NGA Maven

Startup Enabled Intelligence nabs NGA’s $708 million AI training contract

Under the Sequoia program, the company will provide data labeling to allow artificial intelligence and machine learning systems to discriminate among objects.

‘No human hands’: NGA circulates AI-generated intel, director says

NGA puts a "template" on the products that "literally acknowledges … what you are looking at has not been touched by human hands,” said Director Frank Whitworth. “It's important [for] combat commanders and the Secretary and the President that they have that knowledge.”

‘Success begets challenges’: NGA struggles to meet rising demand for Maven AI

“The number of detections are way up [and] the number of models that we have are way up, [but] with the same level of compute that you had in 2017,” said Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth. “It starts to slow down. We are already seeing evidence of that.”

Now that Maven is a program of record, NGA looks at LLMs, data labeling

"We’ve hit our milestones and you’ll start seeing as we look to the next few months a lot more activity from the Maven office in terms of contracting," Rachel Martin said.

NGA making ‘significant advances’ months into AI-focused Project Maven takeover

“The bottom line here is that under NGA’s watch, Maven… has made some of its most significant technological strides and has already contributed to some of our nation’s most important operations,” Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said.

Pentagon’s flagship AI effort, Project Maven, moves to NGA

Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, outgoing NGA director, said the fusion of Project Maven with his agency's current AI efforts will "give us our millions of eyes to see the unseen."