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FOR
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10 March 2008
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Arlington
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VA
– Chesapeake Analytics Corp. of
Arlington
VA
has released the full text of the ‘Marino Report’ on the role of
commercial remote sensing as a supplier to the
United
States
intelligence
community.
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Officially entitled ‘Independent
Study of the Roles of Commercial Remote Sensing in the Future National
System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) Final Report’, the study
was submitted to Vice Admiral Robert B. Murrett, Director, National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Dr. Donald M. Kerr, Director, National
Reconnaissance Office on
16 July 2007
by Mr. Peter Marino, Chair, National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Advisory Group.
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To
meet its mid-resolution satellite imagery requirements, the report
recommends that the US Government build and launch a constellation of
satellites, but perhaps permit commercial entities to either use the
satellites for commercial purposes or buy satellites alongside the
government, thereby lowering the companies’ satellite acquisition costs.
It is not clear whether the report’s recommendations would leave the
commercial remote sensing companies with a viable business model, given
their reliance on revenues from the NGA. The Marino Report would have the
government meet their internal ‘Tier II’ mid-resolution imaging
requirements with NRO-built classified proprietary satellites.
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The
full text of the Marino Report is available at http://www.chesanal.com/geospatialpress.htm
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For
more information, contact Edward A. Jurkevics, Principal Analyst,
Chesapeake Analytics Corp. at (703) 525-6730. |
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