The governed AI orchestration platform is now available to Government Customers through an accelerated acquisition pathway. 

RESTON, Va., Sept. 21st, 2026 – Oteemo, a provider of enterprise AI, digital engineering, and modernization capabilities for the Department of War (DoW) and federal agencies, today announced that it has achieved Awardable status through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace for Oteemo AXIOM™, the company’s enterprise AI orchestration platform. 

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), digital, and data analytics capabilities. 

Oteemo AXIOM™ gives government organizations a single governed environment for adopting AI: approved models, agent development, policy enforcement, and cost visibility in one place, so use cases move from pilot into operational use rather than stalling in review. Oteemo delivers the platform with AI Forward Deployed Engineers who work inside the customer environment. 

“Government organizations do not need more AI experiments. They need a trusted path to put AI to work against real mission requirements,” said Raja Gudepu, CEO of Oteemo. “Awardable status gives Government Customers a faster route to Oteemo AXIOM™ and to the engineers who deploy it.” 

One Governed Foundation for Enterprise AI 

Oteemo AXIOM™ is an enterprise AI orchestration platform delivered as a service: one governed workspace for the people doing the work, one control plane for IT. It gives an organization a standard way to adopt AI, bringing approved models, agent development, policy enforcement, and cost visibility into a single environment. 

Oteemo built the platform because no existing product solved the problem the way mission and regulated environments require. Most vendors compete on speed to deploy. The question that decides whether a pilot reaches operational use is trust to deploy. 

Agents that can clear a security review. Agents act on systems and data, yet most cannot answer basic security questions: what identity an agent uses, what it may touch, and what it actually did. In Oteemo AXIOM™, every agent runs under its own identity with scoped permissions, executes in a sandbox, and writes to an immutable audit trail, so security teams review agents with the same rigor they apply to people and applications. 

Policy enforced before data crosses the boundary. Every prompt is both a data event and a cost decision. Oteemo AXIOM™ inspects prompts before they leave the organizational boundary and blocks policy violations at the source, then routes each request to the model best suited to the task, reducing token cost 30 to 50 percent. 

One standard, any model. Rather than committing an organization to a single model, provider, or proprietary ecosystem, Oteemo AXIOM™ is model-agnostic by design and deploys across cloud, on-premises, classified, and air-gapped environments. Users keep one consistent interface while IT adds or swaps providers behind it. 

AXIOM Portal is the workspace teams use. AXIOM Core is the governance engine beneath it, covering policy enforcement, agent identity and access management, sandboxed execution, immutable audit, intelligent model routing, and AI FinOps. Everything the workforce touches runs through the Portal, and everything the Portal does is governed by Core. 

Built for Mission Environments Where AI Must Be Governed 

Oteemo AXIOM™ was developed from more than a decade of Oteemo’s work solving mission-critical problems for program offices across the Department of War, spanning modernization, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native engineering, Zero Trust, and software delivery in accredited and classified environments. 

That experience shaped the platform. Rather than treating governance, security, compliance, and deployment architecture as items addressed after a proof of concept, Oteemo AXIOM™ makes them part of the foundation. Government organizations apply the same governed platform across software delivery and legacy modernization, IT operations, compliance and risk, cybersecurity operations, AI cost governance, and workforce productivity. 

Oteemo pairs the platform with AI Forward Deployed Engineers and AI coaches who build agents, workflows, and integrations against mission requirements, reimagine existing processes as agentic ones, and upskill government teams so capability stays with the organization. Organizations deploying Oteemo AXIOM™ with this model reach a first production use case in 90 days, compared with the six to twelve months typical of enterprise AI programs. 

How Government Customers Access the Solution 

Oteemo’s solution video, accessible only by Government Customers on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, presents an actual use case demonstrating how Oteemo AXIOM™ brings approved models, governed agents, and organizational knowledge into one controlled environment. Oteemo was recognized among a competitive field of applicants to the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace whose solution videos demonstrated innovation, scalability, and potential impact on DoW missions. 

Government Customers interested in viewing the solution video can create a Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace account at tradewindAI.com. To discuss mission-specific requirements with Oteemo directly, contact [email protected]. 

“This is about reducing the distance between a mission need and a working capability,” Gudepu added. “We want government teams to have an environment where AI can be governed, integrated with the systems they already run, adapted to their mission, and trusted enough to put into operation.” 

About Oteemo 

Oteemo is an AI transformation and digital engineering firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia. For more than a decade, Oteemo has delivered software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, cloud and platform modernization, AI and data, and human-centered design capabilities in highly regulated and mission-critical environments across the Department of War, federal agencies, and commercial enterprises. 

Oteemo AXIOM™ extends that experience into a governed enterprise AI orchestration platform built to help organizations move beyond disconnected AI pilots and put AI into production. Oteemo teams are working alongside customers today to reimagine existing workflows as agentic processes, build and deploy governed agents against real operational requirements, and develop lasting AI capability within customer organizations rather than dependence on outside providers. 

Learn more at oteemo.com/solutions/axiom. 

About the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace 

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily Awardable solution videos that address the Department of War’s (DoW’s) most significant challenges in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), digital, and data analytics space. All Awardable solution videos have been assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures and are available to Government Customers with a TSM account. Government Customers can create an account at www.tradewindai.com. Tradewinds is housed in the DoW’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO).