“This Luno A award underscores the maturity and quality of BlackSky’s in-house AI capabilities in meeting the NGA’s stringent requirements for commercial space-based analytics services,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “BlackSky’s ability to automatically detect anomalies and significant events at machine speed and global scale play a critical role in shaping important strategic national security, policy decisions or military operations.”
Under the order, BlackSky will utilise its very high-resolution Gen-3 and high-cadence Gen-2 imagery alongside other commercial data sources. The company’s detection algorithms will monitor anomalies in real time, reporting changes across natural resources, climate, infrastructure development, and both economic and military activity.
“The Luno A program aligns well with BlackSky’s strengths as a software-first company as we develop and deploy novel proprietary AI solutions and techniques that efficiently manage large volumes of data, generate insights and develop predictive analytics,” O’Toole said. “In addition to monitoring for known, well-documented phenomena, BlackSky is uniquely suited to discover uncharted patterns of interest over newly mapped areas of the Earth.”
BlackSky currently monitors more than 30 million square kilometres of the Earth’s surface for the NGA. In October, the agency selected the company for the five-year, up to $290 million Luno A multi-award contract to track global economic and environmental activity and military capability using rapid revisit satellite imagery and AI-driven change-detection analytics.
Source: BlackSky (press release).
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