BlackSky Secures Multi-Million Dollar Contracts for Gen-3 Services with New Global Defense Partner After Successful Trial Phase
Expansion initiatives signify a transformative leap towards advanced space-based dynamic monitoring solutions, empowering customers to rapidly adapt to time-sensitive tactical ISR operational requirements.
BlackSky Technology Inc. has secured several Gen-3 Assured services contracts valued in the seven figures with a new international defense client, signifying a pivotal customer transition towards next-generation space-based dynamic monitoring capabilities. This rapid expansion enables customers to effectively meet their urgent tactical ISR operational needs.
“This collaboration signifies our ongoing success in executing our land-and-expand approach and underscores the increasing acknowledgment that dynamic space-based intelligence is imperative,” stated Brian O’Toole, CEO of BlackSky. “Our Assured service provides guaranteed, priority access to Gen-3 resources over specific operational areas, with the quality and dependability demonstrated during early access programs encouraging customers to renew their subscriptions.”
As BlackSky continues to expand internationally, the demand for agile and responsive space-based intelligence solutions is on the rise. Our unique dynamic monitoring platform is adept at meeting customer expectations with multiple daily revisit capabilities, on-demand tasking, and ultra-high-resolution imagery data—all seamlessly integrated into existing intelligence workflows.
“Our customers face evolving threats in real-time, necessitating intelligence systems that can adapt to their operational pace. BlackSky’s Gen-3 Assured offers the ongoing monitoring, tasking flexibility, and swift response required by contemporary defense and intelligence agencies navigating a complex geopolitical environment,” O’Toole remarked.
The advanced features and performance enhancements of Gen-3 provide clients with a broader array of flexible space-based intelligence applications for tactical ISR and strategic operational needs. Gen-3 imagery facilitates the automated detection, identification, and classification of diverse aircraft, vehicles, vessels, and other objects of tactical interest at unprecedented speeds. Access to BlackSky’s Gen-3 leverages our fully automated, end-to-end commercial architecture to deliver real-time situational awareness at mission speed and scale.
