When nations operate together, speed wins. Onebrief is one of 10 companies chosen from more than 400 to help NATO deliver it.

By Adam Lackey, Chief Operating Officer, Onebrief

NATO, in partnership with Task Force Maven, selected Onebrief as one of ten companies to join the Decision Superiority for NATO Warfighters challenge, chosen from a field of more than 400 applicants across the alliance. It signals where military planning software is headed. It is also a mandate to prove it.

The challenge exists to close the very decision-to-action gap Onebrief was built for. When allied staffs plan together across distributed headquarters for deterrence, exercise, crisis, or conflict, what they lack is a common platform optimized to reconcile the many decisions driving complex military and whole-of-government operations across multiple planning horizons. Absent one, partner nations often converge toward a shared decisive objective along separate tracks, each sound on its own terms yet never fully synchronized. Staffs burn scarce hours forging those tracks into alignment. Every hour spent that way is an hour an adversary can use.

This challenge is run by the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) in partnership with Allied Command Operations and NATO Task Force Maven. DIANA’s mission is to find, accelerate, and promote the adoption of emerging and disruptive dual-use technologies. DIANA supports startups and innovators across the Alliance by providing funding, accelerator programs, and access to over 200 test centres to solve critical defence and security challenges. Through this challenge, DIANA seeks capable AI enabled software to sharpen operational planning, modeling, and wargaming.  This is exactly what Onebrief is. As a DIANA Accelerator, Onebrief alongside NATO stakeholders, are partnering to deliver technology to the warfighter at an accelerated pace. 

The effort enhances the capabilities of an already robust NATO Task Force Maven, “NATO MSS” ecosystem. Over the coming months we will work directly alongside NATO stakeholders from multi-star commands, decision makers and their multinational staffs. We will integrate Onebrief into a cloud environment and work directly with NATO users to ensure we continue to evolve and meet NATO’s operational planning needs. The goal is straightforward: demonstrate the value a built-for-purpose decision superiority platform provides the alliance.

Onebrief already provides a central planning environment inside some of the most demanding commands in the U.S. military, bringing warfighting functions together so a staff works the problem as one unified team rather than disjointed components. That advantage compounds across a joint multinational coalition, where plans must move between headquarters and nations without losing time or clarity. 

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Our thanks to NATO DIANA and Allied Command Operations for the opportunity. Time to get to work.

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