In the world of mission-critical operations, speed of information is often the difference between success and failure. For organizations operating within the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and critical infrastructure sectors, the challenge isn’t just finding information, it’s doing so within the most stringent security architectures on the planet.
Today, Atolio and Tomahawk are proud to announce a strategic partnership aimed at revolutionizing how mission-driven organizations access and utilize their internal data. By integrating Atolio’s “connect everything, leak nothing” platform with Tomahawk’s deep expertise in mission-critical information systems, we are providing a secure, permission-aware path to AI-driven knowledge discovery.
Built for the Mission
Atolio is uniquely engineered for the exact environments where Tomahawk excels: air-gapped networks, secure VPCs, and specialized hardware deployments. Because Atolio operates 100% on-premises and remains entirely within the customer’s security boundary, it meets the rigorous data sovereignty requirements of the nation’s most sensitive institutions, as evidenced by its work with the U.S. Air Force.
"Tomahawk understands the high-stakes nature of mission-critical data better than anyone," says David Lanstein, CEO at Atolio. "By partnering with Tomahawk’s team, we’re ensuring that the organizations supporting our national security and critical infrastructure have the power of modern discovery tools at their fingertips, without ever compromising on security."
Key Partnership Highlights:
- Classified and Air-Gapped Deployment: Tomahawk brings proven capability to deploy Atolio inside DoD, IC, and critical infrastructure environments, including air-gapped networks and specialized hardware, where most AI vendors simply can't operate.
- Closes the Shadow AI Gap: Employees inside secure environments turning to unauthorized external AI tools with sensitive data is a common and acute risk. Atolio gives Tomahawk's clients a permissioned, on-prem alternative that removes the incentive to go around IT.
- Reaches the Teams Standard AI Can't: Many organizations run internal LLM instances but still exclude their most sensitive teams from any AI tool at all. Atolio is built for exactly that population.
- Model Choice Where It Matters: Atolio supports Anthropic, Gemini, and OpenAI-class models alongside open-source and self-hosted options, a real advantage at accounts running mixed Microsoft environments or self-hosted model requirements.
- A Control-Plane Story That Keeps Pace: Atolio's roadmap, including MCP call interception, an agent kill-switch, and token cost controls, extends directly into the security control-plane conversation Tomahawk is already having with CISOs.
- Permission-Aware by Default: Atolio's deep permission-syncing ensures users only see the data they're authorized to access, even across disparate systems, keeping "need-to-know" the standard.
- Faster Time-to-Insight: Unifying legacy systems, modern collaboration tools, and mission-specific databases into one search layer cuts the time analysts and operators spend hunting for information before they can act on it.
"We are committed to providing our clients with the most advanced technology to support their critical missions," says Quentin Thomas, VP of Sales. "Atolio’s architecture is a perfect fit for the secure environments we build and manage. It provides a level of insight and discovery previously unattainable in high-side or air-gapped deployments."