Mission Assurance & Decision Intelligence Platform
Federal Operational Intelligence Platform
FOIP closes the gap between strategic failures identified by GAO, Inspector General findings, and Performance.gov data — and the technical execution layer spanning cybersecurity, compliance, and IT operations across federal agencies.
Not a SIEM. Not a SOC platform. Not a dashboard tool. FOIP is a Decision + Compliance + Mission Intelligence Layer that automates RMF/ATO processes, translates technical risk into mission impact, and augments the federal workforce.
NIST 800-53 Rev. 5
FedRAMP High
OSCAL 1.1.2
CISA Zero Trust
DoD RMF / cATO
FIPS 140-3
Core Platform Pillars
Four engines. One mission.
FOIP is built around four mandatory capabilities designed to address the most critical and persistent federal IT and cybersecurity gaps identified by GAO, IGs, and Performance.gov.
Workforce Augmentation Engine
Auto-generate ServiceNow tickets, POA&M entries, NIST remediation steps, and SOPs. Recommend training via OPM/USA Learning integration. Eliminates 60-70% of manual compliance labor.
Section 5.1 — MVP
Continuous ATO (cATO) Proof Engine
OSCAL-native outputs, real-time control status, live evidence tracking, compliance drift detection within 60 seconds. Trust Portal for auditors (IG/GAO) with tamper-evident audit trail.
Section 5.2 — Phase 2
Mission Impact Intelligence Engine
Translates CVEs into mission outcomes: “This vulnerability impacts 5,000 veterans and delays claims processing by 12%.” Aligned with Performance.gov strategic goals and agency APGs.
Section 5.3 — Phase 2
Hybrid Visibility Engine
Bridges legacy systems (mainframe, SAP) and modern cloud (AWS GovCloud, Azure Gov). Unified risk view, modernization comparison, and cross-environment correlation.
Section 5.4 — Phase 3
Extended Engine Capabilities
Beyond detection. Into action.
FOIP doesn’t just identify risk — it orchestrates remediation, generates compliance artifacts, and provides AI-powered decision intelligence with full audit trails.
🔧 Remediation Orchestration
Full state-machine workflow engine with approval gates (ISSO/ISSM), rollback mechanisms, and SLA enforcement. Auto-creates ServiceNow tickets, updates POA&Ms, triggers Lambda runbooks. Bidirectional write-back to ServiceNow, Telos Xacta, and eMASS.
Section 6 — 7 Workflow States
🤖 DocuAction AI (RAG)
Agentic AI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Vector DB (Milvus/OpenSearch), hybrid retrieval (BM25 + semantic), ingests SSPs, NIST docs, audit logs, meeting transcripts. Every output cites source evidence with confidence scoring. Mandatory Explainable AI (XAI).
Section 7 — Phase 2
📄 OSCAL-Native Schema
All compliance data modeled in NIST OSCAL 1.1.2. Canonical event schema maps every telemetry event to controls. Four-stage pipeline: Ingestion → Normalization → Enrichment → OSCAL Assessment Result generation. Direct FedRAMP/eMASS interoperability.
Section 4 — MVP
🔒 Multi-Tenancy & Security
Federal-grade isolation: tenant-scoped KMS keys (FIPS 140-3), namespace-per-tenant Kubernetes, schema-per-tenant PostgreSQL with row-level security, RBAC+ABAC via OPA, topic-per-tenant Kafka ACLs. 7 defined roles from Platform Admin to Auditor.
Section 10 — Phase 2
🚀 API-First Design
OpenAPI 3.1 specification with JWT + Mutual TLS authentication. 35 engine endpoints covering telemetry ingestion, risk assessment, compliance queries, SSP generation, remediation orchestration, HITL decisions, PQC scanning, SBOM drift, and workforce automation.
Section 9 — MVP
🛰 Telemetry Pipeline
Event-driven architecture with 7 sidecar adapters (Splunk, CrowdStrike, Tenable, mainframe, SAP, Azure, AWS). Kafka/EventBridge event bus with TLS encryption, tenant partitioning, 7-day retention, DLQ. Batch processing with deduplication and schema validation.
Section 3 — MVP
Compliance & Authorization
From 18-month ATO to continuous compliance
FOIP replaces static, point-in-time ATO processes with real-time, evidence-backed compliance monitoring. OSCAL-native from the ground up.
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5
Complete control mapping across all 20 control families. Automated assessment of 325 controls per system boundary. Every telemetry event maps to affected controls via the FOIP control mapping table. FedRAMP Low, Moderate, and High baselines supported with agency-specific overlays.
OSCAL 1.1.2 Native
All compliance artifacts generated in NIST OSCAL format: Assessment Results, SSP Fragments, POA&Ms. Direct import into eMASS, Telos Xacta, and FedRAMP repositories. No proprietary schema translation. Machine-readable compliance state with traceability metadata.
Zero Trust Alignment (M-22-09)
All five CISA ZTA pillars addressed: Identity (JWT+mTLS, Keycloak SAML/OIDC), Devices (unified asset registry), Networks (K8s NetworkPolicy, Kafka ACLs), Applications (SBOM engine), Data (tenant-scoped KMS, envelope encryption, S3 Object Lock).
System Architecture — Section 3
Five-layer event-driven architecture
Kubernetes-native (EKS/AKS), event-driven microservices, sidecar integration pattern — no agents on source systems.
L1 — INGESTION
7 sidecar adapters: Splunk, CrowdStrike, Tenable, mainframe (z/OS), SAP, Azure Defender, AWS SecurityHub. gRPC communication. Schema validation.
L2 — NORMALIZATION
Canonical FOIP event schema. OSCAL mapper. CVE/KEV/NVD enrichment pipeline. Asset-to-boundary resolution. Control mapping.
L3 — EVENT BUS
Amazon MSK (Kafka). Mutual TLS. Tenant-scoped CMK encryption. 5 topic patterns per tenant. 7-day retention. Dead-letter queues.
L4 — PROCESSING
Risk scoring engine. Mission Impact engine. cATO compliance engine. DocuAction RAG pipeline. PQC discovery. SBOM drift detection.
L5 — ACTION
Remediation orchestrator. OSCAL artifact generator. ServiceNow/Xacta/eMASS write-back. Notification service. HITL approval gateway.
Target: AWS GovCloud (EKS) / Azure Government (AKS) — FedRAMP High — FIPS 140-3 — Est. $10,380/month MVP infrastructure cost
Section 5.3 — Mission Impact Intelligence
Technical risk → Mission outcomes
FOIP maintains a Mission Dependency Graph linking IT assets to mission functions to agency strategic goals (Performance.gov aligned). When a vulnerability hits an asset, the engine traverses the graph to quantify downstream impact.
VA — Strategic Goal 1
Veterans Claims Processing
“CVE-2026-1234 (CVSS 9.8) on prod-claims-web-03 impacts 5,000 veterans, delays claims processing by 12%, estimated $2.4M financial impact. Risk priority: CRITICAL.”
Treasury — Tax Processing
IRS Legacy System Risk
Two critical legacy systems running COBOL. Vulnerability in tax processing creates data integrity risk affecting millions of returns during filing season. Revenue processing delay quantified.
DOD — $10.9B IT Programs
Defense Business Systems
24 major IT business programs. 4 programs lack Zero Trust plans. Missing ZTA implementation on business system exposes financial management data. Audit readiness impact quantified.
Section 5.1 — Workforce Augmentation
Force multiplier for understaffed teams
GAO found 4 of 5 major departments implemented fewer than half of cybersecurity workforce practices. 22 of 23 agencies lack contractor workforce data. FOIP eliminates 60-70% of manual compliance work.
Auto-Generated Artifacts
- ServiceNow incident/change tickets with full finding context
- OSCAL-formatted POA&M entries with remediation timelines
- NIST remediation steps mapped to specific controls
- Standard Operating Procedures (8-step templates)
- Training recommendations linked to OPM competency frameworks
Integration Targets
- ServiceNow ITSM — REST API (Table API, OAuth 2.0)
- Telos Xacta — REST API / OSCAL JSON export
- eMASS — OSCAL JSON to designated S3 bucket
- AWS Systems Manager — SSM Run Command
- Azure Automation — Runbook execution
- OPM USALearning — Training recommendations
Section 15 — Post-Quantum Cryptography
Quantum-ready compliance
Under 6 USC 1526 (Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act), agencies must inventory quantum-vulnerable systems. FOIP’s PQC Discovery Engine automates this mandate.
Cryptographic Discovery
Four detection vectors: eBPF probes on TLS sessions, certificate store scanning (ACM/Key Vault), static analysis of source code for crypto library calls, VPN/network appliance configuration parsing. Detects RSA-2048, ECC P-256/P-384, DSA, DH — all quantum-vulnerable algorithms.
Three-Tier Classification
Quantum Vulnerable: RSA, ECC, DSA, DH — immediate migration planning.
Quantum Transitional: Hybrid implementations (X25519Kyber768).
Quantum Safe: FIPS 203 ML-KEM, FIPS 204 ML-DSA, FIPS 205 SLH-DSA, AES-256.
Migration Priority Score
Weighted scoring: Data Sensitivity (35%), Mission Criticality (30%), Exposure Duration / harvest-now-decrypt-later risk (20%), Migration Complexity (15%). Maps to NIST 800-53 SC-13 (Cryptographic Protection). Integrated with Mission Impact Engine.
Sections 17 & 18 — AI Governance & Safety
Human oversight. Full auditability. Zero hallucinations.
2026 federal guidance mandates human oversight for AI-driven high-impact actions. FOIP enforces HITL controls, explainable AI, full reproducibility, and 7-year audit retention.
Human-in-the-Loop Gateway
Four-tier impact classification (Critical → Low). Critical actions require dual ISSM+AO approval with 4-hour SLA. Every AI recommendation includes reasoning chain, linked evidence, confidence score, and proposed action with rollback details.
Full AI Auditability
Every inference captured: input query hash, retrieval chunks with scores, model version hash, system prompt version, raw output hash, confidence score, citation validation results. Stored in S3 Object Lock (compliance mode) for 7 years per NARA schedule.
Compliance Alignment
Aligned with EO 14110 (AI Safety), OMB M-24-10 (AI Governance), NIST AI RMF 1.0 (Govern/Map/Measure/Manage), and FISMA AU-2/AU-3/SI-4 controls. Model version registry with evaluation benchmarks and 15-minute rollback capability.
Sections 8 & 16 — Supply Chain & Software Assurance
From static SBOM to runtime assurance
OMB M-26-05 shifts software assurance from static attestation to risk-based runtime validation. FOIP’s SBOM engines cover build-time supply chain risk and runtime drift detection.
Build-Time SBOM (Section 8)
Ingests CycloneDX and SPDX formats. Composite supply chain risk score (0-100) from four factors: Vulnerability Severity (40%, NVD+KEV), Exploitability (25%, EPSS), Geopolitical Origin (20%, EO 13873), Maintenance Health (15%, package registry metadata). Scores above 70 = high-risk alert, above 90 = quarantine recommendation.
Runtime Drift Detection (Section 16)
Ingests runtime SBOMs from AWS Inspector, ECR, Security Hub, Azure Defender. Three-level drift detection: component identity match, version drift classification (patch/major/downgrade), vulnerability delta. Runtime Assurance Score (0-100) with four factors: SBOM Coverage (30%), Version Fidelity (25%), Vulnerability Exposure (30%), Attestation Currency (15%).
Section 2 — Product-Market Validation
Evidence-backed federal demand
Every FOIP capability maps to documented failures from GAO High-Risk Reports, IG FISMA audits, and Performance.gov strategic data. Not speculative — validated.
$100B+
Annual federal IT spend, 80% on operations & maintenance. GAO-25-107852: 463 open IT recommendations unimplemented as of January 2025.
22/23
CFO Act agencies with incomplete cyber contractor workforce data. GAO-25-107405: persistent shortage across government. Only DHS fully implemented workforce practices.
$51.7B
In mission-critical IT acquisitions at risk. GAO-25-106908: 16 acquisitions, 7 with high cybersecurity risks, 75 open recommendations. VA EHRM: $13.84B obligated, 16 of 18 recs unimplemented.
69
Critical legacy systems identified by GAO-25-107795. 11 most critical: 7 with known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, 8 using outdated programming languages, 4 on unsupported hardware.
Section 11 — Build Plan
90-day MVP to full production
Phased delivery designed for a 10-engineer team. MVP in 90 days, advanced capabilities in Phase 2-3.
MVP — 90 Calendar Days (6 Sprints)
Two sidecar adapters (CrowdStrike + AWS Security Hub), CVSS-based risk scoring, basic NIST 800-53 control mapping (SI, RA, CA families), executive dashboard, template-based SOP generation, JWT/mTLS auth, audit logging. Single-tenant deployment. Team: 1 Tech Lead, 2 Platform Engineers, 2 Backend (Ingestion), 2 Backend (Engines), 1 Frontend, 1 Security, 1 QA/DevSecOps.
Phase 2 — Months 4-6
Full remediation orchestration with approval gates. DocuAction RAG AI with vector DB. cATO Trust Portal for auditors. Multi-tenancy (namespace isolation, tenant KMS keys, OPA policies). Additional adapters (Tenable, Azure). Basic mission impact graph. HITL AI governance. AI audit logging. PQC discovery engine. SBOM drift detection (M-26-05).
Phase 3 — Months 7-12
Full SBOM engine with geopolitical scoring. Dynamic mission dependency graph with auto-discovery. Legacy adapters (mainframe, SAP). Self-healing workflows. Predictive risk scoring (ML). FedRAMP High authorization package. iEdison technology transfer integration. Regulatory adaptability layer with plug-in architecture.
Ready to transform federal compliance?
20 specification sections. 10 active engines. 35 API endpoints. Built for the federal enterprise. Aligned with NIST, FedRAMP, CISA Zero Trust, and 2026 mandates.
AWS GovCloud / Azure Government — FIPS 140-3 — OSCAL 1.1.2 — FedRAMP High — DoD RMF / cATO