The near-term future for U.S. commercial satellite imagery companies GeoEye and DigitalGlobe until recently looked "so bright, you gotta wear shades," as GeoEye Chief Executive Matthew M. O'Con-nell put it during one investor presentation. Both companies now may find night-vision glasses more appropriate as their biggest customer, the U.S. government, hints at major cuts to the 10-year, $7.3 billion program that once put the two firms on the sunny side of the street. These threats, which have never been publicly quantified by the U.S. government, have driven the companies' stock prices down by between 35 and 40 percent in the past 12 months. The two companies are about evenly dividing the total value of the program, dubbed EnhancedView.
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机译：正如GeoEye首席执行官Matthew M. O'Con-nell在一次投资者介绍中所说的那样，美国商业卫星图像公司GeoEye和DigitalGlobe的近期前景直到最近看起来“是如此明亮，您必须戴上阴影”。两家公司现在可能会发现夜视眼镜更合适，因为它们的最大客户美国政府暗示将大幅削减为期10年，耗资73亿美元的计划，该计划曾经使两家公司都处于阳光明媚的一面。这些威胁从未被美国政府公开量化，在过去12个月中使这些公司的股价下跌了35％至40％。两家公司将平均分配该程序的总价值，称为EnhancedView。
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