The agreement, a Production Other Transaction Authority (OTA) originally awarded in September 2025, provides any component across the entire Department of War with a streamlined, turn-key pathway to access Scale’s end-to-end AI capabilities – spanning data labeling, model development, generative AI platforms, and engineering services – across NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS networks.

The five-fold ceiling increase follows the rapid uptake of the agreement across the Department since its original award. DoW components have leveraged the vehicle to initiate Project Agreements spanning computer vision, generative AI decision-support, and data operations, reflecting a level of demand that exceeded the original ceiling. The expansion ensures the agreement can support the full breadth of the Department’s AI ambitions, aligning with the Department of War AI Strategy and its focus on building a robust data foundation and creating an agile, iterative pipeline for AI deployment at the tactical edge.

“As the era of small-scale AI pilots gives way to enterprise-wide deployment, the infrastructure decisions the Department makes known – which platforms to trust, which data operations to invest in, which partners to build for the long term – will shape the operational AI capabilities of the U.S. military for the decade ahead,” said Kathryn Harris, head of defense at Scale AI. “The expansion of Scale’s agreement with CDAO is a direct reflection of the trust we’ve earned and the accelerating demand across the force for capabilities such as Scale’s that work at the speed and security level the mission requires. Our platform is designed to help the Department operationalize its Responsible AI principles, ensuring that as we scale these capabilities, they remain reliable, auditable, and trusted by the warfighter. We’re proud to deepen this partnership and to serve as the Department’s long-term AI infrastructure partner.”

Source: Scale AI

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The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the Department of War’s (DoW) suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of AI/machine learning (ML), data and analytics capabilities.

GeoAgent provides intelligent, mission‑aware AI that automates complex geospatial workflows end‑to‑end, delivering expert‑level insights in minutes so teams can move faster, make better decisions and scale capabilities.

“Defense and Intelligence organizations are inundated with geospatial data spread across an expanding landscape of vendor-locked systems, sensors and tools. GeoAgent directly addresses this challenge by automating GEOINT workflows based on analyst intent, dramatically reducing the latency between data and decision making,” said Nathan Spangler, vice president, BD federal government for NV5. “GeoAgent’s availability through the Tradewinds Marketplace accelerates access to this capability across the defense and the intelligence community, ensuring mission partners can move at the speed their operations demand.”

GeoAgent is built for the speed and complexity of modern defense and intelligence missions. It tackles a core challenge facing these communities: Analyzing and providing insights across vast volumes of geospatial data scattered across incompatible, siloed systems. Today, even straightforward analytic questions can take hours to answer as analysts hunt for data, identify and learn tools, preprocess it, run models manually and validate results—an approach that cannot keep pace with operational tempo.

Source: NV5

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This designation signifies that Soleite Fleet Edge has been assessed through competitive procedures and meets the high standards required for government procurement via the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.

Soleite Fleet Edge is an AI-powered platform that transforms static maintenance procedures into intelligent, dynamic workflows, enabling faster, more accurate, and more compliant sustainment operations. By modernizing maintenance documentation and execution, Fleet Edge directly supports Department of Defense priorities around readiness, resilience, and operational efficiency, the company said.

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable solutions designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of AI, machine learning, digital, and data capabilities across the Department of Defense.

Through the SBIR Aisle, government customers can identify and engage with vetted small business solutions that address mission-critical challenges, enabling faster pathways from innovation to operational deployment.

“Soleite Fleet Edge was built to fundamentally change how maintenance procedures are created, validated, and executed,” said Sheila Duffy, CEO of Greystones Group. “Delivering measurable reductions in time, cost, and operational friction while improving compliance is exactly what mission owners need. Being designated ‘Awardable’ validates both the impact and readiness of this solution to scale across the enterprise.”

Source: Greystones Group

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The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the Department of War’s (DoW) premier digital acquisition environment designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data, and analytics capabilities. Solutions designated “Awardable” have completed technical evaluation and are eligible for streamlined contracting by government customers.

Redhorse’s IDPaaS is designed to fundamentally change how government organizations interact with data and technology. The capability supports mission-critical use cases across the defense enterprise, including intelligence analysis, contested logistics, and complex operational decision-making, by enabling agencies to transform raw data into mission-ready, reusable intelligence products, the company said.

“We are pleased to have our fourth pitch video approved by the CDAO Tradewinds team,” said Vince Bridgeman, senior vice president for national security services at Redhorse Corporation. “IDPaaS delivers two essential capabilities for government customers. First, it allows organizations to model enterprise knowledge and apply context engineering, so systems receive the right information for specific tasks. Second, it establishes a durable foundation for human-machine teaming and the operational use of AI-enabled applications.”

Redhorse’s IDPaaS video—available exclusively to government users within the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace—demonstrates a real-world implementation in which Redhorse modeled domain-specific enterprise knowledge and delivered fully government-owned, tangible intelligent data products. The solution leverages a combination of open-source and commercial technologies to ensure scalability, transparency, and long-term sustainability.

Source: Redhorse Corporation

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CDAO awarded LILT a flexible contract to expand its platform — developed initially under a DIU prototype — to support domain-specific vocabularies relevant to the Department of War. The platform enables rapid and accurate translation of text, video, and audio content into or out of English. This specialized, unique AI platform supports U.S. military missions that span from understanding foreign technical documentation and training materials to facilitating foreign partner exercises and supporting direct action missions.

One of the first military components experiencing the results of this program is the U.S. Army’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). “LILT AI Translation has catapulted WHINSEC into the future of AI and its nexus with security cooperation and professional military education across the Western Hemisphere. We can now rapidly integrate international forces from countries that partner with the U.S. at all echelons: in the classrooms, during multinational exercises, and foreseeably in coalition combat outposts. That’s what we train for at CGSOC,” said U.S Army Colonel Eldridge Singleton, 9th WHINSEC Commandant.

CDAO’s ongoing collaboration with DIU further underscores the Department of War’s commitment to accelerating the adoption of frontier AI capabilities and the consistent efficiency gains CDAO is delivering to U.S Armed Forces. The collaboration with WHINSEC proves that AI, when strategically deployed for security cooperation and professional military education, can directly advance national security outcomes.

Source: LILT

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Raft’s AI Mission System ([R] AIMS) delivers a no-code machine learning system that puts the power of computer vision directly into the hands of operators. Raft built and deployed a fully containerized, Agentic AI platform that enables operators to train, evaluate, and deploy new Computer Vision models with confidence and verifiability—no data science background required.

“This wasn’t about building another tool,” said Shubhi Mishra, founder and CEO of Raft. “This was about rethinking how AI gets built for mission-critical environments and how we empower operators to adapt when the mission demands it. Raft exists to turn operators into super-operators, and that starts by putting AI creation directly in their hands.

Built with Raft’s agentic AI principles at its core, the system features built-in guardrails via [R]AIMS and machine-assisted feedback loops for Responsible AI—ensuring every model is traceable, adaptable, and aligned with mission intent.

“[R]AIMS Vision enables something we’ve been chasing for years: COCOMs building their own AI at the speed of the mission,” said Bhaarat Sharma, CTO at Raft. “This is how you scale intelligence across the force—by putting tools in the hands of operators and giving them the autonomy to iterate in real time.”

Source: Raft

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The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), data and analytics capabilities.

“Being recognized as ‘Awardable’ by the CDAO is a significant milestone for Progress Federal Solutions,” said Cori Moore, president of Progress Federal Solutions. “It underscores our commitment to delivering scalable, secure and innovative AI solutions that help government agencies achieve their objectives.”

Progress Federal Solutions was established to address the unique requirements of U.S. federal, defense and public sector organizations. Operating independently while leveraging Progress Software’s technology portfolio, the subsidiary delivers AI-powered solutions that accelerate digital transformation, strengthen data-driven decision-making and support mission-critical operations.

One of the key products offered by Progress Federal Solutions is the Progress Data Platform, relied on by defense and civilian agencies to integrate, manage and operationalize complex data.

Source: Progress Federal

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According to the company, IRIS fundamentally transforms and modernizes end-to-end information operations research to achieve rapid, high-quality information advantage in the information environment. By combining advanced AI/ML with real-time analytics, IRIS empowers military information support operations, public affairs, strategic communications, and all aspects of information operations planning and assessment. With IRIS, operators can ingest vast amounts of information, detect emerging narratives, and deliver actionable insights faster than ever before.

“Earning ‘Awardable’ status for IRIS is an important milestone in our partnership with the Department of Defense,” said Sam Houston, vice president of cognitive warfare at Peraton. “IRIS gives the DoD the ability to stay ahead in the information environment by rapidly ingesting, analyzing, and operationalizing data at scale. This designation makes it faster and easier for our warfighters and decision-makers to leverage IRIS in support of critical missions.”

Source: Peraton

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For the past two and a half years, Scale AI has worked with CDAO on a series of prototype agreements. This journey from rapid, experimental prototyping to a stable, enterprise-wide production agreement is a game-changer. For DoD mission partners, this provides the long-term stability and confidence to invest in and scale their AI strategies, knowing that a proven partner and a flexible contracting vehicle are in place to support them, the company said.

This Other Transaction Authority (OTA) is designed to help the DoD move at speed and partner with nontraditional tech companies like Scale. It streamlines the procurement process, allowing any component across the entire DoD to access Scale AI’s end-to-end AI platform. The significance of this partnership is the access it provides to advanced AI capabilities on the networks where the most critical work happens, available on networks up to Top Secret/SCI.

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“There is growing demand within the government to accelerate and modernize software authorization and acquisition processes. The latest example of this is the new DoD initiative, Software Fast-Track (SWFT),” said Mario Vuksan, CEO and co-founder of ReversingLabs. “Earning awardable status through both Platform One and Tradewinds is a major validation of our commitment to helping government organizations gain fast, reliable assurances that the software they are deploying is secure. This designation, combined with these new strategic partnerships, enables RL to provide organizations with trust in every piece of mission-critical software they count on every day.”

As agencies modernize their development and acquisition practices, RL is meeting them at every stage of the software development and deployment lifecycle, from securing code and building validation to final software binary inspection and real-time threat detection. Now, the company is expanding its capabilities through new partnerships with Carahsoft, Norseman Defense Technologies, Mission First Cyber, and Vibrint.

“ReversingLabs is driving real value across the federal ecosystem,” said Nick Trzcinski, vice president of federal at Norseman Defense Technologies, which provides effective and efficient solutions to solve government customers’ complex and demanding IT problems. “This awardable status through Platform One means agencies can now deploy trusted, secure software faster—and with confidence.”

Through these partnerships, RL expands its capabilities by adding valuable domain-specific expertise in federal procurement, cyber resilience, secure system integration, and Zero Trust architecture. This includes new integrations with leading DevSecOps and CI/CD tools as well as support for classified cloud environments and SBOM automation frameworks that align with Federal mandates, including EO 14028 and CISA BOD 23-01.

“Our partnership with ReversingLabs reflects a shared commitment with Carahsoft and our reseller partners to delivering mission-ready cybersecurity solutions to federal agencies,” said Craig Abod, Carahsoft president. “Now, this Awardable status for Spectra Assure accelerates the time it takes for organizations to clear procurement hurdles and reduce acquisition timelines.”

“The Vibrint collaboration with ReversingLabs provides agencies with the tools and knowledge needed to immediately detect software risks and ultimately deploy new solutions with superior confidence,” said Jim Robb, chief operating officer, Vibrint, Inc. “Together, we are helping agencies adopt Zero Trust principles without encumbering development or deployment.”

“Mission First Cyber is committed to partnering with leading technology vendors to offer solutions designed to defend against emerging threats. Our work with ReversingLabs strengthens this commitment by delivering advanced software supply chain security that helps Federal agencies proactively reduce risk and safeguard mission-critical operations from evolving vulnerabilities,” said Jason Miller, chief executive officer, Mission First Cyber.

Source: ReversingLabs

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