The AI Summit New York was a resounding end to the year. GT Edge AI exhibited the GT AI Operating System software running on the Dell Pro Max with GB10 at the Dell & NVIDIA booth. The GT AI OS enables organizations to deploy generative AI with compliance, data privacy and financial controls. In addition, local students from the City University of New York (CUNY), Carnegie Mellon and and NYU interned at the booth gaining valuable work experience at the top tier event. GT AI OS Enterprise ServerDell Pro Max with GB10 To staff the GT Edge AI section of the Dell booth, a team of CUNY volunteers was assembled and thoroughly prepared to understand the GT Edge AI AI OS Server, develop key talking points on AI Agent use cases, and share insights on the potential of Dell and NVIDIA hardware. In addition to their booth responsibilities, the CUNY…
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A group of students recently visited GT Edge AI’s data center, where they participated in a productive day of activities. During their visit, they designed and developed custom AI agents, successfully created Virtual Machines on Proxmox, and engaged in insightful discussions with our team to develop critical thinking and hands on practical experience. The custom AI agents they developed included a volunteer opportunities research agent, a nutrition planner agent, and a financial literacy agent. They also met with our industry partners to explore various career pathways and opportunities.
GT Edge AI is committed to supporting our nation’s warfighters and Defense Industrial Base. Our CMMC compliant AI software and SaaS platforms are available to the Department of War and defense contractors worldwide, empowering them with specialized AI desktop and server products for their daily workflows.
At this DMV CMMC ecosystem community event, GT Edge AI showcased our AI Operation System Agent tools for CMMC. These Agents accelerate compliance workflows such as onboarding new CMMC practitioners, creating SSP’s, CMMC Compliance document Q&A helpers, mock assessments and evidence reviews. We demonstrated a Dell rack mount workstation with NVIDIA RTX GPU for workgroups and the compact NVIDIA DGX Spark supercomputer powered by a 128GB Grace Blackwell processor. Both deployments ran the GT AI OS software which provide compliant, fully local, AI processing for CUI workflows.
GT Edge AI Founder and CEO, Tom Bendien, had the opportunity to participate as a guest speaker on the George Mason University Society of Women Engineers’ Engineering Panel. We are collaborating with SWE to provide AI Literacy workshops for students, empowering them to develop critical thinking skills and responsible use of AI. This will prepare them to enter the workforce with a high degree of AI proficiency.
Cyberbytes Foundation and GT Edge AI partnered to deliver a week-long cyber career exploration program for middle and high-school students. Students used the GT Edge AI Academy platform to learn how to use Ai responsibly, develop personal growth & workplace skills development via internships and projects. Key items covered as well were the risks of developing “AI Zombie Syndrome” – cognitively offloading critical thinking to AI. The AI agents delivered on the GT Edge AI OS platform were specifically designed to foster critical thinking, problem solving, step by step explanations with effective safety guardrails.
[Washington, DC] – Oct 28, 2025 – GT Edge AI today announced that its AI Operating System (GT AI OS) has been certified on NVIDIA DGX Spark
NVIDIA DGX Spark is a new desktop AI supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. The device enables users to run AI workflows locally on a compact desktop system.
The GT AI OS for DGX Spark provides a seamless web interface user experience which allows users to chat with local and external LLMs, run private AI Web Search, create agents, local datasets and more.
The Gen 2 GT Edge AI Operating System was officially launched for general release at GTC DC 2025. In addition, we announced our membership of the NVIDIA Inception program that is designed to help startups accelerate innovation and growth. We demonstrated our AI Operating System software which is now certified to run on NVIDIA DGX Spark and DGX OS hardware from OEM’s such as Dell, HPE, PNY, Gigabyte, MSI and others. #NVIDIAInception #SparkSomethingBig © 2025 NVIDIA and the NVIDIA logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
[Leesburg, Virginia] – October 27, 2025 – GT Edge AI is contributing to providing opportunities for advancing AI skills by launching the GT Edge AI Academy.
Rising concerns that people use AI merely to offload cognitive tasks, rather than for self‑learning, underscore the need for a curriculum that preserves critical thinking and problem‑solving skills.
GT Edge AI participated in the second annual LCPS CTAE Workforce Summit. We are long-time supporters of Loudoun County Public Schools and were pleased to continue our commitment to the educational community. James Barogh, an LCPS alum from Potomac Falls High School, joined a student panel and shared how he began with hands-on projects at GT Edge AI, built industry connections, and is now working part-time with the company as an AI Solutions Specialist for Education.
Following the October 10 2025 publication of 48 CFR, all defense contracts awarded after 10 November 2025 were required to meet the applicable CMMC levels to conduct business with the Department of War. CS5 East convened defense contractors and the CMMC assessor and consulting community from across the nation to discuss, debate, and collaborate on compliance and readiness strategies. GT Edge AI was honored to contribute its private AI platform for CMMC practitioners to this community to accelerate compliance workflows and to support contractors with CMMC-compliant AI systems. During the event, we demonstrated our CMMC Level 1 mock assessor, SSP creation, CMMC Q&A agents and AI Operating System platform.
Every year, cybersecurity professionals from across the DMV gather for BSides NoVA. This year, GT Edge AI had the privilege of running the AI Village. We took a hands-on approach to learning by offering workshop stations and facilitating guest speakers. GT Edge AI Academy members were there to provide coaching and guidance to participants. The stations included: 🤖 AI Agent Creation 🚀 Ubuntu Virtual Machine Creation 🚩 AI Capture the Flag Competition 🦙 Ollama AI Home Lab Creation
GT Edge AI proudly hosted the n00b, Advanced, and Military mission-themed AI Capture-the-Flag (AI CTF) competitions at this year’s Triangle InfoSecCon. Participants were tasked with using GT Edge AI research and planning tools to prepare a risk assessment and incident response plan for a simulated attack on critical AI infrastructure. The CTF culminated in a live presentation to a review board consisting of active duty military leaders.
On 9/30/2025, GT Edge AI released its CMMC compliant AI platform for the Defense Industrial Base and CMMC Ecosystem.. Following the launch, Tom Bendien (Founder & CEO, GT Edge AI) moderated a panel discussion with Ashley Pusey (Attorney, Kennedy’s Law), Srikant Rachakonda (Founder & CEO, SMPL-C), and Yolanda Reid (VP, The MIL Corporation & Board member of WiCys). Together, they examined the impact of CMMC, the need for compliant AI for the DIB, emerging AI trends, data privacy and AI safety.
GT Edge AI joined the Meta Connect event at the Meta office in Washington, DC to share innovations, AI implementation strategies, and the latest wearable technology.
Together with Katczy, GT Edge AI had the privilege of hosting 15 colleges 1890 Cyber & AI Games for Agriculture on our private AI platform. We developed a full day of engaging AI Capture-the-Flag (CTF) challenges centered on defending our food supply chain. These challenges enabled students from 15 colleges to practice AI-prompting and jailbreaking skills in a friendly competition with their peers.
DEFCON is the nation’s premier hacker conference, and GT Edge AI took part by sponsoring the Military Cyber Professionals Association’s Arcade Party. Supporting the military and cyber community has long been central to GT Edge AI’s mission to protect national security.
GT Edge AI was delighted to have hosted Hong Johnson, a GO Virginia intern. She was a highly motivated and exceptional student, quickly mastering the creation of AI agents and building an AI Home Lab on a Dell desktop computer. The event, held in Stafford, VA, brought together GT Edge AI and the Cyber Bytes Foundation to celebrate Hong’s accomplishments.
Tom Bendien, Founder and CEO of GT Edge AI delivered a keynote at the VBEA to help educators create a path forward to incorporate AI into their teaching and learning programs. Topics included facilitating responsible and safe use of AI and preventing cognitive offloading of the learning process to AI.
GT Edge AI is committed to contributing the Virginia Cyber Education curriculum through its support of Virginia Cyberslam, Virginia Department of Education AI curriculum development, LCPS Computer Science & Cyber teachers, as well as their respective cyber clubs.
The International Cyber Risk Summit convened global cybersecurity leaders for two days of insights, collaboration, and innovation focused on preparing organizations for an AI-driven future. Tom Bendien, CEO of GT Edge AI, delivered a keynote address on the evolving risks and opportunities associated with AI. Katie Arrington, Acting DoD CIO delivered a talk about the upcoming CMMC compliance framework for the Defense Industrial Base.
GT Edge AI participated in this year’s CCI Summer Internship Program, hosting two interns who increased their AI Literacy and conducted AI skills development research. Prior to the internship, Founder & CEO Tom Bendien was a judge in a Tech Duels debate, during which participants examined the ethical implications and responsible use of AI in education. View the recap here.
GT Edge AI has supported the Briar Woods High School Cyber Club since 2022 and hired several of its students. We ran an AI CTF to celebrate the end of the year with the students and awarded the GT Challenge coin to the winner!
GT attended CS5 West to discuss the emerging requirement for the defense-industrial base to achieve full CMMC compliance, including in artificial-intelligence applications. GT Edge AI’s founder and CEO also conducted an on-air interview about the company’s recent developments and their significance for the defense community.
GT Edge AI hosted the NAVSEA Triad CTF and provided participants with hands-on AI tools to responsibly solve problems in the competition. It was a great event and we were able to share sentiment analysis insights from the chat logs with the schools and organizers. The logs showed the different ways that students used the AI tools to solve problems. Dynamic learning and Socratic method was used throughout, with tight guardrails to improve safety and to prevent “AI copy and paste” behaviors. We demonstrated the ability to deploy enterprise-grade AI fully on premises with our transportable flight cases powered by Dell systems.