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Maven Adoption Quadruples In Past Year

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, April 10th, 2025

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Maven Adoption Quadruples In Past Year

Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA photo.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Use of the Defense Department’s marquee artificial intelligence platform for finding targets of interest has quadrupled in the past year to about 20,000 users, the head of the agency that manages the program said on Wednesday. The rapidly increasing use of the Maven Smart System by the military services, combatant commands, and other users is demonstrating the “popularity” of the platform and keeping the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) “busy,” Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, NGA director, told Defense Daily…

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