Maintaining Decision Advantage on the Battlefield
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Maven Program is the Department of Defense’s (DoD) flagship GEOINT AI program. Formerly known as “Project Maven” — under the DoD Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (AWCFT), a part of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security (OUSD(I&S)) — Maven’s goal is simple: maintain decision advantage on the battlefield to empower and protect the U.S. Joint Warfighter.


ECS is the longstanding performant
prime AI Interoperability Integrator
(AI3) on the Maven Program.
“We apply AI and machine learning to our marquee targeting program of record, NGA Maven … The user-base has more than quadrupled since March of last year, and more than doubled just since January … The latency of our models … has improved 80 percent in the year since NGA Maven became a program of record.”
– NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, 2025 GEOINT Symposium
How AI Innovation Transformed the Battlefield
ECS leaders on GEOINT AI’s battlefield impact, key lessons from the NGA Maven Program.
“Maven has always been more than a program—it’s a philosophy and a promise rooted in bringing frontier AI capabilities to the most pressing challenges in national security.”
Competitive Collaboration Drives Decision Advantage
The challenge: How do you maintain decision advantage in a rapidly evolving AI landscape?
The answer: competitive collaboration—bringing the industry’s best and brightest together to solve hard problems, compete to deliver the best solutions, and share lessons learned to drive continuous improvement and innovation.