Vannevar Labs
Vannevar Labs builds AI-powered foreign-language intelligence and mission-planning software for U.S. military and intelligence customers via its Decrypt platform.
Background
Vannevar Labs was founded in 2019 by Brett Granberg and Nini Hamrick in Arlington, Virginia, with a focus on applying modern machine learning to the chronic problem of foreign-language data overload in military and intelligence workflows.
The company is named after Vannevar Bush, the WWII-era science administrator who first imagined machine-assisted information retrieval.
Its flagship product, Decrypt, is a foreign-text workflow platform that enables intelligence officers to translate documents, detect patterns, and search across foreign-language sources at scale. The platform supports 83 languages, indexes more than 22,000 unique data feeds spanning 204 countries, and holds over 8 billion historical data points.
Adjacent products include TIE, a narrative-analysis tool, and Curator, a translation-workflow system, though both have limited public documentation. In 2026 Vannevar announced a partnership with SMX to deliver mission-specific AI agents to combatant commands.
Vannevar sells directly to U.S. DoD and intelligence community customers, reporting 65 active government deployments and more than 1,200 active U.S.
government users. Headcount sits in the low hundreds — public filings range from 80 to 207 — reflecting rapid but uneven scaling from a 2019 standing start.