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Dataminr Takes $318 Million to Be the Military's Alerting Layer, Running 60 Small Models

The Air Force bought an enterprise open-source alerting subscription for the whole US military — competitively, and from a vendor that says it deliberately avoided frontier models.

Dataminr Takes $318 Million to Be the Military's Alerting Layer, Running 60 Small Models
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The Air Force bought an enterprise open-source alerting subscription for the whole US military — competitively, and from a vendor that says it deliberately avoided frontier models.

The Pentagon awarded Dataminr a $317,806,746 firm-fixed-price contract for the A2 Publicly Available Information Alerting program, announced in the Aug. 26 contracts digest. Work runs in Washington, D.C. through June 25, 2031. The Air Force District of Washington Contracting Directorate at Joint Base Andrews is the contracting activity.

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