Ironclad Defense is the government configuration of the Ironclad platform: a hardened, relocatable compute module — optionally self-powered — delivered with the operating discipline that regulated and classified work requires. We build and operate the infrastructure. The mission stays with the mission owner.
Most Ironclad customers contract with us directly — autonomous systems companies, defense-technology manufacturers, research institutions, and enterprises with sensitive or export-controlled workloads. For programs procured through US federal contracting, we deliver into established prime relationships on vehicles already in place, so a program office adds capability without adding a procurement cycle. Either path, our scope is the same and fully owned: the enclosure, the power, the network, the containment, and the sustained operation of all four.
Ironclad is an infrastructure specialist, not a systems integrator competing for mission scope. That boundary is why commercial operators can hand us the facility problem and keep their stack, and why primes and program offices can bring us in without friction. Where a teaming relationship governs a federal pursuit, that relationship and its vehicle belong to our partners — we don't publish or trade on them.
Unmanned and autonomous fleets need somewhere to be commanded from — and that place has to work when the grid, the building, and the carrier network do not. Ironclad builds the hardened, powered, networked command center: deployable, self-powered, and shielded, integrated and tested before it ships.
Ironclad does not build mission software or command-and-control applications, and does not operate the mission. We build and operate the hardened, powered, networked facility those applications run inside.
Autonomous systems C2 is a distinct Ironclad market. Unmanned and autonomous fleets are commanded from somewhere, and that somewhere increasingly needs to sit next to where the systems are built, integrated, and flown — not in a leased hall three states away, and not dependent on the local grid or a carrier network to stay up.
Sovereign and allied government programs contract reserved capacity on a take-or-pay basis, with data residency pinned by data class. The module sits in-country; the workload stays in the jurisdiction it is required to stay in.
Provenance is specified, not assumed. No supplier in the trust path — silicon, compute platform, containment, cooling, enclosure, or maintenance — originates outside the United States and allied jurisdictions.
Hardware is US-origin and export-controlled where relevant. Sustainment is delivered through a partner operating in 190 countries, certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 — described by capability and credential, as all Ironclad supplier relationships are.
Ironclad platforms are designed and built to satisfy the control baselines below — architecture, documentation, and operating procedures are specified against them from day one, not retrofitted to pass an audit later. Certification is scoped and contractually committed to service commencement, because these attestations audit a system in operation: a Type II report requires an observation window, and an authorization requires something to authorize. We build to the standard first, then certify on schedule.
Ironclad distinguishes what is held from what is committed, and holds itself to the committed date. A counterparty evaluating sovereign infrastructure should be able to rely on every claim we make — the discipline that makes this statement conservative is the same discipline that makes the uptime commitment credible.
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View Platform →Enclosure, shielding, power, network, and cooling — what every module is built to.
View Specification →Every inquiry is reviewed directly by Ironclad leadership — no self-serve onboarding.