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Soldiers Don't Wait for AI. They Build It.
300+ Participants. 42 Teams. Five Days to Build the Army's AI Future. April 14, 2026 WASHINGTON — Two months ago, the Army's first-ever Vantage Edge competition proved that Soldiers, civilians, and technologists across the force could redesign an enterprise platform's landing page in less than 48 hours. Last week, Vantage Edge 2 asked them to do something harder: build artificial intelligence workflows that solve real Army problems.
Soldiers Don't Wait for AI. They Build It.
Soldiers Don't Wait for AI. They Build It. 300+ Participants. 42 Teams. Five Days to Build the Army's AI Future. By MAJ Zak Daker & MAJ Peter Sulzona | Army.mil April 14, 2026 WASHINGTON — Two months ago, the Army's first-ever Vantage Edge competition proved that Soldiers, civilians, and technologists across the force could redesign an enterprise platform's landing page in less than 48 hours.
Vantage Edge 2 First Place Winner [Image 6 of 8]
0 First Place: Team CC Blue Ghost. Joshua Wigley, Oscar Davila, John Smith, Manuel Vasquez, Hector Medrano, Matthew LaPointe, and Carla Bolton earned the competition's top honor, delivering an AI workflow that distinguished itself across every dimension of the rubric and set the standard for what AIP-enabled solutions on Vantage can achieve.
Vantage Edge 2 Third Place Winner [Image 7 of 8]
0 Third Place: Team Octavio. MAJ Phillip Brown out of Fort Leavenworth’s Mission Command Training Program (MCTP), delivered a compelling solution that balanced ambition with execution, earning recognition for both its innovative approach and practical applicability to real-world operations.
Vantage Edge 2 Second Place Winner [Image 8 of 8]
0 Second Place: Team MDC-PAC ODT. CW2 Zachary Zayac, LTC Janice Blane, MAJ Welvin Lucero, Michael Thornton, MAJ Kyle Parker, Marcus Dreeke, and CW3 Jaime Castro earned the silver with a polished, operationally relevant workflow demonstrating strong technical depth and clear scalability across Army formations.
Vantage Edge 2 Future Force Potential Winner [Image 1 of 8]
0 Future Force Potential Award: Team 25th Combat Aviation Brigade (25CAB). Celebrates the team whose solution, while in early stages of design and development, shows exceptional promise for scalability and the ability to create meaningful impact on Army operations with further refinement and resources.
Vantage Edge Technical Excellence Winner [Image 5 of 8]
0 Technical Excellence Award: Team USACE Real Estate. Recognizes the team that showcased the most impressive technical implementation or advanced use of multiple AIP tooling, demonstrating mastery of tools and techniques. Katherine Carver, Kelsey Ciarrocca, and Carlos Avila-Mata from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers demonstrated exceptional AIP sophistication, showcasing advanced orchestration of multiple AIP tools and pushing the boundaries of what participants thought achievable on the platform.
Vantage Edge Innovative Ingenuity Winner [Image 2 of 8]
0 Innovative Ingenuity Award: Team MGD Vantage Training. Recognizes the team that demonstrated the most creative and unconventional thinking in their approach to solving challenges, highlighting solutions that are daringly outside-the-box or introduce novel ideas.
Vantage Edge 2 Best Costume Winner [Image 4 of 8]
0 MAJ Michael Smith took home the Best Costume Award, a reminder that even the Army's most technically demanding competitions leave room for esprit de corps. It still fits Mike! Date Taken: 04.13.2026 Date Posted: 04.17.2026 12:44 Photo ID: 9622413 VIRIN: 260413-A-GF322-4609 Resolution: 1274x846 Size: 170.6 KB Location: US Web Views: 1 Downloads: 0 PUBLIC DOMAIN GALLERY
Soldiers Across the Army Compete in "Vantage Edge" to Redesign the Future of Army Data
WASHINGTON — More than 200 Soldiers, civilians, and technologists from across the Army came together last week for Vantage Edge, a first-of-its-kind competition challenging participants to redesign the landing page of Vantage — one of the Army's premier enterprise data and analytics platforms.
ATEC's Maj. Kyle McDermott Captures First Place in Vantage Edge: Redesigning Army's Enterprise Data Future
0 Maj. Kyle McDermott, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), showcases his first-place winning redesign of the Vantage landing page, secured at the inaugural Vantage Edge competition (Feb 11–13, 2026). Date Taken: 02.13.2026 Date Posted: 02.19.2026 14:40 Photo ID: 9527261 VIRIN: 260213-A-GF322-3831 Resolution: 1004x472 Size: 54.39 KB Location: WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US Web Views: 0 Downloads: 0 PUBLIC DOMAIN
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