Vannevar Labs and SMX partner on mission-specific AI agents

Apr 21, 2026 · Partnership · Vannevar Labs · Defense

Vannevar Labs and SMX announced a partnership to deploy mission-specific AI agents for combatant commands and selected U.S. federal agencies.

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  • The arrangement combines Vannevar data, AI and mission analytics with SMX delivery capacity and contract positions.
  • The companies said the work would cover deeper data integrations, mission datasets and reasoning agents for areas including Western Hemisphere defence, counter-narcotics and information dominance.
  • The announcement describes a delivery partnership and does not disclose a new contract value.

Vannevar Labs builds defense software, sensing systems and autonomous agents for national-security missions, spanning foreign-language intelligence, maritime awareness and operational assessment. It raised $75M in Series B funding in January 2023 and says it was valued at $1.5B as of October 2024 while expanding from Decrypt into a broader defense-prime model.