In this Breaking Defense sponsored feature, Kamiwaza CEO and co-founder Luke Norris explains how the company's AI orchestration engine — running on advanced Intel chips — is unlocking decades of historic data for defense, federal, and state missions. Norris describes Kamiwaza as an orchestration engine that rationalizes and fuses massive, dispersed data sets to achieve mission results. A flagship example is work with the Department of Homeland Security's CISA, where Kamiwaza helped analyze how barometric pressure systems have shifted over time and what that means for the environment, research that is now extending toward the Naval Academy and potential Department of Defense applications. Norris details a "critical event planning" capability: when forecasters predict a severe low-pressure event targeting a specific region — a base, a training exercise, or a large outdoor event — Kamiwaza's system cross-correlates 90 years of historical data on similar events in that area to build a "reverse canonical plan," anticipating impacts like airport closures, road blockages, emergency-room surges, and debris, and recommending proactive steps such as pre-positioning troops and emergency resources. He frames this as a level of human capability that didn't exist two years ago, enabled by smart bases, cities, and event planning. Norris also emphasizes Kamiwaza's "silicon neutral" philosophy, developed through Intel's Liftoff for Startups program, letting customers run workloads on whatever hardware best matches their cost, thermal, and performance needs. Read the full interview on Breaking Defense.
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