- BlackSky Technology ( NYSE: BKSY ) has been awarded a $4.4M contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).
- The geospatial intelligence provider has been selected to support the second phase of the multi-year Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) Program.
- As part of the contract, BlackSky created a high-performance MLOps (machine learning operations) framework that has been chosen to perform as the core infrastructure to the entire SMART program. The company's Spectra AI machine-learning platform is said to drive the application of SMART technologies for automated recognition of strategic activity and change.
- BKSY shares have dropped 1.77% pre-market
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BlackSky bags $4.4M IARPA contract