Tyto Athene | Data to Dominance
OUR MISSION
TALON is Tyto Athene’s (Tyto) innovation lab, dedicated to rapidly transforming emerging technologies into mission-ready capabilities for government customers and mission partners.
Operating as a physical and digital lab environment, TALON accelerates the design, prototyping, integration, and deployment of secure, data-centric, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solutions—enabling agencies to move quickly from concept to operational impact without compromising security, compliance, or mission assurance.
Unlike traditional government innovation labs, TALON is a mission-focused collaboration environment where Tyto engineers work side-by-side with government mission owners and operators to collaboratively design, build, and deliver solutions that address real operational problems. The result is operational technology—not theory—engineered to perform under real-world conditions. TALON’s approach is defined by three core principles:
Challenging conventional assumptions to solve the right problem, not just the easy one.
Moving rapidly from concept to execution through AI, automation, and rapid integration.
Maintaining unwavering focus on operational outcomes, not research exercises or slideware.
TALON is a collaborative environment where government customers, mission partners, and Tyto engineers work side-by-side to solve complex operational challenges. Purpose-built for modern mission demands, TALON integrates cloud, transport, compute, cybersecurity, automation, and AI to deliver operational technology, not just research.
Through TALON, Tyto enables customers to:
At Tyto, a mission is defined by what must work and the consequences if it doesn’t. Whether it’s prioritizing sensor data for mobile units or accelerating AI-driven cyber response in a Security Operations Center, TALON empowers government teams to act with speed and confidence. By turning data into action, applying intelligent automation where it matters most, and ensuring technology performs when conditions degrade, TALON delivers true operational advantage.
Through TALON, Tyto enables customers to:
This is innovation for operators, not observers.
Mission success today is shaped by four realities that TALON is purpose-built to address:
AI-enabled, ZTA decision environments turn data into action at speed.
Intelligent automation enables smaller teams to accomplish more, freeing personnel to focus on mission-critical decisions.
Faster feedback loops and rapid iteration matter more than size. TALON accelerates the transition from prototype to deployment.
TALON solutions are engineered to operate in DDIL conditions, ensuring capabilities are available when and where they are needed most.
Within TALON, we are advancing a new strategic mandate: Anticipatory Cyber. Building on our foundation in high-velocity Security Operations Center (SOC) operations, we fuse AI-driven foresight with a world-class delivery model to stay ahead of evolving threats. TALON is engineering a modular, multi-tenant SOC offering within a trusted FedRAMP-authorized boundary—bringing this vision to life for our customers.
This initiative dramatically reduces time-to-value, giving every customer instant access to elite cyber expertise and the predictive power of hyperscale AI intelligence. By integrating autonomous deception and predictive maneuver into a seamless, cloud-hosted architecture, TALON does more than secure the enterprise—it delivers the strategic sovereignty needed to outpace AI-powered adversaries.
Strategic TALON Cyber Thrusts:
Our FedRAMP-authorized modular SOC provides immediate access to world-class anticipatory cyber capabilities, eliminating traditional infrastructure barriers to elite cyber defense.
TALON shifts the battlefield “left of boom” by leveraging AI to forecast adversary intent and deploying synthetic decoys, forcing attackers to reveal their tradecraft before reaching your assets.
By using AI to autonomously filter out irrelevant telemetry and noise, TALON preserves the analytic and decision-making bandwidth of threat hunters, allowing human talent to focus on high-consequence mission realities.
TALON transitions from human-led playbooks to AI-augmented workflows that detect, analyze, and neutralize AI-powered adversaries in milliseconds.
TALON operates as a hybrid innovation environment, blending digital collaboration with a forthcoming physical space designed to accelerate co-creation and delivery.
A purpose-built TALON facility is coming soon to Northern Virginia, offering:
TALON solutions are designed to give government customers control, flexibility, and long-term advantage—without vendor lock-in.
Our guiding principles include:
TALON is led by Rob Albritton, Vice President of AI Innovation and Labs at Tyto Athene.
An Air Force veteran and nationally recognized leader in AI, machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing, Rob brings decades of experience applying advanced technologies to real-world mission challenges. He joined Tyto from IBM via Octo Labs, where he built and led teams known for solving complex problems at speed.
Under Rob’s leadership, TALON brings together non-traditional thinkers grounded in mission discipline, engineers and operators who understand operational reality and are willing to challenge norms to deliver real advantage. This balance of creativity, rigor, and mission focus is what makes TALON different.
TALON projects represent operational capabilities already delivering impact—enhancing resiliency, accelerating compliance, and improving mission execution across defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.
Orchestrates autonomous, AI-driven network orchestration for mission-critical warfighter and law enforcement operations.
Executes intelligent SOC automation for triage and investigation playbooks to stop cyber-attacks at machine speed.
Automates discovery and prioritization to optimize sensor data transport across unreliable, low-bandwidth networks.
Delivers turnkey SOC-as-a-Service within a FedRAMP High boundary that streamlines operations and lowers costs for federal agencies.
Leverages generative and agentic AI models to create dynamic network flows, analyze communications network capabilities, and determine critical links and nodes.
Unifies cellular, SATCOM, and network links into a modular platform for secure, high-performance tactical communications worldwide.
TALON is a core extension of Tyto Athene’s mission to deliver intelligent, automated solutions that enable data dominance for defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. By combining TALON’s innovation engine with Tyto’s operational expertise, scale, and trusted customer relationships, agencies can move faster from idea to impact without compromising security or mission assurance.
If you’re interested in leveraging TALON to tackle your toughest challenges, let’s connect! Our team of engineers, operators, and innovators are dedicated to solving the problems others won’t attempt—delivering operational advantage and measurable mission outcomes where they matter most.