Air Force clears VIA’s eJARVIS for IL5, boosting secure AI capabilities

The Department of the Air Force has granted Via Science, Inc. an Impact Level 5 Authority to Operate for its eJARVIS application, expanding the types of sensitive, unclassified data the tool can handle across Air Force installations.

“The Department of the Air Force is committed to responsibly accelerating AI integration to strengthen operational readiness,” said Nancy Balkus, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Infrastructure, Energy and Environment. “Ensuring the availability and resilience of installation energy data is critical to DAF’s power projection, and eJARVIS allows us to provide warfighters with access to this critical information in minutes rather than weeks, speeding decisions without compromising security.”

eJARVIS is a U.S. Air Force–configured version of Via’s dual-use “Share Less, Ask More” AI, designed to speed secure analysis of installation energy, utility and resilience data. The new authorization raises the system from Impact Level 4, which it achieved in May 2024, to Impact Level 5, a Defense Department designation for storing and processing specialized categories of Controlled Unclassified Information that require stronger protections. According to the company, the higher authorization broadens the range and sensitivity of data the system can analyze.

Via Science says eJARVIS was among the early generative AI applications to obtain an Authority to Operate earlier this year. The company also highlights the platform’s use of Web3 blockchain technology to maintain a verifiable chain of custody for data, prompts and responses, a feature intended to support high-stakes decision-making and after-action reviews. Its architecture is designed to minimize sharing data with large language models and to let non-technical users work with datasets that would otherwise be too large for such models, with the goal of accelerating data-driven decisions.