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Scott Stapp, Former Northrop Grumman Chief Technology Officer, Joins DEFCON AI

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Gen. (Retired) Scott Stapp has joined the company as its Chief Technology Officer and Chief Revenue Officer.

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  • Gen. (Retired) Scott Stapp has joined the company as its Chief Technology Officer and Chief Revenue Officer.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240131391177/en/
    Scott Stapp, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Revenue Officer at DEFCON AI (Photo: DEFCON AI)
    In Stapp’s new roles, he will lead technology, business, and partnership development and cultivate and oversee external partnerships.
  • He will also direct technology strategy; provide technical guidance; build a favorable tech-product-customer ecosystem; and lead DEFCON AI’s Technology Review Board.
  • Just as important, he believes in our mission and what we’ve set out to accomplish at DEFCON AI.

DEFCON AI Deploys Artiv™ to DoD Networks on Second Front Game Warden®

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231212567456/en/
    Through Game Warden®, DEFCON AI leverages Second Front’s security controls and accreditation compliance which provides the evidence necessary for DoD and other government officials to evaluate risk levels and authorize the use of the application.
  • “DEFCON AI designed Artiv™ as a set of cloud-native modeling/simulation and decision support tools that is maximally useful to planners,” said Retired General Paul Selva, DEFCON AI’s Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer.
  • By making DEFCON AI’s Artiv™ available to federal users through Game Warden®, Second Front is facilitating that critical access.
  • We’re grateful to play a small role in the transformative work the DEFCON AI team is doing for their customers.”

Retired Admiral Bill Lescher, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Joins Red Cell Partners and DEFCON AI

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Red Cell Partners (Red Cell), an incubation firm building technology-focused companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market within the national security and healthcare arenas, today announced that Admiral (Retired) William K. Lescher, the 41st Vice Chief of Naval Operations, has joined as a Senior Advisor.

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  • Red Cell Partners (Red Cell), an incubation firm building technology-focused companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market within the national security and healthcare arenas, today announced that Admiral (Retired) William K. Lescher, the 41st Vice Chief of Naval Operations, has joined as a Senior Advisor.
  • In addition, Lescher has joined DEFCON AI (DEFCON), a Red Cell portfolio company building next-generation tools for the modern military mobility environment, as a Strategic Advisor.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230131005226/en/
    “The depth of experience and insight that Bill brings to Red Cell Partners and DEFCON AI cannot be overstated,” said Grant Verstandig, Red Cell Founder & CEO and DEFCON Co-Founder and Executive Chairman.
  • “I very much appreciate, and strongly align with, the values and mission focus of Red Cell and DEFCON,” Lescher said.

DEFCON AI Announces Six New Board Members and Advisory Board

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Friday, December 16, 2022

DEFCON AI (DEFCON), a cutting-edge software company building next-generation tools for the modern military mobility environment, today announced its Board of Directors and Advisors.

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  • DEFCON AI (DEFCON), a cutting-edge software company building next-generation tools for the modern military mobility environment, today announced its Board of Directors and Advisors.
  • The tools the team at DEFCON are building are urgently needed within the Department of Defense, said Esper.
  • The Advisory board consists of the following members: Alan Shaffer, Robert Schmidle, Jamie Morin, Ken Bedingfield, and Jeff Sherman.
  • DEFCON AI is a modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) company that provides cutting-edge technology solutions for the next generation of logistics and mobility decision making.

DEFCON AI Closes $5M Air Force SBIR Contract for Core Simulation and AI Capabilities

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Friday, December 16, 2022

This contract was awarded through Air Force Installations and Sustainment Center and Air Mobility Command to accelerate the transition from prototype to production code for DEFCON AIs operational-level logistics and mobility training software.

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  • This contract was awarded through Air Force Installations and Sustainment Center and Air Mobility Command to accelerate the transition from prototype to production code for DEFCON AIs operational-level logistics and mobility training software.
  • In June 2022, DEFCON AI was awarded the Department of the Air Force Phase II SBIR to support the initial development of the program.
  • Initial operational capabilities will be delivered to the Air Forces Air Mobility Command (AMC), a US Air Force major command and component of US Transportation Command, by the end of 2025.
  • DEFCON AI is building a hands-on, artificial intelligence enabled training and rehearsal software platform that contains a game-theory driven modeling and simulation environment.

General Gustave Perna Joins DEFCON AI as Chief Operating Officer

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

DEFCON AI , (DEFCON), a cutting-edge software company building next-generation tools for the modern military mobility environment, announced that General Gustave Perna has joined the company as its Chief Operating Officer.

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  • DEFCON AI , (DEFCON), a cutting-edge software company building next-generation tools for the modern military mobility environment, announced that General Gustave Perna has joined the company as its Chief Operating Officer.
  • General Perna is a retired four-star general who most recently served as the chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, the federal governments public-private partnership for the accelerated development, manufacturing, and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines.
  • Im proud to be working with General Perna to develop the tools needed to respond efficiently and effectively to future events.
  • We are honored and humbled that General Perna has joined DEFCON, said the company's co-founder/CEO and Red Cell Partners President Yisroel Brumer.

DEFCON AI Awarded $1.2 Million Phase II SBIR Contract from the U.S. Department of the Air Force for a Mobility and Logistics Operational-Level Training and Rehearsal Tool

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Friday, October 21, 2022

The platform is being built to aid in managing complex supply chains and mobility network disruptions caused by natural disasters or manipulation by capable adversaries.

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  • The platform is being built to aid in managing complex supply chains and mobility network disruptions caused by natural disasters or manipulation by capable adversaries.
  • The DEFCON AI software is being designed to enable AMC operational-level planners to see the downstream effects of decisions within a simulated mobility network.
  • What we asked DEFCON AI to build is a vastly different approach to training and provides operational capability as well.
  • The DEFCON AI team is honored to be working with Air Mobility Command in our aligned missions of integrating technological capabilities and tools into mobility training and decision-making processes.

Red Cell Partners Launches DEFCON AI

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Red Cell Partners (Red Cell), an incubation firm building rapidly-scalable, technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in national security and healthcare, announced the incorporation of DEFCON AI.

Key Points: 
  • Red Cell Partners (Red Cell), an incubation firm building rapidly-scalable, technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in national security and healthcare, announced the incorporation of DEFCON AI.
  • DEFCON AI is co-founded by Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General (retired) Paul Selva, an Operating Partner at Red Cell and DEFCON AIs Chief Strategy Officer, Grant Verstandig, Red Cells CEO, and the Executive Chairman of DEFCON AI, and Yisroel Brumer, PhD, Red Cells President, and the CEO of DEFCON AI.
  • Red Cell intends to play a major role in that transformation, and DEFCON AI is an important step forward as it works to narrow a critical defense gap.
  • We conceptualized DEFCON AI, a software platform that will merge next-generation modeling and simulation with AI-driven intelligent agents, to comprehensively address this gap, commented Red Cell President and DEFCON AI CEO Yisroel Brumer.