The noise we've made, and the headlines we've hijacked.
One Version. No Arguments.
At some point, every file becomes final_v3 → final_v5 → final_v7_REAL → final_THIS_ONE_USE_THIS. And somehow… no one’s convinced it’s actually the right one. That’s what fragmented battlefield data looks like.
At Lightning Surge 1 and 2, we cut through that. With the 25th Infantry Division, CPE C2IN, and partners, Raft Data Platform fused electronic warfare targeting, live drone video, positional feeds, and battle damage assessments into a single operational picture. Raft AI Mission System then operationalized it. Turning voice call-for-fire inputs into structured mission data and enabling real-time sensor-to-shooter execution, including HIMARS and M777 engagements.
AI can summarize documents, sort emails, and save you a few hours a week...nice. Now scale that to processing massive amounts of battlefield data, matching targets to munitions, and doing it without reliable connectivity. In a recent interview withBreaking Defense, our Chief Product Officer, Trey Coleman, explains where the Pentagon is making progress and where it’s not. The next phase isn’t about more AI. It’s about AI that actually works at the edge.
Early warning. Good data. A confident decision that aged poorly.
Our Chief Product Officer, Trey Coleman, wrote a piece for The Hill drawing a stark parallel between Pearl Harbor and where we stand with AI today. In 1941, the radar worked; we just didn't trust it. Trey's argument: we're at the same crossroads with artificial intelligence, and the window to get it right is narrowing fast.
Modern warfare drowns operators in data and starves them of time. At Lightning Surge 2, the 25th Infantry Division shows what happens when you fix that. Raft Data Platform connects sensors, command posts, and weapon systems through a data-integrated layer, powering AI conversion of a soldier's voice call for fire in under four minutes, down from twenty. #20to4
The Pentagon has quietly deployed the 82nd Airborne, a Marine Expeditionary Unit, and the USS Tripoli to the Middle East and would like to stress this is absolutely NOT an invasion. It's "maintaining flexibility," which is Pentagon-speak for "Iran should think very carefully right now." Iran rejected the ceasefire, called U.S. diplomacy "psychological warfare," and their military spokesperson asked if America was "negotiating with itself". Soliiiiid burn from a country currently watching the 82nd Airborne unpack. The options on the table are narrow and surgical: secure the Strait, neutralize missile sites, and leave... because four thousand years of military history agree that becoming a fixed target is nobody's idea of a good time.
Hundreds of tons of explosive yield. Underground. Repeatedly. And according to Beijing? Yep. Totally normal, nothing to see here, PLEASE stop looking. America's head of the National Nuclear Security Administration disagrees and used words like "clearly" and "trying to hide it," which is diplomatic language for "we have receipts." China signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, never ratified it, and is now apparently using that technicality as a hall pass. Bold move. The U.S. has been sitting on decades of its own test data, fed into supercomputers powerful enough to keep the arsenal sharp without blowing anything up. No holes in the ground, no international incidents, no awkward explanations. China, having run far fewer tests before the ban, appears to be filling in those gaps the old-fashioned way....underground, repeatedly, and with a straight face. The debate now is whether the U.S. should match them crater for crater, or whether jumping back in hands away from the very edge it spent years building.
Great news: U.S. intelligence officially assessed that China has no plans to invade Taiwan by 2027. China is celebrating this headline while also quietly building the world's largest amphibious invasion force, you know, for fun. Beijing insists it prefers "peaceful reunification," which is a very calming phrase to pair with "the PLA has active invasion plans on the shelf, just in case." One analyst cut through the optimism nicely: "Xi Jinping could wake up tomorrow and say, 'Yeah, today's the day.'" So the official U.S. intelligence position is somewhere between "don't panic" and "maybe keep your shoes on." He's not running. But he's definitely got his athlesure on.
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