B&A announced at SOF Week it’s investing in and partnering with Bad Monkey AI, a Washington, D.C.-based defense technology company that built the Intelligent Event Processor.
Bad Monkey AI’s IEP supports warfighters on operational missions and is built for the tactical edge.
The investment pairs B&A’s IT integration work in classified and mission-critical environments with Bad Monkey AI’s event processing architecture. The goal is to accelerate IEP deployment across federal defense programs and bring machine-speed decision advantage to warfighters in contested and disconnected, degraded, intermittent and low-bandwidth environments.
Bad Monkey AI has tackled a problem the defense community has wrestled with for years, said Jonathan Evans, president and CEO of B&A: how to make sense of overwhelming data volumes at the speed the mission demands.
“This investment reflects our commitment to delivering missionready innovation to the warfighters and agencies we serve,” he said. “Bad Monkey AI is doing something genuinely differentiated and B&A has the reach and integration to help scale and operationalize it across the federal landscape.”
Modern warfare and intelligence operations are no longer constrained by a lack of data; they’re constrained by the ability to interpret and act on it fast enough to matter, said Carlton Reeves, CEO and founder of Bad Monkey AI.
“Bad Monkey AI was purpose-built to operate in contested, disconnected, degraded, intermittent, and low-bandwidth environments where traditional AI architectures fail to operate effectively,” he said. “Partnering with B&A combines our IEP technology with B&A’s deep mission integration expertise to accelerate operational deployment across the Department of War and Intelligence Community. Together, we are focused on delivering machine-speed decision advantage directly to the tactical edge.”
SOF Week, held annually in Tampa, Florida, brings together Special Operations professionals, acquisition leaders and industry innovators to showcase technologies shaping defense operations.