Siren & Ocient team up for sovereign investigations

Ocient and Siren have formed a strategic partnership to deploy Siren's investigation platform on the OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform for national security, law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Under the arrangement, Siren's search and investigation technology will be available through Ocient National Security Solutions, the division responsible for deploying OcientAIQ for government users. The combined offering is aimed at agencies working with very large stores of structured and semi-structured data in secure environments.

Siren's software can be deployed directly on OcientAIQ in on-premises, hybrid-cloud, air-gapped and classified settings, with support for installations ranging from 50 terabytes to multi-petabyte scale.

The partnership is focused on investigative work in areas including national security, counterterrorism, cyber investigations, fraud, financial crime and public safety. By running Siren's search, visualisation and AI tools on OcientAIQ, agencies can conduct investigations within a single controlled environment rather than move data between separate systems.

Data scale

The partnership addresses a growing challenge for many public-sector investigation teams as data volumes outpace the capacity of older systems. Agencies are under pressure to examine larger datasets without sacrificing investigative detail or loosening controls over where data is stored and processed.

Siren describes its platform as a sovereign AI investigations system that combines open-source, enterprise and classified data. Ocient National Security Solutions positions OcientAIQ as a data intelligence platform built to process very large datasets across secure on-site and cloud environments.

The joint offering is intended to help agencies investigate full datasets rather than rely on smaller samples, while preserving control over where systems are deployed. That remains a sensitive issue for government users handling intelligence, policing and critical infrastructure matters.

John Randles, Chief Executive Officer of Siren, outlined the rationale for the agreement.

"Delivering intelligence on full-fidelity datasets is core to modern mission operations," said John Randles, Chief Executive Officer of Siren. "Our partnership with Ocient gives government and national security customers a proven path to query and investigate petabytes of data at speed and in the environments right for their operations."

Deployment options

Ocient presents OcientAIQ as a broader ecosystem for running AI and analytics on large datasets. In this case, the operational element is the Unified Data Platform, which brings together data ingest, governance, analytics and AI workflows for large-scale investigative use.

For agencies, the deployment model may matter as much as the software itself. The partnership supports sovereign cloud, on-premises and isolated environments, reflecting the varied security and data residency requirements across defence, intelligence and policing organisations.

Andrew Borene, Vice President of Ocient National Security Solutions, said the partnership responds to the strain modern data volumes place on legacy technology stacks.

"The scale and complexity of modern mission data have outpaced what most architectures were built to support," said Andrew Borene, Vice President of Ocient National Security Solutions. "We're thrilled to partner with Siren and, with OcientAIQ as the foundation, give more agencies the ability to get trusted, complete answers from petabyte-scale data at the speed investigations demand."

Public sector push

The agreement also highlights continued commercial activity around AI tools tailored to government investigations rather than general corporate use. Vendors in this market increasingly frame their offerings around sovereignty, classified deployment and the need to keep human investigators in control while using AI to search and connect large datasets.

Siren has sought to position itself in that category with its investigation platform and Siren K9 AI assistant. Ocient National Security Solutions, meanwhile, focuses on large-scale data processing for mission environments where stored information can reach the petabyte and exabyte range.

The companies plan further joint work on technology integration, customer enablement and market activity for US federal and allied government missions. For now, the partnership makes Siren's investigation platform available on OcientAIQ for agencies that need to run large investigations inside controlled sovereign environments.