{"id":51692,"date":"2024-03-06T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blacksky-heralds-win-of-dod-contract-for-moving-target-analysis\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:00:33","slug":"blacksky-heralds-win-of-dod-contract-for-moving-target-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blacksky-heralds-win-of-dod-contract-for-moving-target-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackSky Heralds Win of DoD Contract for Moving Target Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>BlackSky Technology <\/strong>said on March 4 that it won a multi-million dollar <strong>U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong> (DoD) contract to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train moving target artificial intelligence models for commercial motion imagery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are taking BlackSky\u2019s industry-leading ability to monitor moving objects from space another step forward by enhancing analytic accuracy and the ability to recognize patterns of life,\u201d Patrick O\u2019Neil, BlackSky\u2019s chief technology officer, said in a company statement. \u201cThis foundational work is expected to help decrease the time to develop moving target algorithms for other related customer-led initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlackSky multi-frame burst images are collected in rapid succession during a single satellite pass over an area of interest,\u201d the company said. \u201cWith multiple view angles captured within a matter of seconds, burst imagery can be used to generate 3D volumetric products and very accurate movement-oriented detection analytics. Burst imagery, along with all BlackSky offerings, can uniquely be captured from early in the day to late in the evening. The contract provides subscription-based access to the BlackSky Spectra tasking and analytics platform. The customer expects to use BlackSky\u2019s high-cadence, low-latency imagery and automated analytics to support customer-approved exercises, technology demonstrations and operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last October, BlackSky said that it had won a Space Development Agency contract through the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory\u2019s&nbsp;AFWERX innovation arm to help track forces on the move through automated target recognition (ATR).<\/p>\n<p>The ATR is to integrate&nbsp;radio frequency and electro-optical satellite sensor data \u201cto track mobile assets in real-time and securely distribute actionable intelligence to remote devices and analysts worldwide,\u201d BlackSky said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackSky Technology said on March 4 that it won a multi-million dollar U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train moving target artificial intelligence models for commercial motion imagery. \u201cWe are taking BlackSky\u2019s industry-leading ability to monitor moving objects from space another step forward by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47499,"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-51692","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\/51692"}],"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=51692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}