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Pentagon counterdrone task force has a new AI-powered marketplace
['Lauren C. Williams', 'Business Editor']
Defense One - All Content
The Pentagon’s counterdrone task force awarded Kaizen Laboratories $15 million to build a “two-way” marketplace designed, in part, to make selling tech to foreign militaries easier.
The Defense Department, other federal agencies, and certain “foreign governments are able to go on the counter-UAS marketplace, where we have a number of different industrial options.
Traditionally, that goes into our FMS, our foreign military sales process, which takes months at best to get to the other end.”
“Allowing them access to the pricing, the availability, the capabilities, all on a digital database … And then the backside of that, generating the FMS process and starting that FMS process is incredibly powerful,” Obadal said.
“We've met with logistics leaders across the military that want repairability information and right-to-repair catalogs built into the marketplace.