BlackSky Technology has secured a seven-figure award under the company’s NGA Luno A Facility Monitoring Delivery Order. The decision to renew funding for the four-year award was prompted by customer satisfaction and the reliable performance of the company’s high-cadence, AI-enabled change detection analytics.
“BlackSky’s successful performance on the Luno A program reflects the critical value of meeting customer commitments with proven, reliable commercial space-based monitoring services, especially in a strained budget environment,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “With the recent addition of advanced, very high-resolution Gen-3 satellites to our constellation, our U.S. customers will have access to even more rapid, detailed and precise insights at machine speed and scale.”
Under this delivery order, BlackSky performs AI-enabled object and pattern-of-life change detection to monitor trends and anomalies in vehicle, aircraft, vessel, railcar and ground equipment activity at military and economic facilities worldwide, including ports, airfields, military installations and railways. BlackSky monitors more than 14 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface for the NGA. The company’s scalable and cost-effective AI tools enable more frequent data-intensive broad area search and discovery queries than traditional solutions.
Performance on the Luno A contract contributes to the development of novel products, data and services that employ pioneering uses for AI to manage massive data volumes, produce deeper insights and enhance predictive analytical capabilities. Since being selected for the Luno A program, BlackSky has won multiple delivery orders, including for automated general change detection caused by human activity.
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