{"id":59912,"date":"2020-04-18T01:19:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-insight-to-receive-us-air-force-contract-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-18T01:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:19:20","slug":"orbital-insight-to-receive-us-air-force-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-insight-to-receive-us-air-force-contract-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Insight to Receive US Air Force Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orbital Insight<\/strong> has been tentatively awarded a contract with the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> (USAF) to help detect anomalies around the world using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and geospatial data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The contract, which an Orbital Insight representative said on April 17 is still under final negotiations, is with USAF\u2019s AFVentures Strategic Financing (STRATFI). The program is a joint endeavor between the service\u2019s Small Business Innovation Research\/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR\/STTR) Programs, USAF\u2019s in-house innovation incubator AFWERX, and Air Force Acquisitions. Approximately $550 million will be given in contracts to 21 small businesses, including Orbital Insight, as part of Phase II\u2019s four-year, fixed-price contracts. Orbital Insight has previously collaborated with AFWERX in two previous SBIR phases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<i>[Orbital Insight GO was among the nominees for Satellite Technology of the Year]<\/i><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Orbital Insight\u2019s GO platform, which was introduced in 2019, provies analytics powered by AI and multiple geospatial data sources such as satellite imagery, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Automatic Identification System (AIS), and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The platform was built to deliver insights for the Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntire job functions are dedicated to monitoring satellite imagery and other data sources, but the volume of data is too massive to access and analyze at scale\u2014and our national security depends on those answers,\u201d said James Crawford, Orbital Insight CEO and founder. \u201cWe\u2019re honored to continue our partnership with the U.S. Air Force and empower them with machine learning to zoom in on the physical world, reveal hidden changes faster and proactively inform warfighter decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbital Insight has been tentatively awarded a contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to help detect anomalies around the world using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and geospatial data.&nbsp; The contract, which an Orbital Insight representative said on April 17 is still under final negotiations, is with USAF\u2019s AFVentures Strategic Financing (STRATFI). The program is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59914,"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-59912","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\/59912"}],"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=59912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}