AI intelligence platform for defense and national security missions
Whitespace builds Iris, an AI agent designed to process maritime, human activity, and geospatial intelligence at operational speed for defense and intelligence agencies. The tech stack (Java, Python, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Kubernetes) reflects a hardened, compliance-first infrastructure; active adoption of Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and GitLab signals a shift toward infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD maturity. Current project work spans AFRL R&D, prompt engineering, scalable AI deployment, and DOD authorization—indicating a company scaling AI capabilities while navigating federal compliance requirements.
Whitespace delivers AI-driven intelligence analysis to defense, national security, and government agencies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Alexandria, VA, the company operates a lean, senior-heavy engineering organization (11–50 employees, majority senior-level roles in engineering and data). Iris applies machine learning and analytic tradecraft to complex geospatial and activity-based intelligence workflows without requiring GIS or data science expertise from end users. Active development priorities include production deployment of AI models, securing DOD authorization to operate, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief applications, and infrastructure that handles high-throughput, low-latency mission-critical workloads.
Java, Python, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Kubernetes, and Vault. The company is actively adopting Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitLab, Jenkins, and ArgoCD for infrastructure and CI/CD.
Key projects include AFRL R&D support, prompt engineering for large language models, scalable AI model deployment infrastructure, DOD authorization to operate, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief applications.
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