ADELPHI, Md. -- The Army’s sole fundamental research laboratory is partnering with industry to advance artificial intelligence to support the delivery of war-winning, disruptive technologies for tomorrow’s Army.
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, with Greystones Group.
The collaboration will focus on advancing artificial intelligence, data orchestration and automation capabilities across DEVCOM ARL’s Live, Virtual and Constructive, or LVC, Toolkit.
The LVC Toolkit is a set of advanced tools and technologies designed to support military training, research and operations by integrating live, virtual and simulated environments.
“The LVC Toolkit is a unified system, allowing researchers, engineers and military personnel to experiment with and analyze scenarios in a more realistic and comprehensive way when working with AI and autonomous systems,” said ARL’s Dr. Kristin Schaefer-Lay, LVC Toolkit team lead. “It enables seamless integration of data and systems, making it possible to study complex interactions, improve decision-making and enhance mission readiness.”
A CRADA establishes a cooperative relationship between a federal laboratory and its collaborator(s) for the purpose of advancing research and development and generating new intellectual property.
CRADA projects include access to personnel, facilities, services, equipment, intellectual property, data or other resources as part of collaborative research and development between federal and non-federal partners to develop and commercialize technologies.
Through this CRADA, ARL and Greystones will jointly research and develop an AI-enabled data fabric that integrates heterogeneous simulation, sensor and mission systems across live, virtual and constructive environments.
The Greystones Group Soleite™ platform will serve as the foundational framework, providing an underlying data fabric (unified data catalog, API orchestration layer and event-driven pipelines) to inform decisions from the tactical edge through mission decisions.
The collaboration will also explore the development of proprietary AI copilots and agentic workflows to support natural-language interaction, automation and context-aware decision support for researchers and engineers.
“This CRADA reflects the Army’s continued commitment to implementing artificial intelligence in realistic research and experimentation environments,” Schaefer-Lay said. “By collaborating with Greystones Group, we are accelerating our ability to integrate AI-enabled data orchestration and agent technologies into the LVC Toolkit in a way that supports modularity, scalability and future Army use cases.”
For further information about CRADAs and how you can leverage these and similar technology transfer agreements to partner with ARL, visit arl.devcom.army.mil/collaborate-with-us/avenue/technology-transfer/
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DEVCOM ARL is the Army’s sole fundamental research laboratory serving as the nexus of science between the military, academia and industry. ARL executes globally recognized research to accelerate delivery of war-winning, disruptive technologies for tomorrow’s Army.
For information, visit the Army Research Laboratory website.
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