Secure AI Enablement · Defense Industrial Base
Your competitors are getting AI productivity gains you can't touch because your data is CUI — and one careless prompt into a commercial AI tool can put your CMMC certification and your contracts at risk.
Tradewinds deploys AI inside your compliance boundary, so your team gets the gains without gambling the certification.
How the engagement works
Secure AI Readiness Assessment
Fixed fee · 1–2 weeks
- AI-use inventory and CUI-exposure map
- Shadow-AI risk findings
- Boundary-safe vs. boundary-internal use-case triage
- §1513 exposure summary
- Recommended architecture (GCC-High vs. private cluster vs. hybrid)
- Costed roadmap
Deployment
Fixed fee · milestone-gated
- Path A — GCC-High Copilot enablement: tenant/enclave design review, deployment with CUI isolation, data-flow documentation, SSP addendum package, user enablement
- Path B — Private AI cluster: hardware spec, on-prem model deployment with zero cloud egress, enclave integration, SSP documentation, acceptance testing
Managed AI-in-Enclave Service
Flat monthly retainer · tiered by nodes/seats
- Patching and model updates
- Monitoring
- Support SLA
- Compliance-documentation upkeep as the NDAA §1513 framework lands
§1513 is coming for your AI stack
The FY2026 NDAA (§1513) directs DoD to develop an AI/ML security framework and fold it into DFARS and CMMC. Contractors who architect for it now adopt AI on their own timeline; everyone else retrofits under deadline pressure.
Read the §1513 explainerWho you're working with
Tradewinds is led by an Army veteran with fifteen years supporting PACOM operations — active security clearance, CCNA, PMP — and scales with a team of cleared personnel drawn from the defense community, sized to the engagement. And the part that matters most: we build and operate the AI infrastructure we recommend — the private cluster architecture we deploy for clients runs in our own lab first.
See the reference architectureBook a Secure AI Readiness Assessment
Fixed fee, 1–2 weeks, and you keep the roadmap either way.