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Real-Time Defence AI
at the Tactical Edge

The Sthenos AI Inference Engine is the cognitive core of Europe’s sovereign defence AI platform, transforming multi-domain sensor data into decision-ready intelligence in milliseconds, from command centre to contested edge.

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— Overview

Purpose-Built for Defence-Grade AI Workloads.

Conventional inference frameworks are optimised for commercial cloud environments. The Sthenos AI Inference Engine is engineered from the ground up for the realities of modern conflict. Contested networks. Denied environments. Hardened platforms. Zero tolerance for latency or compromise.

Our inference runtime executes identically across cloud, on-premise command centres, mobile tactical nodes, and unmanned platforms, preserving trusted model behaviour from headquarters to the forward edge.

Modular,
Hardware-Agnostic
AI Architecture

A five-layer stack engineered for sovereignty, portability and battlefield resilience.

L_05Security LayerEnd-to-end encryption · signed model artefacts · secure enclaves · tamper detection · NATO & EU defence audit compliance.HARDENED
L_04Orchestration LayerKubernetes-native scheduling with mission-priority awareness, degraded-mode operation and autonomous failover.ACTIVE
L_03Acceleration LayerNative NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and European sovereign accelerator support — heterogeneous fleet abstraction.ACTIVE
L_02Model Runtime LayerPyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT and defence-optimised custom kernels · hot-swap field updates.ACTIVE
L_01Data Interface LayerStandardised connectors for STANAG, Link 16, MQTT, Kafka and proprietary platform buses.ACTIVE

— Capabilities

Core Capabilities of the Sthenos Inference Engine.

Six engineered pillars that turn raw sensor data into operational advantage across the full spectrum of multi-domain operations.

— Operational Benchmarks

Performance Engineered for Contested Operations.

Designed to degrade gracefully, never catastrophically, under EW, jamming and intermittent connectivity.

<200

ms

End-to-End Inference Latency

99,9%

uptime

Edge Node Availability

12+

streams

Sensor Modalities Fused

100%

sovereign

EU Sovereign Supply Chain

— Sthenos Platform Integration

Integrated Across the Sthenos AI Platform.

The Inference Engine never operates in isolation. It is the connective intelligence layer of the wider Sthenos defence AI ecosystem.

01.Data FabricReceives curated training and operational data streams
02.MLOps & Model GovernanceExecutes models under continuous lifecycle management
03.Command & Control InterfacesFeeds inference outputs into C2 and decision support modules
04.Trust, Safety & ComplianceOperates under enforced policy and ethical AI guardrails

— Intelligence

Defense Architecture Principles.

Built on a unified intelligence architecture, the Sthenos platform connects data, models, and applications into one continuous operational system, engineered around six foundational principles.

01

Interoperable by design

02

Secure by default

03

Multi-domain at the core

04

Composable and scalable

05

Traceable and evidence-driven

06

Human-controlled execution