# DIU POINT BREAK — SOLUTION BRIEF ## Survivability and Data Sovereignty in Contested Environments **Submission to:** Defense Innovation Unit, Point Break Open Solicitation **Submission deadline:** 15 May 2026, 23:59 ET *(corrected 2026-05-11 from internal "17 May" target — DIU LinkedIn announcement is source of truth)* **Pathway:** Other Transaction Authority (OTA) — Commercial Solutions Opening --- ## SECTION A — ADMINISTRATIVE | Field | Value | |---|---| | Solution title | **SHIELD/ATLAS — Agentic Intelligence Layer for Contested-Environment Operations** | | Submitting company | Integrated Services and Solutions LLC (ISS LLC) | | Business size | Small Business — Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) | | CAGE Code | 9VKK3 | | UEI Number | C7YDV3P8EHL7 | | EIN | 41-4996540 | | Principal Investigator | Dr. Terry Flood, DHA, DBA — Retired U.S. Army 131A (Chief Targeting, EW, Fires & Intelligence Officer); operator-PI | | Technical Architect / Co-PI | Lucas Finco, Computer Engineer; Professor, New York University — technical lead for ATLAS agentic cyber + sensor-fusion stack | | Phone | (254) 319-8460 | | Email | mr.terryflood@gmail.com | | Address | 17912 Stefano Dr, Pflugerville, TX 78660-7020 | | Live posture URL | (deployment URL) — see /brief, /sos-topology, /vertical-loop, /cjadc2-alignment, /llm-providers | | Proposal validity | 225 days from submission | This solution brief includes proprietary information — see FAR 52.215-1(e) restrictive notice. --- ## SECTION B — PROBLEM Tactical, operational, and joint formations operating in DDIL (Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, Limited) environments need AI-enabled decision support that satisfies four constraints simultaneously: 1. **Data sovereignty** — no agent reasoning may transit a commercial public-cloud LLM endpoint. Every machine assertion must be attributable to a sovereign LLM stack (Azure Government IL5, Google Distributed Cloud, Oracle Government, or corpus-only fallback). 2. **Survivability** — agents must continue to function under intermittent connectivity. CoT messaging and decision pipelines must be idempotent under reconnection. No agent may fail open. 3. **Auditability** — every machine-generated assertion must carry full provenance: source URL hash, STANAG 2511 reliability/credibility scores, LLM provider and model version, prompt hash, and citation chain. Reviewers must be able to replay any decision. 4. **Native PoR vocabulary** — the solution must speak CoT (TAK/JBC-P), AIP/Foundry tool-calls, MSS/NGIC2 widgets, and SAM.gov procurement events without requiring the warfighter to learn a new console. The market today forces a false choice between three inadequate options: - **Commercial agent stacks** (Claude, GPT, Lattice closed agents) — capable but ungoverned, public-cloud only, fail closed under DDIL. - **PoR-internal AI** (Maven, AIP-native agents, MSS modules) — governed but slow to add new agents, no native support for sovereign LLM endpoints, no edge survivability guarantees. - **Edge-only AI** (tactical AI radios, on-device inference) — survives DDIL but lacks the synthesis layer the operational and strategic echelons require. ATLAS exists to close the gap. --- ## SECTION C — SOLUTION **SHIELD/ATLAS is a headless agentic intelligence layer comprising 19 cycle-driven agents (12 autonomous), each callable via OpenAPI 3.1.** ATLAS is not another GUI for the warfighter — it is the layer Foundry, AIP, MSS, NGIC2, ATAK, and JBC-P call when they need agents they cannot afford to build themselves. Three architectural commitments answer Point Break's framing directly: ### C.1 — Sovereign LLM stack only (data sovereignty) All agent reasoning routes through a tiered orchestrator (`ai-provider-orchestrator` agent): | Tier | Provider | Authority lane | |---|---|---| | 1 | OpenAI on Azure Government | IL5 / SIPR-routable | | 2 | Google Vertex AI on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) | IL5 / IL6 (GDC air-gap variant) | | 3 | Oracle Government / Grok on Oracle Gov | IL5 — preview | | Fallback | Corpus-only (no LLM) | UNCLASS / IL5 | No agent can reach a commercial public-cloud LLM endpoint. Citation enforcement gates every emission — an agent that cannot cite cannot speak. The orchestrator is the single integration surface; failover is automatic and audited. ### C.2 — CJADC2-aligned, zero-trust per lane (auditability) Every agent slots into one of the four CJADC2 reference architecture lanes: | Lane | Agent count | Zero-trust posture | |---|---|---| | Sense | 7 | mTLS in transit; service-account JWT; collectors are network-egress only (no callbacks accepted); STANAG 2511 provenance per source | | Make Sense | 8 | mTLS; service-account JWT + caller identity propagation; ai-audit logs provider, model, prompt hash, citation chain on every LLM call; citation-gated emission | | Decide | 1 | mTLS; PIV/CAC required for any decision above threshold; WEZ math reproducibility hash; AGOS authorisation gate for kill-chain release | | Act | 3 | mTLS; PIV/CAC for kinetic; service-account permitted for non-kinetic CoT; idempotent CoT replay under DDIL | SBOM generated per build, attached to every release. Full lane mapping and zero-trust posture browseable at `/cjadc2-alignment`. ### C.3 — DDIL-resilient by design (survivability) The `swarm-failsafe` agent enforces RTB / hold / handoff per platform doctrine on comms loss. Outbound CoT replay is idempotent under reconnection. ATLAS never receives unauthenticated CoT. The kill-chain bridge (`intel-killchain-bridge` agent) emits to FreeTAKServer or TAK Server identically; loss of one upstream does not disable the other. --- ## SECTION D — TECHNICAL APPROACH ### D.1 — Live posture, replicable in five minutes A reviewer can replicate the full C-UAS sensor-to-CoT trace end-to-end against the live deployment in under five minutes. The trace at `/vertical-loop` walks through: 1. **AERIS-10** (open-hardware PLFM phased-array radar, NL, CERN-OHL-P) detects a Group-1 UAS at 2.7 km. 2. `sensor-fusion` (Sense lane) emits a fused track. 3. `wez-engine` (Decide lane) returns engagement zone per available interceptor. 4. `intel-killchain-bridge` (Act lane) translates to CoT v2.0. 5. `tak-bridge` (Act lane) dispatches to ATAK / WinTAK / JBC-P. 6. `intel-tag-watcher` (Sense lane, division echelon) appends ledger row for pattern analysis. A reviewer can replicate the same trace locally against ATAK-CIV + FreeTAKServer in under thirty minutes (see `/demo-stack` — three-component open-source stack, no licensing friction). ### D.2 — Two additional traces shipping today - **OSINT analytic trace** (`/vertical-loop` trace 2): collector swarm pulls 47 events across Telegram, Mastodon, Bluesky, RU/CN media, GDELT, procurement, and cyber CVE feeds. Provenance scored. DIME/PMESII synthesis emitted with deep-link citations. Tag-watcher diffs prior synthesis to flag status changes (e.g., Geran-3 family countermeasure update). DIME briefing routed via AIP tool call into the operator's existing AIP workspace. - **Acquisition trace** (`/vertical-loop` trace 3): `sam-watcher` detects matching opportunity on SAM.gov. Acquisition-flavored intel-CUB rolls it into the daily 0500Z brief with PEO portfolio routing. ### D.3 — Foundry / AIP ingest is one curl `/api/atlas/foundry-actions.json` is a 30-path OpenAPI 3.1 spec with echelon and produces-for tags per path. A Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer ingests the spec and wires the first agent into an AIP workspace in an afternoon. There is no separate API contract to negotiate. --- ## SECTION E — TRL AND PAST PERFORMANCE | Capability | TRL | Evidence | |---|---|---| | OSINT collector swarm + DIME/PMESII synthesis | 7 | Running on cycle, citation-gated, ledger appended every cycle | | Sensor-fusion + WEZ engine | 6 | Curl-replicable traces; integrated with AERIS-10 (CERN-OHL-P open hardware) | | Kill-chain bridge to CoT (ATAK / JBC-P / WinTAK) | 7 | Running through TAK Server and FreeTAKServer with idempotent replay | | Sovereign LLM orchestrator with provider failover | 7 | Running production with audit logs | | AIP / Foundry tool-call ingest spec | 6 | OpenAPI 3.1 spec live; FDE-ingestible in an afternoon | | Acquisition-CUB (sam-watcher) | 7 | Live consumption of SAM.gov procurement feed | **Key personnel:** - **Dr. Terry Flood, DHA, DBA** — Principal Investigator. Retired U.S. Army Targeting Warrant Officer (131A); Chief Targeting, EW, Fires & Intelligence Officer. Operator-PI; sets mission/doctrine framing and agency engagement. - **Lucas Finco** — Technical Architect / Co-PI. Computer Engineer; Professor, New York University. Technical lead for the ATLAS agentic cyber stack, sensor-fusion engine, multi-domain anomaly classifier, and AGOS audit-chain implementation. Named technical co-lead on the AGOS NIBRS submission and the agentic-cyber proposal stack. **Prior submissions:** AFRL PACER BAA (FA2391-23-S-2403) submitted April 2026; AFRL ACES RFI; ACC AMIC CSO Quad Chart and 5-page white paper submitted April 2026. Same architecture, same ATLAS posture; documents available on request. **CW4 J. Drow (USARMY 528 PA BDE) feedback** on the 28 April 2026 CAPES brief substantively shaped the current architecture: PoR integration over standalone GUI, agentic posture over static analytics, government-cloud LLM commitment, no new operator console. --- ## SECTION F — PROPOSED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE AND PRICING ### Phase A — Point Break Demonstration (90 days) Deploy ATLAS in a DIU IL5 enclave. Integrate with one named PoR reviewer (AIP, Foundry, or MSS — DIU's choice). Stand up three production agents on cycle. Deliver full ZT/SBOM artifacts and a documented operator-on-the-loop demonstration against a contested-environment scenario provided by DIU. **Deliverables:** - ATLAS instance in DIU IL5 enclave with mTLS / PIV-CAC / SBOM - Three named agents wired into the chosen PoR - Demonstration script + recorded walkthrough - Zero-trust audit package (lane-by-lane attestation) - FedRAMP-aligned third-party penetration test report **Rough order of magnitude:** $480K (3-engineer team × 90 days, plus enclave standup, plus pen test) ### Phase B — Operational Pilot (12 months, optional) Scale to four agent classes across two PoR consumers. Live SIPR pilot with one named operational unit. Field validation under realistic DDIL conditions. **Rough order of magnitude:** $1.6M (full team × 12 months, plus operational pilot support) --- ## SECTION G — WHY DIU AND WHY NOW DIU's OTA pathway is the only acquisition vehicle that moves at the speed of the underlying technology. ATLAS is in production today — **twelve public pages, ten JSON endpoints, every claim hyperlinked to its proof artifact** at `/brief`. Integration with AIP and Foundry is days of work, not months. A 2026-05-04 ground-truth audit of the transition map (`/transition`) re-graded engagement honestly: **one transition pathway is ENGAGED in the strong sense** (SAM.gov via the `sam-watcher` agent running production against the live feed); **nine are in PROSPECT** with documented entry points (TAK / JBC-P / WinTAK via CoT bridge; MSS via CW4 informal feedback; AIP and Foundry via the OpenAPI spec they have not yet ingested; Maven, CJADC2 via public reference architecture); **two are OPEN** (Anduril Lattice, Gemini Enterprise SIPR). We do not claim relationships we do not have. The Point Break framing — **survivability and data sovereignty in contested environments** — is not a stretch fit for ATLAS. It is the brief ATLAS was built against. The gov-cloud-only LLM stack, the DDIL-resilient swarm-failsafe agent, the zero-trust posture per CJADC2 lane, and the citation-gated emission policy were all design decisions made in direct response to this framing. We are asking DIU for an OTA to formalize a 90-day pilot with a named PoR reviewer. Ninety days from award, ATLAS is on cycle inside a DIU enclave, integrated with the reviewer's preferred PoR, with full zero-trust attestation and a pen-test package. The risk is contained, the deliverables are concrete, and the path to operational pilot is already mapped. --- ## SECTION H — PROOF URLS (live deployment) | URL | What it proves | |---|---| | `/brief` | One-page summary, every claim hyperlinked | | `/sos-topology` | Agent × echelon × PoR × sensor matrix, generated from live metadata | | `/vertical-loop` | Three end-to-end curl-replicable traces | | `/cjadc2-alignment` | All 19 agents in Sense/Make Sense/Decide/Act with ZT posture per lane | | `/transition` | 12 echelon × PoR transition pathways: 1 ENGAGED, 9 PROSPECT, 2 OPEN (per 2026-05-04 ground-truth audit — see Section G) | | `/llm-providers` | Sovereign LLM stack with per-tier authority lanes | | `/demo-stack` | Three-command local replication of the SoS topology | | `/api/atlas/foundry-actions.json` | OpenAPI 3.1 spec, AIP / Foundry FDE-ingestible | --- **Submitted by:** Dr. Terry Flood, DHA, DBA — Integrated Services and Solutions LLC **Date:** May 2026