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BlackSky Wins IARPA Award to Support Analysis Automation Project SMART

By Rachel Jewett

Thursday, July 14th, 2022

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BlackSky Wins IARPA Award to Support Analysis Automation Project SMART

Satellite imagery of Port Hedland in Australia. Photo: BlackSky

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded BlackSky [BKSY] a second award to support a research program to automate analysis of satellite imagery. On Thursday, BlackSky announced the $4.4 million award to support the second phase of the multi-year Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) program. This follows after BlackSky received a contract in January 2021 for the first phase of the program. IARPA is within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The SMART program is working to automate the analysis…

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