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DARPA Taps BAE Systems To Continue Developing New Space Situational Awareness Tools

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

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DARPA Taps BAE Systems To Continue Developing New Space Situational Awareness Tools

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photo of an aurora from the International Space Station on June 23. Photo: NASA.

DARPA has tapped BAE Systems to continue working on a project to develop a machine learning-powered tool to provide military space operators with better situational awareness capabilities, the company said Tuesday. BAE's work on the second phase of the Hallmark Tools, Capabilities, and Evaluation Methodology (Hallmark-TCEM) program will focus on building out tools to better identify abnormal activities in space and predict possible threats against critical assets. “Our technology builds data models based on normal activity and then ingests large…

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