Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe has received word from its principal U.S. government customer that the company's centerpiece imagery-delivery contract will not suffer from the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration that are sweeping through U.S. government agencies, DigitalGlobe Chief Executive Jeffrey R. Tarr said. The notification, from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), came in a letter delivered to Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe "within the last month," DigitalGlobe said in a May 9 written response to SpaceNews. In a May 7 conference call with investors, Tarr said NGA specifically said that the company's Service Level Agreement (SLA), which is the biggest slice of the NGA EnhancedView contract, would be spared the effects of sequestration.
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