I.ENTRY

SALIAN DEFENSE

AMERICA'S
SECURE ADVANTAGE.

We plan, build and carry secure facilities to accreditation, and engineer the software that runs inside them.
One accountable team for government and cleared industry.

Custodes Ancilium. Keepers of the Shields.

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WHO ARE YOU?

GovernmentI need capability delivered against a program requirement. Cleared industryI have work to execute and need the environment behind it. New entrantI want to pursue cleared work and do not yet have the posture. Prime or integratorI need a partner to own a difficult specialized workstream. Program in distressSomething is stalled and I need an operator to recover it. Strategic advisoryI need to understand the problem before I commit capital. TechnologyI need software or AI that works inside a constrained environment.

SDVOSB · ICD-705 · NIST 800-53 · CMMC 2.0 READY · CAGE 18SG4

About Salian Defense ▸

HUD ANALYSIS · ARTIFACT 02 EXTRACTING

II.SECURE FACILITIES

We build your secure facility and carry it to accreditation.

A specificatione ad operationem

Start with nothing: no clearance, no site, no drawings. We scope the requirement, design to ICD-705, manage the build, prepare the accreditation package, coordinate with the AO/CSA, and sustain the space after occupancy. One team. One contract.

DCSA, or the applicable Cognizant Security Agency, determines facility clearances; the applicable Accrediting Official or Cognizant Security Authority accredits the facility.

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// Capability · Vault

No prior cleared posture required. We help you prepare for the sponsorship path and the facility clearance process; DCSA, or the applicable Cognizant Security Agency, makes the determination.

Check facility clearance readiness ▸

SCIFs and SAPFs to ICD-705 and its technical specifications, and closed areas to the NISPOM. Fixed facilities, or mobile and modular units through cleared partners, under the contract vehicle that fits the program.

Secure facility design and build ▸

Where the accreditation calls for them, they are designed, installed and measured, and you get the test results, not a promise.

The standards we build to ▸

We assemble the body of evidence and work the package with the accrediting authority directly. The Accrediting Official makes the determination.

Accreditation support ▸

Re-inspections, configuration changes and the day-to-day that keep a facility in good standing for the life of the program.

Sustainment ▸

We engage from a blank site or step into a failed or partially built effort. Recovering stalled projects is a specialty.

Stalled project recovery ▸

Your timeline depends on starting posture, scope, region and what the accrediting authority requires. We scope it, tell you what drives it, then commit to a date we can hold.

Scope your timeline ▸

III.MISSION SOFTWARE

We build software that can run inside the boundary, with no outbound connection.

Six products · one architecture · three profiles

Six products. One architecture. Three deployment profiles: hosted and unclassified, CUI-safe on your own infrastructure, or fully air-gapped inside accredited space. The air-gapped profile makes no outbound call. Each system is authorized by its Authorizing Official for a specific environment; Salian prepares the evidence that review requires.

See the Praesidium Suite ▸

// Suite · Praesidium

Turns a short program intake into a budgetary rough order of magnitude for secure-facility work, on your own hardware. The free Project Estimator on this site runs the same engine.

Vates Cognition ▸

Reconstructs an ICD-705 model from a plan or description and checks it against buildingSMART IDS 1.0 plus nine deterministic checks. The verdict is deterministic code, and the Accrediting Official’s determination stays non-delegable.

Groma ▸

Decomposes an analyst’s intent into a multi-step workflow and stops at a human signature before any sensitive action. Built to the control set for DoD Impact Levels IL4 through IL6; authorization at a given Impact Level is a determination by the system's Authorizing Official.

Legatus ▸

Defines and evaluates the boundary policy an AI system must respect: what to allow, redact, or block between an application and a language model.

Vigil ▸

Fuses semantic, knowledge-graph and lexical retrieval by reciprocal rank, for questions whose answer lives between documents rather than inside one.

Hawk RAG ▸

Inline FPGA-based encryption for operational-technology links that cannot take software. Partner hardware. Salian is the integrator through a white-label arrangement, not the manufacturer, and is not presently under license.

Pythian ▸

IV.ENGINEERING

Tell us what you need.
We build it for you.

Ad mensuram

Off-the-shelf software assumes the internet. Inside an accredited or air-gapped facility, that assumption breaks. So we build to your environment instead of asking you to bend to ours. You describe the mission. We engineer the tool.

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// How we build

We start with the mission and the constraints, not a product demo. You tell us what the tool has to do and where it has to live. We tell you what it takes.

Custom engineering ▸

On-prem, fully air-gapped, or cloud-connected where authorized. We build for the boundary you actually operate in.

Custom engineering ▸

Software for accredited spaces is only finished when the paperwork is. We prepare the authorization evidence alongside the build; the Authorizing Official makes the determination.

Custom engineering ▸

Updates, fixes and changes happen on your schedule and inside your boundary, for the life of the program.

Custom engineering ▸

We prove the baseline on a high-fidelity twin of your enclave on the unclassified side, then transfer it across the boundary. Protected content never crosses.

Custom engineering ▸

V.OUR NAME

We equip the mission.
The mission stays yours.

Unum inter duodecim

The Salii kept the shields of Rome ready; they never marched to war. We build the environment your mission runs in: the secure facility, the software, the compliance evidence and the engineering that ties them together. You own the mission. We answer for the environment.

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// The unit

The people who build your space and carry it to accreditation are cleared before they begin.

The team ▸

We measure ourselves on facilities that pass and dates that hold.

The team ▸

We hire for the duty, not the reward. If that sounds like you, the door is open.

Join the team ▸

A shield set against the spear of Mars. Turn it on its side and the same form becomes an eye: the shield that protects, and the eye that sees.

Our name ▸

Founded by a U.S. military veteran whose career runs through intelligence, national security programs, secure facilities, federal contracting and technology.

The founder ▸

VI.AFFILIATED VENTURES

These systems are live.
Use them to judge how we build.

Critical national security ground

RFI Hawk runs at rfihawk.io and Water Hawk at waterhawk.io. The Project Estimator and the FCL readiness picture run on this site, free, with no call required. Open one and see how we scope, how we reason, and what we refuse to guess at.

See the live systems ▸

// Ventures

Finds live federal RFIs across SAM.gov, GSA and agency portals, then helps you answer them properly. Hosted and unclassified; there is a free tier.

RFI Hawk ▸

Scores public water systems in the United States on chemical-supplier exposure and discharge posture, from public sources only.

Water Hawk ▸

Maps your obligations, tracks the evidence behind each one, and flags drift so it can be closed before an assessment, on your infrastructure, outside your CUI boundary. Status on request.

Project Hawk ▸

RFI Hawk and Water Hawk run hosted, where you can check the work. Project Hawk is customer-hosted and stays outside your CUI boundary. Same deployment model as the Praesidium Suite.

Live systems ▸

VII.CONTACT

Discuss your project.

Tell us what you need to accomplish.

Facility, clearance readiness, software, accreditation support, rescue or advisory: describe the requirement and we will tell you which it is. Typical response in one business day.

Unclassified only. Do not send classified information or CUI through this form or by email; neither is an authorized channel for it.

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        CALL · (202) 753-9835

        SALIAN DEFENSE · SDVOSB · CAGE 18SG4

        NAICS · 541512 · 541519 · 541330 · 236220 · 238210 · 561621

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// More from Salian

Compliance that watches itself: obligations mapped, evidence tracked, drift flagged, without touching your controlled content.

Project Hawk ▸

Checks a facility model against the ICD-705 requirement set and returns a gap report. Every output is a draft a person ratifies.

Groma ▸

Free tools, guides and market pages for the cleared community. Open any of them without talking to us first.

All resources ▸

Three systems operated by Salian Defense: RFI Hawk, Water Hawk and Project Hawk.

Investor materials

Review & sign NDA to access ▸

Live systems ▸

// COMMON QUESTIONS

Answered.

What does Salian Defense do?

Salian Defense builds the secure environments national security work requires: facilities, clearance readiness, air-gapped software, compliance and integration, delivered by one accountable team. Facilities are delivered turnkey to ICD-705 (facility clearance sponsorship support, design, construction, accreditation coordination, and ongoing sustainment under a single contract), and the Praesidium Suite is the air-gapped mission software engineered for those environments. DCSA or the applicable Cognizant Security Agency determines facility clearances, and the applicable Accrediting Official or Cognizant Security Authority accredits the facility. Authorizing Officials authorize systems, and an authorized C3PAO or the Department of Defense certifies CMMC status.

Where does Salian Defense work?

Across the cleared markets, metro by metro: the National Capital Region, Norfolk, Tampa Bay, Huntsville, Colorado Springs, Oklahoma City and Texas. Each market page explains how the model applies locally, and the readiness tools work from anywhere.

Is Salian Defense SDVOSB?

Yes. Salian Defense is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), verified through SBA VetCert. SDVOSB status lets Salian compete for SDVOSB set-aside and sole-source opportunities where the procurement's conditions and size standard are met.

How do I engage Salian Defense, and what are its identifiers?

Write to contact@saliandefense.com or use the contact form on this page or at saliandefense.com/contact. We respond within one business day. Salian Defense is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business; CAGE 18SG4. We engage by firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials, milestone and deliverable, subscription access to accredited space and software, software licensing, or as a subcontractor or teaming partner under a prime, including IDIQ and task-order execution.

More answers: facilities and accreditation, software and AI, the company.

AMERICA'SSECURE ADVANTAGE.

We build your secure facility and carry it to accreditation.

We build software that can run inside the boundary, with no outbound connection.

Tell us what you need.We build it for you.

We equip the mission.The mission stays yours.

These systems are live.Use them to judge how we build.

Discuss your project.

Answered.

AMERICA'S
SECURE ADVANTAGE.

Tell us what you need.
We build it for you.

We equip the mission.
The mission stays yours.

These systems are live.
Use them to judge how we build.