Satellite imagery and AI-enabled analytics show the scale of the Russian Black Sea fleet’s dispersal from the port of Novorossiysk in Russia on September 11, 2024. Photo: BlackSky

BlackSky has won a seven-figure renewal deal with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). It has secured this award under the company’s NGA Luno A Facility Monitoring Delivery Order. According to BlackSky, the decision to renew funding for the four-year award was prompted by customer satisfaction and the performance of its high-cadence, AI-enabled change detection analytics. BlackSky announced the deal, March 5.

Under this delivery order, BlackSky performs AI-enabled object and pattern-of-life change detection to monitor trends and anomalies in vehicle, aircraft, vessel, railcar and ground equipment activity at military and economic facilities worldwide, including ports, airfields, military installations and railways.

BlackSky has won multiple delivery orders under the Luno A contract including a $5 million award in September 2025, and an order worth up to $24 million in June 2025. NGA in September 2024 selected 10 companies to compete for upward of $290 million in task orders under the Luno A program, which is leveraging technologies like computer vision and other analytics applied to economic, military, and environmental monitoring.

BlackSky monitors more than 14 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface for the NGA. The company says its AI tools enable more frequent data-intensive broad area search and discovery queries than traditional solutions.

“BlackSky’s successful performance on the Luno A program reflects the critical value of meeting customer commitments with proven, reliable commercial space-based monitoring services, especially in a strained budget environment. With the recent addition of advanced, very high-resolution Gen-3 satellites to our constellation our U.S. customers will have access to even more rapid, detailed and precise insights at machine speed and scale,” Brian O’Toole, CEO of BlackSky, said in a statement.