Hold the program. Hold the chain.
Prime programs run on supply chains thousands of suppliers deep, each with their own classification posture, qualification record, and cybersecurity maturity. Expanse covers the full vertical: cross-prime supplier registry, CMMC L2/L3 attestation, ITAR + DFARS file handling, AS9100 + AS9102 audit-pack assembly, and sovereign-deployment for AUKUS and FVEY foreign-prime programs.
Six firm sectors. One classified-ready stack.
Primes, neo-primes, dual-use suppliers, tier-N components, MRO providers, and foreign primes each operate at a different point in the program. The same Expanse stack — Standard Engines, Multimodal FMs, Closed-Loop Optimization, Full-Stack Edge AI, OT Security — drops into each with the surfaces, sovereignty, and classification posture they need.
Tier-N components are the CMMC wedge: Dec 2026 enforcement forces every supplier to L2/L3, and customer-prime cybersecurity flow-down is now standard. Primes and neo-primes get cross-tier chain-of-custody for FEOC, DPA Title III, and Buy-American. MRO and foreign primes get sovereign-deployment and AUKUS / FVEY data-sharing patterns. Classified-program isolation is enforced in hardware.
Program posture
Where the value lives
Three firm-sector wedges.
Across the six firm sectors served, three patterns concentrate the value: primes running cross-tier programs, tier-N suppliers facing the CMMC wedge, and MRO + foreign primes operating under sovereign-deployment constraints.
Primes + neo-primes
Program execution across thousands of suppliers. Cross-prime supplier registry, tier-N chain-of-custody, classified-program isolation enforced in hardware. The audit pack assembles itself as work moves.
- Cross-prime supplier registry + cybersecurity flow-down
- Cross-tier-N chain-of-custody (FEOC, DPA Title III)
- Classified-program isolation + sovereign-deployment
- AS9100 + AS9102 + AS9145 continuous audit-pack
Tier-N + dual-use suppliers
The CMMC wedge. Dec 2026 enforcement forces every defense supplier to L2/L3. Expanse delivers CMMC uplift, customer-prime cybersecurity flow-down, and Nadcap-qualified process attestation as packaged offerings, not multi-year programs.
- CMMC L2/L3 self-assessment + C3PAO audit-pack
- Customer-prime cybersecurity flow-down (Lockheed, RTX, Boeing, NG, GD)
- Nadcap audit-pack (AC7000 series across process types)
- ITAR + EAR + DFARS file-handling controls
MRO + foreign primes
Sustainment and allied-program participation. Sovereign-deployment for host-country compliance (UK STRAP, German SECRET, Israeli STAR). AUKUS technical-cooperation security; FVEY data-sharing. F-35 international partner program security baked in.
- Sovereign-deployment with allied-data-sharing patterns
- Host-country-equivalent classification compliance
- F-35 international partner + AUKUS technical-cooperation security
- MRO sustainment + reverse-logistics chain-of-custody
From drawing to attested lot
The full program, in a single loop.
A drawing released by a prime cascades into supplier matching, schedule reservation, and cross-tier chain-of-custody — continuously, classification-aware, audit-sealed.
A drawing release becomes a sealed tier-N reservation
ITAR classification, CMMC posture, Nadcap qualification, schedule capacity — matched and sealed in under two seconds.
A&D doesn’t end at the airframe
F-35, B-21, GBSD, hypersonic, next-fighter, space-launch — the same chain-of-custody schemas plug into contract manufacturing, chemicals, steel, and capital downstream.
Tier-N components, PCBA, metal-additive, composites, surface-treatment — defense-suppliers cross-link integrates with the manufacturing CMP federation.
Composite precursors, specialty alloys, heat-treat, plating — material genealogy + CBAM attestation rides on the same provenance schema as the F-35 supply chain.
CMMC + ITAR + DFARS + DPA Title III + FEOC + Buy-American forecasting — model rule cascades through program supply chains months before deadlines bind.
Defense-program financing, classified-program-eligible insurance, DPA Title III credit underwriting — every attestation packet becomes a financeable artifact.
Deploy on a single program.
CMMC L2/L3 uplift, cross-tier chain-of-custody, or AS9102 audit-pack in 30 days — see the output before you commit.