# Thunderforge **Entity class:** System, platform, or program **Domain:** Labor Boards ## Definition Defense Innovation Unit program applying AI to operational and strategic planning. The article identifies Scale AI, Anduril, and Microsoft in a delivery architecture serving combatant commands. ## Operational role The task board recruits work, the sensor board recruits coverage, the commission board recruits qualified capability, and the agent board recruits executable workflows. A client engages a prime, the prime organizes contributors, and the resulting product returns to a model, operational center, or case. The boards make the market’s vocabulary and entry roles legible. **Architecture connections:** [[wiki/OSINT|OSINT]] · [[wiki/AI Agent|AI Agent]] · [[wiki/HUMINT|HUMINT]]. ## Relationships - **program sponsor:** [[wiki/Defense Innovation Unit|Defense Innovation Unit]]. - **prime supplier:** [[wiki/Scale AI|Scale AI]]. - **program function:** [[wiki/Agent-Based Military Planning|Agent-Based Military Planning]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]]. - **counterterrorism architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft#XIV. The Board Already Exists|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft — XIV. The Board Already Exists]] — October 2026 revision; immediate source for this entry’s place in the marketplace. - [Defense Innovation Unit — Thunderforge, March 5, 2025](https://www.diu.mil/latest/dius-thunderforge-project-to-integrate-commercial-ai-powered-decision-making) - [The Intercept, Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project (February 4, 2019).](https://theintercept.com/2019/02/04/google-ai-project-maven-figure-eight/) - [Gizmodo, California App Maker Turns Overseas Gig Workers Into Intelligence-Gathering Military Assets (June 25, 2021; reporting The Wall Street Journal).](https://gizmodo.com/california-app-maker-turns-overseas-gig-workers-into-in-1847174853) - [Jack Poulson, Premise Data Confirms Secret Military and Intelligence Contracts in Court Filing (2023).](https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/premise-data-confirms-secret-military) ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Scale AI|Scale AI]], [[wiki/Defense Innovation Unit|Defense Innovation Unit]], [[wiki/United States Indo-Pacific Command|United States Indo-Pacific Command]], [[wiki/United States European Command|United States European Command]], [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]], [[wiki/Agent-Based Military Planning|Agent-Based Military Planning]], [[wiki/Anduril|Anduril]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].