Maxar: U.S. intelligence re-ups on smaller deal

WESTMINSTER — Maxar Technologies Inc. (NYSE: MAXR) secured a five-year contract worth up to $26.4 million to continue data and intelligence work with an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense.

A three-year grant from Oct. 2018 with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) was for $92 million via the Small Business Innovation Research program, a press release said then. A release earlier that year had said such work could be for much as 10 years and $920 million.

The grant funded a project to apply machine learning and large-volume data processing to an NGA open-source mapping effort called NOME. It was…