VIRGINIA — Enabled Intelligence, an artificial intelligence startup based in Virginia, is expanding its dataset repository with more than 500,000 hours of labeled drone footage from the conflict in Ukraine. The collection is being made available for artificial intelligence model training.

Peter Kant, chief executive officer and founder, stated, "This is the first Ukraine full-motion video in our EView library. What sets it apart is that it's real — not simulated, not a controlled environment." Russia initiated a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukraine has generated large volumes of frontline combat video footage since 2022. The new collection contains material recorded in the conflict, prepared for AI model training.

Kant said, "It's footage from one of the most complex and dynamic conflicts in modern history, labeled across aerial object detection, vehicle classification and ground activity. That kind of operational authenticity is extremely hard to replicate, and it is exactly what AI systems need to perform when deployed." Company leadership expects the dataset will reduce the time required to train artificial intelligence models for aerial applications. The company provides services to the U.S. military, government agencies, and authorized commercial users in healthcare, financial services, and energy industries.

The company launched in 2020 and specializes in data acquisition, data conditioning, precision labeling, annotation, and custom model engineering and deployment. The company's data library also contains labeled datasets for electro-optical, synthetic aperture radar, infrared, and foreign-language audio sensors. Possible commercial applications for the dataset include item delivery and remote sensing.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded Enabled Intelligence a single-award contract in 2025 worth up to $708 million over a seven-year ordering period. It covers data-labeling services to train computer vision algorithms for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations, supporting components of the agency's Maven program. The company did not disclose which agencies or defense customers it is currently working with or the sources of the Ukraine drone footage.

No independent assessment of Enabled Intelligence’s claims was available.