BlackSky Awarded Five-Year
Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Contract for AI
Data Readiness
June 21, 2022
BlackSky Technologies Inc.
awarded a basic order agreement from the Joint
Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) to create and
optimize data sets for use in DoD AI models and
applications. The JAIC agreement has a ceiling value
of $241 million over five years.
“With demonstrated AI expertise
in space-based dynamic monitoring, this agreement
will open even more doors for BlackSky to contribute
its unique value to the diverse national security
challenges faced by the wider DoD community,” said
Patrick O’Neil, BlackSky chief innovation officer.
“From automatically tasking
satellites to the low-latency delivery and analysis
of high-frequency geospatial imagery and non-imagery
data, our unique, data-rich platform brings a strong
source of core AI-enabled end-to-end capabilities to
the DoD’s mission sets,” said O’Neil.
The JAIC, Defense Digital
Service, and Office of Advancing Analytics were
merged into a single organization called the Office
of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence
Officer.
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