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Air Force Contract with BlackSky Shows Promise, Challenges Ahead for Supply Chain Monitoring

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Air Force Contract with BlackSky Shows Promise, Challenges Ahead for Supply Chain Monitoring
BlackSky Chief Technology Officer Scott Herman discusses the Spectra On-Demand Secure Bundle, which includes site, activity and crisis monitoring while leveraging ad-hoc imagery ordering for intelligence analysts, who can access data from BlackSky’s satellites and multi-source event feeds in addition to information from third-party satellite sensors. (BlackSky Photo)

A recent U.S. Air Force contract with small satellite company BlackSky Global LLC to monitor how COVID-19 is affecting military supply chains shows the promise of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled geospatial intelligence but also the challenges ahead for DoD in heading off supply chain disruptions. Announced by BlackSky last month, the contract through AFWERX and the Air Force Research Laboratory is to run over 27 months and not to exceed $1 million. BlackSky is to employ its Spectra AI/ML system…

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