{"id":8095,"date":"2023-10-17T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blacksky-wins-afrl-direct-to-phase-2-contract-to-track-vehicles-in-real-time-from-space\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T22:57:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:57:04","slug":"blacksky-wins-afrl-direct-to-phase-2-contract-to-track-vehicles-in-real-time-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blacksky-wins-afrl-direct-to-phase-2-contract-to-track-vehicles-in-real-time-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackSky Wins AFRL Direct to Phase 2 Contract to Track Vehicles in Real Time from Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/Black_sky_cover_638331190482954613.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"BlackSky Wins AFRL Direct to Phase 2 Contract to Track Vehicles in Real Time from Space\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/Black_sky_cover_638331190482954613.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/Black_sky_cover_638331190482954613.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>BlackSky Technology&nbsp;won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory AFWERX Direct to Phase 2 contract, funded by the Space Development Agency, to build an automated target recognition service that will gather and combine radio frequency and electro-optical satellite sensor data to track mobile assets in real-time and securely distribute actionable intelligence to remote devices and analysts worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlackSky\u2019s first-of-its-kind commercial, vertically integrated space, and ground architecture takes advantage of contemporary advances in AI and edge processing to advance the DOD\u2019s real-time imagery and analytics delivery requirements,\u201d said <strong>Patrick O\u2019Neil, BlackSky&#8217;s chief technology officer<\/strong>. \u201cThe company\u2019s rapid-revisit capabilities and leading innovations in automated detection give customers an opportunity to conduct ISR operations from space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky has a proven ability to track moving targets in orbit using its proprietary electro-optical high-resolution satellite constellation. Unlike traditional moving target indicators that rely exclusively on radar sensors, the BlackSky Spectra platform uses multi-frame Burst imagery and computer vision to fuse open-source intelligence feeds with multi-sensor imagery to provide information and intelligence on critical targets of interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlackSky will take advantage of our existing commercial ground and space architectures that enable assured secure tasking, collection, and low-latency data delivery to make mobile asset monitoring possible at scale,\u201d said O\u2019Neil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackSky Technology&nbsp;won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory AFWERX Direct to Phase 2 contract, funded by the Space Development Agency, to build an automated target recognition service that will gather and combine radio frequency and electro-optical satellite sensor data to track mobile assets in real-time and securely distribute actionable intelligence to remote devices and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,20,45],"class_list":["post-8095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-satellite","tag-sensors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095"}],"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=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}