{"id":51856,"date":"2024-02-08T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blacksky-ceo-details-sovereign-deal-with-indonesian-mod\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:08:27","slug":"blacksky-ceo-details-sovereign-deal-with-indonesian-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blacksky-ceo-details-sovereign-deal-with-indonesian-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackSky CEO Details Sovereign Deal with Indonesian MoD"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>BlackSky Technology<\/b> shared more details this week about a recent $50 million deal to supply subscription imagery and analytics to the <strong>Indonesian Ministry of Defense<\/strong> (MoD). In this deal, the Indonesian MoD will integrate BlackSky\u2019s software and hardware capabilities into a sovereign capability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky received a contract from <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> supporting the MoD to deliver Gen-3 Earth observation satellites, ground station capabilities and flight operations support. These sovereign satellites for Indonesia will share the same capabilities as BlackSky\u2019s Gen-3 satellites. In addition, the Indonesian MoD now has a subscription to BlackSky\u2019s imagery and analytics services, with guaranteed access and priority tasking capacity over national areas of interest. BlackSky will also work with Indonesian state tech company <strong>PT Len<\/strong> to develop a sovereign software for the country. These multi-year contracts have a combined value of approximately $50 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a sovereign capability for Indonesia that is based on BlackSky\u2019s satellite technology and software. BlackSky, along with Thales, first announced the agreement in December. This is the first time BlackSky has named an individual customer, outside of U.S. government awards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky CEO Brian O\u2019Toole sees it as the beginning of a new phase of acquisition and adoption models in the industry, in which customers can access the company\u2019s software immediately, and receive support to build a sovereign capability over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing that customers want to leverage not only [BlackSky\u2019s] commercial imagery and analytics services, but also want to accelerate their sovereign development and capabilities,\u201d O\u2019Toole told <i>Via Satellite<\/i>. \u201cThey want to leverage commercial technologies like our hardware or our software to do that in a very fast and cost effective manner. This expands our offerings to these customers. We\u2019re in a long-term partnership. We plan to be there with them as they evolve their capability over decades to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This deal is part of a trend as BlackSky continues to observe increased demand for sovereign capabilities around the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefense budgets for international ministries of defense are growing as a percentage of their GDPs, pretty significantly. A good percentage of those increases are directed toward space capabilities,\u201d O\u2019Toole said. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing countries all over the world that are now putting serious efforts toward expanding their space capabilities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Toole said this deal demonstrates the company\u2019s software-first strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can have satellites but if you don\u2019t have software that people can use easily to get the information they need, it\u2019s meaningless,\u201d he said. \u201cThis Indonesian deal is a lighthouse for using software to enable immediate accessibility and training and insights. Then you can grow that over time. The advanced processing and intelligence can be developed over time. We purpose-built the company for this, with proprietary, dynamic monitoring capability and industry-leading software and AI capability, combined with rapid and agile satellite design and manufacturing capability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackSky Technology shared more details this week about a recent $50 million deal to supply subscription imagery and analytics to the Indonesian Ministry of Defense (MoD). In this deal, the Indonesian MoD will integrate BlackSky\u2019s software and hardware capabilities into a sovereign capability.&nbsp; BlackSky received a contract from Thales Alenia Space supporting the MoD to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51857,"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-51856","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\/51856"}],"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=51856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}