KBR teams with Tagup to expand AI-powered defense operations worldwide

KBR said its Mission Technology Solutions division has entered a strategic alliance with AI-driven defense technology company Tagup to speed the rollout of advanced artificial intelligence across U.S. military operations. The companies plan to integrate Tagup’s Manifest® platform into KBR’s global logistics mission sets, with initial use on U.S. ground equipment operations expected to sharply cut planning time and boost maintenance throughput.

Manifest is described as an AI-powered decision engine that blends human expertise with Tagup’s Generative Reinforcement Learning™ to simulate and optimize logistics. The platform is designed to help optimize constrained resources, foresee disruptions, and improve readiness with greater speed and precision. A conversational interface allows sustainment teams to quickly assess tradeoffs, account for uncertainty, and choose executable courses of action within real-world limits. By modeling millions of scenarios and recommending plans in seconds, the system aims to increase operational visibility and shift teams from manual planning to anticipatory, outcomes-driven sustainment.

“Our customers operate in environments where conditions change quickly and the cost of delay is high,” said KBR Readiness and Sustainment President Doug Hill. “Partnering with Tagup allows KBR to incorporate cutting-edge decision intelligence directly into our sustainment workflows. This accelerates mission impact for the Marines, the Army and other defense organizations that depend on us to keep operations executable and forces ready. It also strengthens our competitive position, helping us drive growth, win more of the programs we pursue and deliver greater value across existing programs while enhancing operational efficiency.”

Tagup CEO Jon Garrity added, “Sustainment at KBR’s scale generates enormous decision volume: thousands of competing resource trade-offs, every day, across global theaters. Manifest gives KBR the ability to turn that complexity into a quantitative advantage by continuously modeling the logistics environment, evaluating courses of action against real constraints and surfacing the decisions that protect readiness before problems compound.”

KBR characterized the collaboration as part of an ongoing effort to pair operational excellence with next‑generation technology to deliver measurable outcomes at scale with Speed to Mission Impact℠. The company cited decades of experience sustaining forces across every branch of the U.S. military, supported by a global logistics network, a rapidly deployable workforce, and expertise in complex, austere, and contested environments, along with a history of leading digital transformation. By embedding modern decision intelligence into this foundation, KBR expects to enhance the value of existing programs, strengthen proposal competitiveness, and drive durable growth through improved operational efficiency and margin performance, while helping defense customers maintain readiness, anticipate disruption, and execute missions with speed and confidence.

KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies worldwide, employing approximately 36,000 people, with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries.

Tagup, founded at MIT, focuses on delivering logistics decision advantage with next‑generation AI. Its Manifest platform is a multidimensional logistics decision engine that simulates and optimizes courses of action under constraints and uncertainty, and the company supports logistics across supply, maintenance, and mobilization, including active deployments with aviation and medical logistics units.