Greystones Group and ARL enter CRADA – Intelligence Community News
On March 23, Greystones Group announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The partnership targets advances in artificial intelligence, data orchestration, and automation across ARL’s Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) Toolkit to support Army modernization priorities.
What the CRADA covers
Under the agreement, ARL and Greystones will jointly research and develop an AI-enabled data fabric designed to integrate heterogeneous simulation, sensor, and mission systems across live, virtual, and constructive environments. Greystones’ Soleite™ platform will serve as the foundational framework, bringing together a unified data catalog, an API orchestration layer, and event-driven pipelines. The goal: simplify system integration while preserving security and governance in air-gapped and contested environments.
The collaboration will also explore proprietary AI copilots and agentic workflows to enable natural-language interaction, task automation, and context-aware decision support for researchers and engineers working with the LVC Toolkit.
“This CRADA reflects the Army’s continued commitment to implementing artificial intelligence in realistic research and experimentation environments,” said Dr. Kristin Schaefer-Lay, LVC Toolkit team lead and CRADA technical point of contact at ARL. “We are accelerating our ability to integrate AI-enabled data orchestration and agent technologies into the LVC Toolkit in a way that supports modularity, scalability, and future Army use cases.”
Planned activities
- System integration across live, virtual, and constructive components using Soleite™ as the data and orchestration backbone
- Development of custom AI agents for multi-source, tactical-edge processing
- A stakeholder demonstration at the Robotics Research Collaboration Campus in Middle River, Maryland
Why it matters
As the Army pursues modernization across sensing, autonomy, and decision support, the ability to align live and simulated systems through a secure, extensible data fabric is pivotal. By unifying data, APIs, and workflows, the ARL–Greystones effort aims to shorten integration timelines, improve reuse and scalability, and enable more realistic experimentation—ultimately helping transition promising AI capabilities from research to operational relevance.
“Greystones is honored to partner with ARL on this important effort,” said Sheila Duffy, founder and CEO of Greystones Group. “This CRADA allows us to apply our Soleite™ platform and Soleite Mission Edge capabilities to a critical Army research environment, advancing AI-enabled data integration, autonomy, and decision support across live and simulated domains. We see this collaboration as a meaningful step toward transitioning innovative AI solutions from research into operational relevance.”
ARL and Greystones will contribute personnel, infrastructure, software, and technical expertise over the course of the CRADA, with a shared focus on modularity, security, and long-term scalability across the LVC Toolkit.
Source: Greystones Group
