Private company

Vannevar Labs

Palo Alto-based national security intelligence company

Vannevar Labs is a Silicon Valley company that develops national security intelligence technology. The company's flagship product, Decrypt, uses artificial intelligence and large language models to process intelligence data to support military operations.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Vannevar Labs is a Silicon Valley company that develops national security intelligence technology. The company's flagship product, Decrypt, uses artificial intelligence and large language models to process intelligence data to support military operations.2

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$15.9M 2020–2026
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2026: $15.9M in all. Federal contracts $15.9M.$0$2.5M$5M$7.5M$10M2020 · Federal contracts: $49.4K20202021 · Federal contracts: $749.9K2022 · Federal contracts: $1.7M20222024 · Federal contracts: $4.5M20242025 · Federal contracts: $245.0K2026 · Federal contracts: $8.7M2026
Figures by year
YearFederal contractsTotal
2026$8.7M$8.7M
2025$245.0K$245.0K
2024$4.5M$4.5M
2022$1.7M$1.7M
2021$749.9K$749.9K
2020$49.4K$49.4K

Federal awards

Obligated amounts from USAspending.gov3, by calendar year, 2020–2026, for its registration. Obligations are what agencies committed, not always what was paid out. Contracts pay for goods and services; grants, loans and direct payments are assistance. Loans are charted at the face value of the loans listed here. An award’s amount below is its lifetime total, and some began before the years charted.

Largest contracts

  1. Jan 6, 2025$13.0M from Department of the Air Force: Sbir stratfi - velocity4 To VANNEVAR LABS, INC. Award FA860425CB008
  2. Aug 1, 2022$1.7M from Department of the Air Force: Tacfi5 To VANNEVAR LABS, INC. Award FA860422PB022
  3. Mar 16, 2021$749.9K from Department of the Air Force: Artificial intelligence (ai) driven processing of foreign adversary weapons and threat information for air force mission planning6 To VANNEVAR LABS, INC. Award FA864921P0894
  4. Sep 19, 2025$245.0K from Department of State: Mex-pd-research campaigns-fy257 To VANNEVAR LABS, INC. Award 19MX5325P1516
  5. Sep 1, 2024$200.0K from Department of the Air Force: The contractor sbir technical proposal f213951 work plan is found in the attachments of this contract. the principal investigator for this 8 To VANNEVAR LABS, INC. Award FA002124C0007

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