The new agreement establishes standardized pricing, licensing, and requirements for several Maxar products.
Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure and precise geospatial intelligence, has announced a significant long-term agreement with Lockheed Martin aimed at streamlining the procurement and delivery of Maxars geospatial products for the F-35 Full Mission Simulator (FMS) flight simulation and training system.
Maxars cutting-edge 2D and 3D products form the geospatial backbone of the FMS, offering a realistic representation of real-world operating environments to bolster pilot training and mission rehearsal. The newly established agreement sets standardized pricing, licensing, and requirements for various Maxar products, including Dynamic basemaps and Precision3D, thereby enabling F-35 customers to expedite training and mission preparedness operations.
Commenting on the deal, Susanne Hake, General Manager, US Government, Maxar Intelligence, said: “Maxar Intelligence is excited to expand on our long-standing partnership with Lockheed Martin and further improve the F-35 Full Mission Simulator experience, which represents an industry gold standard for immersive training and mission readiness support. Maxars geospatial products, particularly Precision3D, are critical to the success of this system. They enable the highly accurate, precise simulated real-world environments that are brought to life in the FMS, creating an immersive experience that helps improve pilot safety and enhance mission success.”
Maxars Precision3D Data Suite offers highly detailed 3D models of Earth with a resolution of 50 cm and absolute accuracy of 3 m in all dimensions. Notably, this accuracy is achieved without ground control and remains consistent across all surfaces and terrain types, including building facades. Precision3D not only provides a precise, true representation of Earth’s terrain in all dimensions but also serves as a reliable foundation for additional data sources through Precision3D Registration (P3DR) georegistration.
Moreover, the agreement encompasses Maxars Dynamic imagery basemaps, leveraging state-of-the-art mosaicking, colour balancing, and image processing techniques to generate high-resolution, high-accuracy image layers tailored to specific customer requirements.
