U.S. Airforce Partners with Vectara to Use Its Retrieval Augmented Generation Platform
Vectara, Inc., an end-to-end platform for embedding generative AI features into applications, announced it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) contract focused on integrating its Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) platform into GovCloud to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF).
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating the small business experience through faster proposal to award timelines, changing the pool of potential applicants by expanding opportunities to small business and eliminating bureaucratic overhead by continually implementing process improvement changes in contract execution.
The DAF began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018 which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded, and now on September 4, 2024, Vectara will start its journey to create and provide innovative capabilities that will strengthen the national defense of the United States of America.
“We are honored that the U.S. Air Force selected Vectara to integrate our RAG platform into GovCloud for their use, and we are proud to be working with them to improve their retrieval augmented generation capabilities,” said Amr Awadallah, CEO of Vectara.
Vectara is an end-to-end platform for embedding powerful generative AI features into applications. Built on a solid hybrid-search core, Vectara delivers the shortest path to a correct answer/action through a safe, secure, and trusted entry point, according to the company.
Vectara’s serverless Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a service platform (RAGaaS) allows businesses to quickly, safely, and affordably integrate best-in-class conversational AI and question-answering into their application with zero-shot precision.
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