AI startup Enabled Intelligence won an IDIQ contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) worth up to $708.3M to support data labeling activities across the US government.
The seven-year “SEQUOIA” contract was awarded in September, but was announced more recently after the government returned to work.
The contract will allow the NGA, Defense Department, and broader intelligence community to use Enabled Intelligence’s computer vision algorithms to automate tasks such as object detection, tracking, classification, as well as pattern detection. Enabled Intelligence will also support natural language processing, and AI/machine learning modeling for business process automation as part of the GEOINT mission.
It’s in the name: Founded in 2020, Enabled Intelligence uses AI to turn raw, unstructured data into accurate insights, models, and intel.
Given the vast amount of data the US government and commercial sector collects every day using EO constellations with visual, infrared, and SAR capabilities, it’s become increasingly impossible for humans to comb through it all to find the needle in the haystack.
As a result, the government set out to lean on AI and machine learning to do the heavy lifting, and Enabled Intelligence’s contract is the largest NGA data labelling contract to date.
Point and click: The technology could be used to monitor conflict zones to detect changes in enemy infrastructure or capabilities, identify threats, and surface those insights quickly enough to make an impact.
As part of the contract Enabled Intelligence will work alongside BAE Systems, Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence), Whiteboard Federal (the US intelligence community’s software system) and others to integrate the AI capabilities into the broader GEOINT infrastructure and ensure that intelligence decision makers have all the information they need to achieve their missions.
