Awards Include Tailored Software Integrations, Edge and Server-Side AI Offerings, and Turnkey Integrated Hardware Solutions

Expects to Release New Agentic AI Functionality within Ask Airship Before the End of 2026

REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Airship AI Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AISP) ("Airship AI" or the "Company"), a leader in AI-driven video, sensor, and data management surveillance solutions, today announced it has been awarded $29.0 million in firm-fixed-price contracts from an agency within the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"). The brand-name-only awards support public safety and investigative requirements and carry a six-month period of performance.

"These awards reflect the continued momentum and critical importance of AI-driven surveillance solutions in advancing public safety and homeland security," said Paul Allen, President of Airship AI. "As the administration prioritizes strengthening national security, autonomous edge AI-driven surveillance solutions are proving to be an essential force multiplier for law enforcement, delivering greater operational efficiency, enhanced accuracy, and improved threat detection."

The awards include components of all three core areas of Airship AI's product offering portfolio:

• Acropolis Software Ecosystem: Airship AI will develop new capabilities that enhance how users interact with its existing Acropolis software ecosystem. The development work focuses on autonomous edge sensor data collection and on improving the confidence level of detected user-defined events, leveraging Airship AI as the intelligence layer for their larger sensor eco-system.
• Outpost AI and Fortress AI Platforms: Airship AI will deliver significant additional quantities of Outpost AI, its edge AI appliance built to run advanced analytics at the tactical edge. The award includes Fortress AI, the Company's newly released server-side platform for centralized, high-capacity AI processing. Because Fortress AI processes video and sensor data on premises, customers maintain full data sovereignty, with sensitive data never leaving their control or passing through third-party cloud infrastructure.
• Turnkey Hardware Solutions: Airship AI will deliver customized, turnkey hardware systems that allow users to autonomously collect data at the edge, securely transport it to designated endpoints, and receive high-confidence, AI-derived actionable intelligence in real time, giving supported agencies a unified solution from edge to enterprise. These solutions will support ongoing operational deployments as well as several pilots for ongoing operational requirements.
  
  

Mr. Allen added, "These awards also mark a significant milestone for Fortress AI as it expands into enterprise federal law enforcement operations following initial tactical deployments supporting multiple major 2026 National Special Security Events. They also reinforce the continued growth of our trusted partnership with DHS and the need for the full range of AI-driven solutions Airship AI provides.

"Each of these awards moves Airship AI closer to becoming the platform of choice for AI-enabled federal law enforcement operations. Agencies want a single architecture that runs from the tactical edge to the enterprise, and they want to own their data. With Outpost AI in the field and Fortress AI on premises, we give them both.

"That same on-premises foundation is where Ask Airship, our agentic AI platform, is designed to run. We expect to release new agentic AI functionality within Ask Airship before the end of 2026. Ask Airship sits on top of the video, sensor and access-control systems customers already operate, allows them to pair their sovereign data with the AI models best suited to their mission, and turns that data into actionable intelligence, with no rip and replace," Mr. Allen concluded.

About Airship AI Holdings, Inc.

Founded in 2006, Airship AI (NASDAQ: AISP) is a U.S. owned and operated technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Airship AI is an AI-driven video, sensor and data management surveillance platform that improves public safety and operational efficiency for public sector and commercial customers by providing predictive analysis of events before they occur and meaningful intelligence to decision makers. Airship AI’s product suite includes Outpost AI edge hardware and software offerings, Acropolis enterprise management software stack, and Command family of visualization tools.

For more information, visit https://airship.ai.

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