DVIDS – News – USACE team earns Technical Excellence Award in Army’s Vantage Edge AI challenge
DVIDS – News – USACE team earns Technical Excellence Award in Army’s Vantage Edge AI challenge
Publish Date: 2026-05-13 09:21:00
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Teams from across the Army competed virtually during Vantage Edge, the Army’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) Workflows Challenge, held April 6–10.
Out of 43 submissions, five came from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) teams showcasing how artificial intelligence can assist in delivering their mission.
“True digital transformation isn’t found in the complexity of the algorithm, but in the recovery of human time,” said USACE Chief Technology Officer, Denis Gizinski. “By turning 70,000 hours of data reporting into a platform for decisive action, USACE has proven that AI’s greatest ROI isn’t just ‘smarter’ workflows—it’s the institutional agility to deliver mission-critical infrastructure at the speed of relevance.”
The USACE submissions focused on engineering quality, real estate, knowledge management and budgeting, with one submission receiving recognition from the event.
The USACE Real Estate team received the event’s Technical Excellence Award for its Southern Border Real Estate Mission Intelligence Platform. Led by Katherine Carver, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division’s chief of Real Estate, along with Carlos Avila-Mata of the Louisville District and Kelsey Ciarrocca of the Galveston District, the team built a decision intelligence platform that helps leaders manage more than 4,200 tract acquisitions along the southern border.
The platform uses AI to turn complex land acquisition data into clear, actionable options for senior decision-makers, which is projected to save about 70,000 hours by accelerating decisions instead of just reporting data.
“This intuitive application allows stakeholders to instantly access AI-generated daily and weekly summaries, interactive dashboards showing acquisition progress across all sectors, and drill-down views for individual land tracts—all without needing to navigate complex spreadsheets,” said Carver.
The award recognized the team’s technical depth, use of advanced AIP…
