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Interoperability is not a feature – it’s a foundation - Story
August 11, 2026The architecture surrounding edge artificial intelligence (AI) – including sensors, networks, hardware, software stacks and orchestration layers – is still being built in silos. Vendors build closed ecosystems, contracts reward vertical integration, and the warfighter ends up with tools that only function when everything lines up perfectly: the specific connectivity in the specific configuration using specific software, running on specific hardware. That perfect situation is not the reality at the tactical edge, however. Realistically, the edge in this case is often degraded, denied, intermittent, and limited. If one link in the chain requires a cloud connection, the whole chain breaks.
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