DBT Bureau
Pune, 17 June 2025
Oracle announced the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, a first-of-its-kind global initiative to redefine the delivery of defense and government technology innovation. The ecosystem is designed to strengthen U.S. and allied national security and help accelerate the disruptive potential of emerging defense technology by creating new opportunities for defense innovators to leverage the latest cloud and AI technologies. Initial members of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem include Arqit, Blackshark.ai, Entanglement, Fenix Group, now part of Nokia Federal Solutions, Koniku, Kraken, Mattermost, Metron, SensusQ, and Whitespace.
“Nothing is more important than the national security of the U.S. and its allies, and Oracle has been a cornerstone of this mission for nearly 50 years,” said Rand Waldron, vice president, Oracle. “Oracle and our defense ecosystem plans to innovate and scale to help the U.S. and its allies deter conflicts and win on physical and digital battlefields.”
National security teams are often unable to access the latest cloud and AI technologies, especially from up-and-coming technology vendors, due to complex procurement processes, strict qualification standards, and the relationship networks required to gain admission into the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). To address these challenges and enable the U.S. and its allies to access the most advanced defense technology, the Oracle Defense Ecosystem will build on Oracle’s decades of defense and intelligence expertise and leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). OCI is trusted by the defense and government sector and meets its strict compliance requirements.
Benefits of Oracle Defense Ecosystem
Defense and government technology organizations that join the Oracle Defense Ecosystem can accelerate growth by quickly and easily accessing the following capabilities from Oracle and its partners:
- Oracle Sales Support: Members can work with Oracle’s sales team, which serves hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide, to develop global defense industry messaging and solutions that best meet the unique needs of each customer and leverage solutions from within the ecosystem to deliver unmatched technology innovation to defense organizations.
- Palantir for Builders: Members can leverage Palantir Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) on OCI. Palantir’s end-to-end software platform helps early-stage companies with internal operations, product development, LLM integration, security, and governance.
- Oracle Cloud Marketplace: Members can make their solutions available to customers in every OCI region globally. Oracle Cloud Marketplace offers a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for delivering updates and new features directly to customers, wherever they are.
- Defense Acquisition Guidance: Members can work with Oracle’s dedicated executive advisors to gain the defense, technology, and procurement expertise they need to accelerate growth.
- Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Acceleration: Members can significantly speed up CMMC compliance, helping save months of manual work mapping controls and setting up compliance-ready cloud architecture, by leveraging the OCI Core Landing Zone.
- Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA) Compliance: Members can reduce the time and cost of building SCCA-compliant deployments, standardize their security approach across entire system portfolios, and simplify workload deployment by leveraging the Oracle Cloud Native SCCA Landing Zone framework and documentation, while tapping into Oracle’s expertise in these areas.
- Oracle NetSuite: Members will have access to preferred pricing for NetSuite’s AI-powered business management suite, which is trusted by more than 42,000 organizations to streamline business processes and provide a scalable foundation for growth.
- Facilities: Members can receive access to Oracle secure office space used to support defense customers.
- Training and Certification: Members can benefit from Oracle University training and certification credits for OCI, applications, and database.
