SynapseCommand at NATO DIANA’s U.S. Market Access Programme in Arlington

Decent Cybersecurity participated with SynapseCommand® in NATO DIANA’s U.S. Market Access Programme in October 2026 and the Missions + Markets: NATO DIANA Showcase in Arlington, Virginia, on 15 October. Matej Michalko, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Decent Cybersecurity, attended personally. The programme connected the company’s work on sovereign military AI with U.S. defence stakeholders, industry partners and investors.

The Arlington showcase followed the company’s participation at AUSA 2026 in Washington, D.C. Its focus was the next commercial step: introducing mature dual-use technologies to potential customers and partners, and exploring how they could be evaluated and adopted in the United States.

At a glance

The showcase date and location are recorded in Arlington Economic Development’s event listing.

From AUSA to the Arlington showcase

NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, known as DIANA, delivered the U.S. Market Access Programme with Arlington Economic Development alongside the AUSA week. It brought together technically mature innovators seeking to establish or expand their presence in the American defence and security market.

The showcase programme published by National Innovation Quarter combined company exhibits, rapid pitches and networking. This format placed technology teams in the same room as investors, industry representatives and defence stakeholders, with time both to introduce their work and to explore more specific requirements.

In its post-event account, NATO DIANA named Decent Cybersecurity among 12 presenting innovators. The other companies were INFRAHEX, Kelluu, SkyFi, VICTUS Technologies, Zelim, ClearDrop, Fieldmade, Airloom Energy, TERN, Avju Solutions and Goldilock Secure.

For SynapseCommand, the relevance of that setting lies in the distance between a capable platform and a customer-ready deployment. A prospective partner needs to understand the task the software will support, the information it can use, the systems it must connect to and the evidence required for acceptance. Market access creates an opportunity to define that work with the organisations that could commission or deliver it.

Matej Michalko on the next step for SynapseCommand

“For us, U.S. market access means turning a technical discussion into a well-defined pilot with a clear operational purpose. SynapseCommand is built to help commanders and their teams assess information and compare options while retaining decision authority. We want to work with American customers and integration partners on practical evaluations that show where the platform adds value.”

Matej Michalko, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Decent Cybersecurity

What SynapseCommand brings to a U.S. partner discussion

The SynapseCommand platform is designed to add decision support alongside existing command-and-control systems. Its role is to help staff work with operational information, examine alternatives and preserve the context behind recommendations. The customer’s command environment, approval process and information controls remain central to an implementation.

Three questions give a prospective integration discussion a useful starting point.

Can the platform work with the customer’s actual information? The published interoperability register documents interfaces, exchange directions and implementation boundaries. It allows an integration team to inspect what an adapter supports before making assumptions about an end-to-end connection. Supporting a data format is one part of integration; the customer’s configuration and workflow still need to be tested.

Can the customer control the deployment? SynapseCommand’s sovereign architecture describes customer-controlled infrastructure, data and configuration, with no mandatory external inference service. Those design choices are relevant when a partner must consider information sensitivity, local operation and the conditions under which data may be shared.

Can people understand and review the result? CommanderNL provides the natural-language interface to the platform’s specialised agent suite. The published decision-quality evidence gives evaluators a starting point for examining calculations, source traceability, policy checks and decision records. A pilot should test the complete staff workflow, including human review, rather than the fluency of an isolated answer.

The platform’s trust and assurance documentation also distinguishes product capabilities from deployment-specific configuration and accreditation. That distinction matters when translating a demonstration into an environment with its own security and operational requirements.

A U.S. presence with a defined route to evaluation

Decent Cybersecurity has a U.S. corporate presence through Decent Cybersecurity USA Inc. The market access programme adds a commercial engagement opportunity to that presence, bringing SynapseCommand into discussions about American customer requirements and potential delivery relationships.

For a prospective customer, the useful next step is a scoped evaluation. For an integration partner, it is agreement on interfaces, responsibilities and the evidence needed to demonstrate that the combined workflow works. For an investor, it is a clearer view of the use case, the prospective customer and the route from evaluation to a purchasing decision.

These are separate questions. Participation in a showcase establishes an engagement milestone; a pilot or procurement would require its own agreed scope and commercial decision.

Building on the NATO DIANA programme

The U.S. Market Access Programme took place during Decent Cybersecurity’s participation in DIANA’s Decision Superiority for NATO Warfighters Challenge. DIANA’s official selection announcement names the company among ten selected innovators and describes work with Allied Command Operations on capabilities that can augment existing digital warfighting environments.

That programme relationship provides context for the Arlington visit. Earlier milestones include the company’s NATO DIANA selection, the London kickoff with Task Force Maven and the FIGHT TONIGHT demonstration at SHAPE.

Arlington added a U.S. market-facing chapter to that activity. The distinction is useful: the challenge addresses technology development and demonstration with operational stakeholders, while the market access programme helps innovators explore customers, partnerships and commercial expansion. Both can inform the next stage of work, but neither substitutes for a customer’s own evaluation and acquisition decision.

The organisations behind the programme

NATO DIANA credited Arlington Economic Development with hosting and delivering the programme, and thanked Northrop Grumman, National Innovation Quarter and JBG SMITH for their support.

Its post-event account also acknowledged contributions from Virginia Economic Development Partnership, FedTech, Mahdlo Executive Advisors, NATO Innovation Fund, B Ventures, E2MC, SAIC Ventures, Sierra Nevada Corporation, AeroVironment, Cailabs, Varjo, Kinnami Software Corporation and the United States Air Force.

These acknowledgements describe contributions to the wider programme. They do not indicate that each organisation has a commercial relationship with Decent Cybersecurity. The value of the programme was to create opportunities for relevant conversations across that defence and investment community.

From introductions to a scoped pilot

Decent Cybersecurity welcomes discussions with U.S. customers and industry partners about paid SynapseCommand pilots. A productive first discussion should establish the proposed staff task and the conditions under which an evaluation would be meaningful.

Pilot scoping questions

Organisations interested in a pilot or integration discussion can request a SynapseCommand technical briefing. The briefing can focus on their existing command environment, the workflow they want to improve and the evidence needed to assess the platform.