Salian Defense delivers secure facilities and the bespoke software that runs inside them. We design, build, prepare for accreditation, and operate Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities and the classified workflows they host, from the first site assessment through occupancy and into daily operation. Most vendors own one link in that chain. We own the whole chain. Cleared. Turnkey. Accountable inside the boundary.
Contractors come to us to avoid the cost, delay, and risk of standing up cleared space and compliant systems alone. Government program offices come to us for accredited capability on a mission clock. Both need the same thing: a partner who can be trusted inside the boundary and held accountable for the result. We have delivered SCIF capability across the United States and overseas. We can start a project from bare ground, or step into one that has stalled and carry it the rest of the way.
Secure space is the foundation, and we build all of it: SCIFs, SAPFs, and closed areas, to the physical and technical standards of ICD-705. Some requirements call for a permanent build-out. Others call for a modular unit set in weeks. A few arrive as someone else's unfinished work. We handle each the same way, by building to what the accrediting authority will actually sign.
Full secure-space design and construction to ICD-705, including TEMPEST shielding and acoustic protection. Every project leaves with the drawings, fixed-facility checklist, and test results the accreditation package depends on.
Permanent build-outs for established sites, and mobile or modular secure facilities for rapid and expeditionary needs. Capability can stand up where the mission is, not only where suitable real estate happens to exist.
Anti-terrorism and force protection systems, ballistic and blast mitigation, building hardening, and perimeter surveillance. We design redundant electrical and mechanical systems so a single failure does not take the space offline.
Master electricians, master carpenters, and specialty trades, cleared for the work. They are experienced in occupied, historic, and time-sensitive sites, so construction moves without shutting down the operation around it.
We assemble the body of evidence and work the package with the accrediting authority directly. The customer gets a space that is ready to sign, not a building handed over with a wish of good luck.
Turnkey access to cleared, accreditation-ready space and infrastructure. Customers begin work without carrying the capital project, the schedule risk, or the wait.
We engage from a blank site or step into a failed or partially built effort. Recovering stalled projects is not a favor we do reluctantly. It is a specialty.
Our software backbone is the Praesidium platform. It was built for austere, air-gapped, classified environments from the first commit, not adapted from a commercial product that assumes a live internet connection. It runs fully offline, with no outbound network traffic, and handles the parts of a secure deployment that usually eat schedule: mapping controls, assembling the body of evidence, orchestrating classified workflows, and keeping a defensible audit trail once systems are live.
We build a high-fidelity twin of the target classified enclave and run it on the unclassified, networked side. Engineering, configuration, validation, and dry runs all happen there at full speed. When the baseline is proven, it transfers into the air-gapped environment as known-good work. Program teams keep their collaboration on the networked mirror, and protected content never crosses the boundary.
No software-as-a-service in the runtime path. No telemetry leaving the building. No copyleft licensing to complicate the supply chain. These were design constraints from day one, not features added later under audit pressure.
Sensitive actions break into multi-step workflows, and a cleared person approves each gate before anything proceeds. Every transition is recorded with its classification, so the audit trail writes itself as the work happens.
The same platform finds, scores, and helps win the right work. Market signal becomes a qualified pursuit list and proposal-ready material instead of a pile of notifications.
A facility is only as good as the program that runs it, and the program is only as good as the people staffing it. We stand up the industrial security programs, manage the clearances, and provide the cleared personnel that keep classified work compliant and moving. Some of this we do directly. The rest we draw from a vetted cleared network.
We create, maintain, and self-inspect industrial security programs, and we prepare clients for DCSA security reviews under 32 CFR Part 117. The aim is a program that passes because it was run correctly, not patched the week before the review.
Facility Clearance process support, personnel security clearance administration, and Key Management Personnel coverage where a role needs filling.
Facility Security Officer support and cleared staff augmentation, sized to the program. That can mean a single billet or a full security team standing behind it.
Technical surveillance countermeasures, insider threat program development, and Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence mitigation. The unglamorous work that keeps a clearance intact.
The hardest part of cleared delivery is rarely a single task. It is assembling the right people, vendors, and trades around a classified requirement and keeping all of them moving in the same direction. When we put a team together, we are not staffing from a bench of whoever happens to be free. We select for fit, clearance, and cost, then manage the result to one schedule and one standard.
For any project we assemble the most qualified and most cost-effective team from a vetted network of cleared vendors, integrators, and specialty trades. One schedule, one standard, one point of accountability.
We build teams tuned to a given customer's standards, accrediting officials, and tempo. The people on the ground already know the agency's expectations before the first meeting.
Our design and engineering staff hold active clearances. Sensitive design work stays inside the boundary instead of being handed to an uncleared third party and sanitized afterward.
Through cleared brokers we can physically walk qualifying customers through existing accredited or accreditation-ready space. That shortens the distance from requirement to occupancy considerably.
Teams positioned across multiple localities let us mobilize close to the customer and run efforts in parallel rather than in sequence, in the United States and overseas.
We compress the timeline from requirement to operating capability, and we deliver in months where the conventional path runs much longer. The digital twin and the software automation are how we get there, not a slogan. One partner owns the facility, the accreditation, and the software inside it, so the customer is not stitching together a builder, an integrator, and a software vendor and hoping the seams hold under inspection. We have designed and delivered SCIF capability worldwide. Start to finish, or a clean entry into a stalled effort. There is no point in the lifecycle that falls outside what we do. When a project warrants it, we can put our own capital to work to accelerate delivery; terms come first, then the capital, never on speculation.
We shape each engagement around the customer, the contract vehicle, and where the risk should sit between us. The structures below are the common ones, and they combine.
A defined SCIF or software scope for an agreed price. Best when the requirement is well understood and the customer wants cost certainty.
Cleared engineering, accreditation, and operations support billed against agreed rates. The right fit when scope will evolve as the work proceeds.
Payment tied to accreditation gates and delivery milestones, so cost tracks demonstrated progress rather than calendar time.
Recurring access to accredited space, infrastructure, and software on a term or per-seat basis, in place of a capital build.
Licensed or subscription access to the Praesidium platform for compliance, orchestration, and capture intelligence.
We perform as a subcontractor or teaming partner under a prime, carry the prime role ourselves, or support IDIQ and task-order execution. Whatever the vehicle requires.
For qualifying projects, we co-invest our own capital to move faster, against terms agreed in advance. Never speculative.
Defense and intelligence contractors come to us when they need cleared space and compliant systems but do not want to build a security organization to get them. Government program offices, FSOs, CSOs, and ISSMs come to us when accredited capability has to be standing by a date that will not move. Primes engage us as the specialized SCIF and classified-software partner they can put on a team and on contract quickly, with clearances already in place. In every case the customer is buying the same two things: speed they cannot reach alone, and a partner they can trust inside the fence.
NAICS listed are representative of our SCIF design, secure software, and integration work; we map to the customer's specific codes on request.
Salian Defense delivers accredited SCIF capability and the classified software that runs inside it, anywhere the mission requires, on timelines conventional approaches cannot match. We take on the whole project or any piece of it, including the pieces another team could not finish. If you have a requirement, a teaming opportunity, or a project that has stalled, the conversation starts here.
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