The Future of Military Operations

Decisions at Machine Speed

Today, we’re excited to announce Blue, your Copilot for Military Operations. Commanders who decide faster, win faster. Blue automates labor-intensive, “science of war” decision making inputs, like terrain analysis, mission analysis, decision support templates, so commanders and staff have more time for the art of war and making better informed decisions.

War has become increasingly digital, decentralized, and fast – leading to compressed decision cycles. The future of military operations will demand innovative approaches to planning, rehearsal, and execution to outpace adversaries and seize the initiative.

How Blue Works

Blue consists of AI workflow agents that automate each step of the U.S. Army’s Military Decision Making Process (MDMP). Users upload documents – operations orders, warning orders, annexes, concept of operations, and more – and that alerts the first AI agent “Receipt of Mission” to start analyzing these documents to put categories of information like enemy intent, terrain, friendly forces, tasks to subordinate units, and so on into the right buckets. The next AI agent, “Mission Analysis,” will start conducting METT-TC, OAKOC for terrain analysis, and other workflows. Planning at each service shares many commonalities and we’re in the process of extending Blue to the Joint Planning Process next.

Course of Action Generation and Simulation

One key feature of Blue is course of action generation that is then refined and tested through an AI simulation. In the military, a course of action (COA) is “any sequence of activities that an individual or unit may follow; a scheme developed to accomplish a mission.” COAs are one of the main outputs of each service’s planning process.

Units from the 101st Airborne Division and the Washington Army National Guard are testing Blue in both garrison environments and field exercises. Please reach out at contact@exialabs.com to schedule a demo.

New Investors

Last but not least, we’re thrilled to announce that Anorak Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, and Mana Ventures have joined us in accelerating our mission to Master the Science of War. These investors join our pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun, with participation from Space Capital.