Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs was proud to participate in yesterday’s United States Senate Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum hosted by Senate Majority Leader Schumer. During the Forum, Vannevar CTO Scott Philips shared our vision of how AI can enhance national security missions. To learn more about Vannevar's vision, you can read Scott's written testimony before the Forum here: https://lnkd.in/gagFreiA If you are passionate about national security and want to make a difference, we're hiring. If you're interested in joining our team visit?this link to learn more:?https://lnkd.in/gTy4UJZ4

Our CEO?Brett Granberg recently presented at a Founders You Should Know event, where he shared our vision with top engineering talent. Some takeaways on why you should join us: 1. We're working on solving critical national security problems, today. 2. You'd be working with badass people. 3. We're profitable. You can check out the full video below. If any of the above resonates with you, we're hiring for full stack engineers, ML engineers, forward deployed engineers, and more at?https://lnkd.in/gZsvR39H

When Katherine Boyle and I first met in Silicon Valley in 2019 - we were both outsiders. Katherine had left a career in journalism to become a venture capitalist. I was a former intelligence analyst raising capital with my cofounder Brett after forming Vannevar Labs. We shared a deep belief that the best mission veterans and Silicon Valley engineers and product people in the world needed to be working on defense problems. Katherine was looking for what she calls serious founders with serious ideas and committed the first institutional capital to Vannevar. It was a non-consensus bet when building for defense was not popular. Five years later, Katherine and I shared the stage today at the Fortune Most Powerful Women conference with Michal Lev-Ram to bring America’s top business leaders Inside the Defense Tech Revolution—subtitle “defense tech is having a moment.” The moment is the massive shift going on across the Defense Department and US government pivoting from two decades in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency toward fighting in strategic competition. At each massive moment in our country’s history, the best talent in America has answered the call—whether in World War II or the Space Race. At Vannevar, our team is building capabilities to enable the US and our allies to compete today so we never have to fight tonight. The stakes have never been higher.

Shared the stage with several long-time builders in defense this week at Stanford speaking about Building Startups for the Future of Defense. At Vannevar Labs - we believe the future of defense will be defined by how we perform in non-kinetic competition to "bend the line" away from armed conflict. We are facing the most complex national security challenge from an aggressive nation state competitor since the Cold War. Our focus is on building capabilities with our defense partners that advantage the US in the non-kinetic domains most contested in strategic competition today—intelligence, sensing, information operations, and interoperating in these domains with our allies and partners. There’s no more exciting or important area in national security. CC: Akhil Iyer Cameron McCord Ian Cinnamon The Stanford DEFCON Technology and National Security Student Network

We recently partnered with Databricks to build custom fine-tuned models for identifying and measuring adversary narratives in foreign news and social media. Check out the post and article below to hear how?Cane Punma?and our machine learning team improved the model's accuracy to 76% and decreased latency by 75% by building a compound AI system leveraging Databricks Mosaic AI. If you're interested in working on similar problems at the intersection of AI and defense, check out our job openings here: https://lnkd.in/g7TPqJ-M

We're hiring a skilled Engineering Manager to lead the Effects engineering team at Vannevar Labs. This team is building an innovative platform for non-kinetic operations in support of strategic competition objectives. Reach out for details, and apply now (or pass this opportunity along in your network)!

I'm so pumped to be growing the design team at Vannevar. We're a small and scrappy crew with big impact and a blank slate for defining how design operates. I've only been here a month so far and my mind is sufficiently blown on 3 levels: 1. We have a top-tier team of engineers that execute like no other. 2. Our mission focus means every single person at Vannevar obsesses over our users. 3. The value our tech brings to users is legitimately staggering. Ping me if you want to learn more—I'm biased, but this is a cool opportunity.

Tushar's latest blog post shines a light on how our forward deployed engineers turn urgent mission needs into enduring products. "Building successfully for this world requires developing empathy for it, and the only way to do that is to spend time with end users. You need to understand their missions deeply and use that understanding to drive what you build." This is what we call extreme outcome orientation – delivering quick wins that evolve into lasting solutions. Read more here:?

The Vannevar Labs team wishes you a happy and safe Independence Day!

Our co-founders Brett Granberg and Nini Hamrick recently joined Noah Sheinbaum on?Crossing the Valley?to share what they have learned while building the company. When asked how Vannevar turns customers into champions, Brett explained: “That kind of relationship you only build by being really useful to start.” “That is what we do – we orient to support that person’s mission and help [their] team push the boundaries of what they’re able to accomplish.” Learn more about how our team is building the first non-kinetic defense prime, and tune into the whole podcast episode here: