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Business Wire
25-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Veritone Awarded Sole Source Contract from the Department of the Air Force in Support of Air Force Office of Special Investigations
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), a leader in building human centered enterprise AI solutions, today announced it was awarded a sole source (one year plus four years) contract with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). Under the contract, Veritone's aiWARE TM platform, Intelligent Digital Evidence Management System (iDEMS) and professional services will provide AFOSI with advanced investigative and information capabilities to enhance and accelerate data analysis and workflows, investigative activity across several mission areas, and situational awareness. Veritone's aiWARE platform, which currently supports hundreds of enterprise customers, is an AI operating system that intelligently and securely orchestrates hundreds of best-of-breed cognitive and generative models in a single cloud-based or on-premise solution. It serves as the platform behind this initiative, enabling users to transform extensive volumes of textual data and unstructured video and audio data into actionable insights. Built on aiWARE, iDEMS is a comprehensive, purpose-built applications suite for the public sector that leverages AI to streamline the management and analysis of digital evidence, providing AFOSI with powerful forensic tools to handle vast amounts of data quickly and accurately. 'We are honored to support the Air Force Office of Special Investigations with Veritone's AI-powered solutions,' said Ryan Steelberg, chairman and chief executive officer, Veritone. 'By combining AI-driven automation, digital evidence management, and near real-time tracking, we can help enhance decision-making, operational efficiency and investigative effectiveness for national security applications.' Jon Gacek, general manager, Public Sector, Veritone, commented, 'This contract further expands Veritone's existing role with AFOSI as a trusted solution provider for the U.S. Department of Defense and law enforcement agencies. By leveraging our aiWARE platform and iDEMS suite, we are equipping AFOSI with cutting-edge AI applications to modernize investigative workflows and strengthen operations. We look forward to supporting their mission with scalable, secure and rapidly deployable AI-powered capabilities.' The agreement marks another milestone in Veritone's expanding role within U.S. federal law enforcement and defense agencies, providing AI-powered solutions tailored to mission-critical applications. Veritone recently achieved 'Awardable' status through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, which includes the availability of Veritone's Illuminate, Redact and Track solutions in the Tradewinds Marketplace. As AI adoption accelerates in the public sector, Veritone continues to deliver secure, scalable, and intelligent technologies that enhance operational effectiveness across investigative and defense landscapes. To learn more about Veritone's Public Sector solutions, visit: About Veritone Veritone (NASDAQ: VERI) builds human-centered enterprise AI solutions. Serving customers in the media, entertainment, public sector and talent acquisition industries, Veritone's software and services empower individuals at the world's largest and most recognizable brands to run more efficiently, accelerate decision making and increase profitability. Veritone's leading enterprise AI platform, aiWARE™, orchestrates an ever-growing ecosystem of machine learning models, transforming data sources into actionable intelligence. By blending human expertise with AI technology, Veritone advances human potential to help organizations solve problems and achieve more than ever before, enhancing lives everywhere. 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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Pete Hegseth Accused of Relying on Illegal Wiretap to Clean House
Pete Hegseth's lawyer suggested that the Pentagon may have fired three of the defense secretary's top aides last month as the result of an illegal wiretap, according to an exclusive from The Guardian. White House advisers were reportedly shocked when Tim Parlatore, Hegseth's personal lawyer who was tasked with overseeing an investigation into a series of leaks at the Pentagon, told them that a warrantless wiretap was used to find classified documents on the phone of the secretary's then-senior adviser Dan Caldwell. Caldwell was dismissed last month alongside the chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary, Colin Carroll, and deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick. Hegseth was reportedly counselled to dismiss those three by Joe Kasper, his former chief of staff, as part of a detonating power struggle within their office. Kasper was reportedly close with Parlatore, who was charged with investigating his enemies at work, according to The Guardian. In mid-April, White House advisers reportedly caught wind that there was evidence Caldwell had taken a photograph of U.S. military plans for Panama on his phone. After Caldwell was removed, they were disturbed that he maintained his innocence, claiming that individuals with 'personal vendettas' against Hegseth's three ousted advisers had 'weaponized' the investigation against them. Advisers also heard another rumor that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which had been looking into the leaked document, had focused its search on mid-level aides. They hadn't turned their attention to the three top aides until the weekend after they were fired. When the White House questioned Parlatore about how he'd determined that Caldwell had the leaked document on his phone, he suggested that a wiretap had taken place. He later denied this, and said all information he'd received had been passed to him from officials at the Pentagon. The Guardian noted that a warrantless wiretap, as this allegedly was, would 'almost certainly be unconstitutional.' While White House advisers found this claim to be untrue, The Guardian reported that the incident significantly undermined Parlatore's credibility. The investigation was transferred to deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, while Parlatore went to work on another case. Concerns over leaks within the Trump administration have been escalating since before Hegseth's humiliating Signalgate scandal. As the administration has begun to wheel out the lie detectors, morale has plummeted. Carroll, one of Hegseth's ousted aides, said on a podcast last month that his former boss and his team had become 'consumed' by leaks. 'If you look at a pie chart of the secretary's day, at this point, 50 percent of it is probably a leak investigation,' he said.
