Adarga scoops ‘Spirit of the Hackathon’ award at NATO event

This year’s event was the first for Adarga and saw a two-person team partnered with representatives of US Army Europe and Africa. Team ‘US_Adarga’ participated in the Wargaming challenge, where they were tasked with developing a wargame simulator utilising Large Language Models (LLMs).

Drawing on their expertise in LLMs and Natural Language Processing, the team built a simulation engine that generated an entire wargame when provided with a description, location, and purely open-source information.  

The team’s wargame featured a map that was generated by an LLM and broken down into hexagons that accurately represented the terrain. Provided with the map and an initial prompt the LLM developed the scenario’s details and subsequently each team’s objectives, their units – including their capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses – and the start positions.  The wargame was then managed and run by AI agents.  

TIDE Hackathon has been developed by NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) as a vehicle for innovation and to promote ‘Interoperability by Design’ between Alliance members, partner countries, and non-NATO entities. The event is designed to address future requirements via a tried-and-tested hackathon format and to engage groups of experts in a competitive and highly intensive work environment.