5 Stocks Moving On The US Government Spy Satellite News The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is the United States agency that manages the designing, building, and maintaining of the country''s intelligence satellites. What happened: On Wednesday, the NRO awarded billions in multiyear contracts to three satellite imagery companies; Blacksky Technology Inc (NYSE: BKSY ), Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR ), and Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL ). The NRO called the awarded contracts the “largest-ever commercial imagery contracting effort.” According to a press release, the effort, better known as The Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contract, is effective as of May 22 and includes a five-year base contract … Full story available on Benzinga.com