ORIGINBorn from first-hand experience of the challenge of information overload on military operations, Adarga’s vision is to be the global leader in AI-powered decision advantage in Defence, Security & Resilience.
When Adarga was founded in 2016 Natural Language Processing was a field of disparate methods and techniques emerging from computational linguistics, cognitive sciences, computational neuroscience and network theory. Adarga, worked across these to build cutting edge technologies that can be applied in the real world.
As the technology has evolved so too has Adarga. First adopting open source and then developing proprietary transformer-based models for national security problem sets. From 2022, as these models proved more generalist, Adarga continued to deploy the cutting edge to the highest stakes environments, innovating first with graph-based retrieval methods and then agentic integration. In 2026 Adarga is not restricted just by the modality of text and continues to push the frontier of science and high-stakes decision making.
Our world is growing ever more dangerous. The threats we will face in the coming decades require our nations to keep pace with the rapid evolution of technology and field AI-driven capabilities that deliver a battle-winning edge.
Adarga continues to match up to these threats by enabling its customers to realise the value of their data and to make decisions with the speed, clarity and confidence that is vital to gain and maintain decision advantage.
Our world is growing ever more dangerous. The threats we will face in the coming decades require our nations to keep pace with the rapid evolution of technology and field AI-driven capabilities that deliver a battle-winning edge.
Adarga continues to match up to these threats by enabling its customers to realise the value of their data and to make decisions with the speed, clarity and confidence that is vital to gain and maintain decision advantage.
Rob Bassett Cross
CEO & Founder, Adarga
TIMELINE2016
Founded as an NLP Lab in London: Set up to apply information science to modern military operations
2019
Launch of Adarga Knowledge Platform: The first engine from entity extraction and resolution to report generation and visualisation
2023
Launch of Adarga Vantage: An intelligence and investigations product adopted operationally by organisations across defence, security and resilience
2026
Launch of Adarga Sovereign AI Stack for Defence Security and Resilience: combining the lessons of the last 10 years to bring the complete stack for actionable, safe and resilient AI
TEAM
Rob Bassett Cross – CEO
Jesse Sherman - CFO
Ollie Carmichael – VP Product
Steve Smith – CIO & CISO
Chris Gore – EVP Adarga U.S.