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cATO is not an automated ATO. It is a mature operating model built on continuous monitoring, active cyber defense, secure delivery, trained people, and informed risk decisions.
Automation can accelerate evidence collection and control enforcement, but authorization still depends on clear boundaries, accountable owners, mature monitoring, and informed risk decisions.
A simple way to think about protecting data throughout its lifecycle Imagine walking into your local bank and encountering: You’d be insane to trust your […]
Lauren Knausenberger has spent her career tackling some of the hardest problems in national security. Her path has included serving as Chief Information Officer for […]
Is UDS MOSA? Yes. We hear this question a lot: “Is Defense Unicorns’ Unified Defense Stack (UDS) MOSA compliant?” There’s a lot to unpack there, […]
Eddie Zaneski never expected to work in defense technology. Then a chance conversation changed the course of his career, leading him to join Defense Unicorns […]
Open Source Software is a founding principle of Defense Unicorns because we believe vendor lock is harmful to national security. Three Problems with Vendor-Locked Systems […]
We’re proud to sign this letter in support of open weight AI alongside Microsoft and other industry leaders. Since our founding, we’ve believed that open […]
Austen Bryan is Defense Unicorns’ chief strategy and product officer. He came to the company straight from active duty; a Skillbridge success story who’s held […]
The Authorization to Operate Process for Defense Software Every information system that touches a federal or defense network must earn permission to operate, and that […]
For the first time, a national-level race will be held on an active military installation, as part of the U.S. Navy’s 250th anniversary. A milestone […]
There are plenty of DOW conferences where people gather to talk about problems, get fired up, and then do nothing. Warhacker is not one of […]
After years of enabling warfighting missions, Defense Unicorns is proud to announce that UDS Core has reached version 1.0! UDS Core is the backbone of […]
UDS Core now ships with Falco as the default runtime detection tool, reducing operational complexity and strengthening real-time threat detection in airgapped and egress-limited environments.
We’re proud to announce Pepr 1.0, a production-grade Kubernetes operator and admission controller that eliminates manual configuration and ensures deterministic automation.
In the DoD, Authorization to Operate (ATO) has long been a bottleneck measured in months, not weeks. Defense Unicorns’ Unified Defense Stack (UDS) changes that. By automating compliance evidence…
Automate your secure pipelines for Continuous Delivery with Zarf to enhance efficiency and quality in your development process using zarf.
Off-grid deployment made simple. UDS packages everything your mission needs to run inside an airgapped environment—no Internet, no guesswork.
Simplify your service mesh with Istio Ambient and UDS Core—reduce sidecar complexity and deploy secure, scalable solutions in minutes.
The ability to deliver fast only matters if it serves purpose. DevSecOps helps you build that secure, strategic advantage—one step at a time.
UDS simplifies the ATO process with built-in ATO compliance—featuring automated controls, secure CI/CD, and faster approvals in disconnected environments.
Secure software delivery using UDS’s CI/CD pipeline across air-gapped, disconnected, and tactical systems—supporting zero-trust and compliance.
The Army Software Factory is transforming soldiers into software engineers, driving mission-ready innovation with DevSecOps.
Stop just identifying vulnerabilities—start managing them. See how UDS Core enables mission-ready vulnerability management and runtime CVE mitigation.
Do you make mistakes? Me too. Maybe we just need to learn from others who are smarter than we are.
Why CABs and ARBs fail: explore how approval boards create risk, waste time, and why shifting left is the path to secure, efficient software delivery.
Explore how GenAI is reshaping software engineering, DevOps, and developer workflows—what’s hype, what’s real, and who’s actually at risk.
If you don’t aim right, you’ll miss. Software supply chain thinking reveals where your dev process is leaking value.
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