Technical-library navigation
Connect natural-language questions to relevant passages across approved onboard manuals and procedures.
Local knowledge without shore reach-back
Keep technical knowledge available while the platform is underway.
Mimir can be evaluated as a local, disconnected-capable knowledge system for shipboard teams. Approved technical libraries, troubleshooting content, and a local model remain within the selected onboard boundary so Sailors can retrieve source-cited context when bandwidth is constrained or shore support is unavailable.
Notional use case
Shipboard suitability must be engineered and validated for the platform.
This concept does not claim a Navy authorization, platform integration, environmental qualification, electromagnetic compatibility, TEMPEST approval, or fielded deployment. Final compute, storage, cooling, power, networking, cybersecurity, information marking, and maintenance authority require platform-specific review.
01 / Repairs underway
Reduce search burden when remote support is not immediately available.
A shipboard maintainer may need to connect symptoms with technical manuals, maintenance requirement cards, casualty-control references, local procedures, configuration records, and previous troubleshooting context. Limited bandwidth and mission priorities can make shore reach-back slow, intermittent, or unavailable at the moment of need.
With the approved source set staged locally, Mimir can help locate relevant passages and present an inspectable answer inside the onboard boundary. The system supports qualified personnel; it does not replace watchstanding, engineering authority, technical data, tag-out, quality assurance, or established casualty-control procedures.
Source inspection
Expose supporting citations so users can confirm applicability, revision, prerequisites, cautions, and governing steps.
Local lessons
Add reviewed platform-specific context and escalation guidance without confusing it with official technical authority.
Support handoff
Organize observed state and relevant evidence for shore or higher-level technical assistance when connectivity returns.
02 / Sovereign operation
Keep the core AI path within the onboard boundary.
A configured local topology can host the application, retrieval services, databases, approved knowledge, and model runtime without required public-cloud model APIs. Users connect across an authorized local network, and customer content does not need to leave the selected boundary for generation.
The exact topology depends on shipboard infrastructure. A compact node can support controlled evaluation, while a split local deployment can place model serving on accelerator-backed compute and the application on a separate tier. Required local DNS, time, identity, certificates, logging, storage, backup, and availability dependencies remain explicit.
Local model service
Generation, embeddings, and reranking can use models staged on approved onboard compute.
Customer-held data
Documents, indexes, metadata, logs, and generated answers can remain inside the selected platform boundary.
Bounded interfaces
Service exposure, identities, ports, diagnostic access, and administrative paths are defined for the local architecture.
Human-led action
Mimir retrieves and synthesizes; qualified personnel verify, coordinate, approve, and execute.
03 / Lifecycle at sea
Plan for changed publications, software, models, and support evidence.
A disconnected system cannot remain useful if authoritative changes never reach it. The operating concept defines how revised technical data, safety messages, local knowledge packs, software releases, security content, and model artifacts are prepared, approved, transferred, verified, and promoted aboard the platform.
Knowledge-pack updates can move on a smaller, more frequent release path than the application or model. Each release retains inventory, checksums, version, owner, review evidence, test results, exceptions, and rollback material appropriate to the customer process.
The governing publication and established shipboard authority remain controlling. Mimir output should be treated as decision support and checked before use in maintenance or operational action.
Continue the mission thread
See how the pieces work together.
Related capability
Maintenance support
See the broader technical-manual and fault-isolation use case for qualified maintainers.
Related capability
Air-gapped AI
Understand the local operating model and controlled update path beyond model inference alone.
Related capability
System architecture
Trace the knowledge, answer, deployment, identity, storage, logging, and release planes.
Plan the deployment
Bring the mission and the constraints. We’ll map the system to both.
A Mimir briefing covers the operating boundary, approved knowledge, deployment pattern, security evidence, and the people the system is intended to support.