Planet Labs PBC announced that it has signed a seven-figure pilot contract with an international ministry of defense customer for PlanetScope data enhanced with the AI-based Theia solution from its partner SynMax. Together, Planet and SynMax are providing the customer with a cutting-edge maritime domain awareness ("MDA") solution for vessel detection and monitoring. Additionally, the customer also expanded their SkySat contact with Planet for high resolution satellite data.

Planet's high cadence of data collection along with its robust data archive has enabled novel commercial approaches to maritime domain awareness, which has historically been constrained by limited coverage, manual processes, and complexity in fusing data sources. Earlier this year, Planet announced that it was awarded a competitive, seven-figure ACV contract by the U.S. Navy's "Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific" (NIWC) for vessel detection and monitoring over key areas throughout the Pacific Ocean. NIWC Pacific is using Planet data and AI capabilities from SynMax with their SeaVision platform to help improve maritime domain awareness and support broad area monitoring.