IARPA COSMIC
Funds United States investigators developing geospatial AI that blends remote sensing with public geolocation feeds.
COSMIC (Commercial Observation for Spatio-temporal Monitoring for Indications of Change) is a research program run by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a U.S. government agency operating under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The program funds work under the Emerging Technology Accelerator (ETA) framework — IARPA's compressed-timeline vehicle for bri…
Integration of commercial satellite imagery and open-source geolocation data into dynamic geospatial models, with an agentic AI analytic layer capable of answering intelligence community questions.
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