New Rights Group, Inc.

New Rights Group, Inc., operating under the doing-business-as name Development Seed, is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Washington, DC, that specializes in leveraging open data and open technology to address environmental and social challenges through advanced geospatial solutions, machine learning, and software development. The company brings substantial technical expertise in geospatial analysis, data visualization, user experience design, and integrating satellite imagery with crowdsourced data and advanced analytics to support federal environmental monitoring and disaster response initiatives. Development Seed has established itself as a key technology services provider to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other federal agencies, with a demonstrated track record of delivering sophisticated data analysis and visualization capabilities for complex government missions.

Development Seed has received multiple prime federal contract awards and served as a subcontractor on several additional contracts, demonstrating versatility across different procurement instruments and contract types. The company's largest definitive contract was a $36.3 million firm fixed-price agreement awarded by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on January 1, 2022, with completion targeted for March 31, 2026, to support the Inter-Agency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) and NASA's Earth Science Data System (ESDS) Program. More recently, Development Seed received a $4.08 million firm fixed-price delivery order from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on December 1, 2025, with completion by November 30, 2026, supporting the Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) platform, representing a continuation of the company's relationship with NASA's environmental monitoring programs. Additionally, Development Seed received multiple small business set-aside purchase orders totaling approximately $222,700 from NASA's Shared Services Center between 2021 and 2023, providing subject matter expert services in machine learning operations, user experience and user interface design, and TensorFlow expertise for various SERVIR regional initiatives, including SERVIR-Amazonia and SERVIR-Mekong. As a subcontractor, Development Seed worked under prime contractors All Points Logistics, LLC and American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences on projects including the NSSTC Data Catalog, marine debris detection algorithms, and user experience improvements for the Federal Data Exchange (FDE2) system. These contracts have been performed in Washington, DC, with no set-aside designations applied to the larger prime contracts.

Development Seed's involvement in federal grant awards has focused on supporting innovative data management and environmental monitoring initiatives through subawards to prime grantees. The company received a subaward from Devglobal Partners LLC in November 2023 providing event sponsorship for SatSummit 2024 in Washington, DC, connecting satellite technology professionals and practitioners. Development Seed served as a subgrantee under a prime grantee from an unnamed federal grant program in March 2022, contributing to the CUMULUS project with 1.5 full-time equivalent staff providing development support, user experience improvements for CUMULUS operators and integrators, and onboarding assistance for additional Data Archive and Information System centers onto the EOSDIS CUMULUS platform. The company also received subawards under grants administered through Oregon State University in February 2022 for the project titled "Mapping the Missing Millions: Developing a Global Database of Informal Settlement Location, Schema, and SDGs Indicators Using Crowdsourced Data, Machine Learning, and Multi-Sensor Satellite Imagery," leveraging the company's expertise in combining satellite imagery, crowdsourced data collection, and machine learning methodologies to support sustainable development goals and global development initiatives.

Development Seed currently holds one significant Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on December 1, 2025, valued at $64.48 million with performance extending through November 30, 2027. This single-award, non-set-aside indefinite delivery vehicle establishes the framework for the Innovative Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (IVEDA) program, which leverages geospatial technologies, machine learning, and satellite imagery to support environmental monitoring and data analysis capabilities across the federal government. Under this IDV, Development Seed is authorized to provide a comprehensive range of technology services including software development, user experience design, machine learning expertise, technical writing, and related professional services to support NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's data management and visualization objectives. The IVEDA contract serves as a vehicle through which the government can issue task orders for specific visualization, exploration, and analytical products and services supporting the agency's environmental monitoring initiatives throughout the contract performance period, building on Development Seed's demonstrated capabilities through prior work on NASA's SERVIR program and related environmental data systems.