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.”

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By formally integrating ICG’s technology with Scale’s agentic platform, Scale aims to create a unique, end-to-end intelligence solution. This full-stack approach allows government customers to move from raw data to situational awareness and AI-driven action within a single, secure environment.

Since its founding in 2010, ICG has been dedicated to helping national security customers extract mission-critical value from complex, multisource streaming data. ICG’s flagship product, LUX, has been an asset for the national security community, ingesting, correlating, and real-time alerting of massive data streams.

ICG’s expertise and LUX technology is currently leveraged across defense and intelligence components and is a core component of Scale’s work on major Department of War programs. ICG will initially operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Scale to ensure zero disruption to existing mission continuity and contract delivery, the company said.

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The collaboration brings together BAE Systems’ decades of mission knowledge in defense operations, systems integration and platforms, with Scale’s proven suite of agentic AI capabilities including the Scale Data Engine and Generative AI Platform. Together, the two organizations aim to integrate Scale’s AI capabilities directly into the architecture of the DoW’s most capable combat vehicles, deterrence programs, and future platforms.

“Modern warfare is won at the speed of data,” said Peder Jungck, chief innovation and strategy officer for the intelligence and security sector at BAE Systems. “By teaming with Scale AI, we are ensuring that the Department of War has access to the world’s most advanced agentic tools, to create intelligent, adaptive systems that can out-think and outpace the adversaries.”

“We’re proud to collaborate with BAE Systems to bring agentic AI capabilities to America’s most critical military platforms,” said Zane Teeters, head of public sector GTM, Scale AI. “The value of this agreement is ensuring that human operators have the most advanced AI capabilities available on today’s platforms and systems, dramatically accelerating the time to mission impact for the Department of War.”

Source: BAE Systems

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The Raft Partner Program cultivates a national security ecosystem purpose built to facilitate rapid development of innovative and interoperable capabilities built on the Raft Data Platform and Raft AI Mission System. The program equips industry partners with the resources and technical support required to deliver secure, high-performance applications ready for operational deployment on Raft Data Platform and Raft AI Mission System, which underpin many of the Department of War’s largest modernization efforts.

“Regardless of the mission, if you want the Department of War to adopt your technology, you need to build on the foundational software layers powering their key modernization initiatives,” said Shubhi Mishra, founder and CEO of Raft. “This program gives industry a fast lane and time back to the mission. Partners can integrate across the Raft ecosystem and scale their capabilities everywhere the U.S. fights.”

Raft has announced its founding cohort of partners are Lockheed Martin, Scale AI, Red Hat, and Rune Technologies, with applications now open for consideration into the next cohort of partners.  By joining the Raft Partner Program, partners gain validated interoperability, clear market differentiation, and a faster path to delivering mission-ready capabilities to operators. Whether an emerging technology company building new applications, a defense prime delivering integrated solutions at scale, or a commercial technology provider offering pre-integrated capabilities to the tactical edge, the Raft Partner Program enables rapid deployment and fosters a network effect across the most impactful defense technology companies serving the Department of War.

“Raft’s partnership program reiterates their position as foundational to the modernization priorities across the Department of War”, said Mina Faltas, founder and CEO of Washington Harbour Partners. “Since partnering with Raft, their proliferation across the multi-domain defense ecosystem – especially the widespread adoption of [R]DP and [R]AIMS – highlights their commitment to innovation. The modern national security imperatives require modular software-defined solutions, and Raft, alongside their key partners, are answering the call by bringing the best of American innovation together”, added Patrick Foley, Principal at Washington Harbour Partners.

The Partner Program enables partners to leverage early access to facilitate rapid development of applications to support the Department of War’s objectives to modernize at speed. Each partner selected by Raft brings differentiated, mission-critical capabilities that strengthen the ecosystem, empowering operators through the combined power of Raft Data Platform and Raft AI Mission System.

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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.

Source: Scale AI

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Scale used fine-tuned data from its Data Engine to configure the parameters of Defense Llama. This enables it to respond to defense-related questions and scenarios. For example, a military planner may need to understand how an adversary would plan an attack against a U.S. military base and explore possible ways to counter such an attack so they can prepare effective contingencies. Additionally, Defense Llama provides responses that adhere to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)’s style and tone of writing to increase the relevance for national security users.

Defense Llama was trained on a vast dataset, including military doctrine, international humanitarian law, and relevant policies designed to align with the Department of Defense (DoD) guidelines for armed conflict as well as the DoD’s Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence. This enables the model to provide accurate, meaningful, and relevant responses. Scale enables U.S. national security personnel to use generative AI safely and securely for defense and intelligence-specific applications.

This capability stems from a collaboration among Meta, Scale AI, and defense experts to use the leading open source LLM to create an AI system that can effectively support the unique needs of military operators, strategic planners, and decision-makers.

“Supporting American national security is an important component of the work we do at Scale. With Defense Llama, our service members can now better harness generative AI to address their specific mission needs,” said Alexandr Wang, CEO, Scale AI.

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The partnership also marks the unveiling of Scale Donovan, the company’s federal AI platform to help operators, analysts, and decision-makers understand, plan, and act in minutes instead of weeks. Additionally, Donovan utilizes Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF) to continuously fine-tune the technology and better support mission objectives over time.

A key challenge facing military planners is the sheer volume of information available to support decision-making, most of which are in a variety of different formats. Now, decision-makers do not need to increase the size of their staff to manually analyze data. Using Donovan, they can make faster and better-informed decisions in rapidly evolving situations. The platform will be ingesting over 100,000 pages of live data for the XVIII Airborne Corps, such as orders, situation reports, and intelligence reports, to help military staff understand and organize the ever-growing volume of data with no training or coding experience – in minutes.

“To achieve decision advantage over adversaries in competition and conflict we must be able to condition, transform and aggregate data at the speed of war. LLMs are critical to our Corps vision of data centric warfare,” said COL. Joe O’Callaghan, the Fire Support Coordinator of the XVIII Airborne Corps. “We are thrilled to partner with the CDAO and Scale AI, in our data centric approach and operationalize this capability in our Scarlet Dragon series of exercises as we continue to refine our ability to out decide, out-think and out-perform any adversary.”

XVIII Airborne Corps will deploy Donovan for critical use cases:

• Live context of friendly and enemy force operations by ingesting live data, such as orders, situation reports, and intelligence reports. This can help commanders better use the available staff, identify novel solutions more easily, and evaluate rapidly changing situations.
• Context for intelligence-operations fusion by ingesting reporting, unit observations, and reducing the operational planning cycle time.
• Decisional advantage with crisis planning support by ingesting open source data for potential conflict areas, which will identify insights to support intelligence preparation of the battlespace.

Donovan will also support the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to accelerate planning and enable the DoD to facilitate cross-combatant command collaboration. For example, the air tasking order cycle currently takes three days, and Donovan can shorten the timeframe of that cycle to hours.

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As the JAIC’s AI readiness partner, Scale will develop Test & Evaluation (T&E) capabilities spanning machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks, with a focus on critical use cases including:

• Image analysis, testing deep learning-based visual search and image classifier
• Autonomous systems
• Humans augmented by machines (to include human-machine interfaces) and improved methods to measure warfighter cognitive and physical workloads (to include AR/VR test services)
• NLP-enabled products and services

Scale’s end-to-end AI solution enables the U.S. government to manage the entire ML lifecycle – from data annotation to dataset curation and management (via Scale Nucleus), to model testing and evaluation, to model development – all in one place. Analysts and operators can understand, visualize, curate, and collaborate on their data – aiding in their mission objectives through process automation, enhanced decision support, and insight generation.

“AI is not a one-and-done technology, and we’re thrilled to see the JAIC embrace the continuous approach to T&E that Scale was founded on. By adopting this framework, the government’s AI programs will be more resilient, responsible, and equitable, ensuring that U.S. investments in AI lead to successful deployments of new, impactful technologies,” said Alexandr Wang, Scale founder and CEO.

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