Production AI infrastructure — built, deployed, and operated where it has to work.

Defense Industrial Base

Secure AI for the Defense Industrial Base.

GCC-High Copilot, private AI clusters, and NDAA §1513 readiness — inside your CMMC boundary.

Hawaii Startups

AI Engineering for Hawaii Startups.

Agentic systems, self-hosted inference, and eval harnesses that take AI features from demo to production.

SDVOSB
Cleared personnel
15 years supporting PACOM operations
CCNA
PMP
Kāneʻohe, Hawaiʻi

Why this exists

Defense contractors are in an impossible position: the productivity gains from AI are real, but their data is CUI — and commercial AI tools move that data outside the compliance boundary. One careless prompt can put a CMMC certification and the contracts behind it at risk. Tradewinds resolves the dilemma by deploying AI inside the boundary: GCC-High tenants, private on-premises clusters, and the documentation to prove it.

How the defense practice works