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The primary benefit for NFI in this project is gaining the skills and experience and tools needed to tackle harder problems with synthetic training imagery. Both the NGA and DOD have shown they have an interest in synthetic satellite data, giving out development grants to Orbital Insights and L3Harris respectively. Working with satellite data presents a more difficult challenge than the DARPA Project. If we want to take on these more difficult challenges having a foundation of knowledge and tools that we can adapt would be greatly beneficial.
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