On 5th January 2026 Tiberius Aerospace, a modern defence technology company built to empower the UK, US and their global allies and partners with next-generation weapon systems and AI-powered solutions, has achieved “Awardable” status for their GRAIL (Generative Real-Time Artificial Intelligence for Lethality) platform through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.
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The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the Department of War’s suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of AI/ML, data, and analytics capabilities. The Solutions Marketplace Model is fully compliant with the SECWAR Memo entitled “Directing Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality” (March 6, 2025) and the Executive Order entitled “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base” (April 9, 2025).
Tiberius GRAIL is an integrated AI platform designed to transform how defense capabilities are evaluated, acquired, and fielded. The platform includes AI-powered weapon system analysis delivering Cost-Efficient Lethality Scores (CELS) in seconds rather than months; a defense marketplace reducing acquisition timelines from 12+ years to under 2 years; and secure coalition collaboration tools with automated export control enforcement.
Tiberius Aerospace’s video, “GRAIL: The Operating System for Coalition Defense,” is accessible to government customers on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, and demonstrates how GRAIL enables rapid capability evaluation, transparent supplier discovery, and coalition-wide collaboration. Tiberius Aerospace was recognized among a competitive field of applicants to the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace whose solutions demonstrated innovation, scalability and potential impact on DoW missions. Government customers interested in viewing the video solution can create a Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace account at tradewindAI.com.
Blythe Crawford CBE, Director GRAIL said, Having served with 1st Infantry Division in Bagdad, commanded 121 Expeditionary Air Wing and been intimately involved in the rapid development of urgent operational capability in the Pentagon and as Commandant Air and Space Warfare Centre it is clear that to maintain a battle winning edge, defense acquisition must undergo a wholesale transformation to deliver new innovative capability to the warfighter quicker, and GRAIL has been built to accelerate that shift – this is a shift from the analogue to the digital, from bureaucratic waterfall to Silicon Valley-modelled agile – it is not just our tech which has to change in this way, but the means by which we deliver it. he added, This recognition from CDAO validates our approach: replacing subjective, years-long procurement processes with objective, AI-powered analysis that gets capability to the warfighter faster. The GRAIL Alliance creates the necessary ecosystem to facilitate this change, and we now have over 100 key defense contractors, OEMs and primes signed up to participate.
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