An SDVOSB AI lab for government and defense missions.

Why an SDVOSB matters to a contracting officer

Federal agencies have a government-wide goal for prime contract dollars awarded to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation lets contracting officers set aside competitions for SDVOSBs and, within limits, award sole-source contracts to them. The Department of Veterans Affairs runs its own veteran-first contracting program. As an SDVOSB, The AI Cowboys is eligible for set-aside and sole-source awards.

Our identifiers and registration details are on our company and contact pages and in the capability statement on our research page.

What we build for the mission

Our focus, in priority order, is AI and neuromorphic computing, physical and embodied AI, cybersecurity, and quantum computing, plus the synthetic and real-world data behind all of it.

• Edge and neuromorphic perception

  Perception that runs on a drone, a sensor or a satellite. In our lab, a hybrid Jetson plus Akida deployment held the same accuracy at 9 W that the Jetson alone needed 120 W for.

• Air-gapped and on-prem AI

  Language models and analytics deployed inside the perimeter, with no dependency on an outside AI provider.

• Cybersecurity and AI trust

  Autonomous security operations, AI agent security, and continuous human verification through our MagenTrust product.

• Independent validation

  Third-party testing of vendor AI claims, including robustness, latency, power and security, to a protocol frozen before measurement.

• Mission data

  Human-labeled real-world datasets and privacy-preserving synthetic data for training and test.

• Training

  Hands-on AI, machine learning, quantum and cybersecurity training as an NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and IBM SkillsBuild partner.

Built in a military city

Our office is at the UT San Antonio College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing in downtown San Antonio, and we are resident at the UTSA National Security Collaboration Center. San Antonio is home to Joint Base San Antonio, the NSA Texas Cryptologic Center and Sixteenth Air Force, one of the densest cyber and defense communities in the country. Building here is a deliberate choice about proximity to the mission.

Security practice

We follow secure software development practice under Executive Order 14028, deliver a software bill of materials, and align our work to NIST, CMMC and FedRAMP. Everything we build deploys on-premises, air-gapped, or in the customer's own cloud.

Questions about government & defense

Go deeper

• CMMC and AI tools →

  What defense contractors need to know.

• Independent AI validation →

  Evidence for a program office.

• Edge, on-prem and air-gapped AI →

  AI that keeps working offline.

• Cybersecurity and AI trust →

  Autonomous SOC and human verification.

• AI training and workshops →

  NVIDIA DLI and IBM SkillsBuild partner.

• Company and leadership →

  Who we are and where to find us.