This blog post is included in our Oracle Defense Ecosystem member spotlight series
Mission-critical defense and intelligence information is often locked behind classification levels, organizational boundaries, and sovereign controls. The result is that teams can’t get a complete picture quickly enough to act. Insights are delayed, fragmented, or never surface at all. For years, organizations have had to choose between two imperfect options: share data and accept the risks or lock it down and limit its usefulness. This challenge becomes even more complex in multi-agency operations, where organizations must collaborate without necessarily trusting one another with raw data.
Traditional approaches rely on moving or centralizing data to enable collaboration and can introduce operational delays or increased risk of exposure. That tradeoff is becoming unsustainable as adversaries rapidly advance their technological capabilities.
Modern missions demand real-time collaboration across agencies, domains, and allies. The question now is: “How can teams work together on sensitive data without actually exposing it?” Oracle and Duality Technologies offer a different approach, allowing teams to collaborate securely without transferring or exposing the underlying data.
Secure data collaboration with the Oracle Defense Ecosystem
Addressing this challenge requires more than a single company’s solution. The Oracle Defense Ecosystem brings together specialized technology providers to deliver solutions that can run across secure, distributed environments to serve the defense mission where it’s needed, from the core to the tactical edge.
Duality Technologies, an Oracle Defense Ecosystem member, enables allies to collaborate on sensitive data without sharing it. Instead of moving datasets between organizations or environments, Duality allows teams to run analytics directly on encrypted data. That means organizations can work together and generate insights without ever exposing the underlying information. Available on Oracle Marketplace, Duality empowers defense and intelligence agencies to unlock value from distributed data while maintaining control over privacy and compliance.
Unlocking insights without breaking data boundaries
Duality provides privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), including fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), trusted execution environments (TEEs), and federated learning (FL) so multiple organizations can jointly analyze data and generate shared results while enabling each party’s inputs to remain private—even from one another. FHE enables computation directly on encrypted data, helping to ensure that sensitive information remains protected even during analysis. Trusted execution environments enable agencies to run any workloads using hardware-based solutions to protect both model and data. Federated learning allows organizations to collaboratively train shared models across distributed datasets without centralizing or exposing the underlying data. Each participant trains locally on its own data, contributing only model updates to a shared model.
Further, because the data doesn’t need to be duplicated in each environment, Duality reduces the time and cost burden of low to high data replication. For example, teams operating across different security levels can use Duality’s platform to run joint analytics without transferring raw data between systems, performing high-to-low side analysis. This is particularly impactful for multi-agency and coalition operations. For example, agencies investigating a shared threat can combine insights from separate systems and generate a unified analytic result without exposing underlying data or sources.
Together, these capabilities help enable secure analytics across organizational and classification boundaries without required data movement or exposure.
When integrated with Oracle’s AI Data Platform, Duality can help organizations plug into tools and workflows they already use, while extending them to support secure, privacy-preserving analytics. That means teams can start collaborating across boundaries much faster. For example, analysts working in separate environments can generate shared insights without waiting on data transfers or approvals. The work happens where the data already lives.
Privacy-preserving analytics on OCI with Duality
Deployed on OCI, Duality’s platform leverages high-bandwidth, low-latency architecture to support compute-intensive analytics and AI workloads. This allows agencies to scale securely while maintaining the speed and responsiveness required for mission-critical operations. When deployed in government, sovereign, and classified environments, this capability helps enable secure collaboration across domains without requiring data movement or duplication.
Analysts can perform queries and generate insights directly on encrypted datasets, preserving control and minimizing exposure risk. Together, Duality and OCI can provide agencies with a foundation for secure, scalable analytics across mission environments.
Running Duality Technologies on OCI, defense and intelligence agencies can experience:
- Security and compliance: OCI is designed with a security-first architecture, providing built-in protections such as isolated network virtualization, encryption by default, and strict identity and access management controls. When combined with Duality’s encryption-based processing, organizations can enforce end-to-end data protection while addressing evolving regulatory requirements.
- Performance and scalability: Advanced analytics and AI workloads require significant compute resources. OCI’s high performance computing (HPC) can help organizations scale securely, supporting complex computations on encrypted data without compromising speed or efficiency. This approach helps ensure that mission-critical insights can be generated across alliances in real time.
- Data sovereignty and control: Oracle’s distributed cloud capabilities can allow agencies to deploy solutions in environments that meet their specific sovereignty and classification requirements. Oracle’s sovereign cloud solutions include:
- US Government Cloud, certified to operate at FedRAMP Class D (High) and DISA Impact Level (IL) 2 and IL4
- US Defense Cloud, authorized at Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) IL2, IL4, and IL5
- Air-gapped Oracle National Security Regions, authorized at IL6 and Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503
- UK Sovereign Cloud, which aligns with the security principles outlined by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) for storing UK OFFICIAL SENSITIVE data and maintains UK Police Assured Secure Facilities (PASF) accreditation
- EU Sovereign Cloud, accessible to commercial and public sector organizations located in the European Union (EU) to align with EU data privacy and sovereignty requirements
- Cost efficiency and operational simplicity: By eliminating the need to duplicate or transfer large datasets between environments, Duality can reduce both infrastructure costs and operational overhead. Customers can save even more of their budget when pairing Duality with OCI, which offers consistently low, standardized global pricing across all regions, with no price increase for government or higher security classification levels.
Together, Duality Technologies and OCI change can help defense and intelligence organizations move toward a more collaborative, intelligence-driven approach to decision making.
Extending secure data collaboration beyond defense
Duality’s capabilities on OCI can extend across a wide range of non-defense industries where data privacy and collaboration are equally critical.
- Healthcare: Organizations can collaborate on research and predictive modeling with safeguards against exposing patient data, enabling breakthroughs while supporting compliance with privacy regulations.
- Finance: Institutions can perform joint fraud detection and risk analysis across entities with measures against sharing sensitive customer information.
- Public sector: Agencies can coordinate across departments to address complex challenges such as disaster response, social services, and environmental monitoring, leveraging shared insights while helping preserve data confidentiality.
- Telecommunications: Organizations can collaborate with partners to optimize operations and improve forecasting, all while helping prevent relinquishing control of proprietary data.
Get started with the Oracle Defense Ecosystem
With the Oracle Defense Ecosystem and its members like Duality Technologies, 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.