NGA Breaks Off 'NextView' Contract Talks with Space Imaging

By David Perera / March 11, 2004 at 5:00 AM
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has ended months of talks with Space Imaging, a Thornton, CO-based commercial satellite imaging company, over a second "NextView" contract, an NGA official said today. "We have determined it is in the best interest of the government to terminate the discussion," David Burpee, the agency's director of public affairs, told InsideDefense.com . Burpee said the decision to end contract talks should not be interpreted as a "negative inference regarding that company," or its next-generation satellite program,...

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