MinIO AIStor Assessed “Awardable” for Department of War Work in CDAO’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace

MinIO, the data foundation for enterprise AI, announced that MinIO AIStor, the Exascale Data Store for the AI Enterprise, has been designated ‘Awardable’ by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the Department of War’s (DoW’s) suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), data, and analytics capabilities.

Achieving ‘Awardable’ status means DoW customers can more easily evaluate, engage, and acquire AIStor as a mission-ready AI data store for workloads spanning sensor, edge, on-premises, and sovereign cloud environments.

“Data is the fuel for every modern AI system, and MinIO AIStor is purpose-built to ensure that government missions have fast, scalable, and resilient access to that data,” said Cameron Chehreh, president & GM, MinIO Government. “Achieving ‘Awardable’ status by the Tradewinds Marketplace is an honor and validates that MinIO is a trusted partner for secure, sovereign AI data infrastructure at scale.”

MinIO AIStor is the high-performance data foundation used across defense and civilian agencies to store, move, and operationalize AI-ready data from core to cloud to the tactical edge.

With AIStor, agencies can:

• Unify mission data in a scalable, S3-compatible object storage layer optimized for AI
• Accelerate AI workflows with high-throughput, low-latency access to trusted data
• Secure sensitive environments with encryption, identity controls, and KMS/HSM integration
• Integrate seamlessly with AI/ML frameworks, vector databases, and analytics tools
• Build resilient, multi-site pipelines for mission continuity across domains

MinIO is honored to support the DoW’s mission and works to operationalize data and unify AI infrastructure to power the mission from sensor to the tactical edge, addressing complexities such as operational scale, security and compliance, data accessibility, modernization mandates, and more.

Government customers interested in exploring MinIO AIStor can create a Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace account at tradewindAI.com.