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Forbes
2 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Agentic AI: The Next Frontier In Autonomous Work
Carlos M. Meléndez is Vice President of Operations of Maxar Intelligence, Puerto Rico, a world-leading geospatial intelligence firm. Given the ubiquity of AI in all facets of business and life, it's hard to believe that its practical use has only been around for several years. AI has been playing a role in how we receive information about virtually anything that is available on the internet. It is often the "service rep" we speak to when calling a technical support center or the assistant that helps us write a memo on ChatGPT. Despite all the ways we interact with AI, there's a new strain of AI that is just now coming to the forefront and aiming to revolutionize how we work—agentic AI. Not to be confused with AI agents—which automate simple tasks, such as helping you find the best flight for your trip and which almost always require humans in the loop—agentic AI learns to think and make decisions completely on its own, independent of humans. While traditional deep-learning AI models rely on static datasets, making it difficult to remain current in real-world conditions, agentic AI introduces self-learning capabilities, allowing models to expand their knowledge over time without human intervention. Agentic AI systems represent the next evolution in AI, a major transition from traditional AI models that simply respond to human prompts. Deloitte predicts that in 2025, 25% of companies that use generative AI will launch agentic AI pilots or proofs of concept, growing to 50% in 2027. Early versions of agentic AI are being seen in many consumer applications. AI assistants in travel sectors, for example, are performing multi-step tasks from researching vacation options and feeding them back to you to actually booking arrangements. In the enterprise, agentic AI is beginning to autonomously manage email communications, schedule meetings and generate reports with minimal human intervention. It's also powering autonomous vehicles, enabling them to independently make decisions about routes, braking and more. The Importance Of Keeping Agentic AI Honest Given the enormous responsibility that will be placed on agentic AI solutions as they make their own decisions, ethical principles are more important now than in any other state of AI to date. The data they are trained on needs to be diverse and unbiased and tested against a strict set of ethical standards. In addition to prioritizing explainability, organizations should regularly assess agentic AI outputs to ensure they contribute positively to society and avoid causing harm. Consider some of the critical decisions agentic AI could make: As assistants to busy clinicians, agentic AI could assess a patient's radiology reports, blood test results and other information contained within their medical records to recommend a course of treatment. Agentic AI models will eventually not only leverage data to identify red flags that could discount mortgage loan candidates, but it also will be able to autonomously act on those facts by denying or granting loans to applicants. Given the complexity and split decisions that are made in the air traffic control environment, agentic AI could be used to communicate with pilots and manage traffic patterns and travel routes. Although humans may one day explore space beyond their spacecraft, it's more likely that AI-powered robots will be the first to do so regularly. These agentic AI systems will navigate orbital terrain autonomously and make independent decisions about where to go and what data to gather. Overcoming Agentic AI Challenges When you consider that some of the decisions that agentic AI makes can be life-or-death or critical to the future of humankind, humans must continue to play a role to safeguard against potential errors or biases. Human oversight can help ensure that the system's outputs align with ethical standards and even laws. The technology and infrastructure for agentic AI is here today and is capable of performing tasks on behalf of humans, yet it's still a long way off from widespread use. It may take some time for humans to trust it. The biggest factor to its adoption will be a cultural one, forcing early adopters to act as the canaries in the coal mine, paving the way for others to follow. As the adoption of agentic AI continues on its slow and steady journey, below are four challenges that need to be overcome: Before humans can be expected to relegate critical decisions to agentic AI systems, they need to trust that they're making fair, ethical and unbiased decisions. This means they need to consistently act responsibly, produce outcomes for the good of humankind and avoid bias or malintent. While agentic AI promises productivity gains, it may also disrupt labor markets as capabilities expand. How we realign our labor force, train and educate the next generation of workers, and develop patterns of co-existence need to be considered. We currently have no formal regulatory controls for the safe use of AI, so this will need to be established before it is widely used. New frameworks will need to address questions of liability, transparency, explainability and appropriate constraints on autonomous systems. Data is the fuel to the success of all types of AI, especially agentic AI. To give AI the ability to make smart and effective decisions, it needs to have access to relevant data sources to provide context to its decisions. Open, integrated data sources need to be available across multiple systems. Final Thoughts The future of agentic AI points toward a world where autonomous systems increasingly perform tasks once accomplished by humans. The most successful state of agentic AI will likely look more like human-AI collaboration rather than complete automation. Yet, how we design, deploy and govern agentic AI will truly determine how they enhance human potential or whether they create new risks. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
Business Wire
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Maxar Awarded Contract by NGA to Deliver AI-Powered Object Detection Services
WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Maxar Intelligence, the leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, announced today that it was awarded Delivery Order 01 under the Luno A program by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). This award is focused on delivering commercial analytic services, specifically automated AI/ML-generated object detections over many specified locations at once. Maxar is primarily identifying various classes of aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and railcars, helping NGA determine object counts at specified locations, classification of objects, identify trends and anomalies, and perform spatial and temporal geospatial intelligence analysis. The mission represents a strong example of operationalizing commercial technologies for persistent site monitoring at global scale. Maxar has partnered on this award with satellite Earth observation data provider, Satellogic, Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), integrating the capacity and revisit of both constellations to deliver a combination of persistent monitoring and high-resolution imaging for the most demanding multi-sensor applications; Enabled Intelligence to aid with model validation and verification; and Striveworks for the AIOps platform. Delivery Order 01 requires excellent performance against extremely tight delivery timelines, including the ability to collect multiple images across constellations within specified windows and delivering model outputs within hours of image acquisition. Automation is the key to success for all phases that include collection, computer vision model inference, and delivery of timely results. 'This award reflects the power of combining commercial innovation to support national security mission needs,' said Susanne Hake, SVP and General Manager of Maxar's U.S. Government business. 'By working together with other industry leaders, we're enabling a powerful combination of diverse sensor data and advanced analytics to help make smarter, faster decisions.' For more information about Maxar's analytical offerings, visit About Maxar Intelligence Maxar Intelligence is a leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights. Operating the most advanced commercial Earth observation constellation on orbit, we use the power of very high-resolution satellite imagery and software technology to deliver mission success on Earth and in space. Our secure, AI-powered products and services deliver ground truth in near real-time to keep nations safe, improve navigation, protect our planet, speed up disaster response and more. For more information, visit
Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Maxar Launches Sentry™, a Breakthrough Persistent Monitoring Suite that Delivers Predictive Intelligence at Global Scale
WESTMINSTER, Colo--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Maxar Intelligence, the leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, today announced the launch of Sentry™, a first-of-its-kind persistent monitoring solution that delivers strategic operational and threat intelligence at global scale for a real-time decision advantage. Sentry integrates AI-powered capabilities unique to Maxar—including multi-source constellation orchestration, geospatial fusion, and advanced machine learning models for automated analytics—to deliver a new level of closed-loop spatial intelligence. It is specifically designed to monitor hundreds of areas around the world to solve complex problems such as anticipating adversarial threats or protecting industrial infrastructure. The Sentry suite includes two products designed for specific mission sets: Site Sentry, a product for monitoring places of interest across land and sea, such as shipyards, airports, urban centers and more. Maritime Sentry, a broad area monitoring product for tracking vessel activity at sea and in port, enabling customers to actively monitor thousands of sq km of ocean at once. Both Sentry products draw on Maxar's 250+ petabyte archive of very high-resolution satellite imagery collected over more than two decades. This unrivaled geospatial foundation provides training data for advanced AI/ML computer vision models that contain a detailed understanding of historical activity and global patterns across the world. 'For many of our customers, it's no longer enough to be able to deliver persistent monitoring of only one or two sites or limited geographies—the world is changing too fast, and they need to be able to identify mission-critical activity before it happens, anywhere in the world,' said Dan Smoot, CEO of Maxar Intelligence. 'For the first time, Sentry makes it possible to use the full potential of space to deliver predictive intelligence at global scale. Sentry uses AI and ML to drive automation across the entire sensor-to-decision system, unlocking sensor integration at a scale that hasn't been done before.' 'It's a game changer for our customer that unlocks a new level of decision superiority, be it to identify an imminent satellite launch before it happens or to estimate potential threats to energy infrastructure following a natural disaster,' continued Smoot. Sentry is built around three core automation-powered technologies: Tasking: Maxar's proprietary collection orchestration software automatically integrates feasibility and tasking scheduling processes across commercial and sovereign satellite constellations, including electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, dramatically increasing the number of sites that can be monitored simultaneously. Production: Maxar's automated geospatial production and fusion capabilities transform the data collected from various sensors into a dynamic representation of the globe that is fully co-registered and prepared for analysis at scale. Analytics: Maxar utilizes object detection models as well as third-party systems to identify signals about mission-relevant activity and patterns. These insights can then be delivered directly to the analyst or decision-maker through Maxar's Insights UI app or to a customer's secure environment via API. Sentry: Delivering proven capability for the world's toughest missions Several of the technologies used to build Sentry were successfully demonstrated in existing programs supporting U.S. intelligence and defense missions. For example, as part of its execution on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) Luno A D01 task order, Maxar used geospatial fusion and analytics technologies to deliver AI/ML-generated object detections across numerous specified locations within hours of image acquisition. These capabilities enabled rapid identification of aircraft, ships, vehicles and railcars, object counts and classification—laying the groundwork for identifying trends and anomalies. This work also directly informed the development of Sentry. To learn more about Sentry, visit About Maxar Intelligence Maxar Intelligence is a leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights. Operating the most advanced commercial Earth observation constellation on orbit, we use the power of very high-resolution satellite imagery and software technology to deliver mission success on Earth and in space. Our secure, AI-powered products and services deliver ground truth in near real-time to keep nations safe, improve navigation, protect our planet, speed up disaster response and more. For more information, visit
Business Wire
18-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Maxar Partners With Array Labs to Fuel Its 3D Operational Terrain
WESTMINSTER, Colo. & PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Maxar Intelligence, the leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, and Array Labs today announced an agreement to provide Maxar with dedicated capacity from Array Labs' 3D radar imaging constellation, which is set to launch in late 2026. This partnership will combine very high-resolution 3D terrain generated from electro-optical imagery with 3D terrain generated from radar imagery to expand Maxar's ability to rapidly update its global 3D global data in real-time. Under the agreement, the two companies will extend the current technical validation activities and work closely to integrate Array Labs data into the Maxar 3D product line. Rapidly updated 3D global terrain data provides defense, intelligence and commercial customers with unparalleled insights into their true operating environment and enable opportunities to further enhance the capabilities of next-gen tactical mission-focused products like Raptor, which provides GPS resilience for autonomous drone systems. 'Our partnership with Array Labs will help us achieve our vision of building a living globe—a highly accurate, real-time 3D representation of Earth—that can help solve critical challenges across warfighting, intelligence and commercial domains,' said Peter Wilczynski, Chief Product Officer at Maxar Intelligence. 'This additional capacity from Array Labs will help maintain a simulated 3D terrain that matches the real-world operating environment to give our customers a decisive advantage—from the digital battlefield to the connected city.' Maxar's 3D global terrain data already consists of 100 million-plus sq km around the world, delivered with 3-meter SE90 accuracy. This data is regularly updated to provide a reliable view of the operational terrain. "This is a pivotal moment in transforming how the world accesses, understands, and derives value from 3D data," said Isaac Robledo, cofounder of Array Labs. "By combining our unique space systems and collection capabilities with Maxar's global terrain products, we are expanding the aperture of what's possible with our 3D data – creating more value for defense, intelligence, and commercial end-users and delivering unprecedented insights at the speed of change." Once Array Labs' constellation is operational, it will become the latest addition to Maxar's virtual constellation, which brings together complementary remote sensing capabilities to enable comprehensive, real-time geospatial insights and intelligence. To learn more about Maxar's global 3D terrain data, visit About Maxar Intelligence Maxar Intelligence is a leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights. Operating the most advanced commercial Earth observation constellation on orbit, we use the power of very high-resolution satellite imagery and software technology to deliver mission success on Earth and in space. Our secure, AI-powered products and services deliver ground truth in near real-time to keep nations safe, improve navigation, protect our planet, speed up disaster response and more. For more information, visit About Array Labs Array Labs is an advanced aerospace company developing the satellites, sensors, and software required to deliver the first real-time, high-fidelity 3D map of Earth. Array's innovative approach leverages distributed radar, formation flight, multi-static SAR imaging, and advanced image formation algorithms to deliver unprecedented insights into our planet's surface. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Array is on track to launch its first 3D imaging cluster in late 2026.
Axios
04-06-2025
- Business
- Axios
Exclusive: Maxar and Saab seek stronger Europe in new partnership
Maxar Intelligence and Saab are expanding their partnership, this time focused on geospatial intelligence, drone autonomy and improved targeting. Why it matters: The collaboration could bolster European security at a time when Russia's war machine looms large and a rearmed continent remains a hot topic. "We can transfer that knowledge, their capabilities, into European defense in several different ways," Per Järbur, director of strategy and future capabilities at Saab's Dynamics business area, told Axios. Zoom in: The deal gives Saab access to Maxar's satellite imagery and terrain data, as well as software like Raptor, which lets drones navigate in the absence of GPS with no additional, bolted-on equipment. The two companies tested Raptor in multiple countries, but did not specify which. "If you think about the geo-accuracy of what we're doing, we're within a couple of meters … for things like targeting and so forth," Dan Smoot, Maxar Intelligence's chief executive, said in an interview. "That's the power of having this rapid and precise 3D capability built into Raptor." Zoom out: The goal is to have an immediate effect. Both companies mentioned strengthening C5ISR, or command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
