Air Unveils Powerful New Capabilities...
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- With new platform enhancements released today, Air is advancing Enterprise Readiness from intelligence to execution across the national security enterprise—driving the transition from static visibility to autonomous, mission-driven action.
"Lethality is ephemeral, and maintaining it requires a continuous state of enterprise readiness rather than static metrics," said Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Air. "Our latest platform enhancements leverage AI-native orchestration to streamline complex workflows across suppliers and operators, directly connecting the factory floor to the fight. By replacing manual processes with agentic execution, this release empowers the defense enterprise to close the Readiness Gap and sustain a ready, lethal force."
Air will demonstrate todayʼs platform enhancements at an event featuring a U.S. Army senior leader customer at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition 2026. Air will host the event from 3:00 – 3:45 PM today in Room 147A at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.
The Readiness Gap
In the modern theater of operations, readiness is too often treated as a set of metrics to be monitored. A production delay at a manufacturing plant results in a manual status report; that report is followed by a series of emails, calls, and meetings; and by the time the coordination catches up to the reality on the ground, a combat brigade has missed its critical training window or a deployed unit finds itself operating with non-mission-capable equipment.
As military leaders have highlighted, Americaʼs ability to achieve speed to the battlefield is hindered by fragmented data, manual handoffs, and silos that separate the acquisition community from the operators in the field. Readiness, in this environment, is observed, measured, and reported—but rarely executed in real-time.
Today, there is a chasm between what the front line demands and what the enterprise is delivering. This chasm is the Readiness Gap, and it is growing.
Although the defense enterprise spends nearly $700 million daily maintaining and recapitalizing an arsenal valued at over $1.4 trillion, decision latency remains a primary constraint. An August 2026 research report from Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm specializing in aerospace, defense, risk management, and operational transformation, demonstrates that recovering just 30 additional "ready days" across the force would unlock approximately $20 billion in annual value.
Air exists to close the gap. Our AI-native agentic platform, Air Enterprise Readiness, is purpose-built to close the Readiness Gap and is today helping organizations spanning the U.S. federal government, allied and partner countries, and the industrial base achieve continuous Enterprise Readiness. More than $140 billion worth of national security assets are maintained ready in Air.
Air works by unifying the acquisition lifecycle—development, production, delivery, and sustainment—to treat readiness as a continuous execution loop. By integrating fragmented data into a single, authoritative readiness picture, Air transforms static, siloed reporting into dynamic orchestration, allowing the enterprise to identify risks, calculate trade-offs, and execute resolutions in real-time before critical windows are missed.
New Platform Enhancements
Todayʼs platform enhancements build on these capabilities, placing agentic execution directly in the hands of the customer to accelerate mission outcomes.
When a production slippage occurs, Air doesn't just surface the risk; it initiates the resolution. With its new agentic enhancements, Air coordinates work across teams by automating key processes, calculating trade-off spaces, reallocating components to priority units, and dynamically updating training schedules. Whether it is identifying 3D-printing capabilities at a nearby command post to bypass supply chain bottlenecks, or taking static assets and incorporating them into operational orders, Air moves the enterprise to a state of autonomous, mission-driven action.
"Delivering continuous readiness requires an AI-native system that moves beyond isolated tools available to warfighters today. Air provides an agentic platform driving mission outcomes day one," said Andrej Danko, Chief Product and Technology Officer of Air. "We are architecting our platform to automate complex workflows and ensure operators have instant access to critical insights actioned immediately when every second counts."
Todayʼs release introduces state-of-the-art capabilities designed to streamline how the defense enterprise coordinates complex work.
