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Air Force

BlackSky Heralds Win of DoD Contract for Moving Target Analysis

Frank Wolfe

Monday, March 4th, 2024

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BlackSky Heralds Win of DoD Contract for Moving Target Analysis

BlackSky imagery on September 23, 2023 following Ukraine’s missile strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Crimea (BlackSky Photo)

BlackSky Technology Inc. [BKSY] said on March 4 that it won a multi-million dollar DoD contract to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train moving target artificial intelligence models for commercial motion imagery. "We are taking BlackSky’s industry-leading ability to monitor moving objects from space another step forward by enhancing analytic accuracy and the ability to recognize patterns of life," Patrick O’Neil, BlackSky's chief technology officer, said in a company statement. "This foundational work is expected…

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