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Planet Labs on Thursday said it has received its first award under the Luno B contract, a $12.8 million order to provide data analytics for maritime domain awareness.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in January chose 13 companies, including Planet, to compete for task orders under the five-year, $200 million Luno B indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract.

Planet said its award is for the Advanced Analytics for Maritime Operations and Reconnaissance order. The company said it will provide NGA with artificial intelligence-enabled analytics for maritime domain awareness over areas in the Asia-Pacific region.

Planet will leverage imagery from its PlanetScope constellation of electro-optical satellites and SynMax’s Theia product analytics for “AI-enabled detections of maritime events at strategic and tactical levels,” the company said. “These insights are crucial for revealing illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, illicit ship-to-ship transfers, and vessel spoofing.”

Planet said its solution will provide almost daily revisit rates for users.

NGA in July announced the first orders under Luno B, a $21 million award to Ursa Space Systems for change detection, and $4.5 million to NV5 for human geography data.

This story was first published by Defense Daily