Wraithwatch has secured a 30 million dollar federal contract to deploy its AI-powered cyber defense platform across multiple U.S. government agencies with critical national security missions. The company, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is described as an AI cyber defense provider founded by veterans of JSOC, Palantir, SpaceX and Anduril.
Under the contract, agencies will receive Wraithwatch’s autonomous cyber defense system, which is designed to continuously model networks, compute attack paths in real time and deploy defensive mitigations at machine speed. The platform relies on AI agents that swarm, hunt and correlate activity across security data sources in order to identify and neutralize cyber threats before attackers can exploit them.
“Recent developments in frontier AI, allowing for capabilities like recursive self-improvement, swarming, and exploit discovery, mean that the capacity for offensive attack automation is going vertical with no corresponding defensive counterpressure, Wraithwatch is that counterpressure,” said Nik Seetharaman, Founder and CEO of Wraithwatch. “Frontier AI labs, independent researchers, and DARPA itself are all arriving at the same conclusion. We need to rapidly field capabilities involving hyper-autonomy for defense to counter the coming hyper-autonomy of offense.”
The company states that it was founded by operators who built cyber defense and counterespionage programs that protect rockets, weapons systems and critical national security infrastructure. Its platform creates a continuously updated digital twin of an organization’s environment so that security teams, executives and boards can immediately understand imminent threats to their networks.
According to the company description, Wraithwatch builds AI-powered cyber defense systems that use evolutionary algorithms to create self-adapting defenses for the United States and its allies against AI-augmented cyber threats. The platform continuously models enterprise and government environments, computes attack paths and generates actionable remediation plans at machine speed. Founded in 2023 and based in Austin, Wraithwatch says it serves both federal government and Fortune 500 customers.