Air Force modernizing ground stations

Canadian firm MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a contract worth $4.8 million in U.S. dollars to modernize the U.S. Air Force's five Eagle Vision mobile ground stations.

The contract, awarded by Airbus Defense and Space, is intended to upgrade the systems so that they can receive and process imagery from the RADARSAT-2 and RapidEye satellites. That will "enhance the ability of USAF to provide near real-time in-theater access to essential image data," according to a MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates news release.

Eagle Vision is comprised of five deployable ground stations that collect and process data transmitted from commercial satellites.

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