Inside a CRADA: NGA explores emerging geospatial tech in cooperative deal with Planet

FedScoop: Government technology typically revolves around money changing hands.

But some government deals don’t come with cash.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced last month it had entered into such a deal — a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (called a CRADA) — with commercial imagery provider Planet. The CRADA allows the company the chance to give NGA early access and insights into the analytics it’s developing for geospatial imagery, said Jennifer Marcus, vice president of federal operations at Planet.

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