Overview
Maven Smart Systems (MSS) is the Pentagon’s AI-supported command and data analysis platform, developed with palantir. MSS frontier workflows integrate frontier AI models — historically anthropic claude, later grok-gov and others — for targeting and intelligence acceleration.
Recent Developments
- 2026-06: MSS workflows with grok-gov enabled 2,000 munitions to 2,000 targets in 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury (2026-10-02-gov-grok-iran-war-middle-east-eye)
- 2026-02/03: Pentagon terminated anthropic contracts after refusal to permit fully automated strikes; transitioned to xai, google, openai alternatives while Claude reportedly still used in planning phases