NGA - Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Science & Technology Broad Agency Announcement (BIG-ST BAA): Topic # 07 – Lidar Analysis for Surface & Environmental Reconnaissance (LASER)

Description: This Topic 7 LASER call seeks research and development of AI/ML methods to identify man-made surface and underwater objects in space-lidar data, including NASA ICESat-2 and GEDI data. The work includes testing detection and classification methods against government-approved ground truth, with reports, prototype software and source code, documentation, field-testing plans, and a live demonstration for NGA. SAM.gov lists this individual opportunity as an active Solicitation, not a grant-only notice; the parent BAA allows multiple award instruments, and the specific instrument is not fixed in its general terms.