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Virtualitics Wins 2025 AI Excellence Award for Integrated Readiness Optimization (IRO)

Mission-Critical AI Trusted by Defense for Real-World Impact

Virtualitics has been named a winner in the 2025 AI Excellence Awards for its Integrated Readiness Optimization (IRO) suite—recognized for innovation, field impact, and its role in modernizing decision-making across the U.S. Department of Defense.

In a defense landscape defined by urgency, complexity, and global pressure, IRO stands apart as a practical, operational solution. Built from a decade of Caltech and NASA JPL research, IRO helps commanders and analysts overcome readiness gaps by turning data into decision advantage—at speed, and at scale.

A Rare Achievement in Defense Innovation

Over the past year, Virtualitics secured four Phase III SBIR production contracts—a milestone reached by fewer than 1% of companies that enter the SBIR program. These customer-funded wins reflect trust in IRO’s ability to address core readiness challenges in maintenance, sustainment, inventory, and operational intelligence.

Current deployments include:

  • U.S. Air Force: Sustainment, materiel logistics, and storage planning
  • U.S. Space Force: Optimizing operational availability and resource planning
  • DoD Law Enforcement: Identifying readiness degraders across units

 

Each IRO deployment is integrated securely within existing government systems and delivered alongside DevSecOps teams to support rapid, scalable adoption.

Designed to Overcome the Valley of Death

Many startups never make it past the prototype phase. Virtualitics is the exception. By pairing a proven platform with a deep understanding of defense operations, the company has scaled from early-stage research into full production. IRO is now actively helping agencies move from fragmented data to coordinated action, delivering measurable gains in mission readiness.

Each IRO application is purpose-built to address a specific operational challenge:

  • IRO Maintenance: Forecasts sustainment requirements and simulates operational impact
  • IRO Material: Optimizes inventory movement and logistics
  • IRO Cognition: Surfaces high-risk patterns hidden in complex datasets
  • IRO Cyber: Detects threats and vulnerabilities before they escalate

 

Built for Mission. Ready for Tomorrow.

Defense leaders are under pressure to act faster, anticipate disruptions, and sustain operational advantage. Virtualitics helps them do exactly that. IRO provides an explainable, interactive interface that fuses human expertise with AI-driven insights—enabling better decisions in the moments that matter most.

This award reinforces what mission partners already know: Virtualitics delivers where it counts—bringing operational-grade AI into the field and transforming how defense organizations achieve readiness.

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