Edge Total Intelligence expands partnership with Sabel

Executive Summary

• Edge Total Intelligence Inc. (EdgeTI) has expanded its strategic partnership with Sabel Systems Technology Solutions LLC to accelerate the deployment of digital engineering and operational digital-twin solutions for the naval and army defense industries.
• The partnership leverages EdgeTI’s recently acquired digital assets from Austal USA (announced Nov. 4, 2025) and integrates them with Sabel’s systems engineering expertise to create composable, secure digital twins for defense manufacturing and maintenance.
• The collaboration focuses on integrating EdgeTI’s edgeCore platform with Sabel’s engineering capabilities to support maritime, vehicle defense, and intelligence systems, aiming to shorten acquisition timelines and derisk government contract demonstrations.

Key Details

• Partnership Expansion: EdgeTI and Sabel Systems have expanded a previous agreement to focus on mission-ready digital engineering and operational digital-twin solutions across maritime, vehicle defense manufacturing, and intelligence systems in hostile environments.
• Integration of Acquired Assets: The partnership utilizes EdgeTI’s newly acquired digital assets from the Austal USA acquisition announced on November 4, 2025.
• Key Partnership Highlights:
  • edgeCore Integration: Broadening edgeCore implementation to unify source-of-truth data with real-time operations and automated decision execution across the asset life cycle.
  • Digital-Twin Shipyards: Enabling end-to-end visibility and workflow orchestration for naval and industrial shipyard operations, leveraging Austal’s maritime footprint.
  • Defense and Field Manufacturing: Adapting digital-twin innovations for land-based manufacturing, XM30-class field platforms, and mission-critical production scenarios.
  • Industry 4.0 Acceleration: Leveraging IoT, robotics, automation, and AI-enabled analytics to reduce production cycle time, lower sustainment costs, and increase readiness.
  • Composable Integration: Rapid integration with existing MBSE, PLM, ERP, MES, CRM, BPM, and command systems using edgeCore’s no-replatforming approach to minimize procurement risk.
  • Contested Environments: Architecture designed for secure, resilient operations in mission-critical and degraded-connectivity scenarios.
• Strategic Rationale: The collaboration aims to help manufacturers and defense primes accelerate qualification and fielding of digital engineering capabilities, shorten acquisition timelines, strengthen government contract proposals, and derisk demonstrations required by program offices.
• Immediate Activities: Scoping pilot programs for naval shipyards and field-manufacturing demonstrators, building domain-specific digital-twin templates, and developing measurable KPIs tied to production throughput, quality, and sustainment readiness.
• Commercial Terms: The partnership is explicitly teaming and research-oriented, focused on co-developing frameworks, proofs of concept, and engineering methods. It does not involve any specific contract award or equity investment between the parties; both companies remain independent.

Notable Quotes

• Jim Barrett, CEO of Edge Total Intelligence: "Operational digital twins are the next decisive capability for defence manufacturing and sustainment. Pairing edgeCore's secure, composable operations layer with Sabel's proven digital engineering capabilities enables speed to delivered capabilities that meet warfighter and defence program expectations for security, auditability and operational relevance."
• Shawn N. Purvis, CEO of Sabel Systems: "Sabel has long focused on making digital engineering a reality that delivers tangible outcomes across the weapon systems development life cycle. Our strategic partnership with EdgeTI furthers this critical goal by enabling factory-to-fleet solutions that give our government and allied partners measurable readiness, immediate return on investment, and cost-saving benefits."