DigitalGlobe satellites and imagery.

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"This is still an industry that's in its infancy," says DigitalGlobe CEO Jeff Tarr. "A few years back, satellite imagery was a new concept. Now it's seen every day by millions of people."

And most of those images come via Longmont's DigitalGlobe, founded in 1993 and launching three satellites (built in conjunction with Ball Aerospace and other contractors) in the time since. With almost 700 employees in Colorado, the company's images have been indelibly etched on the public's collective mind in the form of photographs of carnage in Syria and fallout in Fukushima, Japan, Tarr says, delivered everywhere from Google Earth to the nightly news.

The U.S. government remains DigitalGlobe's...