• Space

  • Maritime

  • Air

  • Land

  • Enterprise IT

  • Sensors

The challenge

The mission is joint. The data isn’t.

Across the Department, data is scattered across systems, services, clouds, and classification levels, and it's collected faster than anyone can make sense of it. An enterprise data platform for the warfighter has to close those gaps, not add another layer on top of them.

  • Fragmented by default

    Every service, command, and domain runs on its own systems and formats. Stitching them together by hand costs time decisions don't have.

  • Locked down or opened up

    Most platforms force a trade-off between protecting data and putting it to use. At enterprise scale, either choice costs the mission.

  • Answers no one can defend

    A confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. Enterprise analytics have to be grounded, traceable, and defensible, not a black box.

Requirements, met

What a war data platform demands. What IONIC delivers.

  • 001

    Integrate every source, at enterprise scale

    Continuous, automated pipelines ingest, normalize, and enrich structured and unstructured data from every source and domain at petabyte scale, into one open, query-ready lakehouse with a unified catalog.

  • 002

    Zero trust, down to the cell

    Attribute-based controls operate at the dataset, field, and value level, so operators see everything they're cleared for and nothing they're not. The Department can open up far more data without risking exposure.

  • 003

    Analytics every user can trust

    IONIC SI answers plain-language questions with grounded, traceable results. Every routing choice and query attempt is logged and inspectable, and when it can't answer, it says so: no hallucinated results, no silent fallback.

  • 004

    Query across every cloud and region

    High-performance SQL, global term search, and federated queries span separate, multi-region clusters, so analysts get unified answers without moving or duplicating data.

  • 005

    Share across commands and coalition partners

    Production-ready data products carry their protections with them, so sharing across commands, agencies, and allied partners never means loosening controls, and the joint force works from one operating picture.

  • 006

    Reach the tactical edge

    IONIC Edge keeps ingest, query, and analytics running in denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited environments, then rejoins peer nodes and the enterprise when the link returns.

  • 007

    Accredited, operated, and sustained

    Enlighten builds security in from the first commit, supports ATO and continuous monitoring, and operates the platform day to day, so the capability stays accredited, available, and trusted.

Enterprise to edge

One platform, from the cloud to the last tactical mile.

The Department's data can't stop where the network does. IONIC runs the same zero-trust analytics on a forward node as it does in the enterprise cloud, and keeps working when the link goes dark.

architecture

One platform, built in layers.

IONIC is a defense-built data lakehouse: open storage, a distributed query engine, an intelligence layer on top, and cell-level security governing every layer in between.

The Intelligence Layer (IONIC SI)

Orchestrates complex queries to deliver grounded answers during time-sensitive investigations

High-Volume Ingest & Data Fabric

Continuously absorbing massive, disparate, multi-domain defense data streams

Unified Storage & Open Table Lakehouse

Decouples storage from compute, utilizing highly secure, scalable cloud object storage

The Cloud Query Engine

High-performance, distributed processing that allows analysts to query massive data stores with near-zero latency

Cell-Level Security & Governance (Zero Trust)

The mandatory guardrail layer that governs every layer

Mission-proven

Not a pilot. Not a prototype.

IONIC is operating today, at enterprise scale, in live defense environments.

  • Billions

    Events processed daily

  • Petabyte

    Scale, in production

  • TRL 9

    Proven in live operations

  • GovCloud

    Accredited & operating

  • 300+

    Employees

  • 5

    Locations

Products + People

A platform, and the team that runs it.

IONIC comes with the Enlighten engineers who field it, integrate it with the systems the Department already runs, and operate it alongside the mission. No rip and replace. And behind Enlighten stands HII, with the stability, surge capacity, and reach of a major defense prime.

A war data platform, ready for the fight today.

Tell us what the enterprise is up against, and we'll show you how IONIC and our engineers turn the Department's data into decision advantage.