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February 2001
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Orbimage awarded contract by U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Dulles, Va., -- Orbital Imaging Corporation
(ORBIMAGE), a provider of Earth imagery products and services,
has signed the NIMA Production Prototype (NPP) contract
with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). Under the NPP, which is
an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)-type contract, NIMA may
order products and services for one base year and two optional years. The
maximum value of the contract to ORBIMAGE is $100 million over the three-year
period.
The primary objective of the NPP program is to develop, prototype and
demonstrate new or improved geospatial and intelligence products and data sets
derived from commercial satellite and/or U.S. Government imagery sources.
Under the contract, ORBIMAGE has proposed the development of various
multispectral and hyperspectral products from its satellite and aerial imagery
sources to demonstrate the value of these products for national security
customers and to expand the availability and applicability of basic
"foundation" data for urban applications.
According to Paul Weise, Director of NIMA's Commercial Partnerships
Branch, "We looked to a variety of commercial and government data providers
and selected ORBIMAGE after a competitive process. We are pleased to award
one of the NPP contracts to ORBIMAGE because of their ability to provide high
quality commercial imagery, their innovative perspectives as a commercial
company, and their strong history of providing geospatial information products
to NIMA."
Mr. Gilbert D. Rye, President and Chief Executive Officer of ORBIMAGE,
said, "This contract award reflects a growing recognition on the part of NIMA
of the unique attributes of commercial imagery. It will allow ORBIMAGE to
work with NIMA to integrate commercial imagery in existing products and
explore possible additional product enhancements. In addition, this contract
strengthens and broadens ORBIMAGE's relationship with NIMA, an anchor customer
for our imagery products."
ORBIMAGE is a provider of Earth imagery products and
services, with a planned constellation of five digital remote sensing
satellites. The company currently operates the OrbView-1 atmospheric imaging
satellite (launched in 1995), the OrbView-2 ocean and land multispectral
imaging satellite (launched in 1997), and a worldwide integrated image
receiving, processing and distribution network. Currently under development,
ORBIMAGE's OrbView-3 and OrbView-4 high-resolution satellites will offer one-
meter panchromatic and four-meter multispectral digital imagery. OrbView-4
will also offer the world's first commercial hyperspectral satellite imagery.
ORBIMAGE is also the exclusive, worldwide distributor of imagery from the
Canadian RADARSAT-2 satellite.
ORBIMAGE currently offers one-meter high-resolution panchromatic imagery
of major U.S. and non-U.S. urban areas. In addition, ORBIMAGE distributes
imagery from SPOT Image, Canada's RADARSAT-1 satellite and Russia's SPIN-2
satellite. ORBIMAGE also offers the SeaStar Pro Fisheries Information Service,
which provides fish finding maps derived from OrbView-2 satellite imagery of
the world's oceans to fishing customers worldwide.
Web Site: http://www.orbimage.com
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