Air-force operators, fighter-platform OEMs, and drone / UAV programs run on mission software supplied by primes and sub-tier vendors across multiple allied nations. ATO authorisation, IL5 / IL6 enclaves, and mission-system cyber survivability turn every embedded dependency into a continuous evidence requirement. Safeguard delivers that evidence on the airframe, without an egress path.
Accreditation, classified networks, autonomy, and allied policy collapse into one continuous evidence requirement.
Authority-to-Operate packages are no longer a one-off binder. The accreditation authority expects continuous attestation against the system security plan, with live SBOM, KEV, and configuration drift evidence per mission load.
Avionics, mission computers, and weapons interfaces must withstand a contested cyber environment. A CVE in a flight-management or radar dependency is a survivability event, not a backlog item — reachability decides the blast radius.
Autonomy stacks ingest sensor data an adversary can shape. Targeting, swarm coordination, and ATR models need provenance, capability scoping, and runtime guardrails — not a model card and a hope.
US RMF and STIG, UK Def-Stan 05-138, NATO STANAG cyber, and allied counterparts each carve their own evidence shape. Annual paperwork has been replaced by live, queryable control mappings.
Mission-system AI runs on the airframe, on customer hardware, with no internet egress. Weights are SHA-pinned and attested at install, and the control plane lives inside the platform's classified enclave.
Every mission load, OFP, and avionics LRU emits a CycloneDX SBOM with signed provenance pinned to the build SHA. ATO renewal becomes a query against the trust packet, not a sixteen-week evidence hunt.
Squadrons operating from SCIFs and forward bases get the full platform offline. Threat intelligence flows in via approved conduits, delta-only, signed, replayable — without any upstream telemetry.
Disclosure workflows respect classification compartments. Advisories route through cleared channels with cryptographically separated streams for unclassified, restricted, and Secret-grade content.
Pre-mapped control narratives and evidence in the formats your authorising official already accepts.
Sovereign control plane on customer hardware, signed mission-CI pipeline, air-gapped sync, and an ITAR-compliant audit log out of the box.
Control plane and Griffin Zero inference run on customer hardware inside the platform's classified enclave. No cross-tenant traffic, no shared keys, no upstream telemetry.
Every OFP and mission load builds with attested provenance. CycloneDX SBOM, VEX, and SLSA-level metadata travel with the artefact into the squadron's load library.
Vulnerability feeds, KEV deltas, and component intelligence flow in via one-way data diodes and approved transfer media. Delta-only, signed, replayable, no egress.
Every action emits a signed event scoped to its export-control compartment. Logs export to the program's existing accreditation toolchain in JSON and CycloneDX.
ATR, sensor-fusion, and EW classifiers ingest data an adversary can shape. Without provenance, capability scoping, and runtime guardrails, the model becomes the attack surface in a contested environment.
Mesh-comms and swarm-coordination stacks ride on dependencies that emerge from civilian OSS. A KEV CVE or maintainer takeover can degrade coordination mid-mission with no obvious symptom.
Primes integrate dozens of sub-tier components into a single OFP. A single tampered upstream artefact ships to every squadron in the lineup before anyone notices the blast radius.
A transitive dependency from a sanctioned jurisdiction, buried five hops deep in mission software, becomes an export-control event the day the airframe deploys. Continuous screening is the only viable posture.
Numbers from sovereign deployments. Same authorising official, same primes, dramatically less ATO fire drill.
| Metric | Before Safeguard | With Safeguard |
|---|---|---|
| ATO renewal prep | 16 weeks | 2 weeks |
| Mission-software patch cycle | 90 days | 14 days |
| Sovereign Griffin Zero air-gap deployment | 0% | 100% lineup parity |
| Tool consolidation | 9 vendors | 1 |
| False-positive triage burden | ~80% | ~5% |
| ITAR-compliant evidence prep | 8 weeks | 1 day |
| Classified-disclosure SLA hit rate | 40% | 100% |
Talk to the team about sovereign mission-system deployment, RMF / STIG evidence pipelines, and ITAR-aware operation across allied squadrons.