Seekr was proud to host the GDIT & Seekr Government Hackathon this week at our new Reston, Virginia headquarters. We brought together program leaders, domain experts, and top AI technologists to tackle some of the government’s toughest challenges. The result? Real solutions to real mission problems—powered by Agentic AI.
In a mere three hours, one team designed an LLM-based MVP and solution architecture that could deliver automation, accuracy, and efficiency to the Government, while another team built a prototype capable of generating a summary-level Operation Order (OPORD) in just seven minutes—demonstrating the speed and usability of SeekrFlow Agents in complex, mission-critical environments.
With federal agencies under increasing pressure to modernize, improve citizen services, and do more with less, this Hackathon proved what’s possible when human expertise and AI work together. Teams tackled pressing issues facing agencies today, and the winning solutions demonstrate how mission-ready AI—built for usability and put into the hands of those closest to the challenge—can close workforce gaps, streamline operations, and improve outcomes for the American people.
“Bringing together GDIT mission experts with commercial technology is how innovation is created to solve the complex challenges government faces. Holding events like this AI Hackathon is how we continue to build and deliver advanced technology for critical missions.”
Michael Cole, GDIT Chief Technology Officer, Federal Civilian Division
Hackathon Parameters
Hackathon teams were asked to build smart, tool-enabled SeekrFlow agents that could tackle real business questions. They had access to a curated set of documents—PDFs, slides, Markdown—and could bring in outside information when needed.
From there, it was all about refinement. Teams played with everything: how the data was chunked, how search was handled, what the agent was told to do, which models to use, and how to guide its reasoning. The goal? Get the clearest, sharpest answers possible.
In the end, judges looked for three things: strong delivery, a compelling solution story, and real-world relevance. The top teams nailed all three—demonstrating the power of putting SeekrFlow’s mission-ready AI directly in the hands of mission owners.
And the winners are…
After intense deliberation and score calculation, two of the five Hackathon teams were so evenly matched that our esteemed panel of GDIT and Seekr judges reached an unexpected, but unanimous decision—both teams were crowned as the Hackathon winners!
Team 4, led by GDIT technologist Brian Cramer and supported by one of Seekr’s AI leads Josh Otto, channeled the energy and creativity of three GDIT interns, Brooke Ballhaus, Ian Thorpe, and Natasha Oberoi, to construct an agentic AI solution that optimized case management and interview processing. In a mere 3 hours, Team 4 designed an LLM-based MVP and solution architecture that would deliver automation, accuracy, and efficiency to Government analysts, interviewers, and case managers. Their MVP featured a complex orchestration of LLM Agents that processed case documentation, evaluated and scored risk, and processed structured and unstructured data—all while retaining the human-in-the-loop for validation and decision-making.
Team 5 consisted of bright and talented AI/ML interns Arjun Kaneriya and Samuel Garnett, recent graduate Connor Coles, and Seekr’s Director of Data Science Tyler Hallmark. Team 5 faced a uniquely complex challenge to generate an Operation Order—a highly structured and detailed document that guides military missions. Using a multi-agent architecture for pre-processing, content sorting, and aggregation, Team 5 achieved a summary-level OPORD in only seven minutes. Team 5 went even beyond the challenge at hand, considering how their multi-agentic workflow could enable and protect the warfighter at the edge, using containerized deployment and local inference on edge-compute nodes.
Conclusion
The Hackathon’s winning teams showed that with trustworthy AI and the right agentic AI platform, even the most complex public sector challenges can be solved, efficiently. By bringing together humans and trustworthy Agentic AI, we’re not just imagining the future of government, we’re building it. Learn more about GDIT and the SeekrFlow enterprise AI platform.
Congratulations to all the hackathon participants and winners, and big thanks to GDIT for partnering with Seekr to make this happen.
