By Dan Robinson
Publication Date: 2026-01-26 10:15:00
The UK Royal Navy is using Oracle Cloud Edge infrastructure to power AI-driven defenses on the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.
The US tech giant says the Royal Navy used a so-called “sovereign AI capability” aboard the ship during Operation Highmast, an eight-month mission in 2025 that saw it traverse the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific.
This was powered using Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure – a locally hosted version of the cloud platform running on military-grade hardware in a rugged chassis. Big Red started one Version of Roving Edge in 2021 and says it will enable customers to run workloads, including machine learning and analytics, on-premises.
The AI was developed by Belfast-based company Whitespace, which describes the Saga platform as “an AI tool designed to accelerate the capture, management and use of institutional knowledge by defense organizations.”