BigBear.ai, DEFCON AI to Advance Next-Gen Military Readiness; Defense Part of New Germany Fund

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BigBear.ai, DEFCON AI Collaborate to Advance Next-Generation Military Readiness

BigBear.ai announced a strategic collaboration with defense firm DEFCON AI to transform force readiness and joint logistics capabilities. The companies intend to co-develop on-demand advanced modeling, simulation, and data integration solutions to support contested logistics, joint force sustainment, and readiness assessments across the global defense enterprise.

“BigBear.ai’s partnership with DEFCON AI reflects a strategic alignment of domain expertise and technology capabilities to deliver mission-focused solutions in our core markets,” said Kevin McAleenan, CEO of BigBear.ai. “Together, we will help deliver scalable, integrable solutions to the defense community’s most pressing logistics and readiness challenges from tactical operations at the Southwest border to strategic campaigns in the Indo-Pacific.”

This collaboration leverages the combined strengths of BigBear.ai and DEFCON AI in artificial intelligence, data integration, optimization, resilience, and mission-focused analytics—fusing capabilities in joint force management, readiness analytics, logistics planning, transportation scenario analysis, and predictive analytics—to enhance situational awareness and deliver decision advantage across multi-domain operations.

“Combining the cutting-edge capabilities of DEFCON AI and BigBear.ai is a natural fit to take on the challenges of integrating readiness and sustainment data in a meaningful way for commanders to visualize, plan, and sustain operations in complex, uncertain, contested environments with unprecedented speed and accuracy,” said Yisroel Brumer, Co-Founder and CEO of DEFCON AI. “We are proud to partner with BigBear.ai to support the future of force management and logistics transformation.”

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