Government and defense organizations are facing a growing volume of digital media in the form of user-generated content (UGC), which can contain critical mission insights. From mobile phone videos and livestreams to social media posts and drone footage, adversaries increasingly use online content to coordinate activity, spread propaganda, and influence behavior. But extracting intelligence from this unstructured media using disconnected tools and workflows can slow analysis during time-sensitive operations.
For mission owners, speed is only part of the challenge. Sensitive video, metadata, and derived intelligence often cannot be moved into generic SaaS environments or processed outside approved infrastructure. Airis Labs, powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), helps agencies accelerate AI-enabled media exploitation while keeping analysis close to the data across secure, sovereign, and classified cloud environments. Airis Labs transforms authorized video, imagery, audio, text, and metadata into searchable, evidence-linked intelligence that analysts can review, verify, and act on while maintaining control over sensitive mission data.
Accelerating AI-driven insight through the Oracle Defense Ecosystem
The Oracle Defense Ecosystem brings together technology innovators to help strengthen the national security of the US and its allies, offering members access to Oracle’s expertise and experience. As a member of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, Airis Labs relies on OCI to support secure and sovereign mission operations, helping organizations keep sensitive mission data protected, compliant, and operationally accessible.
Airis Labs on OCI brings customers AI-enabled media exploitation capabilities that can be deployed across the secure mission environments where government and defense teams operate. Together, Airis Labs and OCI can help agencies pursue faster media analysis without requiring sensitive mission data to leave trusted cloud boundaries.
Today’s threat environment is shaped by the way bad actors create, share, and weaponize digital content. Traffickers, extremist groups, and other threat actors can use online media to influence behavior and coordinate activity[1], which can amplify propaganda and serve as recruitment material. Even a short video clip can provide a variety of identifiers like spoken language, background objects, location, vehicles, visible text, activity patterns, time sequences, and other mission-relevant indicators, subject to each agency’s legal authorities and policies. Manually extracting these details with industry-standard tools could take hours or days. Analysts may need separate tools for character recognition, object detection, geospatial analysis, and more. In defense operations, this delay could limit mission effectiveness.
Media volume is outpacing traditional review
Traditional media exploitation is also typically fragmented in disconnected workflows, requiring data analysis from multiple, separate teams. These disconnected workflows can slow exploitation and make it harder to maintain context or connect events across time, place, and source. For instance, one team may work with video evidence and another team may have geospatial context. Without a shared way to index, search, and correlate media, important insights can remain buried in separate systems.
Airis Labs and OCI can help analysts gain quicker insight
Airis Labs can help analysts turn raw media into intelligence they can search, connect, and verify. Designed as a “video-first” platform, Airis Labs extracts audio, imagery, text, time sequences, and metadata from videos to help teams identify people, locations, objects, and more. Agencies can use this technology to extract information from UGC, as well as other forms of video from CCTV, body-worn cameras, dash cameras, and drones.
The following interface example shows how analysts can review AI-extracted intelligence in context, quickly validate each inference through a human-in-the-loop workflow, and intuitively traverse connected media, entities, metadata, and evidence in ways that were previously impossible.
The following architecture diagram shows how Airis combines planning, retrieval, entity resolution, inference, intelligence-fabric, and reporting agents to transform mission intent and raw media into evidence-linked intelligence products, with human-in-the-loop review built into the workflow.
Airis Labs is designed for the operational realities of government missions: sensitive data boundaries, restricted networks, and environments where agencies need control over where mission data is processed. On OCI, Airis can support secure media exploitation workflows that combine AI-enabled speed with the governance, sovereignty, and deployment control required by government and defense organizations.
Together, Airis Labs and OCI can provide mission owners with a more unified analysis workflow to help agencies reduce the time between first signal and informed action.
Deploying AI-enabled media exploitation where mission data lives
For government and defense organizations running sensitive workloads with classified data, it’s important that data analysis occurs where the data lives. Processing data with Airis Labs within Oracle sovereign and classified regions can help agencies maintain control over sensitive footage and metadata, supporting the security and compliance requirements their missions require. This approach gives agencies a path to accelerate media exploitation without moving operational data outside trusted cloud boundaries.
This matters because many government and defense organizations cannot move mission data into commercial SaaS environments. OCI’s distributed cloud model gives agencies options to deploy workloads closer to the mission, aligned to security, sovereignty, classification, and operational-control requirements. By pairing Airis Labs with OCI, agencies can pursue AI-enabled media exploitation in environments that match their mission requirements, from government cloud regions to defense, sovereign, isolated, and classified deployments.
Oracle’s distributed cloud offerings include accredited regions that address required security, operational, and data sovereignty controls:
- Oracle US Government Cloud: managed by US citizens only and certified to operate at FedRAMP Class D (High) and DISA Impact Level (IL) 4, providing compliant, highly secure, and resilient infrastructure and solutions for US. federal agencies, state and local governments, and the companies that serve these government customers
- Oracle US Defense Cloud: managed by US citizens only and authorized for DISA IL2, IL4, and IL5 workloads, and in full compliance with DISA Security Requirements Guides (SRGs), with connections to DISA Boundary Cloud Access Points (BCAP) and the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)
- Oracle National Security Regions: air-gapped environments authorized at DISA IL6 and Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503, managed by government-cleared US citizens
- Oracle Cloud Isolated Regions: designed for global customers, these regions are disconnected, air-gapped environments with dedicated operations teams that help address each customer’s citizenship and security clearance requirements
- UK Sovereign Cloud: operated by UK citizens with SC clearance, maintains UK Police Assured Secure Facilities (PASF) accreditation, and aligns with the security principles established by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Government and defense use cases for AI-enabled media exploitation
Airis Labs on OCI can support a range of government and defense mission needs:
- Tactical intelligence and force protection: Operations teams can process frontline video, public posts, and other media from the field to help identify objects, locations, activity patterns, and emerging risks across an area of operation.
- Counterterrorism: Analysts can review livestreams, propaganda videos, symbols, speech, and online activity to support threat assessments.
- Trafficking and border security: Investigators can use authorized public media, seized devices, and field-collected content to help uncover routes, recruitment signals, vehicles, facilities, and movement patterns.
- Digital forensics and law enforcement: Agencies can turn data from seized smartphones, hard drives, cameras, and memory cards into searchable intelligence, helping investigators move through evidence sets more efficiently.
- Local operations: Regional, state, and local teams can correlate investigative leads and incident reports across agencies and jurisdictions.
- Disaster response: During crises, civilian video and public social media posts can provide early indicators of infrastructure damage, blocked roads, crowd movement, rescue needs, and emerging safety risks.
Get started with the Oracle Defense Ecosystem
In today’s threat landscape, speed, context, and trust in data can directly impact mission outcomes. Together, Airis Labs and OCI help government and defense organizations transform fragmented media into timely, actionable intelligence while maintaining control of sensitive mission data across sovereign and classified environments. With the Oracle Defense Ecosystem and its members like Airis Labs, organizations can start to move beyond traditional tradeoffs and unlock the full value of their data securely and at scale. Learn more about how Oracle is helping defense technology innovators, and apply to join the Oracle Defense Ecosystem here.