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ITAR & NIST SP 800-171 Compliance

Defense Industrial Base

Deploy secure, air-gapped AI agent clusters to process Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and technical drawings locally on secure military-grade networks.

Securing CUI on the Edge

Aerospace and Defense contractors are bound by strict federal compliance rules (NIST SP 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012, and ITAR). Transmitting technical specifications, blueprint metadata, proposal drafts, or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) to public cloud endpoints is legally prohibited and represents a severe national security risk.

SAS builds and hardens fully disconnected, on-premise AI runtimes running on secure local hardware nodes (Nvidia DGX/RTX and Apple Silicon Ultra). Our configurations contain zero external network pathways, ensuring your agency's data remains entirely localized and secure.

Core Applications

  • • CUI Search: Query thousands of local engineering and compliance documents instantly via local RAG (Qdrant).
  • • ITAR Protection: Process technical specifications and assembly steps within physical, air-gapped enclaves.
  • • Automated Audits: Scan project logs and documentation for NIST SP 800-171 compliance issues locally.
  • • Custom Fine-Tuning: Customize open-source models (Llama/Mistral) on proprietary technical data offline.

Enforcing ITAR & NIST SP 800-171 Controls

Federal contractors face severe sanctions for leaking CUI or ITAR-controlled technical data. Many organizations attempt to secure their workflows by using cloud providers' "government-cloud" offerings, but even these platforms introduce data processing paths that traverse external data centers and rely on software access policies rather than physical boundaries.

SAS establishes physical sovereignty. We deploy models locally inside your audited, secure enclaves. All model operations, local PGVector indexing, and agent orchestrations fall entirely within your physical facility firewall boundaries. This satisfies all NIST SP 800-171 communication protection rules, rendering data leaks physically impossible and securing your status as a compliant, reliable defense partner.

NIST SP 800-171 Compliance Alignment

By keeping all LLM computation and vector storage inside your physical enclaves, our deployments directly satisfy the critical security controls mandated for CUI protection:

NIST SP 800-171 Control Control Description SAS Enclave Implementation
Access Control (3.1.1) Limit system access to authorized users. Enclave access is locked to internal Active Directory credentials. Models run behind local firewalls with disabled WAN cards.
Audit & Accountability (3.3.1) Create and retain system audit logs. All prompt inputs, agent execution logs, and system actions are written directly to local WORM storage servers.
Media Protection (3.8.1) Protect and control access to CUI media. Vector stores and fine-tuning datasets reside on encrypted local NVMe volumes sealed with physical HSM keys.
System & Comm Protection (3.13.1) Monitor and control communications at boundaries. AI nodes run on isolated VLAN networks. Direct air-gapped settings completely isolate the runtime from the public web.

Initiate a Defense-Grade Compliance Audit

Secure a Phase 1 feasibility audit to evaluate security boundaries and map local air-gapped hardware configurations.

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