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Anomalies Detection to be Undertaken by Orbital Insight for the U.S. Air Force

April 20, 2020

Orbital Insight has been tentatively awarded a SBIR Phase II contract with United States Air Force’s (USAF) AFVentures Strategic Financing (STRATFI).

Orbital Insight will help the USAF detect anomalies across the world with analytics powered by artificial intelligence and multiple geospatial data sources such as satellite imagery, SAR, AIS and IoT devices.

Introduced last year, Orbital Insight’s GO platform is purpose built for the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community to deliver insights in a cloud-agnostic, secure and readily deployable environment. The technology supports critical activity-based intelligence by helping spot trends buried within billions of data points, such as economic patterns associated with global ports, airports and energy infrastructure.

AFVentures was created to serve as an umbrella organization for the Air Force’s efforts to work with small businesses while funding critical technologies for the military. The program is a joint endeavor between the service’s Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Programs, USAF’s in-house innovation incubator AFWERX and Air Force Acquisitions. AFVentures has designated a total of nearly $1B in strategic financing, with $550M for 21 small businesses as part of Phase II’s four-year, fixed-price contracts.

Orbital Insight has previously collaborated with AFWERX in two previous SBIR phases. In addition to its work with the Air Force, Orbital Insight has also entered into strategic partnerships with firms such as Airbus to co-develop powerful change analysis and insights for Airbus Defense and Intelligence customers.

Dr. James Crawford, Orbital Insight CEO and Founder, said entire job functions are dedicated to monitoring satellite imagery and other data sources, but the volume of data is too massive to access and analyze at scale—and national security depends on those answers,” said . “We’re honored to continue our partnership with the US Air Force and empower them with machine learning to zoom in on the physical world, reveal hidden changes faster and proactively inform warfighter decisions.”

Dr. Will Roper, US Air Force Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Assistant Secretary, added that if we’re not working with the best innovators in the world, then we will lose the technology advantage that we have. Getting this right is not just innovation, it is imperative.

 

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