Wraithwatch Wins $30M Federal Contract for AI-Powered Cyber Defense

The AI cyber defense company will deploy its autonomous platform across multiple U.S. government agencies.

Published on Mar. 1, 2026

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Wraithwatch, an AI cyber defense company founded by veterans of JSOC, Palantir, SpaceX, and Anduril, has been awarded a $30 million federal contract to deploy its agentic cyber defense platform across multiple government agencies with critical national security missions. The platform uses AI agents to continuously model networks, compute attack paths in real-time, and deploy defensive mitigations at machine speed.

Why it matters

As offensive cyber capabilities powered by advanced AI continue to evolve, there is an urgent need for equally sophisticated defensive solutions to protect critical government infrastructure and data. This contract represents a significant investment in AI-driven cyber defense that aims to counter the growing threat of AI-augmented cyber attacks.

The details

Wraithwatch's autonomous cyber defense system uses AI agents to swarm, hunt, and correlate across security data sources to identify and neutralize cyber threats before they can be exploited. The platform creates a continuously updated digital twin of an organization's environment, enabling security teams, executives, and boards to immediately understand and respond to imminent threats.

  • Wraithwatch was founded in 2023.

The players

Wraithwatch

An AI cyber defense company founded by veterans of JSOC, Palantir, SpaceX, and Anduril, that builds AI-powered cyber defense systems for the U.S. government and Fortune 500 customers.

Nik Seetharaman

The founder and CEO of Wraithwatch, who has experience in building cyber defense and counterespionage programs protecting critical national security infrastructure.

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What they’re saying

“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.”

— Nik Seetharaman, Founder and CEO of Wraithwatch (PRNewswire)

What’s next

Wraithwatch will begin deploying its AI-powered cyber defense platform across the multiple U.S. government agencies covered by the $30 million contract.

The takeaway

This contract highlights the growing importance of AI-driven cyber defense solutions in protecting critical government infrastructure and data from the evolving threat of AI-augmented cyber attacks. Wraithwatch's platform represents a significant step forward in the race to develop effective countermeasures against these advanced cyber threats.