Credit: Kleos Space
Kleos Space, a Luxembourg-based space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance (RF) data-as-a-service company, has been awarded a contract by Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) under a multi-national government initiative in collaboration with US Air Force Research Laboratory.
Kleos Space has been awarded a contract to prepare Kleos data to be accessed by the Micro-Satellite Military Utility (MSMU Project) Project Arrangement (PA) which is an agreement under the Responsive Space Capabilities Memorandum of Understanding involving the Departments and Ministries of Defense of Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States.
CEO Andy Bowyer commented: “This opportunity delivered by the team, Peter Round and Karyn Hayes-Ryan, is a great achievement and validation for Kleos Space. We are seeing increasing demand for our global geolocation intelligence data, which will enhance the ISR capabilities of governments and commercial entities".
Karyn Hayes-Ryan, Kleos Space US Inc. Director, added: “Our satellites and our data will enhance defense capabilities when fused with other data sets in the government environment, as well as providing timely monitoring of illegal fishing, oil embargoes and other illicit action that both damages our environment and hurts our economies”.
The MSMU Project aims to develop a blueprint for a Multinational Heterogeneous Space Enterprise (ISR Enterprise), to provide military users with reliable access to a broad spectrum of information in an opportunistic environment. It is building the architecture and infrastructure to enable machine intelligence, including automation, human-machine teaming, and ultimately, artificial intelligence. These initiatives will define how the ISR Enterprise executes operations.
The programme is coordinated by the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in collaboration with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
