Sensors and Systems
Breaking News
Terra Drone Invests in Aloft Technologies to Enter U.S. Market, Boost Global UTM Development
Rating12345Terra Drone Corporation, a leading drone and Advanced Air...
LeddarTech Concludes Licensing Arrangement With Renesas
Rating12345QUEBEC CITY, Canada — LeddarTech Holdings Inc. (“LeddarTech”) (Nasdaq: LDTC),...
Hexagon partners with Nemetschek Group
Rating12345(Stockholm, Munich, 26 March 2024) Hexagon’s Geosystems division and...

July 15th, 2022
BlackSky Wins $4.4 Million IARPA Contract to Provide Advanced Artificial Intelligence for Space-Based Dynamic Monitoring

  • Rating12345

Company’s unique Spectra AI machine-learning platform accelerates application of SMART technologies for automated recognition of strategic activity and change

HERNDON, Va.- BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) received a $4.4 million award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to support the second phase of the multi-year Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) Program.

“As part of our work, BlackSky created a high-performance MLOps (machine learning operations) framework that was ultimately selected to perform as the core infrastructure to the entire SMART program,” said Patrick O’Neil, BlackSky chief innovation officer.

“The MLOps framework will extend BlackSky’s Spectra AI tasking and analytics capabilities and accelerate the development of SMART technologies that make quick sense of the immense volume and complexity of space-based image data,” O’Neil added.

The SMART program aims to automate the quantitative analysis of space-based imagery to perform broad-area searches for natural and man-made events using time-series imagery. Under the program BlackSky has developed both supervised and semi-supervised machine learning algorithms to automatically recognize heavy construction projects such as military bases, stadiums, campuses, dams, and airports.

About BlackSky

BlackSky is a leading provider of real-time geospatial intelligence. BlackSky delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, monitoring and analytics of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events on Earth.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *