Pentagon Contracts Dataminr for $318 Million AI Situational Awareness System

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Dataminr a $318 million contract for its AI-powered situational awareness technology. This deal supports the A2 Publicly Available Information Alerting program, providing critical capabilities for force protection and global event warnings. Dataminr will leverage its AI agents and large language models to detect and analyze emerging events in near real-time for the Pentagon.