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Raft on the Record

The noise we've made, and the headlines we've hijacked.

INDOPACOM Just Got a Turbo Boost.

We teamed up with Appian to drop bureaucracy and hit the gas. Real-time data + automated workflows = warfighters who don’t need a permission slip to make a decision. No more waiting on emails, Excel files, or Karen from procurement. It’s fast, fused, and built for the theater everyone’s side-eyeing: hey, China.

China’s watching—so we’re moving. →

N3bula Systems Just Plugged In—and Autonomy Is Officially Spicy.
We didn’t just acquire a company—we hardwired N3bula’s sensor-to-shooter brain into our AI stack like it was a combat cheat code. This isn’t some “synergy roadmap” fluff. It’s real, rugged, and ready.

Autonomous data fusion? Check. Weapons-grade integration? Yep. Edge-native firepower? You bet your legacy contractor we did.

Warfighters love it. Bureaucrats need a minute.→

PowerPoint Can’t Fight Wars.

While the usual suspects are still arguing about AI like it’s a philosophy class, we dropped a whitepaper that actually slaps. Our founder and CEO, Shubhi Mishra, didn’t mince words: INDOPACOM won’t be won with think pieces. It’s gonna take agentic AI, real-time data fusion, and command and control that doesn’t crash when it gets humid.

Spoiler: slide decks don’t survive contact with the enemy. → 

Legacy Giants Just Threw Us the Keys.
Oracle launched a new “defense ecosystem,” but let’s be real—it’s less charity, and more “help us not get lapped.” Startups now get secure labs, sales juice, and VIP access to Palantir + Oracle AI stacks. Translation? Bureaucracy just took an L. Classic Raft move: while others build castles in compliance hell, we’re racing through the side door with a laptop and a launch code.

Blink and you’ll miss it. →

We’re Not Playing Pinball While China Plays StarCraft.

Our founder and CEO, Shubhi Mishra, said the quiet part out loud: China’s running a slick, seamless war machine. Meanwhile, we’re stuck feeding quarters into a $900B arcade cabinet held together with “open architecture” stickers and prayers. Her fix? Kill the duct tape. Fuse the data at machine speed, and tighten sensor-to-shooter loops faster than a caffeine-fueled squirrel on roller skates. Lag kills, and PowerPoint isn’t a weapon system.

Quit the quarter feeds. Time to plug in and play to win. → 

Next Wave

The moves on our radar—consider this your heads-up before the impact.

U.S. vs. China. We Brought the Receipts. 

We hosted a panel, The Battle for AI Dominance—and made it clear: China’s war tech is fused and fast. Ours? Still stuck in silo hell. Shubhi Mishra, Rep. Ed Case, Dr. Philip Potter, and former Rep. Chris Stewart dropped the truth: If we want to win, we need real-time data fusion, agentic AI, and cross-domain unification...not another patch. 

Smoke Signals from the Beltway

This month’s fab moments in the press.

$961B and Not a Dime for Nostalgia.

Golden Dome’s getting $25B like it’s the prom queen, drones are the new favorite child, and F-35s? Trimmed down like a bloated cast in season two. Call it a cleanse. Call it a flex. Just don’t call it legacy-friendly. 

“Pentagon unveils $961B budget request: Fund for Golden Dome, missiles and drones, fewer F-35 jets” → 

Iran was caught with the fireworks, now it's all peace signs.

A leaky little intel brief that said Iran’s nukes might be “delayed a few months.” However, Iran? Immediately pivoted from chest-puffing to peace-posturing like a kid who swears they were “just holding” the fireworks. 

"‘Obliteration’ or not, House Republicans argue Iran strikes were a diplomatic win" → 

Mossad just pulled off the ultimate sneak attack cheat code on Iran.

They didn’t just drop bombs—they planted drones, snuck commandos in with precision weapons, and turned off Iranian air defenses like hitting snooze on Monday morning. By the time Iran’s radar woke up, the damage was already done, and breakfast was cold.

"Covert actions key to Israel’s strikes on Iran: Mossad" → 

The Army’s done playing museum curator.

This isn’t a casual visit; it’s a reality check. From drones to barracks, Secretary Driscoll asked what was broken and made it clear: the old ways won’t cut it anymore. The Army Transformation Initiative is a no-nonsense, red-tape guillotine set to chop outdated gear and finally give soldiers tech that doesn’t belong in a museum. 

“Dan Driscoll Drives Army Transformation at Fort Stewart” →