EdgeRunner AI

Domain-specific AI for the warfighter

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"If you truly want to own your AI, you can't use the hyperscalers. AI in the cloud is aligned to them. If you truly want to own your AI, you must bring an open-weight model to your private data hosted locally, fine-tune it there, and never ping a 3rd party API." @TylerXsaltsman

Watch the full conversation from @SecondFront #OFFSET26: https://t.co/HE3uksRgEU

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We are excited to announce that the US Navy has granted Impact Level 6 Authority to Operate (IL6 ATO) accreditation to EdgeRunner AI, validating our on-device platform for some of the military’s most sensitive and mission-critical operational environments.

EdgeRunner OS has also been officially listed within the Department of the Navy Application and Database Management System (DADMS), the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ authoritative enterprise registry for approved IT systems, software applications, and operational technologies.

This designation further validates EdgeRunner AI’s leading security standards and robust risk mitigation capabilities for the Department of War (DoW), enabling the EdgeRunner OS to be deployed in the most sensitive and mission critical areas.

With this authorization, Navy programs can integrate their SECRET-level data with EdgeRunner’s military-specific, on-device platform, bringing the power of Frontier AI to disconnected operations at sea. Importantly, EdgeRunner AI accelerates AI-enabled operations by running LLMs locally, eliminating the need to restrict usage or limit tokens.

Read the announcement here: https://t.co/qQWmO6Z9MK

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In our new paper, EDGE-OPD (EviDence GuidEd On-Policy Distillation), we introduce two key ideas for improving On-Policy Distillation (OPD).

First, we use guided rollouts that inject privileged context into a subset of the student’s prompts during generation (such as hints, hidden evidence, or rare personas), allowing rare target behaviors to actually appear in the on-policy data, while masking that privileged information during loss computation.

Second, we introduce an evidence mask that updates the student only on token positions supported by the privileged context, instead of learning from the entire rollout indiscriminately. We show empirically that, together, these mechanisms enable the student to internalize rare but correct behaviors without directly training on the hidden context itself. Beyond the method itself, we also analyze how these rare-token signals localize within specific regions of the rollout, offering new insights into efficient knowledge transfer and preservation of general-purpose capabilities during post-training.

Read the blog post and paper here: https://t.co/qREGqfkFKx

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We're heading to #SOFWeek2026!

Join our team in Tampa, Florida to learn how we're bringing military-specific AI agents to Special Operations Forces at the tactical edge. Visit booth #3001 on Tampa Convention Center Level 1 or contact us directly to schedule a meeting.

Contact us here: https://t.co/BOHOGxarCw

Learn more and register here: https://t.co/FlNgCe2FHG

See you next week!

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We're at @SecondFront #OFFSET26!

Our Co-Founder & CEO Tyler Xuan Saltsman joined the panel "AI for Decision Advantage" with Maureen "Marty" Fromuth, Davey Gibian, and Ivan Zhang.

More to come - stay tuned.

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As LLMs are integrated into more warfighting functions, it’s critical that the @DeptofWar, industry, and academia have robust capabilities for benchmarking and evaluating the effectiveness of models for key military tasks.

This article is the first in a series of posts describing the advanced platform we are building at @EdgeRunnerAI to evaluate military AI models. It consists of golden test data from deep subject matter experts; full agentic, RAG, and tool-calling evaluations; side-by-side evaluations that capture the complex subtleties of the military lexicon; and advanced runtime characterizations.

Read the blog post here: https://t.co/M6DKW53oZF

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We are excited to welcome Joshua Horsager to EdgeRunner AI!

Joshua is an experienced leader with 27+ years in the U.S. Army, including 18 years in the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. His last assignment was Command Sergeant Major for the 8th Brigade Cadet Command at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM).

He has served 10 tours in support of the Global War on Terror to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Joshua's awards include 3 Bronze Stars, 6 Meritorious Service Medals, and a Purple Heart. He also won 1st place in the prestigious Best Ranger Competition.

We are honored to have Joshua on our team and look forward to him accelerating our mission to deliver AI dominance for the warfighter.

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Who is leading between Chinese and western open-source AI models?

This question was posed to us by policymakers during a recent Congressional briefing on Agentic AI. We are sharing part of our response here because it is critical the US win the AI race.

Bottom line: The US is not losing the overall AI race, but it is losing the open-weight tier that determines control of sovereign edge, contested-environment, and agentic-builder AI. This gap has immediate national-security consequences for military, intelligence, and disconnected operations.

Read the full policy briefing here: https://t.co/IwH2uxI7iB

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Affordable AI at the edge is an imperative for Sovereign AI. Join us for a panel discussion at the AI+ Expo on Thursday, May 7th at 12:30pm ET in Room 102A at The Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

- Keith Strier, SVP of Global AI Markets, @AMD
- Colton Malkerson, Co-Founder & COO, @EdgeRunnerAI
- Ramin Hasani, Co-Founder & CEO, @liquidai

Cc: @coltonm @kbsdigital @ramin_m_h

Learn more here: https://t.co/MK6BzdiqEh

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Join EdgeRunner AI and @Carahsoft for a #SOFWeek2026 Webinar!

Featured Speakers:
- Dave Anderson, Head of Partnerships
- Zac Keller, VP of Business Development

We'll cover how AI is being applied today to:
- Support Special Operations and tactical workflows
- Speed up intelligence review and reduce time spent digging through reports
- Turn raw data into usable summaries during mission planning and execution
- Support small teams that don’t have dedicated analyst support on hand
- Keep sensitive data local, without pushing it to external systems

Register here: https://t.co/84nkahWlqh

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We're heading to the AI+ Expo! Join us next week at the AI+ Expo hosted by @scsp_ai in Washington, DC from May 7-9. We'll be showcasing our domain-specific AI agents running locally on-device. Learn more and register here: https://t.co/dF5LFlmdJE

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We're heading to @ModernDayMarine! Join us next week in Washington, DC from April 28-30. We'll be demoing alongside our partner @TOUGHBOOK, showcasing how the USMC and Navy are leveraging EdgeRunner AI's domain-specific AI agents for operations at the tactical edge.

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This week @EdgeRunnerAI presented at the @morsanalytics AI Workshop hosted by @CarnegieMellon and @RANDCorporation in Pittsburgh, PA.

Jack FitzGerald, Chief Science Officer, presented on our recent research paper, “Measuring and Eliminating LLM Refusals of Military Queries,” discussing how commercial LLMs often refuse or deflect common military related tasks and what techniques can mitigate these challenges.

John Babick, Deployment Strategist and Navy Lead, presented on how to run and train LLMs on your own device locally.

It was great engaging with academic, government, and industry stakeholders about the importance of military-specific LLMs and deploying them at the tactical edge in DDIL environments.

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Our Co-Founder & COO Colton Malkerson had the opportunity to meet with U.S. CTO Dr. Ethan Klein and @WHOSTP47 this week to discuss the American AI Exports Program and our work with the United States Department of War.

We are proud to support the Trump Administration's program to export American AI technology to our allies and look forward to working with our technology partners on this important initiative.

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Today, @EdgeRunnerAI announced the formal appointment of its Strategic Advisory Board.

Each member brings a unique set of experience, knowledge, and connectivity across government, military, and enterprise sectors.

Members of our Strategic Advisory Board include:

Gen. (Ret.) Andrew Poppas – former 4-Star Commanding General of U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM), Director of the Joint Staff, and Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

Paul D. Ryan – 54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Vice Presidential nominee, Partner at Solamere Capital, and member of the boards of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, Fox Corporation, and Center for Strategic and International Studies

Bob Muglia – former CEO of Snowflake, Inc. and former President of Microsoft Corporation

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Bill” Bender – former 3-Star U.S. Air Force Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Senior Vice President at Leidos

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Siegl – former 1-Star U.S. Army CENTCOM Director of Logistics and Engineering (J4)

Vishnu Nath – Head of Google Chat and former VP & General Manager of Microsoft Corporation

Read the announcement here: https://t.co/DqfxWJw7iX