On November 4, BlackSky Technology Inc. announced that it won a more than $30 million multi-year contract to integrate Gen-3 high-cadence tactical ISR services into a strategic international defense customer’s secure environment. The expanded solution will accelerate sovereign space-based intelligence capabilities by leveraging proven commercial technology for high-frequency, low-latency Gen-3 capabilities. The enhancements will enable BlackSky’s commercial high revisit constellation to operate seamlessly within the customer’s secure workflows, delivering a new level of fully secure and autonomous operations.
“BlackSky is partnering with customers to integrate advanced commercial space, software, and AI solutions that deliver real-time intelligence services into our customer’s secure environments for 24/7 time-dominant missions,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “BlackSky is leveraging proven technology and an operational architecture for low-latency delivery of very-high resolution Gen-3 imagery and AI-enabled analytics at scale in cross-domain secure environments.”
The very high-resolution of Gen-3 allows for enhanced AI-driven detection, identification and classification of a broad collection of vehicles, aircraft, vessels and other objects of tactical interest. These new capabilities and performance improvements offer customers a growing array of space-based intelligence applications for tactical ISR and strategic intelligence operations.
“Customers worldwide have recognized Gen-3’s superior performance at a time when they are seeking to accelerate their sovereign space-based intelligence programs. More and more customers are turning to BlackSky and we are committed to getting customers there faster, leveraging our proprietary technology stack of AI and real-time software solutions and fully vertically integrated Gen-3 satellite manufacturing capabilities,” said O’Toole.
Source: BlackSky
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