Accrete Secures $15 Million Funding for Argus Platform Enhancement

Mar 13, 2025
Accrete Government has been awarded a $15 million Strategic Funding Increase by AFWERX to enhance its Argus for Social Media Influence platform, expanding its capabilities to foreign social media platforms.
Accrete Secures $15 Million Funding for Argus Platform Enhancement

Accrete Government, a subsidiary of Accrete, Inc., has been awarded a $15 million Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) for Program Year 2025 by AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force, and SpaceWERX, the U.S. Space Force's innovation division. This funding will be used to enhance Accrete's Argus for Social Media Influence platform, announced in a press release.

The enhancements will include expanding the platform's coverage to foreign social media platforms, advancing predictive modeling, and improving the capabilities of expert AI agents. These advancements aim to provide the Department of Defense with improved situational awareness of low-density social media platforms that are currently unmonitored.

Accrete's CEO, Bill Wall, emphasized the importance of this funding in reinforcing the Air Force's confidence in their products, which are designed to enable impactful and effective operations. The company has worked closely with its customers to identify additional functionalities that support specific mission requirements, ensuring that the Argus platform continues to deliver critical insights for national defense.

We hope you enjoyed this article

Consider subscribing to one of our newsletters like Defense AI Brief, AI Funding Brief or Daily AI Brief.

Also, consider following us on social media:

Defense AI Brief AI Funding News AI Brief AI Brief (X)
Free newsletter

Defense AI Brief

Your weekly intelligence briefing on the technology shaping modern warfare and national security.

AI Token Webinar

Whitepaper

Tensordyne Napier: What If One Rack Could Do the Work of Nine?

Tensordyne

This Tensordyne whitepaper presents Napier, an inference-focused AI processor and rack-scale system based on the company’s TDN Math logarithmic number system. It examines infrastructure requirements for large mixture-of-experts and agentic models, compares major inference architecture approaches, and details the TDN AIP processor, TDN72 pod, TDN Link fabric, and Napier Ultra configuration. The paper reports simulation-based performance, cost, and accuracy-validation results, including Tensordyne’s projected comparison of one Napier rack with a nine-rack Nvidia Rubin plus Groq deployment; the chip is reported as taped out and in fabrication.

Read more

You may also like

Free, six days a week

Daily AI Brief: the AI news that matters, in your inbox.