BlackSky Wins Multimillion-Dollar Contract with New International Defense Customer for Gen-3 and Gen-2 Assured Services
'This contract illustrates how BlackSky's reliable fully integrated real-time, commercial space-based intelligence services can be used as an important tool for modern defense and intelligence organizations engaged across the full spectrum of grey-zone conflicts worldwide,' said Brian O'Toole, BlackSky CEO. 'BlackSky's end-to-end automated architecture uniquely gives our most demanding customers the ability to task and receive high-cadence imagery and AI-enabled analytics starting on day one.'
As part of the agreement, the customer will receive immediate, subscription-based access to Assured services, which guarantees tasking capacity for persistent monitoring over a customer's areas of interest. BlackSky will also upgrade the customer's existing ground station and mission operations center with direct-downlink and uplink communications capabilities for faster, locally controlled intelligence.
'Our international allied customers continue to lead as early adopters, constantly developing novel applications for AI-enabled change-based monitoring,' said O'Toole. 'For this contract, BlackSky will also be optimizing the ground segment, making the customer's overall sovereign architecture forward-compatible with the high processing volumes associated with low-latency, high-cadence space-based monitoring.'
The customer will use BlackSky's automated Spectra ® AI-enabled tasking and analytics platform to order and fuse data from Gen-3 and Gen-2 satellites, enabling the detection, identification and classification of objects of interest, such as vehicles, aircraft and vessels, with no humans in the loop. Gen-3 capabilities build upon the proven architecture of Gen-2, allowing for continued innovation and rapid deployment of new technologies.
BlackSky has proprietary in-house satellite design and agile manufacturing, constellation operations and end-to-end advanced software development capabilities. This vertically integrated approach gives the company the ability to quickly develop, produce and deploy reliable space-based intelligence solutions at disruptive speed, scale and economics.
About BlackSky
BlackSky is a real-time, space-based intelligence company that delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events in the world. BlackSky owns and operates one of the industry's most advanced, purpose-built commercial, real-time intelligence systems that combines the power of the BlackSky Spectra® tasking and analytics software platform and our proprietary low earth orbit satellite constellation.
With BlackSky, customers can see, understand and anticipate changes for a decisive strategic advantage at the tactical edge, and act not just fast, but first. BlackSky is trusted by some of the most demanding U.S. and international government agencies, commercial businesses, and organizations around the world. BlackSky is headquartered in Herndon, VA, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BKSY. To learn more, visit www.blacksky.com and follow us on X.
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