Defence & Aerospace
RAG & Knowledge Retrieval for Defence & Aerospace
RAG & Knowledge Retrieval for defence & aerospace, built around the constraint that defines the sector: systems must run fully air-gapped, on open weights, with no external dependency whatsoever.
- Regulations in scope
- 4
- Systems we integrate
- 4
- Typical first release
- 6 weeks
What changes when it is defence & aerospace
Permission-aware retrieval is not optional in an enterprise. If a user cannot open a document in SharePoint, the assistant must not quote it. We enforce that at the retrieval layer, not in the prompt.
In defence & aerospace, systems must run fully air-gapped, on open weights, with no external dependency whatsoever. That single fact reshapes how rag & knowledge retrieval has to be built here, the guardrails, the approval points and the evidence trail are design inputs rather than things bolted on before go-live.
The workload we are most often asked to take on first is imagery analysis, usually integrated against logistics systems. Integration comes before intelligence. A model that cannot reach your systems of record is a demo with good manners.
Multi-model by default, so a provider outage is a routing decision rather than an incident. Six weeks to something running in production, not six quarters to a strategy document.
The sector constraints we design around
- Defining constraint
- systems must run fully air-gapped, on open weights, with no external dependency whatsoever
- Regulations in scope
- security clearance requirements · indigenous content norms · export control · classified handling procedures
- Systems of record
- classified networks · logistics systems · simulation platforms · sensor systems
- Where we usually start
- document intelligence on classified material
RAG & Knowledge Retrieval workloads in defence & aerospace
- document intelligence on classified material
- imagery analysis
- logistics and inventory optimisation
- maintenance prediction
- training simulation support
What is included
- Ingestion pipeline for your real document formats
- Chunking and embedding strategy tuned to your corpus
- Hybrid keyword plus vector retrieval with reranking
- Citations on every answer, traceable to the source page
- Permission-aware retrieval that respects existing access rules
- Retrieval quality benchmarked against a labelled question set
Questions from this sector
Can it work fully offline?
Yes, open-weight models on local infrastructure, with no external API calls at any point in the pipeline.
What about indigenous requirements?
Open-weight models deployed on Indian infrastructure with source-available components satisfy most indigenous content criteria; we structure builds accordingly.
RAG or fine-tuning?
RAG for knowledge that changes and must be cited; fine-tuning for style, format and task behaviour. Most production systems use RAG for the facts and light fine-tuning or few-shot prompting for the form.
How accurate will it be?
We build a labelled question set from your domain and report retrieval precision and answer accuracy against it. That number is the deliverable. We do not ship a system whose quality nobody has measured.
Can it respect our existing permissions?
Yes. Retrieval is filtered by the user's actual entitlements, so the assistant can never surface a document the user could not already open.
Other capabilities for defence & aerospace
- AI Agent Development for Defence & Aerospace
- Agentic Workflow Automation for Defence & Aerospace
- LLM Application Development for Defence & Aerospace
- Chatbot Development for Defence & Aerospace
- Computer Vision for Defence & Aerospace
- AI Copilot Development for Defence & Aerospace
- Data Engineering for Defence & Aerospace
- Enterprise AI Platform for Defence & Aerospace
- Workflow & Integration Automation for Defence & Aerospace
- Custom Model Fine-tuning for Defence & Aerospace
RAG & Knowledge Retrieval for defence & aerospace, worth a conversation?
Tell us the workload and the regulation it sits under. We will tell you what is realistic.
Or email bd@dtrasglobal.com · call +91 74118 77878