About

Move your AI.
Not your data.

Axonis originated to support the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, where AI systems must operate under extreme conditions. In December 2025, Axonis emerged from 2+ years of development to bring its federated architecture to the enterprise.

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Engineered for defense. Built for enterprise scale.
Axonis was shaped in environments where data can't move, because regulations, security, access controls, and mission-critical systems make it impossible. While supporting AI initiatives inside defense and intelligence organizations, our team saw the same pattern repeat: The biggest barrier to effective AI wasn’t the model. It was access to the data itself.

In these environments, raw, high-value data lived in air-gapped, sovereign, or tightly controlled systems. Centralizing it is either prohibited or would have taken years — and even when possible, centralization stripped away the context and freshness needed for real AI impact. Existing federated learning tools only solve a fraction of the problem. What teams actually need is a way to work with real, production data where it already lives, without having to move it.
So we built Axonis: a platform where AI comes to the data. A secure, federated model-to-data orchestration layer that lets organizations train models, prepare data, and deploy intelligence across distributed systems — all without transferring raw data or breaking data governance policies. Born in regulated, fragmented, and high-stakes environments, Axonis is designed for the places where centralized AI falls apart.

Federated, decentralized AI will ultimately power enterprise AI across industries where data is sensitive, distributed, or simply too valuable to move, enabling collaboration and insight without compromising privacy, policy, or performance.
Axonis History
Axonis builds on years of federated learning research, combined with a deep history of large-scale, secure distributed systems for mission-critical environments.
2016
Early papers on federated learning published by Google
2018-2021
Dr. David Bauer and his company works with corporate partners to use federated learning to prevent spread of Ebola and later Covid-19
2022
Chris Yonclas joins T2S Solutions (a US DoD contractor) and brings in Dr. Bauer to build a fully federated AI platform
2023-2025
Axonis platform developed and deployed in US DoD trials, proving out it's federated capability
2025
Axonis emerges from stealth as a fully independent commercial platform for enterprise AI
An experienced team dedicated to building and scaling mission-critical enterprise platforms
Todd Barr
Todd Barr
CEO
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Former Chief Marketing Officer at leading open source, infrastructure, blockchain, and enterprise software companies, including Chainlink Labs, GitLab, Ansible, and Red Hat.
Aimee D’Onofrio
Aimee D’Onofrio
COO
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Led a $600M weapon systems portfolio at BAE Systems, along with 10 programs focused on advanced analytics and actional intelligence solutions. Developed radar systems, signal processing, and algorithms at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Chris Yonclas
Chris Yonclas
Co-Founder & CPO
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Former president of NetCentric Technology, specializing in DoD intelligence, surveillance, and recon solutions, which played a key role in the Army’s digital transformation initiatives. Helped architect the Army’s DCGS-A intelligence system to over 4000 systems globally.
David Bauer, PhD
David Bauer, PhD
Co-Founder & CTO
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Delivered critical COVID-19 intelligence to the White House Coronavirus task force and worked with the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Former Chief Architect for the US Federal Government’s first cloud computing platform. Led an R&D organization within DARPA, defining the DoD’s data, analytics, and AI strategy.
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Move your AI. Not your data.
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