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Thunderforge Award Goes To Scale AI, Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Military Planning

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 5th, 2025

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Thunderforge Award Goes To Scale AI, Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Military Planning

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The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded Scale AI a contract to deliver generative artificial intelligence tools to assist the U.S. military with data driven, custom operational and theater-level planning, beginning with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. European Command. The award to the San Francisco-based company is a key milestone in the Defense Department’s use of AI to leverage its data to rapidly respond to threats. Scale AI on Wednesday said Thunderforge is DoD’s “flagship” program that will accelerate decision-making…

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