Gallatin won 1st place at Army xTech's 3rd National Security Hackathon out of 102 competing teams. A three-person Gallatin team built an autonomous Radio Agent in 24 hours. The U.S. Army, through Army FUZE xTech, put up the $20,000 prize.
A Marine in the field passes a contact report over the radio. A second unit calls in a resupply request. Right now, that traffic gets captured in a field notebook, transcribed manually, and eventually routed up. Hours pass. In a degraded comms environment, half of it never makes it through.
The Radio Agent closes that gap. It listens across both standard Green Gear and more advanced MANET radios, including platforms like the Persistent Systems MPU5. It transcribes traffic in real time, summarizes communications for senior leaders, and initiates actions autonomously where appropriate, with a human in the loop where it matters. In the final demonstration, the agent updated a unit's position on Maven's Gaia map based on what they radioed in. A second scenario routed a voice resupply request directly into a Navigator distribution plan.
Navigator compresses sustainment planning timelines from hours to seconds, generating optimized distribution plans in under 90 seconds. The Radio Agent applies the same machine-speed thesis to the comms layer, compressing the path between tactical voice traffic and the enterprise systems senior decision makers rely on. When a unit's resupply request flows from voice, to transcript, to a Gaia map update, to a Navigator distribution plan, without manual handoff, the entire decision loop runs at machine speed.
The Radio Agent is a prototype. Gallatin's operational products today are Navigator, in use across U.S. Army formations. We are exploring how the Radio Agent capability connects to the broader product line.
Read the full writeup from Atoms Not Bits here.
