Kinnami 2025: A Year of Growth, NATO Collaboration, and Expanding Impact for National Security Infrastructure

2025 has been a breakthrough year for Kinnami, a year of deeper engagement with NATO and U.S. military partners, rapid technical maturation through DIANA, and expansion into commercial industries that hold strategic national security importance. Our technology matured through direct collaboration with defense partners, field testing in demanding environments, and integration efforts that are already shaping a stronger, more capable AmiShare platform.

We’re also proud to highlight a major step forward in strengthening our ability to deliver resilient, GPU-accelerated analytics and AI directly to the edge on low SWaP devices, enabling advanced models and real-time processing to operate securely even in the most challenging environments.

Strengthening Collaboration with NATO Allies:

and Strengthening AmiShare

The defining achievement of 2025 was Kinnami’s selection into Phase 2 of the NATO DIANA Accelerator Programme. This opportunity placed us among a small group of companies chosen to work directly with NATO test centers, program leaders, and member nations on technologies essential to allied resilience and defense.

Why DIANA Phase 2 Matters

DIANA Phase 2 has given Kinnami the opportunity to test AmiShare directly with NATO nations in live, mission-representative environments. Through structured, scenario-driven exercises, our team has deployed AmiShare in environments marked by intermittent and degraded communications, cross-domain data flows, distributed sensors, and cyber-contested conditions. These are the kinds of edge scenarios that cannot be replicated in a lab, and they have produced invaluable insights that are already strengthening AmiShare’s resilience, security, and adaptability.

Kinnami team working alongside NATO partners “de-risking technologies at NATO GLOW in Troia, Portugal, September 2025”. 

Our participation in NATO GLOW exercises in Portugal and SHINE in Istanbul has also expanded our relationships across the NATO community. Working side-by-side with operators, defense innovation leaders, and national research centers is giving us deeper visibility into allied data-sharing challenges and stronger alignment with NATO’s digital modernization priorities. These relationships are guiding our product roadmap and helping ensure that AmiShare evolves as a trusted enabler of distributed data across multinational missions.

DIANA’s experimentation and test model have further accelerated our development. Testing with NATO users and MIT Lincoln Laboratory has refined our approaches to policy engineering for complex data environments, improved synchronization across coalition networks, and strengthened our data provenance capabilities — critical for multi-national situational awareness.

These experiences enhance AmiShare for defense customers and help shape our platform to deliver stronger value to government agencies and commercial sectors with needs for secure, distributed, and resilient data capabilities.

Expanding Commercial Impact: Critical Infrastructure & the Living Bridge Project

In addition to defense progress, 2025 included expansion into industries of national security importance. This was driven partly by our involvement in the Living Bridge project with the University of Nebraska, University of New Hampshire, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Real-World Infrastructure Testing Through the Living Bridge Initiative

The July field demonstration in Sarpy County, Nebraska, as part of the SMART-RDF (Smart Analytics for Critical Infrastructure inside a Resilient Data Fabric) effort, brought together drones, strain sensors, researchers, and our AmiShare platform to monitor bridge health in real time.

This project has broadened our commercial relevance by demonstrating how Kinnami’s secure, resilient data mesh can support transportation networks and DOT infrastructure, enable bridge monitoring and structural health programs, strengthen municipal and state public safety initiatives, and enhance smart city and critical asset management operations. Together, these sectors represent markets deeply tied to national resilience and economic security.

As a result, Kinnami enters 2026 with a broader footprint that spans defense, critical infrastructure, and public-sector modernization.

Additional 2025 Achievements

Beyond these major milestones, Kinnami also progressed across multiple U.S. defense innovation pathways:

• DARPA ERIS Marketplace “Awardable”

• DoD CDAO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace — SBIR Aisle Listing

• Intellyx Digital Innovator Award

• Advances in secure edge analytics, fragmentation, and distributed policy enforcement

Separately, each represents a meaningful step forward. Together, they show a maturing platform recognized by both defense and critical commercial sectors.

Advancing a New Level of Edge AI Capability

Kinnami is expanding its ability to deliver advanced AI and analytics at the tactical and operational edge, enabling AmiShare to support increasingly capable on-device models, accelerate anomaly detection and sensor fusion, and improve efficiency across distributed edge nodes — even in disconnected or bandwidth-constrained environments. By integrating modern GPU-accelerated and hardware-optimized techniques into our platform, we are strengthening our edge computing strategy and meeting the growing demand for real-time intelligence in mission-critical settings.

What’s Next in 2026?

Moving into 2026, our focus centers on strategic priorities shaped by the lessons and relationships formed this year. 2025 strengthened Kinnami’s technology, our partnerships, and our mission. Through NATO collaboration, commercial infrastructure expansion, and advancements in edge AI, we have become more aligned than ever with the challenges facing defense and national resilience.

Thank you to our partners, supporters, and team for making this a breakthrough year. We look forward to continuing this momentum in 2026 and building a more secure, resilient, and intelligent future at the edge.

Questions or thoughts? Let me know patricia.friar@kinnami.com