Foundational technologies addressing sensitive data, resilient operations, and human readiness.
Safer AI adoption
Put sensitive data to work. Protect what matters.
Make AI useful in places where exposing sensitive information is not an option.
Hardshell builds exposure testing, monitoring, and data hardening for AI training and retrieval.
What this could unlock
Protecting proprietary knowledge could open more AI workflows in finance, healthcare, and national security.
Encrypted inference
Google’s HEIR work demonstrates how homomorphic encryption can let AI computation operate on encrypted data—a broader direction for privacy-preserving AI.
This industry research provides context for privacy-preserving AI. It is not a claim about Hardshell’s customer adoption, contracts, or commercial results.
Build more resilient navigation, communications, and operations across air, space, and ground.
General Orbit develops navigation beyond GPS. Certus Core turns disconnected sensor data into traceable answers at the edge. Sumeria Space develops optical-link orchestration. Frontera Space develops autonomous aerospace systems.
What this could unlock
Independent navigation, edge-native data fusion, adaptable communications, and autonomous systems could reduce fragile dependencies across commercial and national security operations.
A growing need
GPS signal-loss events rose 220% from 2021 to 2024 in IATA’s Flight Data eXchange dataset.
The figure describes event counts in IATA’s dataset, not the share of all flights affected or a portfolio result. These companies address different operational dependencies; their products are not presented as an integrated system.
This describes the company’s public capabilities. Outcomes depend on the training design, validation, and use; it does not imply proven performance improvements or customer adoption.
Potential outcomes based on company-described capabilities and the sources above. Broader impact depends on validation, adoption, and deployment. Research reviewed October 5, 2026.
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