Inside Defense: Maryland data privacy company chosen to provide secure AI capabilities for Army

Enveil was awarded a contract through the Army’s xTechPrime competition, a forum for small businesses and technology integrators, according to a company announcement last week.

Enveil’s ZeroReveal Machine learning solutions will enable the encryption of models that have been “trained over sensitive data,” according to the company. Users will then “evaluate them in their encrypted state across data silos and boundaries, including untrusted, lower trusted or third-party data environments.”

Models are the unit of work for AI/ML, and often have a great deal of sensitivity associated with them, Enveil CEO Ellison Anne Williams explained in a July 30 interview with Inside Defense. The models can be “trained” or “made smarter” over data, and in the Army’s case, the goal is to run a sensitive model in as many locations as possible.

“What we enable, in terms of that trusted AI/ML ops pipeline, is the ability to take that model that’s sensitive, which could be looking for a whole host of things under Project Linchpin, and then now you can go park it out on the back of that truck on a sensor platform. So, as it’s driving around, it’s pulling all the data from the environment. That data can now be streamed past that encrypted model,” she said.

Project Linchpin will initially support the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground stations, as well as large language models used to support the Army Intelligence Data Platform, officials have said. Palantir was awarded a contract for TITAN in March.

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