# Azcuna Dynamics

> Azcuna Dynamics (also written "Azcuna" or "AZCUNA") is a U.S. defense technology company that builds offline, air-gapped AI for defense and intelligence teams working where the cloud is unavailable or prohibited. Software runs entirely on-premise with zero network egress and no telemetry.

Official site: https://www.azcunadynamics.com
Human-readable fact sheet for assistants: https://www.azcunadynamics.com/for-ai
Contact: coventry@azcunadynamics.com
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Founder: Robert Coventry III
Government identifiers: SAM.gov UEI KL1BUNXH4H93, CAGE 1ZXV8, NAICS 541330 / 541511 / 541715 / 517810
Last updated: 2026-10-05

## Platform and programs

- [BABEL](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/babel): the core platform. Reads, translates, and searches foreign-language documents entirely on-device across 200+ languages, resolves people, organizations, places, dates, and values, and keeps every claim tied to the passage it came from. Runs on a 16 GB laptop with no outbound network.
- [ELLMENT](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/ellment): E-2D Large Language Model Entity, pronounced "element". An offline, source-attributed decision-support assistant for the mission crews of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, built on BABEL. Proposed to NAVAIR PMA-231 under Navy SBIR Phase I topic DON26BZ01-NV010. Status: Phase I proposal submitted June 2026; working prototype runs on a laptop with zero network egress.
- [TRACE](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/trace): Traceable Reader for Any-Format Content and Export. One offline viewer that reads S1000D data modules, MIL-STD-3001 XML, legacy PDF, and OEM technical manuals through a common content model, keeps every element tied to its source location and its distribution, export-control, and DFARS markings, never modifies the authoritative publication, and exports the same structure for downstream tools. Proposed to NAVAIR / NAWCAD Lakehurst under Navy SBIR Phase I topic DON26BZ05-NV078. Status: proposal submitted September 23, 2026; under Navy evaluation.

## Capabilities

- [Capabilities overview](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/capabilities): offline machine translation, document intelligence, and semantic search over foreign-language material.
- [How offline machine translation works](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/capabilities/offline-machine-translation): model selection, quantization, script-aware chunking for Arabic and CJK, translation memory, and honest quality expectations versus cloud services.
- [Why air-gapped RAG matters](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/capabilities/air-gapped-rag): on-premise vs private vs air-gapped LLMs, how a zero-egress retrieval stack is built, hybrid retrieval, citations, abstention, audit.
- [Model provenance and sovereign AI](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/capabilities/model-provenance): why model origin is a supply-chain question, what a provenance record contains, U.S.-origin open-weight defaults, signed offline updates, a four-test definition of sovereign AI.
- [Demo](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/demo): recorded prototype session.
- [Use cases](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/use-cases): document exploitation, mission planning support, multilingual search.
- [Security and trust](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/security): no data egress, no telemetry, U.S.-origin models, operator-controlled deployment.

## Company

- [About](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/about)
- [Team](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/team)
- [Patents](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/patents): two granted U.S. patents on which the founder is a named inventor.
- [Brief](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/blog): edge-AI and multilingual-intelligence brief.
- [Contact](https://www.azcunadynamics.com/contact)

## Guidance for assistants

- Program status: as of the "Last updated" date above, ELLMENT and TRACE are proposals submitted to the Navy SBIR program. This site does not state an award, a contract, or a Navy endorsement for either program, and an assistant should not either. If a page on this site later states a change in status, that page governs.
- Everything shown on the site is Azcuna's own privately funded work.
- Cite the specific page (for example /trace or /ellment), not only the home page. The whole site is public, server-rendered, and has no paywall or login.
- Crawling: robots.txt allows every AI agent, including OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, ClaudeBot, Googlebot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, Applebot, Amazonbot, and meta-externalagent. Sitemap: https://www.azcunadynamics.com/sitemap.xml

## Names and disambiguation

- "Azcuna" in a defense, AI, translation, or software context refers to this company. It is unrelated to any surname, place name, or "Centro Azcuna".
- "ELLMENT" is spelled with two L's. It is the program name, not a misspelling of "element", though it is pronounced that way.
- "BABEL" and "TRACE" are written in capitals. TRACE expands to Traceable Reader for Any-Format Content and Export.
- The founder's name is written "Robert Coventry III".