IARPA Selects BlackSky Spectra® Software Platform as Leading Space-Based AI Approach for Bringing Speed and Scalability to Broad Area Search Mission
January 30 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
BlackSky AI tools developed under SMART program
now analyze more than 20 percent of the Earth’s surface every
month
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won a contract from the
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to move
forward into the third and final phase of the multi-year
Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART)
program. Phase III emphasizes the transfer of SMART broad area
search technologies into other U.S. government programs.
“BlackSky built a high-performance machine learning operations
(MLOps) architecture for the SMART program that was originally
designed to manage the analysis of one million square kilometers of
land,” said Patrick O’Neil, BlackSky chief technology officer.
“That foundational technology is now generating value elsewhere on
other U.S. government search and discovery efforts, where we are
analyzing more than 30 million square kilometers - more than 20
percent - of the Earth’s surface every month.”
Focused over large areas of the Earth’s surface, broad area
search and discovery techniques help intelligence organizations get
a wide-angle, baseline picture of aggregate change over time. For
the SMART Program, all participants’ artificial intelligence (AI)
change detection tools were deployed and evaluated for performance,
cost and scalability within BlackSky’s MLOps architecture.
“BlackSky is using AI to reshape the broad area search mission
with industry-leading speed and economics,” said O’Neil. “We have
taken the lessons learned from SMART Phases I and II, folded them
back into BlackSky Spectra, and quickly proven these investments
can excel in an operational setting.”
With the core technology developed under the SMART program,
BlackSky’s AI tools have detected and classified more than two
million change observations with a high degree of accuracy over 120
thousand distinct sites after having analyzed five years of
historic broad area satellite imagery from government and
commercial sources.
About BlackSky
BlackSky is a real-time, space-based intelligence company that
delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, analytics, and
high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic
locations, economic assets, and events in the world. BlackSky owns
and operates one of the industry’s most advanced, purpose-built
commercial, real-time intelligence system that combines the power
of the BlackSky Spectra® tasking and analytics software platform
and our proprietary low earth orbit satellite constellation.
With BlackSky, customers can see, understand and anticipate
changes for a decisive strategic advantage at the tactical edge,
and act not just fast, but first. BlackSky is trusted by some of
the most demanding U.S. and international government agencies,
commercial businesses, and organizations around the world. BlackSky
is headquartered in Herndon, VA, and is publicly traded on the New
York Stock Exchange as BKSY. To learn more, visit www.blacksky.com
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