Donovan (Scale AI)

A US defense generative-AI decision-support and agent-orchestration platform that lets military users query classified data, build mission-tailored AI agents and compress planning workflows.

Overview

Donovan is Scale AI's federal defense-AI platform for military planning, intelligence fusion and decision support. It is not itself a large language model; Scale and defense-industry reporting describe it as an application and orchestration layer that gives operators access to LLMs, mission data, evaluation tools and no-code agent workflows on government networks. The platform sits in the same command-software class as Palantir AIP and Anduril Lattice, but its starting point is Scale AI's data-engineering and model-evaluation business rather than a legacy battlefield-management system.

Scale describes Donovan as a platform to help operators, analysts and commanders "understand, plan, and act in minutes instead of weeks" by connecting operational data, models and mission-specific workflows inside controlled environments, according to Scale AI. Its public defense profile grew from the May 2023 deployment with the US Army's XVIII Airborne Corps, which Scale and Business Wire described as the first LLM deployment on a US government classified network through Business Wire.

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