the program from an experimental framework into a critical operational capability that significantly increased the speed and scale of intelligence analysis.

In his role as strategic advisor, VADM Whitworth will advise Satellogic on strategic engagement with global customers, the development of the company’s product and technology roadmap, and the integration of high-frequency Earth observation into modern intelligence architectures.

His appointment comes as Satellogic expands its capabilities in persistent Earth observation and deepens its engagement with defense and intelligence customers globally.

“Access to timely geospatial intelligence is foundational to national security,” said Emiliano Kargieman, CEO and co-founder of Satellogic. “VADM Whitworth has led this mission at the highest level. His experience will help us align our capabilities with evolving defense and intelligence requirements.”

The market is shifting from episodic collection to continuous monitoring across large operational environments. Satellogic’s vertically integrated model is designed to deliver persistent, global coverage and intelligence at scale.

“I know the capabilities of our adversaries, the complexities of assessing global threats, and the resulting imperative for persistent monitoring,” said VDAM Whitworth. “Satellogic’s constellation is designed to address that imperative by combining scale, frequency, and resolution.”z

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Vice Admiral Whitworth will lead r4 Federal’s strategic efforts supporting defense and intelligence community partners, focusing on advancing Al, predictive analytics, and operational decision advantage. Vice Admiral Whitworth brings over 36 years of national security leadership to r4 Federal, as a senior officer in the United States Navy and as a leader of the Intelligence Community.

Most recently, he served as the eighth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), leading one of the nation’s most critical intelligence organizations until his retirement. As director, he led the growth and maturation of NGA Maven, one of the Intelligence Community’s most extensive and impactful applications of AI and machine learning.

With Vice Admiral Whitworth’s appointment, r4 Federal strengthens its commitment to delivering trusted, predictive AI, the company said.

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NGA, in support of the Information Technology Security Services Office, is seeking information on how an interested contractor could provide for the lifecycle management of NGA’s Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Privileged Access Management (PAM) (currently referred to as Shield) application services, to include operations, sustainment, and future development of the services.

See the RFI for more details, to include required response contents, formats, and questions. Submissions are due no later than 5:00pm ET on April 10, 2026. Responses must be submitted electronically through the classified Acquisition Resource Center (ARC) website, in accordance with the specifications of the Shield 2.0 Request for Information (posted on the classified ARC).

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