WASHINGTON — The CEO for Dataminr said his company’s tech will be going live as part of NATO’s Maven Smart System sometime this week, days after the open source tech company was awarded a $318 million contract with the Pentagon.
“NATO is our second largest customer, and NATO is now a customer of First Alert Advanced, and they have deployed it to the entire NATO enterprise in Palantir Maven Smart Systems, and that is actually going live next week,” Ted Bailey, founder and CEO of Dataminr, told Breaking Defense last week.
First Alert Advanced is the company’s latest AI suite, including what the firm calls autonomous “intel agents” to scan for information, synthesize it and provide “live” briefs to customers. The tool also offers “tactical predictive intelligence,” which uses data to attempt to peek into the future.
NATO’s MSS, provided by Palantir, is an AI platform that connects different command and control systems. That architecture allows Dataminr’s system to be embedded in NATO’s environment, providing the platform open source intelligence and corroboration but also synthesizing info from military-specific sensors.
As for the Pentagon contract, a DoD announcement on Friday said the company would provide their capabilities, including “situational awareness, force protection, and indications and warnings on global events,” to the entirety of the Department of Defense last week for five years. That’s every command and all field activities, up to three million licensed users, Bailey said.
