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 site was built from a “blank slate” and developed to facilitate the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sale Fast Lane Initiative, Nikhil Reddy, Kaizen’s co-founder and CEO, told reporters ahead of the announcement.
“We just launched it, and we’ll continue to bring on more partner nations, a ton more vendors to the system,” Reddy said.
The AI-backed marketplace has been online for about two weeks, but details of the contract weren’t publicly released until late Monday. The Pentagon awarded Kaizen the contract on May 8 through a rapid acquisition tool called an other transaction agreement.
Pentagon counterdrone task force has a new AI-powered marketplace – Defense One
(Lauren C. Williams – Defense One)
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