Frontier models are only as powerful as the platform intelligence that grounds them in trusted, mission-relevant data. For the defense enterprise, the challenge isn’t just “running a model”—it is ensuring that AI remains governed, auditable, and operational in the most restrictive environments. Without a sovereign, unified data foundation, organizations risk deploying AI that is fast but ungoverned, capable but unauditable, and powerful but disconnected from operational reality.

Tanzu Data Intelligence (TDI) is the platform intelligence layer purpose-built for this challenge. It provides an integrated data and AI stack spanning ingest, storage, analytics, inference, and governance—deployable on-premises, in air-gapped environments, or across classification domains. This session walks through the full TDI stack as a cohesive Sovereign AI Fabric: how each component plays a distinct role in the mission data lifecycle and how they collectively close the gap between frontier model capability and operational trust.

TDI delivers platform intelligence across the full data lifecycle:

• Resilient Ingest: RabbitMQ provides broker-mediated streaming from tactical sensors and ISR feeds—ensuring data continuity across intermittent DDIL (Disconnected, Degraded, Intermittent, Limited) backhaul.
• Open Lakehouse Storage: Tanzu Data Lake provides an open-format (Apache Iceberg/Delta Lake) storage tier—eliminating proprietary lock-in and enabling interoperability with any analytics or ML engine.
• Distributed Analytics & ML: Apache Spark on TDI delivers massively parallel data transformation, feature engineering, and model training directly in the lakehouse—all within the classification boundary.
• Sovereign Analytics & In-Place Inference: Greenplum enables petabyte-scale SQL analytics and in-database AI/ML via MADlib and PostgresML—eliminating data egress risk and preserving full audit lineage.
• Global Decision Caching: GemFire delivers sub-millisecond state management and prediction caching, with WAN replication from the tactical edge to the enterprise core.
• Governed Intelligence: OpenMetadata provides a unified data governance catalog—offering lineage, classification, and policy enforcement across every TDI asset—directly supporting NIST AI RMF accountability and DoD data tagging requirements.