The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is soliciting proposals for Luno A, a $290 million contract to acquire unclassified commercial geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) derived computer vision and analytic service capabilities.
The five-year contract will expand access to data and services for the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG), accelerate analytic workflow modernization objectives, and integrate data and services into enterprise capabilities.
Proposals are due on March 26, 2024.
“As the quantity and quality of commercial data continues to increase, we must continue to partner effectively with industry to keep pace with state-of-the-art analytic capabilities and meet the increasing demands of our customers,” Devin Brande, director of NGA Commercial Operations, said in a press release.
Luno A also will deliver data that enables NGA and NSG analysts to add context to analytic assessments and have unparalleled insight into and data to quantify worldwide economic and environmental activity and military capabilities.
The unclassified nature of commercial data will ensure that Luno A products, data, and/or services are easily shareable with key partners and allies across the globe, the agency said.
Specifically, Luno A will focus on identifying unclassified computer vision capabilities, to include object detection, object classification, object segmentation, pattern detection, broad area search and area monitoring and feature mapping across six areas of interest:
- General change detection, climate security and natural resources;
- Feature identification;
- Infrastructure and high cadence transportation network monitoring;
- Facility monitoring;
- Incidental and fortuitous processing; and
- Emerging products, data, and services.
Luno A is a follow-up to NGA’s Economic Indicator Monitoring contract, which focused on managing the deluge of data by purchasing commercial data as services to integrate with NGA machine learning and artificial intelligence efforts.
“Because of the incredible success with the EIM contract, we’ve substantially increased our financial commitment to commercial capabilities with Luno A,” said Brande.
