
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE:BKSY) shares are trading higher after the company announced it was awarded a five-year Joint Artificial Intelligence Center contract for AI data readiness. The JAIC agreement has a ceiling value of $241 million over five years.
Patrick O'Neil, BlackSky chief innovation officer, said "From automatically tasking satellites to the low-latency delivery and analysis of high-frequency geospatial imagery and non-imagery data, our unique, data-rich platform brings a strong source of core AI-enabled end-to-end capabilities to the DoD's mission sets."