Containerized Edge data center provider Armada has taken part in the US Navy's UNITAS 2025 exercise.

The US Navy used the company's 'Deployable Data Center,' known as Galleon, to access high performance compute and networking at the Edge.

Galleon was used to support Microsoft Flankspeed Edge servers during the exercise, to create a hybrid cloud environment with enterprise services as well as a Minotaur operator workload and ingesting multi-INT data from multiple robotic autonomous systems (RASs) and other sources.

It was also successfully redeployed for ship-based testing - aka, on board a ship - which Armada said demonstrated its ability to "provide advanced computing wherever our military needs it most," regardless of power constraints.

The exercise also used Atlas software to provide distributed network awareness.

"Warfighters often operate in power and communications-denied environments, and Armada's full-stack modular, mobile data centers uniquely enable them to harness massive amounts of data in those conditions. At Armada, we're not just building for tomorrow but delivering solutions today, right where they are needed—remote and contested environments both on land and at sea," said Dan Wright, co-founder and CEO of Armada.

Rear Admiral Carlos Sardiello, Commander of US Navy Fourth Fleet/USNAVSOUTH, added: "UNITAS showcased the strength of collaboration, innovation, and readiness across both our Naval capabilities and those of our allies. Technologies like modular data centers and edge computing enhance our ability to operate securely and effectively in remote, at-sea environments, highlighting the critical role of industry partnerships in preserving America's maritime advantage."

In addition to working with the US Navy Fourth Fleet, Armada also partnered with the Navy's Program Executive Office of Digital Enterprise Services (PEO DES), Cyber Engineering Team (CET), Navy Information Warfare Center – Atlantic (NIWCLANT), Smartronix (SMX), Huntington Ingalls (HII), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU APL), Epoch Insights, ICMS Logistics, Microsoft, Dell, and the crew of the USS COOPERSTOWN (LCS-23) during UNITAS.

Earlier this year, Armada raised $131 million from investors and launched its "Leviathon" offering, which is a megawatt-scale modular AI data center offering. In November, it launched a "Beacon" pod offering for oil rig deployments.

Also in 2025, Armada has deployed its Edge containerized data centers with Eclipse for hydrogen-powered data centers, UnityCloud to establish a sovereign cloud for tribal nations in the US, Tampnet for offshore oil rigs, the US Navy in South Carolina, Aramco in Saudi Arabia, and Newlab in Detroit and Riyadh.

In July 2024, Microsoft's M12 led another funding round for Armada, which raised $40 million. At the time, the company said this brought its total funding to more than $100m.