DarkMesh
submittedBuilt with team Altiair. Tactical edge-mesh coordination for DDIL environments. A decentralized sensor mesh fuses weak field signals into one human-reviewed cue, survives node loss, and syncs the mission record back to Palantir Foundry. Live on a Jetson Nano, three Raspberry Pis, and an iPad chest computer.
Built at the 3rd Annual National Security Hackathon (Army xTech) with team Altiair: Sarah Hatcher, me, Rob Grossman, and Katherine Lambert.
DarkMesh is edge coordination for DDIL environments, where the network is denied, disrupted, intermittent, or low-bandwidth. Soldier-carried edge devices gather local signals, share compact signed evidence in a resilient ring, and fuse it into one human-reviewed cue. The mesh keeps working through node loss and syncs the mission record back to Palantir Foundry when a secure link exists, instead of depending on one command node.
The demo ran live on real hardware: a Jetson Nano, three Raspberry Pis, and an iPad chest computer, with an SSH-triggered node dropout to prove coordinator failover on stage. The artifact I am proudest of is the Rust durable-agent path: encrypted, signed, replicated records, production-shaped rather than 24-hour code.