The US Army is making a new $700 million bet on AI that helps soldiers turn battlefield intelligence into targets
Striveworks' Chariot program develops and trains AI agents and models that support battlefield operations.
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Jonathan Reyes The US Army is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on AI that speeds up battlefield decision-making.
Striveworks' Chariot program is a core AI component of the Army's new NGC2 battlefield software.
The contract deal will bring Chariot to more Army units as the Pentagon invests heavily in AI.
The US Army is making a major investment in expanding the use of an artificial intelligence platform to help soldiers process battlefield intelligence and make decisions faster.
The $700 million deal between the Army and Striveworks is a tenfold increase from the initial enterprise contract and will bring the company's Chariot AI platform to more units and missions.
Chariot is also at the core of the Army's new warfighting software, Next Generation Command and Control , or NGC2.
On Thursday, Striveworks announced the expanded agreement after months of growing demand for Chariot.
Jim Rebesco, cofounder and CEO of Striveworks, told Business Insider that soldiers across specialties, from logistics to artillery, have been using the technology for different tasks.
Chariot serves as a hub for AI decision-making , deploying agents to process data and provide human users with information and next steps that align with their jobs, priorities, and commander decisions.
"Those folks are constantly receiving this data coming in from radio, reports, from sensors, from drones," Rebesco explained, "and the first job is to decide: is that a target worth paying attention to? Is it a military vehicle? Is it a tank? Is it something valuable? If so, does that meet with what my commander's priorities are?" Chariot helps soldiers work through those questions, analyzing incoming data, checking relevant doctrine and legal standards, and comparing potential targets against the commander's priorities.
"It does everything that a team of four to 10 individuals would do over a period of about an hour; it compresses that down into minutes," Rebesco said.
Chariot is a core AI element of NGC2, the Army's new warfighting software, which is being scaled to I Corps after previous iterative developments.
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