Striveworks wins $200 million, five-year Army contract for battlefield AI
Striveworks has received a five-year, $200 million contract from the U.S. Army to extend its AI work with soldiers and commanders across the Indo-Pacific. The award lets the Austin-based company scale its Chariot software across the footprint of the Army's Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort.
- The U.S. Army awarded Striveworks a five-year, $200 million contract.
- The award lets Striveworks scale its Chariot software across the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) footprint.
- The Army awards announced this week bring NGC2 into delivery at I Corps.
- The award falls under Striveworks' previously executed enterprise contract.
- Striveworks says Chariot includes human review and authorization in its data processing.
What the contract covers
According to Striveworks, the Army award allows the company to scale its suite of Chariot software across the NGC2 footprint. Under the award, Striveworks will provide common AI tools and services for NGC2. These are meant to let the Army deploy, monitor and re-optimize AI models and agents as battlefield conditions change rapidly.
The company describes NGC2 as the Army's foremost modernization effort, designed to help commanders make timely, informed decisions faster than the adversary. The Army awards announced this week bring NGC2 into delivery at I Corps, according to the release.
The award falls under Striveworks' previously executed enterprise contract. It also follows the Army's confirmation in August that Striveworks will provide baseline AI tools and services for what the company calls a multibillion-dollar NGC2 initiative.
The Chariot platform and its claimed results
James Rebesco, co-founder and CEO of Striveworks, said in the announcement: "Decision dominance is the core of NGC2." He added that the Chariot platform "enables soldiers to use agents and models in dynamic, critical environments, driven by safety, assurance, and human control, even under the stress of combat."
Striveworks says its software has supported gains in battlefield awareness and fires processing times. The company points in particular to Chariot Forge, which it says helps soldiers turn large volumes of data into actionable insights, with human review and authorization built in.
The company also claims that units using the software have improved targeting precision while maintaining a low signature and footprint. According to Striveworks, this helps them move more easily and makes them harder to detect. These results are the company's own description, and the release does not provide figures to support them.
About Striveworks and what it means
Striveworks was founded in Austin in 2018 and develops operational AI infrastructure for defense and national security environments where systems must keep functioning under real-world conditions. It says it supports deployments across Army, Navy, Combatant Command and Joint Task Force environments. The company recently announced a $70 million enterprise agreement with the Pentagon and is backed by Washington Harbour Partners.
For the Army, the award is a way to put a common set of AI tools and services under NGC2 as the program moves into delivery at I Corps. For Striveworks, it extends a relationship that already includes an enterprise contract and the August confirmation of its role in baseline AI tooling. The release says the work is aimed at more soldiers and commanders across the Indo-Pacific, with human control and authorization described as part of the design.
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