Maxar Intelligence secures $205 million in strategic contracts across Middle East and Africa

By Defence Industry Europe

Maxar Intelligence has announced three new multi-year strategic contracts worth $204.7 million to enhance defence, intelligence, and space capabilities across the Middle East and Africa (MEA). The agreements aim to advance sovereign capabilities in the region through Maxar’s Direct Access Program (DAP), which offers secure, near real-time access to its satellite constellation and analytical tools.
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Maxar Intelligence has announced three new multi-year strategic contracts worth $204.7 million to enhance defence, intelligence, and space capabilities across the Middle East and Africa (MEA). The agreements aim to advance sovereign capabilities in the region through Maxar’s Direct Access Program (DAP), which offers secure, near real-time access to its satellite constellation and analytical tools.

 

These contracts will provide MEA partners with very high-resolution satellite imagery, 3D terrain data, and advanced analytics to support persistent monitoring. The technology will enable greater situational awareness and contribute to the development of modern space-based C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) systems.

 

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Maxar’s tools include AI-powered change detection capabilities that support its predictive intelligence solution, Sentry, allowing users to monitor multiple sites and detect mission-relevant activity patterns. This is expected to improve mission coordination and expand multi-domain operational potential in the region.

“The ongoing digitalisation of modern defence 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.”

 

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Maxar’s DAP allows international defence and intelligence customers to integrate their ground stations with Maxar satellites for dedicated capacity and guaranteed delivery speeds. Clients can task the satellites as little as 15 minutes before an imaging event and receive the data in real time.

“These deals underscore Maxar’s deep commitment to supporting our international customers’ needs to gain real-time decision advantage for the most demanding missions,” Linder added.

 

 

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