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DreamFactory Earns “Awardable” Status on DoD Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace

Written by Terence Bennett | June 26, 2025

Thrilled to share that DreamFactory’s pitch video has been officially deemed Awardable by the Department of Defense’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace! It’s an honor to stand out in a competitive field for our innovation, scalability, and potential impact on DoD missions. Government customers, please check out our five-minute overview on Tradewinds: tradewindAI.com.

Why “Awardable” Status Matters

 

  • Pre-competed & ready to buy — every Awardable video clears rigorous technical and acquisition reviews, so contracting officers can move straight to award.
  • Rapid pathways — solutions can be procured via Other Transaction Authority (OTA) or Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) in as little as 30–60 days.
  • Mission confidence — selections are vetted by CDAO subject-matter experts for technical maturity, cybersecurity, and mission alignment.

What Is Tradewinds?

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the Department of Defense’s (DoD) most significant challenges in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), data, and analytics space. The Solutions Marketplace Model is fully compliant with the SECDEF Memo entitled "Directing Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality” (March 6, 2025) which requires the use Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) to Other Transaction Authority (OTA) to Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP); and the Executive Order entitled, "Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base” (April 9, 2025) which requires Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) to Other Transaction Authority (OTA) to Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF). All awardable solutions have been assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures and are available to Government customers with a Marketplace account. Government customers can create an account at www.tradewindai.com. Tradewinds is housed in the DoD’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office.

About DreamFactory

Modern missions demand seamless data access, but most DoD organizations wrestle with siloed legacy databases and complex integration projects that can drag on for months. DreamFactory eliminates these stovepipes by instantly generating secure, standards-based REST APIs for any legacy database, enterprise system, or data source. The platform automates data-service creation, enforces role-based access controls, and deploys in air-gapped, on-prem, or cloud environments—giving developers and data scientists frictionless, zero-code connectivity to mission-critical data. By accelerating application modernization and enabling AI-ready data architectures, DreamFactory directly supports the CDAO’s strategic focus area to Advance Data, Analytics & AI and empowers Joint Warfighting Operations.

Call to Action

Program managers, acquisition professionals, and mission owners: watch our five-minute video by searching “DreamFactory” on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace (tradewindAI.com). 

Thank You

We extend our gratitude to the CDAO Tradewinds team and independent reviewers whose feedback sharpened our submission. We look forward to partnering with DoD customers to deploy DreamFactory across the Joint Force.