The Navy awarded Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $99.7M to expand the company's role as AI backbone of Project AMMO (Accelerated Machine Learning for Maritime Operations), which equips unmanned underwater vehicles to hunt Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Domino's platform—integrating side-scan sonar and visual imaging data—reduced the cycle for retraining detection models to recognize new mine types from roughly six months to a few days. The contract directly reflects US-Iran tensions following the 2026 conflict; rapid model iteration is critical because adversaries can introduce new mine designs faster than traditional ML pipelines could adapt.