Category: Future of Space Data

The White House recently released America’s AI Action Plan – a bold roadmap to secure global AI dominance for the United States. At Planetary Systems AI, we have already been executing on it since Day 1 of our founding. 

Cover page, The White House America’s AI Action Plan released July 23, 2025

First and foremost, the plan calls for establishing an “AI & Autonomous Systems Virtual Proving Ground at DOD” to scope technical, geographic, security, and resourcing requirements for next-generation government and AI capabilities at the U.S. Department of Defense. Space is now a warfighting domain and space superiority is a priority in the United States’ position for Assured Access to Space for all.

Here’s how PSAI is delivering on America’s AI vision:

  • Automation Systems at Scale –  Our proprietary spacecraft-capability assessment models operate as a distributed AI proving ground, testing autonomous maneuver alerts, threat detection, and mission-critical decision-making 24/7 for space operations.
  • Defense-Ready Technology – We are building secure, robust AI systems that the Department of Defense needs at unclassified levels—systems that can operate independently in contested environments with zero ground control that are proven and tested
  • American Innovation –  100% U.S.-developed AI architecture designed with national security priorities from the ground up
  • Rapid Adoption – Leveraging AI tools such as LLM’s and generative AI capabilities in innovative ways for in areas such as space domain awareness and space situation awareness are breeding grounds for new use cases and applications, particularly in next-gen AI agentic systems and computing power.
  • International Cooperation – With allied partners in countries like Australia, South Korea, United Kingdom and in the European Union, coordinated commercial capabilities being operationalized in test environments are piloted with government partners.

The plan emphasizes America must “harness the full power of American innovation” to maintain “unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance.” That’s exactly what we are doing – turning mastery of space into America’s ultimate AI advantage.

For Defense Partners: Our orbital AI system is ready to support your mission-critical operations today, not years from now.

For Investors: This isn’t just policy alignment – it’s market validation. PSAI is positioned at the intersection of America’s highest strategic priorities: AI dominance and space superiority.

The future of American AI leadership isn’t just about what we build on Earth. It’s about extending that leadership to the ultimate high ground and frontier: space. 

Watch this space.

🔗 Read the full AI Action Plan: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/

 

About Planetary Systems AI (www.planetarysystems.ai): PSAI is a planetary support company accelerating data flow and insight generation for decision-making in the space sector, optimizing planetary support operations.

Planetary Systems AI Press Contact:

Mack Reed
Head of Product
E: pr@planetarysystems.ai

an officer in camouflage fatigues addresses an audience from a podium, standing before an orange wall and a display monitor
U.S. Space Force Col. Gina Peterson addresses the audience at the SDA TAP Lab’s Demo Day on Jan. 30, 2025

Space domain awareness (SDA)  – and all the data that must flow to support it – no longer hovers in a theoretical future.  

Today, spacecraft operators must know swiftly and reliably what space trash, errant satellite, or hostile might threaten their operations – and the discipline is crying out for investment.

For the well-equipped U.S. military, better SDA tools are under development as a complex and powerful orbital-defense system at the United States Space Force’s SDA TAP Lab. That’s where we have been collaborating these past six months with dozens of other companies. 

In the Lab’s Cohort 5, Planetary Systems AI finished building AI tools that help U.S. Space Force Guardians identify the launch history, onboard sensors, and jamming frequencies of space vehicles that are hidden, unknown, or potential threats. 

As we accelerate into Cohort 6 next week, one thing has become very clear: This vital project – and indeed SDA overall – needs a huge boost in operating budget to keep pace with the space boom.

With more companies and international partners joining the SDA TAP (Tools, Applications & Processing) Lab, more payloads and satellites reaching orbit, and the increasing risk of collision with debris and each other impacting critical communications and cybersecurity infrastructure on the ground, it will be difficult to keep up with the pace of innovation such as the SDA TAP Lab’s rapidly-expanding work without more Congressional and the Pentagon’s monetary support or capital investment from the satellite and telecommunications industry to protect their in-orbit assets. 

 

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Cohort 5 of the SDA TAP Lab’s Apollo Accelerator project

The SDA TAP Lab needs a significantly bigger budget to support its complex logistics, the cohort’s rising headcount, and a newly-available, multi-terabyte source of SDA data that must be imported, sorted, and made available to us and international partners to continue the work. 

The need will be even greater for the commercial sector, where spacecraft operators work with SDA discipline in mind but without universally-available tools at hand.

While the Lab is building tools to sharpen the U.S. Space Force’s awareness and improve the timeliness and accuracy of the Guardians’ response, those military tools won’t be available to civilians. 

 

 

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PSAI CEO Cindy Chin and Aquarious Workman present to Lt. General Douglas A. Schiess during the Demo Day on Jan. 30, 2025 at the SDA TAP Lab

 

For commercial launch and orbital companies, U.S. Guardians are tasked with issuing notifications to space operators. These email advisories advise U.S. allies and corporations who subscribes to them whenever a rocket launch is detected or an orbiting spacecraft makes a maneuver. 

But the notifications don’t deliver operational context; While Guardians have access to multiple SDA data sources, sensors, satellites and other tools to support their defense-oriented mission (and will soon have the TAP Lab’s defense system as well), no such service exists to warn and protect the commercial sector against orbital mishaps. 

It is up to launch and orbital companies to blend orbital data sources with whatever in-house SDA experience they might have to keep their spacecraft and space assets safe. Therefore, more capital investment in this critical infrastructure is needed in and adjacent to orbit before calamity happens.

 

 

A slide depicting the benefits of delivering satellite capability data to USSF warfighters
A slide from PSAI’s presentation to the SDA TAP Lab explaining the benefit our work has brought to the U.S. Space Force’s battle management system

Just as Planetary Systems AI is bringing deep experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data fusion to SDA for the U.S. Space Force, we plan to deliver SDA solutions for our partners in the commercial sector and their space strategies

Watch this space.

Contact: Mack Reed, Head of Product, mack@planetarysystems.ai