Lotus Sirius
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DEFENCE / DUAL-USE / MARITIME
06 /INSIGHTS

Field notes from the contested edge.

Doctrine, engineering briefs and after-action reading from the Lotus Sirius team. Written by the operators and engineers shipping the stack.

01 / FEATURED

This month's brief.

Sovereign AI at the tactical edge: why air-gapped inference wins the next decade.
DOCTRINE
JUN 202611 MIN

Sovereign AI at the tactical edge: why air-gapped inference wins the next decade.

Cloud-native intelligence stops at the cable. We outline a deployment doctrine for inference workloads that survive jamming, denial and full disconnection — without sacrificing model fidelity.

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02 / ARCHIVE

More from the team.

Digital shipyards: closing the loop between CAD floor and launch dock.
MARITIME
MAY 20267 MIN

Digital shipyards: closing the loop between CAD floor and launch dock.

How vertical integration of design, production and certification telemetry compresses refit cycles by 40%.

Coordinating heterogenous fleets under contested comms.
AUTONOMY
APR 20269 MIN

Coordinating heterogenous fleets under contested comms.

A field-tested pattern for swarm coordination when GNSS, RF and satcom degrade simultaneously.

Effects-based engineering: the operator as the customer of every commit.
DOCTRINE
MAR 20266 MIN

Effects-based engineering: the operator as the customer of every commit.

Why we trace every design decision back to mission outcome — and how that changes our release cadence.

Quantum-resistant provenance for dual-use components.
SUPPLY CHAIN
FEB 20268 MIN

Quantum-resistant provenance for dual-use components.

Hash-chained part history that survives both adversarial tampering and post-quantum cryptographic shifts.

Notes from NATO TIDE Sprint: interoperability isn't a feature, it's a posture.
FIELD NOTE
JAN 20265 MIN

Notes from NATO TIDE Sprint: interoperability isn't a feature, it's a posture.

Takeaways from a week of building against allied data fabrics and federated mission services.

EU Data Act and the new perimeter of sovereign defence tech.
BRIEFING
DEC 202510 MIN

EU Data Act and the new perimeter of sovereign defence tech.

A practical reading of where the regulatory line now sits — and what it means for procurement.

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