[yholio]

> The company he formed in 2015 had a simple pitch to government agencies: “We convert a capital expense to an operation expense.” Raytheon Co., the giant defense contractor, was an early investor and customer. It has engineers working with Hawkeye’s 31-person team and, in turn, will sell some of the company’s findings to its own government customers.

Essentially, open market spooks for hire, selling limited space intelligence to countries that can't afford their own space programs.

[someguydave]

The quote says more about Congressional incompetence than fancy innovation in technology.

[madengr]

It’s been done with optical imagery for a while, but this is probably the first SIGINT.

[offmycloud]

So ... SIGINTaaS ?

[madengr]

Exactly. They have given talks at the last few GRCon. They were initially geolocating AIS traffic.