Big Red says 'sovereign' platform supports decision-making and operational learning at sea

Britain's Royal Navy is using Oracle Cloud edge infrastructure to operate AI-driven defenses on the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.

The US tech giant says the Royal Navy deployed a so-called "sovereign AI capability" aboard the vessel during Operation Highmast, an eight-month mission in 2025 that saw it traverse the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Indo-Pacific.

This was operated using Oracle's Roving Edge Infrastructure - a locally hosted version of its cloud platform, running on hardware inside a military-grade, ruggedized enclosure. Big Red launched a version of Roving Edge in 2021, saying it allows customers to run workloads, including machine learning and analytics, in the field.

The AI was developed by Belfast-based Whitespace, which describes the Saga platform as "an AI tool designed to accelerate how defense organizations capture, manage, and exploit institutional knowledge."

According to Oracle, the platform let the Prince of Wales crew run AI to support ...