{"id":46893,"date":"2026-06-04T21:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nga-awards-planet-22m-luno-b-option-for-maritime-domain-awareness\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:31:34","slug":"nga-awards-planet-22m-luno-b-option-for-maritime-domain-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nga-awards-planet-22m-luno-b-option-for-maritime-domain-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"NGA Awards Planet $22M Luno B Option for Maritime Domain Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency<\/strong> (NGA) has awarded&nbsp;<strong>Planet Labs<\/strong>&nbsp;a $22 million option on a contract begun last year to provide unclassified artificial intelligence-enabled data analytics for U.S. Combatant Commands.<\/p>\n<p>The original contract under NGA\u2019s Luno B program was for $13 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Advanced Analytics for Maritime Operations and Reconnaissance contract covers the \u201cautomated detection of strategic and tactical maritime events, including ship-to-ship transfers and \u2018dark\u2019 fleet activity,\u201d Planet said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Planet also received a separate award from NGA, in partnership with the Defense Department\u2019s Defense Innovation Unit, to provide its Global Monitoring Service (GMS) for \u201cnear-daily change detection and situational services,\u201d the company said. The GMS leverages Planet\u2019s SuperDove electro-optical imagine satellite constellation and AI-based data analytics.<\/p>\n<p>The value of the second NGA award was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The GMS will provide automated analytics as fast as hours after collection, Planet said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese solutions bridge the \u2018last mile\u2019 between raw data and actionable intelligence, democratizing access so that field operators can leverage complex geospatial insights without requiring advanced GIS (geographic information system) expertise,\u201d Jon Powers, Planet\u2019s vice president of Global Defense and Intelligence, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>NGA\u2019s Luno program leverages unclassified imagery and analytics to meet the needs of warfighters, decision makers, and foreign partners.<\/p>\n<p>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded&nbsp;Planet Labs&nbsp;a $22 million option on a contract begun last year to provide unclassified artificial intelligence-enabled data analytics for U.S. Combatant Commands. The original contract under NGA\u2019s Luno B program was for $13 million. The Advanced Analytics for Maritime Operations and Reconnaissance contract covers the \u201cautomated detection of strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}