Project Showcase
37 projects · 4 tracks · winners announced
Grand Prize
Making concrete self-sensing to industrialize American infrastructure at scale.
Tyler Sacharow, Ronith Lahoti, Aaditya Kadam, Yuki Qian
Defense — Runner Up
We fine-tuned backdoors into the weights of foreign, open-source LLMs
Nathan Wang, Perry Zhang
Energy and Industrialization — 1st Place
Tyler Sacharow, Ronith Lahoti, Aaditya Kadam and 1 other
Health and Public Service — 1st Place
Empowering our public service to adopt more foster children into loving homes
Luca Gandrud, Christopher Sims
Best in Design — Winner
Localized agentic monitoring for critical infrastructure outages
Theo Berk, Merek Soriano, Jared Viani and 2 others
Best in Design — Runner Up
America needs datacenters and the grid can't yet carry them. FlexCast predicts next week's grid load and prices and optimizes datacenter wor
Aryaman Tiwary, Shubhan Bhattacharya
Best Use of AI — Winner
AI for Obscure Programming Languages
Emmett Smith, Travis Hodges
Cost Effective GPS-Denied Autonomous Kill Chain
Trustworthy positioning & spoofing correction for autonomous ground vehicles
AI-powered incident detection and autonomous drone response system for industrial plants
Custom AI Glasses for Tradespeople
CAD designed with ITAR, not against it
Fully encrypted AI Inference
A Palantir Foundry Missile component sourcing application integrating AIP to streamline replacing military grade with dual-use components
Empowering emergency response and defense teams to put people, power and connectivity where the mission needs them most.
Inference hardware for one model, on purpose
An offline agent execution & safety harness for the AI-first maritime fleet.
Independent proof that AI compute is real, local, and operating.
Causal Graph Energy Grid Model
Agricultural Intelligence in context
Safeguarding the American Power Grid
A lender can't count a herd from an office. HerdProof makes the photo evidence behind a count reviewable. Farmers
drones for everyone
Landscape Intelligence for Rescue Assistance
Affordable supply chain intelligence for American builders
A proving ground for drone swarm doctrine
Public policy sandbox
Machine learning prediction applied to rare earth potential
AI-powered vertical supply chain management for medicine
Hyper-Aware Law Enforcement Sidekick
Saving Lives Through Stealth
A field engineer for every homeowner
Acoustic detection system: SkyMesh
adapting deployed robots to every environment
Turn spare computing power into shared AI infrastructure
Reconstructing and simulating an active warzone (Donetsk, Ukraine) in a game engine using satellite and topology data for ML training.
Integrity Before the Payment Goes Out.
Making Dark Ships Visible
