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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.
Synthetic training data provides a way to quickly generate new ai models for problems that there may not be enough data to tackle traditionally. Even if the NGA and DOD do not end up being partners, understanding synthetic data workflows and problems would increase our value as ML consultants for other projects, as I it is my view that using synthetic training data will become more common in the future.
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