Lightning Rod Labs Assessed 'Awardable' for DARPA ERIS Marketplace

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, July 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Lightning Rod Labs, a leading provider of AI-powered predictive intelligence, has achieved "Awardable" status in DARPA's Expedited Research Implementation Series (ERIS) Marketplace. DARPA's ERIS Marketplace is a transformative digital platform designed to accelerate acquisition velocity and advance national security innovation.

Lightning Rod Labs trains AI to make accurate, reliable predictions from unstructured data.

The company's proprietary framework learns directly from real-world outcomes, so organizations can spin up custom predictors from any data stream—no curated labels, feature engineering, or extraction pipelines required—that outperform larger general-purpose LLMs on prediction tasks. Beyond defense applications, the technology shows promise for use cases that traditionally rely on manual analysis, such as geopolitical forecasting, demand planning, watch-office early warning, and AML compliance screening.

"Strategic decision-making depends on assumptions about the future—but predicting the future is hard. Nowhere is this more critical than in national defense," said Ben Turtel, Founder and CEO of Lightning Rod Labs. "We're honored to be recognized for our innovation and excited to help defense partners leverage predictive AI to anticipate and respond to emerging threats."

Lightning Rod Labs was recognized among a competitive field of applicants to the ERIS Marketplace whose solutions demonstrated innovation and potential impact on DoD missions. Government customers interested in viewing the video solution, "Training AI to Predict the Future", can create an ERIS Marketplace account at www.darpaconnect.us/eris.