GECCO has developed an entirely new class of rugged, compact turnkey Edge Computing Appliance optimized for austere environments. The EdgePod(TM) replaces conventional computing infrastructure that is very large, very heavy, and very power hungry, offering 90% reduction in size, weight, materials, and lifetime GHG emissions, 75% lower power consumption and cooling requirements, and 50% lower total cost of ownership, when compared to a system based on conventional technologies designed for conditioned data center deployments.