WEKA Federal Achieves Awardable Status in Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace

U.S. Department of War acquisition teams can now rapidly procure and deploy WEKA NeuralMesh software and solutions to get more AI output per GPU and per watt.

CAMPBELL, Calif., Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- WEKA, the AI data and memory infrastructure company, today announced that WEKA Federal, its wholly-owned subsidiary, has been named an "Awardable" vendor in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, recognized among a competitive field of applicants whose solutions demonstrated innovation, scalability, and potential impact on Department of War (DoW) missions. With this designation, WEKA® NeuralMesh™ software and solutions are now available for rapid procurement and deployment by DoW mission owners who need to accelerate artificial intelligence deployments in production without expanding their data center footprint or energy envelope.

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. This enables DoW program offices to avoid repeat technical evaluations and shortens the path from validated requirement to fielded capability. Tradewinds is housed in the DoW's Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO).

"Every AI system the DoW fields is competing for the same megawatts, the same rack space, and the same accelerators. WEKA NeuralMesh makes each of those go further by turning data from a bottleneck into a force multiplier," said Brian Froeling, board member of WEKA Federal and chief revenue officer of WEKA. "The CDAO's Awardable designation means there's no procurement marathon ahead for DoW mission owners. Now they can award NeuralMesh directly and put it to work, fast."

One Data Layer, Wherever the Mission Runs
NeuralMesh was architected for the AI era, not retrofitted for it. Backed by more than 170 patents, it runs on standard hardware and in major public clouds, serving POSIX, S3, NFS, SMB, and GPUDirect Storage from a single namespace that scales to exabytes. With NeuralMesh, DoW program owners can:

• Run a unified data layer that supports AI training, inference, and analytics across accredited data centers, cloud regions, and air-gapped environments.
• Move applications between environments without requiring rewrites or separate infrastructure stacks.
• Serve training data, checkpoints, and inference workloads through a native S3 object store that shares the same NVMe blocks and namespace as file data; no separate tier, no gateway, no duplicate copies to secure and manage.
• Reduce infrastructure footprint by up to 8x and power draw by up to 6x versus scale-out NAS architectures at AI-factory scale, returning rack space, cooling headroom, and megawatts to the mission.
• Reduce model training time by up to 20x, compressing the path from data to deployed capability.
• Accelerate inference and agentic workloads with NeuralMesh and Augmented Memory GridTM, serving up to 10x more concurrent users per GPU while lowering cost per token.

Established in 2020, WEKA Federal operates as an independent subsidiary supporting U.S. federal, defense, and public sector missions, delivering solutions across accredited data centers, cloud, tactical edge, and air-gapped environments. U.S. federal government agencies, national laboratories, research institutions, and contractors rely on NeuralMesh to run production AI, machine learning, and accelerated compute workloads.

Watch the WEKA Federal Solution Video
WEKA Federal's solution video, "The Data Path is the Mission," is available only to government customers on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace and demonstrates how WEKA Federal's awardable NeuralMesh software and hardware solutions deliver mission-speed data for training, inference, and the tactical edge. Visit www.tradewindai.com to get started.

To learn more about NeuralMesh, visit: https://www.weka.io/product/neuralmesh.

About the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace
The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the Department of War's (DoW's) most significant challenges in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), data, and analytics space. 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.

About WEKA
WEKA is the AI data and memory infrastructure company transforming the economics of agentic AI. The WEKA® NeuralMesh™ platform unifies high-performance data storage with extended GPU memory, giving enterprises, AI cloud providers, and AI builders a single foundation for training, inference, and agentic workloads. With Augmented Memory Grid™, NeuralMesh extends GPU memory capacity by 1000x, accelerates time to first token by up to 20x, and delivers 10x more concurrent users from the same GPU footprint, proven in production benchmarks. Trusted by 30% of the Fortune 50, WEKA enables organizations to scale AI faster, optimize GPU utilization, and reduce the cost of every token served. Learn more at www.weka.io or connect with us on LinkedIn and X.

WEKA and the WEKA logo are registered trademarks, and WEKA NeuralMesh and Augmented Memory Grid are trademarks of WekaIO, Inc. Other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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