Walacor is proud to announce that our secure data platform has been assessed as “Awardable” by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace — the Department of War’s premier channel for accelerating the procurement and adoption of AI, data, and analytics capabilities.
This designation means that Walacor’s solution has met rigorous evaluation standards through competitive scoring procedures and is now available for rapid acquisition by government customers across the Department of War.
What This Means for Government Customers
Our 5-minute video solution, “Walacor: The Software Node of Trust for Secure AI and Data Integrity,” is now accessible to government customers on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. The video demonstrates how Walacor assures reliable data sources to help DoW personnel make confident decisions, addressing three critical use cases that the Department of War faces today:
- Trusting AI Against Data Poisoning — Adversaries have learned to manipulate AI training data and erase signs of tampering, creating significant operational risks. Walacor’s private blockchain-backed immutability ensures that training data is provably untampered, giving decision-makers confidence that AI model outputs are grounded in verified inputs.
- Securing the Explosion of Mission-Critical Data — As data volumes grow across every branch and mission area, traditional architectures fail to address the complexities of modern operations. Walacor’s platform ensures data integrity at the record level with quantum-resistant encryption and 100% auditability, regardless of whether data is structured, unstructured, binary, or metadata.
- Protecting Against the Growing Threat of Ransomware — Ransomware attacks continue to grow in frequency and sophistication. Walacor’s effortless replication and immutable audit trails ensure operational resilience, enabling rapid recovery and maintaining persistent data integrity even in compromised environments.
How Walacor’s Technology Works
Walacor is a robust “Platform as a Database” solution built with a containerized microservices architecture. It operates as both a standalone secure data store and a seamless integration layer with existing systems. The platform combines several capabilities that competitors do not offer in a single product:
- Advanced Encryption — AES-256+ quantum-resistant encryption with unlimited symmetric keys, one for each record, creating an impenetrable “wall around your core data.”
- Detectable Immutability — Blockchain-backed tamper-proof data integrity with full chain of custody, enabling instant detection of unauthorized modifications.
- Comprehensive Change Logs — Built-in audit capabilities that track every single data change over time, simplifying compliance and forensic analysis.
- Effortless Replication — Additional nodes replicate what’s stored in the primary node, ensuring operational resilience in disconnected and edge environments.
- The Vault — Secure storage for critical assets, working side-by-side with your existing systems to serve as an auditable backup.
Our platform has been validated through Red Team evaluations confirming its security posture, and scalability and performance testing in NetApp Labs demonstrated minimal latency even under heavy workloads — making it ideal for DoW applications requiring rapid, secure decision-making.
Why Tradewinds Matters
The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace represents a fundamental shift in how the Department of War discovers, assesses, and acquires technology. Rather than traditional, lengthy procurement processes, Tradewinds uses competitive vendor-submitted video pitches rigorously evaluated against federal standards to surface validated, high-impact solutions. The result is an agile, transparent, and accelerated pathway connecting technology providers directly with defense stakeholders.
Walacor was recognized among a competitive field of applicants whose solutions demonstrated innovation, scalability, and potential impact on DoW missions. Our solution aligns with the CDAO’s Assuring Cybersecurity and Assuring Reliable Data Sources focus areas.
“This Awardable designation validates what our government and commercial partners already know: that Walacor is the data integrity layer the Department of War needs to trust AI-driven decisions in contested environments,” said Lara George, CEO of Walacor Corporation. “We are honored to be recognized among this competitive field and look forward to supporting the DoW’s mission-critical operations.”
Availability and Contract Vehicles
Walacor has been awarded a D2P2 SBIR and government contracts, and is partnering with Federal System Integrators, MSPs, and Technology Partners. Our platform is available on multiple contract vehicles including NASA SEWP, GSA, ITES, NASPO, OMNIA, QUILT, CPO 83 RDT&E, and CPO 80 O&M. Walacor is CMMC 2.0 Compliant.
Government customers interested in viewing our video solution can create a Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace account at tradewindai.com.
For more information about Walacor’s secure data platform, visit walacor.com or contact us at lara@walacor.com.
About the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace
The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the DoW’s most significant challenges in AI/ML, data, and analytics.
The Solutions Marketplace Model is fully compliant with the SECWAR Memo entitled “Directing Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality” (March 6, 2025) and the Executive Order entitled, “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base” (April 9, 2025).
All awardable solutions have been assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures and are available to Government customers with a Marketplace account. Government customers can create an account at www.tradewindai.com. Tradewinds is housed in the DoW’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office.
