{"id":47450,"date":"2026-03-05T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nga-awards-blacksky-seven-figure-order-on-luno-a-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:11:04","slug":"nga-awards-blacksky-seven-figure-order-on-luno-a-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nga-awards-blacksky-seven-figure-order-on-luno-a-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"NGA Awards BlackSky Seven-Figure Order on Luno A Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>BlackSky<\/strong> has won a seven-figure renewal deal with the <strong>National Geospatial Intelligence Agency<\/strong> (NGA). It has secured this award under the company\u2019s NGA Luno A Facility Monitoring Delivery Order. According to BlackSky, the decision to renew funding for the four-year award was prompted by customer satisfaction and the performance of its high-cadence, AI-enabled change detection analytics. BlackSky announced the deal, March 5.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky has won multiple delivery orders under the Luno A contract including a $5 million award in September 2025, and an order worth up to $24 million in June 2025. NGA in September 2024 selected 10 companies to compete for upward of $290 million&nbsp;in task orders under the Luno A program, which is leveraging technologies like computer vision and other analytics applied to economic, military, and environmental monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky monitors more than 14 million square kilometers of the Earth\u2019s surface for the NGA. The company says its AI tools enable more frequent data-intensive broad area search and discovery queries than traditional solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlackSky\u2019s 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. 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,\u201d Brian O\u2019Toole, CEO of BlackSky, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackSky has won a seven-figure renewal deal with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). It has secured this award under the company\u2019s NGA Luno A Facility Monitoring Delivery Order. According to BlackSky, the decision to renew funding for the four-year award was prompted by customer satisfaction and the performance of its high-cadence, AI-enabled change detection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47453,"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-47450","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\/47450"}],"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=47450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}