Agile Defense awarded $100 million for AI prototype supporting combatant commands

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MCLEAN, Va. (July 15, 2026) – Agile Defense today announced that it has been awarded a $100 million Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement through the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace (TSM) to deliver its Workforce AI tool in support of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) (N&N2). The award will fund the prototyping of Force Deployed Engineering and Training (FDE&T), a novel delivery model that fuses embedded AI instruction with forward-deployed engineering support at the directorate level. “Agile Defense not only articulated a clear vision for how to operationalize AI at the edge, we invested strategically in our Workforce AI product and made it a reality,” said Mike Pansky, Chief Transformation Officer, Agile Defense. “Our FDE&T teams will bring data engineering and AI software development training directly to the warfighter, embedding them inside operational directorates to enable learning, engineering, and mission execution as a single, continuous workflow.” Under this contract, Agile Defense will prototype FDE&T, which is distinct from both traditional training contracts and conventional forward-deployed engineering in three key ways: - Embedded Subject Matter Expert (SME) Pods co-located with operational directorates, providing foundational, proficiency, and over-the-shoulder instruction on Maven Smart Systems (MSS), War Data Platform (WDP), and adjacent AI capabilities as they are used on live mission workflows.

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