NRO Eyeing Commercial Radar Acquisition in 2025

A 25cm, 3x-multilook Umbra synthetic aperture radar image of Dingxin/Shuangchengzi Test and Training Airbase taken September 12, 2024, tasked by ImageryIQ.

Credit: Umbra
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is honing a plan to procure commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data by early next year. The office’s executive branch is refining a commercial procurement document for the radar commercial layer (RCL), an NRO spokesperson said in an Oct. 10 email to...
Vivienne Machi

Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles.

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