SHIELD Golden Dome · IDIQ Prime 34.7304° N / 86.5861° W — Huntsville, AL

Arsenal of the Mind.

Edge intelligence for the warfighting force. Sensor-to-decision in under twenty milliseconds — offline, on-platform, uncompromising.

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0BCeiling · 10-Year IDIQ
CMMC Level 2 · In progress DFARS 252.204-7012 NAICS 541715 · Small business CAGE 160N5 SHIELD Golden Dome · IDIQ Prime Edge-first · DDIL-native
EDGE-FIRST ARCHITECTURE DDIL-NATIVE SEVEN-LAYER AGENT STACK CMMC LEVEL 2 · IN PROGRESS DFARS 252.204-7012 COMPLIANT NAICS 541715 · SMALL BUSINESS PIERCE-ALIGNED CAGE 160N5 EDGE-FIRST ARCHITECTURE DDIL-NATIVE SEVEN-LAYER AGENT STACK CMMC LEVEL 2 · IN PROGRESS DFARS 252.204-7012 COMPLIANT NAICS 541715 · SMALL BUSINESS PIERCE-ALIGNED CAGE 160N5
The Thesis

The advantage isno longer mass.It is decision velocity.

Secretary Hegseth's mandate demands lethality measured in milliseconds. Our platform collapses the sensor-to-decision loop to under twenty. Not in a lab. In contested RF, on battery, at altitude, on ice.

"We will provide war-winning capabilities to our warfighters by fostering a culture of lethality." — Secretary Pete Hegseth, SecDef
Architecture · 01

Seven layers.One edge stack.

From raw sensor ingest through command consensus, every layer runs on-platform. No round-trips to cloud. No single point of failure. Deterministic timing from bus to bullet.

L1–L2Sensor Mesh · Fusion
L3–L4Perception · Models
L5–L6Agents · Reasoning
L7Command Consensus
Deployment · 02

A constellation,not a cloud.

Mesh across domains — LEO, airborne, surface, subsurface. Each node autonomous. Each node observable. Graceful degradation as the baseline, not the exception.

LEO42 nodes · 550 km shell
AIRMQ-class · HALE · VTOL
LANDJLTV · Stryker · ROBOT
SEADDG · LCS · UUV swarms
Outcome · 03

The warfighter seesconsensus.Not raw data.

The system does the thinking. The commander sees an answer with its confidence interval, its provenance, and a single next action. The gap between intelligence and decision collapses.

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The Seven-Layer Stack

Agents, notapplications.

Each tier runs autonomously at the edge, passing only consensus upward. Scroll to trace the path from sensor photon to command decision.

  • 01
    Tier 01 · Sensor Ingest
    Raw photon to tensor in <3ms
    Multi-modal ingress — RF, IR, SAR, LIDAR, acoustic. Hardware-accelerated on Jetson-class edge. Survives packet loss, jitter, jamming.
  • 02
    Tier 02 · Fusion Mesh
    Cross-sensor state reconciliation
    Kalman-variant fusion with probabilistic track stitching. Every track carries a confidence tensor and a provenance chain.
  • 03
    Tier 03 · Perception Models
    Quantized vision & audio
    Distilled models under 120MB, fine-tuned on mission-class data. 85% memory reduction vs baseline with no accuracy loss at mission-relevant classes.
  • 04
    Tier 04 · Reasoning Agents
    Tactical intent inference
    Lightweight LLMs with retrieval against doctrine + live track state. Agents negotiate, not instruct. Consensus is observable.
  • 05
    Tier 05 · Command Loop
    Human-on-the-loop authority
    Commander approves an answer, not raw data. Every decision surfaces with confidence, provenance, and a single recommended action.
01 · INGEST 02 · FUSION 03 · VISION 04 · REASON 05 · COMMAND
Capabilities

Three primitives.Zero cloud.

The platform resolves to a small, hardenable set of primitives — each benchmarked against adversarial conditions, not lab conditions.

01 · EDGE

On-platform compute mesh

Distributed inference across heterogeneous edge nodes. No backhaul required. Consensus emerges locally; the cloud is an audit sink, never a dependency.

  • Latency< 20 ms
  • Footprint118 MB
  • Power4.2 W sustained
02 · AGENTS

Reasoning at the speed of fight

Seven-layer agent stack from sensor ingest to command consensus. Agents negotiate bounded claims; every inference is receipt-stamped for after-action review.

  • Throughput8× baseline
  • Memory−85%
  • AuditabilityFull provenance
03 · DDIL

Built for denied operations

Designed for disconnected, intermittent, low-bandwidth RF. Graceful degradation is the baseline — every node keeps fighting when the mesh fractures.

  • Bandwidth−92%
  • Resync250 ms
  • CloudZero
Proof · By the Numbers

Benchmarked whereit matters.

Measured against mission-representative datasets in contested RF, on battery, at altitude. Not marketing-grade; mission-grade.

01 / 06
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Sensor → decision
End-to-end closure of the OODA loop at the edge, under live RF contest.
02 / 06
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Bandwidth reduction
Compressed tensor messaging vs streaming raw sensor telemetry.
03 / 06
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Mesh resync
Time to restore consensus after a partition event across 40+ nodes.
04 / 06
0%
Memory reduction
Quantized perception models vs baseline FP32 weights.
05 / 06
0×
Inference speedup
Edge-optimized pipeline against standard CUDA baseline.
06 / 06
ZERO
Cloud dependency
DDIL-native from first principles. The cloud is an option, never a requirement.
The Mandate

Legacy defense softwarewas built for a different war.

The architectures that served Iraq and Afghanistan cannot win against a peer adversary in a contested electromagnetic environment. The gap is structural, not incremental.

The Inheritance

Cloud-tetheredstacks

  • ×Round-trip to data center for inference
  • ×Monolithic apps, per-platform integrations
  • ×Fragile under RF contest & partition
  • ×Months-long model refresh cycles
  • ×Vendor-locked; opaque provenance
AAIS · The Replacement

Edge agents,mesh consensus

  • On-platform inference, sub-20ms closure
  • Composable agent tiers, domain-agnostic
  • Graceful degradation as baseline
  • Model updates pushed in hours, not months
  • Full receipts — every inference auditable
Program momentum

Roadmapyou can board.

Milestones tied to vehicle access, sponsor evaluations, and security gates. Dates are representative for planning discussions.

  1. Q1 2026
    SHIELD IDIQ prime award Ten-year ceiling; task-order intake and security boundary definition.
  2. Q2 2026
    CMMC Level 2 assessment window Evidence collection aligned to DFARS 7012 and sponsor data classes.
  3. Q2–Q3 2026
    Unit pilot · ninety-day execution Sensor harness, compute envelope, and red-team RF contest with published receipts.
  4. Q4 2026
    Fleet-scale nightly consensus Mesh resync SLAs at 250 ms under partition; bandwidth reduction targets held.
  5. 2027+
    Task-order expansion Additional mission threads under the same edge stack — no architectural fork.
Deployment readiness

Pick the domain.See the bar.

Accreditation posture, integration surfaces, prerequisites, and the right point of contact — filtered for the environment you are deploying into.

Accreditation

CMMC Level 2 · In progress (SDA-class data)

Integration surfaces

CCSDS-derived payloads · S-band / Ka downlink opportunistic · cFS-compatible services

Prerequisites

On-orbit compute envelope · defined confidence thresholds · sponsor IRAD window for RF contest

Deployment Scenarios

Same platform.Three theaters.

The platform does not change across mission profiles. Only the sensor mix, the agent configuration, and the consensus threshold do.

Scenario simulator

Stress the edge budget. Outputs are planning-grade estimates from the same constraints we use in sponsor benchmarks.

Est. edge closure
Mesh resync (p95)
Telemetry reduction vs raw
01
Strategic Edge

Fort Greely,Alaska

Situation. Peer ICBM threat surveillance in arctic low-bandwidth RF. Ground-based interceptors require sub-second track consensus across dispersed radars.

AAIS in role. Edge fusion mesh across five radar sites. Agents negotiate track confidence without backhaul. Commander sees single consensus track with confidence tensor.

Target Unit
100th MDB · Fort Greely
Sensor Mix
UEWR · LRDR · SBIRS
Pierce Alignment
Homeland · Strategic
Timing
Sub-second consensus
02
Tactical Edge

Swarm Forge,Indo-Pacific

Situation. Contested littoral with peer A2/AD. Heterogeneous unmanned surface & air assets need to hunt cooperatively at the edge of RF range.

AAIS in role. Agent stack hosted on each platform. Swarm-local consensus with opportunistic uplink. Commander tasks intent; swarm resolves assignment.

Target Unit
Task Force 76 · PACFLT
Sensor Mix
EO/IR · SAR · ESM · ACOMMS
Pierce Alignment
Deterrence · Tactical
Timing
< 20 ms edge closure
03
Orbital Sentinel

LEO Proliferation,550 km Shell

Situation. Proliferated LEO constellation for missile warning / tracking. Tens of thousands of tracks, ground station bandwidth limits, high-latency downlink.

AAIS in role. On-orbit perception and track stitching. Only consensus tracks with confidence thresholds reach ground. Bandwidth reduced 92%.

Target Unit
SDA / Tranche 2
Sensor Mix
IR · Ku/Ka · Optical
Pierce Alignment
Space · Strategic Warning
Timing
Sub-orbit resolution
04
Sustainment Edge

Depot AI,CONUS

Situation. Predictive sustainment across forward-deployed platforms. Readiness loss is a near-peer advantage we cede every day we defer this.

AAIS in role. On-platform anomaly detection with fleet-level consensus. Maintenance prioritized by mission-criticality, not by last-failure heuristics.

Target Unit
AFSC · AMC
Sensor Mix
Vibration · Thermal · HUMS
Pierce Alignment
Readiness · Industrial Base
Timing
Fleet-scale nightly
In the Field

Signalsand milestones.

Contract Award

AAIS named Prime on SHIELD Golden Dome IDIQ

$200B ceiling, ten-year vehicle. Positions AAIS to deliver edge-first autonomy across homeland, strategic, and tactical domains.

Huntsville · 03 · 2026
Symposium

Keynote at Space Symposium · Colorado Springs

On-orbit perception and consensus — operationalizing autonomy for proliferated LEO under contested RF.

Colorado Springs · 04 · 2026
R&D Milestone

Sub-20ms closure demonstrated in live RF contest

Independent red-team evaluation. Full receipts published to sponsor. Benchmarks replicable.

Test Range · 02 · 2026
Strategic Alignment

Pierce-aligned capability portfolio formally mapped

Coverage across homeland strategic defense, deterrence, industrial base, and space warning mission sets.

Huntsville · 01 · 2026
Recognition

Listed among Defense Tech 50 · 2026

Recognized for edge autonomy and mesh-consensus architectures aligned to the 2025 National Defense Strategy.

National · 03 · 2026
Program

CMMC Level 2 assessment underway

Full DFARS 252.204-7012 compliance. Security-first posture matched to the sensitivity of the missions we serve.

Huntsville · 02 · 2026
Proof pack

Artifactsfor sponsor review.

Each button opens the request form with the selected artifact prefilled. We respond with current redacted collateral suitable for government evaluation.

Capability one-pager

Dismounted Soldier Edge AI mission need, local-agent stack, C2 integrity layer, and 15-month demonstration envelope.

Request one-pager

Security posture summary

Boundary model, local processing posture, CMMC alignment, and data handling for sponsor and CUI-adjacent discussions.

Request security summary

Benchmark methodology

How local-agent response, C2 integrity recognition, degraded-link operation, and mission-impact recommendations are measured.

Request methodology
Procurement & technical

Questionsanswered plainly.

How does AAIS operate in DDIL environments?

All inference, agent orchestration, and mesh consensus run on-platform. The stack does not require cloud connectivity; uplinks are opportunistic for reporting and fleet learning, never for real-time engagement decisions.

What integration is required to pilot on a unit?

A defined sensor interface, compute envelope, and security boundary. AAIS ships as containerized services with deterministic timing budgets and integration playbooks per platform class (air, space, land).

How is model provenance and audit handled?

Each inference carries lineage metadata: model version, calibration set, and confidence tensors suitable for sponsor review and CMMC-aligned evidence collection.

How do we engage under the SHIELD IDIQ?

Briefings and task-order scoping start with a written request. AAIS responds with redacted collateral and a ninety-day execution plan aligned to your unit scenario and security class.

What does “task-order ready” mean in practice?

Statement of work templates, bench criteria, and RF-contest receipts are prepared so a sponsor can issue a task order without re-deriving technical milestones.

SHIELD Golden Dome · IDIQ Prime · $200B · 10-Year

Pick the unit.Pick the scenario.We execute in ninety days.

Demonstrable sub-20ms closure in contested RF. Receipts on request. Task-order ready under current vehicle.

VehicleSHIELD IDIQ
CAGE160N5
NAICS541715
StatusPrime · Ready