Federal Compliance · Substrate Development

Solving the most vital and pressing security mandates facing the federal government.

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The Compliance Gap

Congress passed the laws. OMB issued the memos. The substrate is missing.

Federal agency CIOs face mounting legal mandates with no clear technical path to implementation. The deadlines are real. The audits are coming. What is missing in most cases is not the will to comply — it is the cryptographic, attestation, and record-integrity infrastructure these mandates assume exists.

Sparked Technology Solutions is actively developing substrate-level approaches to the structural causes behind today's compliance gaps — not the symptoms. Every concept we work on maps to a published federal mandate. Hover any citation below for the definition. Click for the official source.

If any of the mandates below are on your desk, we should talk.

Mandates We Address
EO 14028Executive Order 14028Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity. Signed May 2021. Mandates federal software supply chain attestation, signed-evidence requirements, and zero-trust architecture across federal agencies and contractors.Click for the official source →
Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity
Software supply chain attestation, signed-evidence requirements, zero-trust architecture deadlines.
Solved today by SOVEREIGN III →
OMB M-22-18OMB Memorandum M-22-18Enhancing the Security of the Software Supply Chain through Secure Software Development Practices.Click for the official source →
Software Supply Chain Self-Attestation
Federal agencies must obtain self-attestations from software producers verifying secure development practices.
Solved today by SOVEREIGN III →
OMB M-26-05OMB Memorandum M-26-05Risk-based AI security and tailored runtime environments for federal AI deployments.Click for the official source →
Risk-Based AI Security
Tailored runtime environments and risk-graded controls for federal AI deployments.
CNSA 2.0Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0NSA standard requiring federal national security systems to support and prefer post-quantum cryptography starting 2026.Click for the official source →
Post-Quantum Migration
Federal network equipment must support and prefer post-quantum signatures starting 2026.
NIST AI RMFNIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.1Voluntary federal framework with Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage functions.Click for the official source → 1.1
AI Risk Management Framework
Govern, Manage, and Measure functions for federal AI deployments. Includes the GenAI Profile.
NIST CAISINIST Center for AI Standards and InnovationNIST initiative establishing standards for AI agent identity, attestation, and signed inter-agent communication.Click for the official source →
AI Agent Standards Initiative
Cryptographic agent identity, attestation, and signed inter-agent communication.
CMMC 2.0Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0DoD program requiring contractors handling CUI to certify against three maturity levels.Click for the official source →
CUI Handling & Supply Chain
NIST 800-171NIST Special Publication 800-171Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations.Click for the official source → / NIST 800-172NIST Special Publication 800-172Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting CUI against APTs.Click for the official source → conformance for Controlled Unclassified Information.
Solved today by SOVEREIGN III →
NIST 800-53NIST Special Publication 800-53Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations.Click for the official source →
Audit Tamper Protection
Controls AU-9(3) and AU-10 — audit log integrity and non-repudiation. RA-5 vulnerability monitoring.
Solved today by SOVEREIGN III →
NARANational Archives and Records AdministrationFederal agency setting permanent-records standards.Click for the official source →
Permanent Records Mandate
Long-horizon record readability across substrate change. Decades, not vendor lifetimes.
38 USC 812738 U.S.C. \xc2\xa7 8127Veterans First Contracting Program.Click for the official source →
Veterans First Contracting
Strongest SDVOSBService-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small BusinessFederal certification under FAR 19.14.Click for the official source → authority in federal government. Sole-source eligibility within VA.
EBP Act 2018Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018Federal law requiring agencies to use auditable evidence in policy decisions.Click for the official source →
Evidence-Based Policymaking
Auditable decision evidence with cryptographic permanence for federal recordkeeping.
FOIAFreedom of Information ActFederal law granting public access to agency records.Click for the official source →
DOJ Modernization Mandate
Reduce FOIAFreedom of Information ActFederal law granting public access to agency records.Click for the official source → response time. OIP modernization order. Cryptographic provenance on releases.
EO 14243Executive Order 14243Stopping Waste, Fraud and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos.Click for the official source →
Eliminating Information Silos
Federal agencies must eliminate duplicative data systems and consolidate authoritative sources.
GAO FY2026GAO Cybersecurity Recommendations FY2026GAO identifies 567 unimplemented federal cybersecurity recommendations as of FY2026.Click for the official source →
567 Open Recommendations
Unimplemented federal cybersecurity recommendations as of fiscal year 2026.
What We Are Developing

Ten substrate-level concepts. One foundation. Each maps to a named mandate.

Detailed technical discussions, architecture briefings, and feasibility reviews are available to qualified federal evaluators under NDA. The card grid below is the public posture. The substance is held in reserve for the conversations that matter.

01
Localized AI-Driven Credential Detection
EO 14028Executive Order 14028Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity. Signed May 2021. Mandates federal software supply chain attestation, signed-evidence requirements, and zero-trust architecture across federal agencies and contractors.Click for the official source → · CMMC 2.0Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0DoD program requiring contractors handling CUI to certify against three maturity levels.Click for the official source → · CISA CDMCISA Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation ProgramFederal program providing continuous monitoring tools to civilian agencies.Click for the official source →
On-premise, air-gapped detection that combines deterministic scanning with AI-driven contextual review. Eliminates the tradeoff between detection precision and data sovereignty for federal supply chains.
Operational · SOVEREIGN III
02
Cryptographically-Attested AI Agents
OMB M-26-05OMB Memorandum M-26-05Risk-based AI security and tailored runtime environments for federal AI deployments.Click for the official source → · NIST AI RMFNIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.1Voluntary federal framework with Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage functions.Click for the official source → · NIST CAISINIST Center for AI Standards and InnovationNIST initiative establishing standards for AI agent identity, attestation, and signed inter-agent communication.Click for the official source →
Attestation frameworks that bind every multi-agent action to a signed, auditable claim. Provides the substrate the federal AI governance community has explicitly identified as missing.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
03
Post-Quantum-Ready Hybrid Signatures
CNSA 2.0Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0NSA standard requiring federal national security systems to support and prefer post-quantum cryptography starting 2026.Click for the official source → · FIPS 204 · CNSSP-15
Hybrid envelope formats pairing classical signatures with NIST post-quantum schemes. Clean migration path that does not break existing signed-evidence systems.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
04
Tamper-Evident Audit Chains
NIST 800-53NIST Special Publication 800-53Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations.Click for the official source → AU-9(3) · AU-10 · Federal Records Act
Append-only chain primitives that make any modification structurally detectable through cryptographic linkage. Replaces “we believe the log is accurate” with mathematically provable integrity.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
05
Substrate-Independent Permanent Records
NARANational Archives and Records AdministrationFederal agency setting permanent-records standards.Click for the official source → · Federal Records Act · A-130
Canonical record formats designed to remain verifiable on silicon, optical, and biological storage media. Readable by any future implementation, without dependency on the original vendor.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
06
Cross-Agency Evidence Federation
Federal Data Strategy · EBP Act 2018Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018Federal law requiring agencies to use auditable evidence in policy decisions.Click for the official source →
Witness-quorum formats that allow multiple agencies to attest to shared evidence without exposing source data. Cryptographic non-repudiation for both parties.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
07
FOIAFreedom of Information ActFederal law granting public access to agency records.Click for the official source →-Ready Cryptographic Provenance
FOIAFreedom of Information ActFederal law granting public access to agency records.Click for the official source → · OIP Mandate · EO 14243Executive Order 14243Stopping Waste, Fraud and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos.Click for the official source →
Semantic-search primitives over content-addressed evidence stores. Reduces response time from months to hours, with cryptographic proof of what was searched, returned, redacted, and why.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
08
Air-Gapped Reasoning for Contested Ops
JADC2 · SOFWERX · USMC Force Design 2030
Localized reasoning architectures for ships, submarines, austere FOBs, and other contested environments where frontier-AI APIs are unavailable. Verifiable evidence chains that survive degraded comms.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
09
Mobile Signed-Knowledge for Field Operators
VHA IHT 2.0 · FDA · FEMA · CBP · IRS · USDA
Phone-deployable architectures with offline cryptographic verification of authoritative procedural reference material. Every answer traceable to its source authority.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
10
Provable Structural Alignment
DoD AI Ethical Principles · CDAO · DARPA MATHBAC
Structural alignment frameworks where adversarial rejection floors emerge from algebraic invariants rather than statistical training. Mathematical foundation Responsible AI program managers can defend in DoD AI ethics reviews.
Concept · Pre-Phase I
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FAR 19.14Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 19.14SDVOSB Procurement Program.Click for the official source → Set-Aside Eligible
FAR 8.405-6Federal Acquisition Regulation 8.405-6Limited-sources justification for orders under GSA Schedules.Click for the official source → Sole-Source
38 USC 812738 U.S.C. \xc2\xa7 8127Veterans First Contracting Program.Click for the official source → Authority
CAGE / UEI In Process
SAM.gov In Process
NDA From First Conversation
On-Premise · Air-Gapped

If a published federal mandate is on your office's desk and there is no clear technical path to compliance, that is the conversation we are built for.

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