By Amanda Phelps, Head of Global Public Sector Partnerships and Alliances at Coder

I have watched talented government and defense teams pour years of effort into software factories, and watched those same factories quietly become the thing slowing development down. That is not a failure of the people who built them. It is a signal that the model has run its course.

For the past decade, “software factory” has been the defining concept of digital transformation across the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Initiatives like Platform One, Kessel Run, Black Pearl, and Kobayashi Maru proved that modern DevSecOps could work in sensitive environments, that containers could survive an ATO, and that developers did not need to wait months for infrastructure. Those teams deserve every bit of credit they receive.

But the model they pioneered is now collapsing under its own weight. The factories we built were cathedrals. What the mission needs now is something more flexible, like a framework.

The untenable cost of the monolith

The original software factories had to be centralized and monolithic. Kubernetes was not yet authorized. CI/CD pipelines could not yet satisfy NIST 800-53 controls. GitOps was unproven at the classification boundary. Early adopters bore enormous compliance burdens just to establish that modern development was possible in secure environments at all.

The fundamental problem is that monolithic factories try to be everything to everyone. A single factory is expected to serve programs building web applications and programs training machine learning models, teams operating in the cloud and teams in air-gapped facilities, experienced engineers and teams encountering modern development for the first time. That breadth creates impossible tradeoffs. Make the factory standardized and you alienate programs with specialized requirements. Make it flexible and you drown in configuration complexity until the factory itself becomes the bottleneck.

These factories also became single points of failure. When key personnel leave, institutional knowledge walks out with them. Platform teams get consumed by access requests, exception handling, and organizational overhead. The infrastructure meant to accelerate delivery starts slowing it down.

A maturing commercial ecosystem changes the calculus

What changed is that commercial technology matured in ways government-built factories cannot match.

Purpose-built infrastructure automation tools now treat cluster provisioning, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code as solved problems. Declarative approaches — defining the desired state and letting automation handle the realization — enable agencies to enforce discrete access controls, reduce insider risk, and remove human error from provisioning. These capabilities are core to the tools, not incidental to them.

For the developer experience specifically, the shift has been equally significant. Secure, cloud-based development environments address one of the most persistent pain points in classified software development: standing up a compliant workstation and becoming productive. Developers in air-gapped facilities typically wait days, and weeks or months are not uncommon, for properly configured systems. Modern development environments can be provisioned in minutes from an approved template, with security controls built in rather than bolted on. Coder provides this capability for IC and DoD programs — teams define workspace infrastructure as code, enforce policy at the platform level, and support everything from unclassified development through classified and disconnected environments without changing the developer workflow.

This approach also shifts the maintenance burden from overworked government platform teams to vendors with engineering resources, SLAs, and dedicated security response. When something breaks, you open a ticket rather than lose months of capability development while someone reconstructs a Kubernetes cluster from memory.

Platform engineering: Smaller teams, greater scale

The successor to the software factory is not another factory. It is a platform engineering model where small, focused teams curate technology choices and define integration patterns rather than building and operating infrastructure from scratch.

This distinction matters enormously for the IC because the scalability problem that killed monolithic factories came down to headcount. When every program office queues behind a central platform team, scaling means hiring more government employees — slow, expensive, and constrained by hiring authorities that often have little relationship with the pace of mission need. When programs consume infrastructure through self-service catalogs built on proven commercial technology, scaling becomes a software problem. That is solvable.

In this model, platform teams do three things well:

1. Define what compliant deployment looks like
2. Curate the approved components that programs draw from, and
3. Provide self-service interfaces that let development teams operate within security guardrails without creating a ticket for every resource request

The result is portable compliance. A workspace template that meets security requirements in an unclassified environment should work the same way on a classified network and function without modification in an air-gapped facility. Policy travels with the infrastructure.

The cross-domain problem

For the IC specifically, the platform engineering transition carries an additional imperative that defense-focused discussions tend to overlook: cross-domain development.

A developer supporting a program that spans multiple classification levels does not simply move between environments. They context-switch between different physical machines, credential sets, toolchains, and organizational processes. Work products moving between domains pass through transfer processes measured in hours or days. Managing cross-domain workflows has historically required dedicated personnel whose primary function is shepherding data across boundaries rather than building capability.

Platform engineering changes this. When development environments are defined as code and centrally managed, it becomes possible to maintain consistent toolchains and security baselines across classification levels while preserving the hard separations that protect sources, methods, and program equities. A developer’s workspace on the low side and their workspace on the high side can be structurally identical. Cross-domain transfer processes can integrate into the development workflow rather than function as afterthoughts. The compliance burden shifts from individuals performing manual procedures to the platform enforcing those procedures automatically.

IC programs are already deploying remote development infrastructure that spans classification boundaries with consistent policy enforcement and without asking developers to re-platform every time they change networks.

The democratization of building

Here is where this transition becomes genuinely transformative — and where the IC has a specific advantage to capture.

The IC has always had a large population of domain experts who are not software developers but who possess operational knowledge no development team can fully replicate. All-source analysts who understand threat actor behavior in ways that cannot be captured in a requirements ticket. SIGINT specialists who recognize patterns in data only visible through years of operational exposure. Collection managers who understand source constraints in ways that lose critical nuance when translated to pure technicians.

Platform engineering, combined with the right development infrastructure, is beginning to make these people builders. Not in the traditional software development sense, but in the sense of constructing tools, notebooks, workflows, and analytical environments that extend individual expertise into repeatable, shareable capability. An analyst who can prototype a data transformation that makes a new collection source exploitable is not writing production software. But they are producing real mission value — in ways that centralized software factories were never designed to support.

The enabling condition is a development environment that removes the infrastructure tax on exploration. When standing up a secure, compliant workspace requires a ticket and a two-week wait, only credentialed engineers do it. When it requires a template selection and a few minutes, the population of people who can meaningfully participate in building expands dramatically. Compliance becomes the baseline from which everyone works, not a gate that filters who can start.

What is actually dying (and what is not)

What is dying is the centralized, monolithic software factory that inserts itself as the critical path for every development team it serves. The model where a single isolated organization controls the infrastructure, tools, processes, and standards for all programs is giving way to something more sustainable.

The mission need those factories served is not dying. It is growing. Agencies still need to compress delivery timelines, elevate security postures without stifling innovation, retain technical talent, and deliver capability at the speed modern threats demand. The difference is that the IC no longer needs to build its own factory to achieve those outcomes. The Air Force’s Platform One has evolved toward a platform-of-platforms model. The Navy has moved to multi-vendor strategies that reduce lock-in and increase operational resilience. Across the IC, organizations are realizing they can adopt proven frameworks and adapt them to their compliance requirements rather than rebuilding from scratch.

The path forward

The question is no longer whether modern DevSecOps practices can work in classified environments. That is proven. The questions now are much harder to solve.

Can we build development infrastructure that genuinely serves the cross-domain operating reality of the intelligence enterprise, rather than forcing developers to absorb that complexity as manual overhead? Can we extend the population of people who build to include analysts, specialists, and operators whose domain expertise is the IC’s most irreplaceable asset? Can we shift enough of the compliance burden into the platform itself that security becomes an accelerant rather than a constraint?

Platform engineering makes all of this achievable. Small teams can support large organizations. Compliance becomes portable and workspaces repeatable across classification levels. The maintenance burden that currently consumes government talent shifts to software. The distance between having an idea and building something useful around it can be measured in minutes.

The factory that tried to control everything is giving way to a platform that enables everyone. That is not a loss. It is the next evolution the mission has been waiting for.

About the Author

Amanda Phelps leads Global Public Sector Partnerships and Alliances at Coder, where she works with government and defense organizations to enable secure, compliant development environments across classification levels. She specializes in creating partnership strategies that accelerate software delivery for programs in the public interest.

About Coder

Coder is the AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. Coder helps teams build fast, stay secure, and scale with control by combining AI coding agents and human developers in one trusted workspace. Coder’s award-winning self-hosted Cloud Development Environment (CDE) gives teams the power to govern, audit, and accelerate software development without trade-offs. Learn more at coder.com.

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The acquisition strengthens Sabel System’s digital engineering ecosystem and expands its capability to support defense and commercial missions in space. Centil engineers and innovators bring a proven record of developing and integrating secure, scalable solutions that ensure our nation’s defense capabilities lead the charge in the rapidly evolving space environment.

“This acquisition brings together two teams that excel at solving complex engineering challenges and turning them into mission-ready solutions,” said Shawn Purvis, CEO of Sabel Systems. “Centil’s deep space-domain expertise combined with our digital engineering ecosystem strengthens our ability to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions for every customer we serve.”

“Joining Sabel Systems marks an exciting next chapter for Centil. By combining our deep space-domain and DevSecOps expertise with Sabel System’s advanced digital engineering ecosystem, we’re creating a stronger, more integrated capability for our space customers missions” said Travis Hohn, CEO of Centil.

Source: Sabel Systems

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According to the company, MANTECH empowers clients to innovate faster while staying secure and compliant by providing cloud engineering experts specialized in Commercial and air-gapped environments. The approach leverages Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and implements secure Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to minimize friction between environments, reduce technical debt and decrease vulnerabilities early in the development cycle.

MANTECH provides customized, mission-ready data and AI solutions purpose-built for the government, deployed securely on AWS GovCloud and air-gapped environments. This includes accelerating AI adoption across diverse mission sets, utilizing AI tools on AWS to support rapid prototyping and deploying LLMs efficiently in restricted/unrestricted AWS environments, the company said.

“By delivering secure, scalable DevSecOps and AI support on AWS, MANTECH will be able to accelerate development cycles, enabling faster decision-making and ensuring the U.S. government’s mission is executed with speed and efficiency across secure environments.” said Barbara Haines-Parmele, president of MANTECH’s national security sector.

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“Zero Trust Security for Application, Cloud and AI is increasingly becoming imperative. AccuKnox provides government agencies with a platform that delivers Zero Trust Security by design,” said Bryan Maizlish, federal business leader at AccuKnox. “Our partnership with Carahsoft significantly expands our reach, enabling federal, state and local agencies and education entities to procure and deploy relevant, secure and mission-critical digital assets. We are pleased to jointly accelerate AccuKnox’s capabilities into our customer’s operational environments.”

AccuKnox is a Gen-AI powered Zero Trust Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that provides comprehensive multicloud and on-premise security. The CNAPP platform secures modern, comprehensive, multilayer and system-of-system workloads and devices (Kubernetes, Containers, API, AI/LLM, Agentic AI, IoT/Edge, OT, satellite, drone and 5G) and traditional assets (Virtual Machines) across all public, private and air-gapped clouds.

Focusing on the support of critical Zero Trust and cybersecurity protection for the Golden Dome, AccuKnox unifies relevant cybersecurity compliance, Zero Trust and runtime security protection across space, land, air and sea. The platform provides a comprehensive and multilayered system of systems that is interoperable, integrated and multi-level security compliant, identifying non-compliance, areas of vulnerability and risk and observability of real-time attacks. AccuKnox isolates and shuts down areas compromised by a cybersecurity breach, while protecting the integrity of the Golden Dome through an on-premise, air-gapped solution.

“AccuKnox’s Zero Trust security platform is a critical addition to our technology portfolio,” said Natalie Gregory, vice president for enterprise open source and DevSecOps solutions at Carahsoft. “The comprehensive platform allows public sector agencies and entities to protect themselves against current and emerging threats, and zero-day attacks. AccuKnox provides continuous compliance, a mandatory capability in the current world of AI-powered attacks. We look forward to working with AccuKnox and our reseller partners to expand agencies’ access to this platform, including the Golden Dome, and help them implement Zero Trust Security for applications, cloud and AI, while maintaining operational efficiency and mission readiness.”

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With IC Cloud Support, Intelligence Community teams can now provision and manage clusters faster and more securely, simplifying operations across the most restricted networks.

For mission owners across the Intelligence Community, secure modernization has long meant trade-offs: classified environments often lag behind commercial clouds in automation, speed, and usability. Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) helps close that gap.

RGS, a leader in secure, enterprise-grade Kubernetes management for the U.S. Government, has announced the General Availability (GA) of IC Cloud Support. This breakthrough capability brings full provisioning and lifecycle management to classified cloud environments without requiring access keys, custom software development kits (SDKs), or manual workarounds.

“Our customers in classified environments deserve the same operational simplicity and resiliency they get in commercial cloud,” said Adam Toy, Chief Technology Officer at RGS. “With IC Cloud Support, RGS brings that consistency to the most secure environments in government.”

The Challenge: Managing Kubernetes Behind the Airgap

Organizations operating in airgapped or restricted AWS and Azure regions face a radically different landscape from commercial cloud users. These classified environments are completely isolated by design, with no internet connectivity, external endpoints, or public resource exchange.

As a result, provisioning or managing Kubernetes infrastructure required manual, highly constrained processes:

• Physically moving software via burned discs or removable media into SCIFs
• Operating without identity access management (IAM) keys or secrets, since credential creation is prohibited
• Rewriting code to communicate with .gov API endpoints and custom certificate authorities
• Relying on imported clusters that limited access to Day-2 operations like scaling, shell access, or certificate rotation

This fragmentation left DevSecOps teams balancing compliance with complexity—manually managing infrastructure that, in commercial settings, takes minutes.

From Technical Preview to Full Operational Capability

When RGS first announced IC Cloud Support as a technical preview in March 2025, it was clear the capability filled a critical operational gap. The preview demonstrated that by leveraging a differentiated Rancher Government build, users could provision clusters in classified AWS regions by simply toggling the new “Carbide Instance Credential” option—removing the need for manually managed keys and secrets.

Since then, RGS engineers have expanded the feature set and hardened the integration for General Availability. The result: full RKE2 and EKS provisioning, native classified API endpoint compatibility, and seamless Day-2 lifecycle management—all inside the familiar Rancher Manager interface.

How It Works: Secure Automation Without Keys or Custom Code

At the core of IC Cloud Support is a Kubernetes-native approach that replaces manual access management with secure automation.

When IC Cloud Support is enabled, Rancher Manager uses the EC2 instance’s own IAM role (rather than user-managed credentials) to authorize access. This is powered by the Carbide Instance Credential, a hardened mechanism unique to RGS that uses instance metadata services to assume cloud permissions automatically.

This eliminates the need for:

• Handwritten SDKs or API scripts
• Local key storage or secrets rotation
• Custom certificate handling for classified domains

The outcome: a keyless, zero-trust-aligned provisioning workflow that meets the stringent security expectations of intelligence and defense networks.

Full Parity for Classified Cloud Operations

The General Availability release introduces a complete suite of enhancements designed for mission-critical continuity:

• Native provisioning for RKE2 and EKS clusters in classified AWS regions
• Instance-level authorization via Carbide Instance Credential
• Compatibility with classified API endpoints and certificates
• Expanded Day-2 operations including node scaling, certificate rotation, snapshot/restore, and encryption key rotation
• UI and UX parity across AWS Commercial, GovCloud, and classified regions

Together, these improvements eliminate operational gaps between environments, giving intelligence agencies feature parity and user experience consistency across classification levels.

Why It Matters for the Intelligence Community

For operators inside the Intelligence Community, the implications are significant.
Classified cloud environments support some of the nation’s most sensitive workloads—mission systems that demand both speed and assurance. IC Cloud Support means these systems can now be provisioned, scaled, and secured with the same simplicity and confidence found in commercial deployments.

Benefits include:

• Faster mission delivery: Full provisioning in minutes, not days
• Reduced human error: Eliminates manual configuration and scripting
• Operational continuity: Consistent Rancher UI across all classification levels
• Accelerated ATO cycles: Built-in compliance and evidence generation
• Improved security posture: No external keys or unmanaged secrets

This advancement directly supports the Intelligence Community’s goals of agile modernization, zero trust implementation, and mission-ready cloud operations.

Availability and Next Steps

IC Cloud Support is now available to all RGS customers through the Carbide Portal and Registry. After downloading the latest Rancher Government build for Rancher Manager, users can deploy directly in classified regions by toggling the Carbide Instance Credential option during cluster provisioning.

For more information or to schedule a technical consultation, contact info@ranchergovernment.com or visit us at ranchergovernment.com.

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By Pavithra Sudhakar, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat’s Secure CommsOS has been assessed “Awardable” for Department of Defense work in the Platform One (P1) Solutions Marketplace, a milestone that reduces procurement friction and signals readiness for mission use.

In parallel, Rocket.Chat holds an “Awardable” designation in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, an initiative of the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) focused on accelerating adoption of AI, data, and emerging technologies across the Department.

What “Awardable” Means in Practice

Within the Solutions Marketplace inside P1—a curated, mission‑ready catalog built for speed‑to‑field—products undergo rigorous technical assessment before they can be considered “Awardable.”

For Rocket.Chat, this status indicates the platform:

• Passed a demanding technical evaluation;
• Meets DoD cybersecurity, compliance, and readiness requirements;
• Is eligible for direct award and rapid acquisition;
• Can be integrated without months of procurement friction; and
• It has been proven to operate at a mission scale in DoD environments.

The outcome for acquisition teams and delivery partners is straightforward: pre‑cleared procurement paths and faster selection and deployment timelines. Program offices, federal system integrators, and mission partners gain a communications platform that aligns with established DoD frameworks and can be brought online with less administrative overhead.

Why this Matters to Mission Leaders and Delivery Teams

For program leads balancing urgency with assurance, an “Awardable” designation reduces the distance between requirement and capability. It reflects not just a checklist of controls but readiness to perform under operational load, where availability, security, and agility have a direct mission impact. As DoD organizations modernize or extend existing systems, adopting a pre‑assessed solution helps minimize duplicate work, accelerates time‑to‑value, and preserves focus on the mission.

About the DoD Marketplaces

Platform One (P1) Solutions Marketplace is the DoD’s flagship DevSecOps ecosystem and a central venue where program teams can find, vet, and procure technology that has already cleared the bar for acquisition. Its goal is speed‑to‑field with mission‑ready options.

Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace (CDAO) is led by the Chief Digital and AI Office to accelerate adoption of AI, data, and emerging technologies across the Department.

About Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat Secure CommsOS unifies messaging, voice, video, AI, and mission-critical applications into a single platform, ensuring full data privacy, compliance, and operational efficiency for defense operations, government agencies, and critical infrastructure sectors.

Built for classified communications, air-gapped deployments, and out-of-band connectivity, it provides the resilience, security, and adaptability required in the most demanding mission-critical environments.

Deployed at scale by governments and federal system integrators operating under the highest security standards, Rocket.Chat safeguards some of the world’s most sensitive conversations and data.

Learn more at https://www.rocket.chat/industry/federal-system-integrators

Direct Contact:

Tom Mersman, Head of FSIs

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Leidos, with its industry-leading expertise in operating and scaling new software and technology in the federal ecosystem, will be 2F’s preferred services partner to set up, operate and manage the company’s Game Warden platform in classified and unclassified settings. 2F Game Warden is a fully accredited development, security and operations (DevSecOps) platform designed to reduce the time and cost required to field secure, compliant software.

“By working with 2F and their Game Warden platform, we’re accelerating and scaling the delivery of secure solutions that meet complex mission needs for federal agencies across the defense, intelligence and civilian sectors,” said Steve Hull, president of Leidos’ Digital Modernization Sector.

2F brings expertise and the technological backbone for secure software deployment in the government. The company’s Game Warden platform accelerates the adoption of secure software by automating development and security across multiple cloud environments while helping maintain compliance at scale.

“Government teams need access to secure, production-ready software now, not years from now,” said Tyler Sweatt, CEO of Second Front Systems. “Partnering with Leidos, one of the most trusted names in government technology, lets us deliver real capability faster through a secure, scalable ecosystem built for the mission.”

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The P1 Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, five-minute long readily awardable pitch videos, which address the U.S. Government’s greatest requirements in hardware, software and service solutions.

BAE Systems’ solutions are designed to deliver scalable, secure DevSecOps capabilities that directly support the Government’s digital modernization priorities. Developed in cooperation with Defense Unicorns, using their Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS ) secure software delivery platform, this integrated solution builds on technologies already trusted across the DoD and used by a wide range of defense organizations, including the U.S. Air Force, strategic deterrence programs, and other critical national security initiatives.

“Joining the P1 Solutions Marketplace reflects our mission to integrate automation, autonomy, and AI into scalable DevSecOps solutions,” said Sam Bushell, director of tech development for BAE Systems’ intelligence and security sector. “Our aim is to empower the DoD with rapid, resilient, and intelligent capabilities that drive decision advantage at mission speed.”

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This collaboration integrates Rancher Government Carbide, an end-to-end solution for zero-trust software supply chain security, with Sequoia’s Combine platform, a “digital twin” environment that enables secure and seamless software validation for high-side deployments. The partnership ensures that government agencies and ecosystem technology partners can develop, test, and optimize their applications in an unclassified environment before deploying into classified networks, reducing risk and enhancing mission readiness.

“Rancher Government Solutions is committed to providing government customers with secure, scalable Kubernetes environments that meet the highest security standards,” said Brandon Gulla, CTO of Rancher Government Solutions. “By combining our Kubernetes management and Carbide’s software supply chain security with Sequoia’s Combine platform, we’re enabling agencies to confidently deploy applications into classified environments while ensuring zero-trust protection from development to deployment.”

Sequoia’s Combine platform plays a critical role in overcoming the four major challenges of deploying workloads in classified environments including: Access Control and Identity Management, Service Parity and Endpoint Emulation, Air-Gapped Networking, and Secure Software Development.

“Sequoia Combine is an essential capability for agencies and partners moving workloads into classified environments,” said John Schnelle, Principal Solutions Architect at Sequoia. “By integrating Combine with RGS’s Kubernetes management and Carbide supply chain security, we’re providing a trusted, end-to-end solution that enables government customers to accelerate secure DevSecOps without risk or delay.”

This strategic partnership empowers government agencies, intelligence organizations, and ecosystem partners to confidently navigate the unique security challenges of classified DevSecOps while eliminating the risks of unvalidated software deployment.

Source: Rancher Government

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The ribbon cutting took place on November 8th, 2024, with Sigma Defense Systems executives, employees and distinguished guests taking part in the ceremony. Founded in Perry in 2006, Sigma Defense has grown to employ over 800 people globally. The Lexington Park office will specifically focus on delivering cybersecurity architecture design and engineering, software development, airborne ISR systems engineering, integration and testing, further expanding the company’s ability to deliver DevSecOps, CJADC2 and C5ISR to the U.S Department of Defense.

Ed Anderson, executive vice president of Sigma Defense’s Innovative Mission Solutions (IMS) Division was on-hand to welcome guests to the new office opening and shared his perspective, “As a navy officer, I appreciated having a close relationship with private sector contractors that supported our mission. At Sigma Defense, one of my core objectives is to provide our customers and my team every available resource to ensure that we deliver on our promises. This office allows us to grow our customer intimacy by providing the resources to be physically present. We are excited to expand and grow our relationship with NAVAIR and create a better customer experience.”

Source: Sigma Defense

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