WASHINGTON ― As Colorado-based Vantor works to transform from its legacy as a satellite imagery provider under its progenitor Maxar Technologies to what it calls a spatial intelligence company with a focus on national security, it also is increasingly expanding its reach into the booming international market, according to senior company officials.
“We’ve seen the geopolitical shift in the marketplace dramatically change in the last 16 months, and that has been based on a lot of the US position in regards to intelligence sharing and/or capability sharing, and really asking the world to invest more as a percentage of GDP on their own capabilities. And the international community has embraced that,” CEO Dan Smoot told Breaking Defense.
Until recently, he explained, there has been a “massive gap” in understanding among US allies and partners about the “value” of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) due to the fact that “the US supplied so much of that for so many years.”
And while Vantor’s domestic market includes a large swathe of non-defense government customers of remote sensing for activities like disaster response along with its national security base, its international revenue primary comes from the defense sector.
