Field Kit
A short list of the hardware and reading we recommend to teams building AI that has to work at the edge. Nothing here is sponsored, and we keep it deliberately small.
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Edge Hardware
The class of hardware CommandRoomAI is built and validated on. Buy for the platform, not the bundle: check the seller and condition on any developer kit listing.
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB Developer Kit
The platform this site and the CommandRoomAI stack run on. 64GB of unified memory, up to 275 TOPS, and it can emulate the smaller Orin modules for sizing.
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit
The low-cost entry point for prototyping edge inference before committing to AGX-class hardware. Confirm the listing is the 8GB Super kit.
Samsung 990 PRO 2TB NVMe SSD
PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 storage for the Orin's NVMe slot. Model weights and audit logs belong on NVMe, not eMMC or microSD.
APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA (BR1500MS2)
Sine-wave battery backup with AVR. Degraded conditions start at the wall outlet; a clean shutdown protects both the filesystem and the audit trail.
Pelican 1510 Carry-On Case with Foam
IP67, carry-on sized, and the standard for moving a dev kit, drives, and cabling to a site without a rack.
Reading List
Books we hand to engineers and program leads working on autonomy, reliability, and AI in national security.
Army of None
Paul Scharre
Autonomous weapons and the future of war, from a former Army Ranger and Pentagon policy analyst. The clearest treatment of human judgment in autonomous systems.
Four Battlegrounds
Paul Scharre
Data, compute, talent, and institutions: the case for why AI competition is decided by how well organizations adopt it.
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Adkins, Beyer, Blankinship, et al.
Security and reliability treated as one discipline. Directly applicable to governance-first system design.
Release It! (2nd Edition)
Michael T. Nygard
Circuit breakers, bulkheads, and timeouts: the stability patterns behind systems that keep working when dependencies fail.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
Replication, consistency, and partition tolerance explained rigorously. Essential background for anything that must sync after a disconnect.
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