#airgappedai

Air-gapped classified deployments prove that trustworthy AI must carry its own accountability,...

Everything arrives as signed artefacts verified against pinned keys, crosses one controlled import path, is exercised in staging before promotion, and the update event itself is sealed to the audit le

With the same discipline as any critical system, applied inside the perimeter. Versioned, hashed and signed backups of model weights, document stores, configuration and the audit ledger, held on media

Enterprise AI on-premise runs in three hardware classes: a workstation-class machine for a small team, a multi-GPU server for a department, and a small cluster for an organisation. Memory is the real

For most enterprise work, no longer materially. Models on operator-owned hardware handle drafting, extraction, summarisation and retrieval at production quality. A narrow set of frontier tasks still f

Yes, but only if the evidence is local. NIS2 requires an early warning within 24 hours of awareness, notification within 72 hours, and a final report within one month. When AI evidence sits in vendor

Deploy sovereign AI as a staged sequence: define a zero-egress perimeter, bring the model weights in-house, run inference locally, gate the update channel, seal a signed audit ledger, then move throug

Scale AI Donovan is a mission analytics capability built and accredited for United States government use. A sovereign air-gapped operating system differs: it runs offline on operator-owned hardware, a

Data enters an air-gapped AI system through a controlled one-way path. A hardware data diode or signed physical media carries the file inbound, it is inspected and quarantined before the model sees it

You prove when an offline AI action happened by running a local time authority whose signed timestamp tokens are sealed into the tamper-evident ledger, anchored by a monotonic counter that cannot run

A nuclear operator should require AI that runs entirely offline on operator-owned hardware inside the licensed boundary, with a verified air gap, one-way updates, hardware-attested identity and a post

Under ITAR and export control, an aerospace or defence prime needs AI that runs air-gapped on operator-owned hardware, with one-way signed updates, hardware-attested identity, a sovereign supply chain