Second Front Systems (2F) and Cohere today announced the successful deployment of Cohere North in a live edge environment in the United Arab Emirates in under two hours. The deployment ran aboard an Armada Galleon, a portable, containerized edge data center, demonstrating that enterprise-grade sovereign AI can be delivered anywhere, at mission speed. Second Front provides Frontier, the secure delivery platform used to deploy North, while Cohere provides North, its secure and sovereign agentic AI platform.
Second Front and Cohere deploy Cohere North in UAE in under 2 hours.
Deployment aboard Armada Galleon portable edge data center.
Sovereign AI infrastructure and models can be run and controlled entirely on own terms.
2F Frontier platform deploys software into disconnected, edge, and tactical environments.
Full customer rollout of Cohere North planned for later summer 2026.
Cohere has raised ~$1.6B from strategic tech and institutional investors.
Sovereign AI, meaning AI infrastructure and models a nation or organization can run, secure, and control entirely on its own terms, has become a strategic priority for governments that cannot depend on foreign cloud infrastructure. Standing up this kind of capability has traditionally required months of integration work, custom hardware, and disconnected systems. In the UAE, 2F Frontier, Second Front's platform for deploying software into disconnected, edge, and tactical environments, brought Cohere's North platform online aboard an Armada Galleon, compressing that process into a single onsite session.
Tyler Sweatt, CEO of Second Front, stated: "Sovereign capability does not need a year to stand up. This deployment proves it can be done in mere hours. What we demonstrated in the UAE, when mission-aligned companies partner together, is the model going forward. Real environments, real speed, real mission impact."
Ivan Zhang, Co-founder at Cohere, added: "Enterprise-grade AI must be sovereign by design. Cohere's North platform brings frontier AI models into a customer's own environment, with data never leaving their perimeter and no external points of failure. What we achieved proves sovereign AI can be stood up quickly and reliably. Working alongside Second Front and Armada, we're delivering a new deployable anywhere model of AI sovereignty in a box."
Dan Wright, Co-founder and CEO of Armada, commented: "Galleons are built to bring enterprise-grade infrastructure anywhere it is needed, without a permanent buildout. Watching Frontier enable Cohere North to come online so rapidly is the clearest proof yet of what that infrastructure enables for partners moving quickly in the region."
The successful deployment sets the stage for a full customer rollout of Cohere North later this summer, bringing a sovereign AI capability that resides entirely within the customer's own borders and under its control into operational use.
About Second Front Systems
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world's leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks.
About Cohere
Cohere, founded in 2019, is a security-first enterprise AI leader building foundation models and end-to-end products to solve real-world business problems. Our all-in-one platform provides maximum security, privacy, and deployment flexibility across clouds, private environments, and on-premises. The company has raised ~$1.6B from strategic tech investors and institutional investors.
About Armada
Armada is the hyperscaler for the edge, delivering modular AI infrastructure from first deployment to AI factory with speed, scale, and sovereignty.
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