Vantor demonstrates AI-detected infrastructure and housing changes in a change-detection pilot in Reynosa, Mexico. Photo: Vantor

Vantor on Thursday said it received a $5.3 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide automated analytics on real-time changes in Earth’s terrain, helping the agency with its mapping and intelligence missions.

The award is the company’s first under NGA’s multiple-award Luno B contract announced in January 2025 to 13 companies. The agency has also awarded NV5, Planet Labs and Ursa Space Systems Luno B orders.

Vantor, which was called Maxar Intelligence until last fall, will fuse data from multiple space-based sensors — including its own imaging satellites and other operators of electro-optical and synthetic aperture satellites. The data and insights will be used to update NGA’s Land Use Land Cover classification system to characterize land use and condition worldwide, the company said.

Vantor’s analytics will also support NGA missions such as natural and man-made disasters, regional conflicts, and events requiring humanitarian assistance, the company said.

“This win highlights Vantor’s unique capability to integrate the vast amount of data from multiple sensors to not only detect changes on a global scale, but to also deliver advanced analytics,” Susanne Hake, head of Vantor’s U.S. government business, said in a statement.

Luno B is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity with a $200 million ceiling over five years to provide GEOINT users data and analytic services to characterize economic, environmental and geopolitical activity worldwide.

Last summer, Vantor received an award under NGA’s Luno A contract which provides government customers with commercial data and analytics services that monitor and assess global economic, environmental and military activity. The multiple award Luno A contract was awarded in September 2024.

This story was first published by Defense Daily