We are honored by this award and excited to move from a prize challenge to building the Navy's NextMRO platform.  Special thanks to Ryan Fogarty, Terrence Jacobs, and Adam Welchel who led the charge for us. This was a also a team effort with a set of incredible partners: Caliburn Technologies, IBM, Avathon, Govini, and Fairbanks Morse Defense.

From DIU's LinkedIn post:

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NextMRO Prize Challenge winners announced!

In our charge to convert commercial innovation into combat power and support the modernization of naval logistics, DIU, in partnership with the US Navy’s Logistics Information Technology (LOG IT) Program Office, has announced the winners of the NextMRO Prize Challenge.

Following a rigorous multi-phase competition launched in September 2025, three companies have been selected to receive a total of $5.5 million in prize awards for demonstrating their ability to transform the Navy’s Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) workflows and capabilities.

"Our digital-native Sailors expect and deserve systems that move at the speed of the modern mission. By replacing cumbersome, siloed platforms with data-driven insights at the edge—directly on the flightline and at the pier—we are trading yard time for combat power and getting our critical ships and aircraft back to the fight,” said CAPT Evan Williams, Logistics IT MPM.

The selected vendors demonstrated a superior ability to ingest actual Navy use-case data and transform it into intuitive, Sailor-facing applications for both workstations and mobile devices.

1st Place: Appian

‍2nd Place: Game Plan Tech‍

3rd Place: FATHOM5‍

The Project NextMRO challenge was launched to identify commercial-driven technologies capable of replacing the Navy’s antiquated logistics structures with integrated, real-time, data-driven solutions. By streamlining maintenance across the Navy’s enterprise, solutions tested in the NextMRO Prize Challenge aim to generate significant cost-savings related to the sustainment of legacy platforms, ensuring these critical assets are available for frontline lethality.