Trillium Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2019 to directly service US Federal projects. Prior to incorporation in the US, Trillium Europe subcontracted to Federal programs for nearly a decade, supporting Launch.org, developing grand challenges for the Obama Whitehouse and then going on to provide management support to NASA HQ for NASA’s Asteroid Grand Challenge, “to find all asteroid threats to humankind and know what to do about them”.

In 2015, Trillium Technologies worked with NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist to conceive and deliver the Frontier Development Lab (FDL US) an applied AI research lab focused on space applications. FDL was delivered in partnership with the SETI Institute, who was approached in 2016 to act as prime. Trillium has delivered seven FDL research cycles for NASA and federal partners (2016 – 2022) and has delivered research outcomes for the DOE, USGS, USAID and the US State Dept, tackling projects such as green chemistry, energy futures and violent extremism.

FDL AI workflows are now running on NASA funded programs (such as long-period Comet detection: http://cams.seti.org/FDL/) and Worldview Search and have been published in many peer reviewed journals, such as Science Advances, Acta Astronautica and the Planetary Science Journal. FDL is a case study in the efficacy of public/private partnership, and since its inception, has championed the involvement and engagement of the private sector, where contributions include funding, subject matter experts, facilities, cloud compute and storage, software and AI/ML algorithms.

Private sector partners have included Google, Intel, NVIDIA, Lockheed Martin and Nvidia as well as humanitarian and NGO organizations including Unicef and UNOOSA. All of this work is founded on being deeply embedded in the academic community which enables Trillium to draw on the highest caliber of academic contributors for its project delivery teams.

In 2020, Trillium invested in open science by building the platform SpaceML.org. Space ML develops and distributes open-source space science research and invites scientists to more easily develop derivative investigations.

SpaceML.org takes eligible projects from the research community and enables continued development of those projects beyond pure research to develop and deploy solutions usable in the real world. SpaceML places emphasis on building robust and adaptable MLOPs, reducing transitional failures and ultimately resulting in robust and reproducible deployment outcomes.