{"id":48927,"date":"2025-06-24T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nga-awards-blacksky-potential-24m-luno-a-task-order-for-ai-based-analytics\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:28:08","slug":"nga-awards-blacksky-potential-24m-luno-a-task-order-for-ai-based-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nga-awards-blacksky-potential-24m-luno-a-task-order-for-ai-based-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"NGA Awards BlackSky Potential $24M Luno A Task Order for AI-Based Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\"><strong>BlackSky Technology<\/strong> has received a potential $24-plus million task order to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) with object detection monitoring of military and economic facilities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">The initial award under the Luno A Facility Operational Monitoring order is for $2 million, BlackSky said on Tuesday. The task order has a four-year period.<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky said it \u201cwill perform 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky operates a constellation of electro-optical Earth observation satellites. In addition to providing imagery to customers, the Northern Virginia-based company provides analytic services such as those being offered under Luno A.<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">NGA in September 2024 selected 10 companies to compete for upward of $290 million 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 data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">Previously, NGA awarded Luno A task orders to&nbsp;Ursa Space Systems,&nbsp;Maxar Technologies, and&nbsp;Electromagnetic Systems Inc.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackSky Technology has received a potential $24-plus million task order to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) with object detection monitoring of military and economic facilities worldwide. The initial award under the Luno A Facility Operational Monitoring order is for $2 million, BlackSky said on Tuesday. The task order has a four-year period. BlackSky said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48928,"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-48927","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\/48927"}],"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=48927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}