The Sequoia ID/IQ contract will support the Maven Program, "which applies AI capabilities to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors and platforms, primarily through computer vision," the NGA announcement said.
One of the JCO's new missions will be gathering what the Space Force calls tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking data from commercial remote sensing satellite operators, said JCO head Barbara Golf.
With potential adversaries no longer predictable, training must move beyond just live exercises and flight simulators.
“This is about providing situational awareness [and] operational planning products,” Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters as he talked up a pet program, TacSRT -- which some in the intelligence agencies say treads on their turf.
An NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense that the agency has yet to issue any individual task orders under the Luno A program.
Data labeling is key to enabling the AI model to properly separate friend from foe, explained Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth.
“The number of detections are way up [and] the number of models that we have are way up, [but] with the same level of compute that you had in 2017,” said Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth. “It starts to slow down. We are already seeing evidence of that.”
The jet-powered transport’s speed, survivability and multi-mission agility position it as a viable option to the C-130 for the US and NATO allies.
Calvelli's decision comes after a five-month delay necessary to hash out a reliable cost estimate for the NRO-Space Force development program.
“We're sitting on two big sets of data,” said NGA’s Mark Munsell, referring to an unequalled archive of satellite imagery and all the intelligence analysts’ reports on that imagery – and they’re cross-referenced so an AI can correlate them easily.
Perhaps most intriguing is legislative language that calls into question Pentagon and IC plans to declassify data from classified remote sensing satellites that are part of a newly developed joint architecture called the "High-Capacity, Find, Fix, Track, Target and Engage and Assess Constellation," or "HCF" for short.
Orbital Insight's contract, worth up to $2 million, is focused on providing data and analysis about potentially threatening maritime activity in the Indo-Pacific.
Protecting warfighters requires fast, accurate, and dependable systems that work flawlessly to military standards.
Future military, civil and commercial cislunar operations will require precise lunar maps not just of topography, but also of the Moon's gravitational and magnetic fields.
Each technique available now or in the foreseeable future for what is known as alt-PNT comes with a need to make size, weight, power and cost trade-offs based on what type of platform is being used, according to experts.
"In the end, what we're really going to have to figure out here is: what needs to change? Is it policies? Is it authorities? Is it processes? Is it funding? Is it purely just advocacy and communication?" said National Space Council Director Chirag Parikh.
In an exclusive sit down with Breaking Defense, Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth defended his agency's role in moving commercial and government satellite data to the field in a timely manner.