Strider Uses Agentic AI to Identify Foreign State Actors for US Air Force and NATO
Bloomberg published a profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that deploys agentic AI combined with public records to identify foreign state actors engaging in technology transfer, IP theft, and talent recruitment. The company's clients include the US Air Force and NATO, making it the first prominently reported case of agentic AI operating in an active national security intelligence role—not a lab or pilot, but contracted operational use. The model: agents reason over open-source intelligence at scale to surface connections human analysts would miss or take prohibitively long to find.
Why It Matters
Agentic AI has crossed into national security intelligence as a production tool—not experimental, but contracted. This is a landmark deployment category with significant implications for how governments and defense contractors will evaluate and procure AI agent systems, and how those systems will need to be audited, certified, and governed.