National Security

AFCEA TechNet Augusta 2026

AI only matters if the mission can trust it.

August 17-20 in Augusta, Georgia, 10x National Security joins AFCEA TechNet Augusta as a supporting partner. We are bringing a practical view of governed AI and faster acquisition for mission environments.

Event briefing Nexus AI and 10xARC

The question is no longer whether AI can produce an answer.

The harder question is whether people operating in constrained environments can trust that answer, understand where it came from, and use it without giving up control of the data and systems around it. That is the standard that matters for operational AI.

Govern the AI layer

Nexus is the governed AI routing, execution, and control layer for national security systems. It gives mission and product teams one secure interface for approved commercial models, private inference, mission data, agent tools, and operational workflows, without hardwiring every application to a single provider or runtime.

That matters because production AI is not one decision. Requests need to be routed around mission need, policy, classification, cost, latency, performance, provider availability, and security posture. Nexus gives teams a way to enforce identity, authorization, model-use controls, and audit requirements before a request reaches the underlying service, while preserving the evidence needed to understand what happened afterward.

Keep control as the mission changes

The goal is to give teams the speed of modern AI development without asking them to surrender governance, observability, cost discipline, or mission ownership. Applications can evolve as models and requirements change; operators retain a governed view of providers, workflows, and the records that connect decisions to outcomes.

Move from need to delivery

We are also bringing 10xARC, our asymmetric acquisition model for moving from urgent mission need to funded contract action with clarity and execution discipline. It combines requirement shaping, technical solution development, acquisition strategy, vendor ecosystem management, contract-ready documentation, and execution support so Government teams can move from intent to an executable option without treating acquisition as an afterthought.

Together, the conversations at TechNet will focus on the practical work of governing AI systems and getting the right capability into production faster: defining the operational objective, deciding what must be controlled, selecting a viable delivery path, and maintaining the evidence and accountability needed to operate with confidence.

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What we are bringing

Control without friction.

Technology must be usable under pressure, but utility cannot come at the cost of opaque decisions, uncontrolled access, or acquisition paths that cannot keep pace with the mission.

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Trust the answer

Make the source, policy, model, and evidence behind an AI response visible enough to inspect under pressure.

02

Control the AI layer

Use Nexus to connect applications to approved commercial models, private inference, mission data, agent tools, and operational workflows through one governed interface.

03

Accelerate acquisition

Use 10xARC to shape requirements, align funding and industry capability, and build contract-ready paths from urgent need to working capability.