Raft launches cutting-edge AI mission system: Weapon of the week

The most valuable commodity I know of is information

Wouldn't you agree? Yes, Mr. Gecko, I do. And it's as true today as it was in the 1987 classic Wall Street

But how do you know you have all the information available to you? How do you know that you're not missing a crucial piece of data

that could affect whatever it is you're trying to do? That's a problem the subject of our Weapon of the Week is trying to solve

Based in McLean, Virginia, Raft touts itself as a leading defense technology company dedicated to empowering the U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI machine learning and data solutions

To that end, in March, they released a new platform called AIMS, short for AI Mission Systems

We're focused on solving a lot of the decision-making problems for different sorts of user personas

whether that be acquisition professionals whether that be warfighters whether that be policy makers or military decision makers The focus is on helping them aid their decision making and getting them more accurate and faster decisions

One of the benefits of the U.S. having a military large enough to collect and compile troves of information

is also a weakness if even some of that data fails to get to the people that need it

RAF's founder and CEO, Shubhi Mishra, says that's a problem AIMS is designed to tackle

Unlike a lot of the large language models that are trained on the Internet

trained on all the data that exists outside the military, our platform is specifically trained on the doctrine, the data that makes these services possible

So it is not trained on the stuff that does not matter to a service

It trained on what the pilots the Army soldiers and all of the different services use to train their people

And that's what makes it very, very special. Mishra says this new platform can not only bridge legacy systems with newly developed systems

but it can also do it at speed, at cost, and at scale

For both those problem sets, you require something that attaches to those legacy or new systems and pulls that information together such that a user on the other end can make fast decisions, quick decisions

So going back to the question you asked, how does this get them faster, quicker, better information

It is just that. It is the conduit that transforms the information they have into the information they need

As for how it's working in the real world, Mishra says before Ames' public launch

Raft was working with people handling acquisition and contracting. That a super hard job And so how can that make them how can this system make them faster and more accurate And what we have tested out with them has increased their accuracy by 45 and made them faster by 30x So what does that mean Essentially

AIMS aggregates data collected by people all over the world and gets it to the people who need it

most. So they always had some way to get to the stuff. It took them months to get to it. A lot of

phone calls. They have the data, but they don't have tools to make sense of the data. So what you

have right now is the tool they have in front of them where they can ask questions as opposed to

learning the system. So we have made it very intuitive using just, you know, how you use a

chat GPD, how you use any large language model. Ask a question, it'll give you the answer. And the

Beauty is trained on their data and it is trained on their doctrine

While Mishra wasn't yet able to talk about any specific details in place

she did say a lot of interest is being generated, with potential users looking to get Ames onboarded soon