Exia Labs Brings Keystone to the U.S. Navy via DIU’s Blue Object Management Challenge
Following a successful demonstration at NATO, former NAVWAR Commander Retired Rear Admiral Douglas Small joins as a strategic advisor for maritime expansion.
We’re excited to announce that Exia Labs has been selected by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to advance in the Blue Object Management Challenge.
Designed with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) Chief Data Officer and J32 Fires Division, this partnership aligns with the Department of War’s designation of Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) as a Critical Technology Area to achieve AI-enabled decision superiority.
Exia initially developed Keystone, an AI-enabled Object Management System, for the U.S. Army with a focus on the land domain. Keystone ingests reports about friendly units from across echelons and allies, resolves inconsistencies and duplicates, and generates distinct unit entities with assigned confidence levels. Keystone updates these entities in real time, creating a single, trusted object-based data layer for mission systems like Maven Smart System and Lattice.
Validating this capability, Task Force Maven recently selected Exia to demonstrate Keystone’s integration with an unclassified cloud-based Maven Smart System environment with nominal data, at NATO Headquarters.
For this challenge, Exia expands Keystone to the U.S. Navy and the maritime domain. To assist with this transition, the company has brought on retired Rear Admiral Douglas Small to provide product feedback. Admiral Small commanded at multiple echelons, concluding his U.S. Navy career as commander of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR). There, he led a global workforce of 11,000 civilian and military professionals designing, developing, and supporting the Navy’s networking, communications, and cyber capabilities.
“The Exia team couples the ingenuity of the gaming industry with deep understanding of military decision-making processes,” said Small, “they are ready to deliver intelligent tools to warfighters for decision advantage.”
This selection marks a critical step in Exia’s mission to advance AI-enabled decision-making capabilities that seek to improve how mission-critical data is integrated, accessed, and used across DoW platforms and forces.
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