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Spire Global Selected for Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ Contract

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a leading global provider of satellite data, analytics and intelligence, has been awarded a contract for the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $151B. This contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility.

“Spire’s fully deployed constellation and expanding multi-band RF capabilities are delivering the kind of timely, actionable intelligence that today’s defense missions demand,” said Quintin Jones, Vice President and Head of North America at Spire. “We’re excited for the opportunity this creates to bring our space-based sensing, rapid data delivery, and sovereign-ready solutions to more national security partners and are committed to empowering U.S. and allied forces to operate with greater awareness, precision, and resilience in an increasingly contested world.”

Through its fully deployed, multipurpose satellite constellation, Spire Global captures and analyzes radio frequency signals, delivering defense-grade intelligence that strengthens situational awareness for U.S. and allied partners. Spire’s Space Reconnaissance capabilities enable persistent monitoring, real-time geolocation, GNSS interference and spoofing detection, emergency beacon identification, emitter tracking, and multi-layered situational awareness across land, sea, and air. The Company’s RF data is processed through secure, cloud-based infrastructure and is also available in sovereign-ready configurations for customers requiring full control over mission infrastructure and insights.

About Spire Global, Inc.

Spire (NYSE: SPIR) is a global provider of satellite data, analytics and intelligence, offering unique datasets and powerful insights about Earth so that organizations can make decisions with confidence in a rapidly changing world. Spire builds, owns, and operates a fully deployed satellite constellation that observes the Earth in real time using radio frequency technology. The data acquired by Spire’s satellites provides global weather intelligence, ship and plane movements, and spoofing and jamming detection to better predict how their patterns impact economies, global security, business operations and the environment. Spire also offers Space as a Service solutions that empower customers to leverage its established infrastructure to put their business in space. Spire has offices across the U.S., Canada, UK, Luxembourg, and Germany. To learn more, visit spire.com.

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Benjamin.Hackman@spire.com

Spire Global, Inc.

NYSE:SPIR
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Headquarters: Vienna, VA
Website: www.spire.com
CEO: Theresa Condor
Employees: 300-500
Organization: PUB

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Contacts

For Media:
Sarah Freeman
Senior Communications Manager
Sarah.Freeman@spire.com

For Investors:
Benjamin Hackman
Head of Investor Relations
Benjamin.Hackman@spire.com

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