Astrolabe · Capability declaration

Astrolabe — a measurement engine for federal AI assurance.

Astrolabe is Planisphere's measurement engine. It produces a sha-pinned, Merkle-rooted, NIST AI RMF-mapped attestation of any AI system's behavioral signature. Reproducible by any third party from the same inputs. Admissible under adversarial review.

NIST AI RMF declared envelope — capability radar

00 ·

Vendor identity.

Entity · Codes · Vehicles · Posture

§ 00.1 · Entity

Legal namePlanisphere (entity registration in process)

UEI · SAM.govPending · application in process

CAGE codePending · assignment after UEI

DUNSPending · legacy identifier; UEI is primary

Set-aside statusSmall business (pre-formation) · 8(a) / SDVOSB / WOSB / HUBZone not claimed

NAICS541511 Custom Computer Programming · 541715 R&D in Physical, Engineering & Life Sciences · 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific & Technical Services

Principal point of contactL. C. Ross · Founder · email@planisphere.ooo · .gov-friendly channel on request

§ 00.2 · Contract vehicles

GSA MASNot currently on schedule · target SIN 54151S (IT Professional Services)

SEWP VINot on contract · open to teaming as Group A small-business subcontractor

OASIS+Not on contract · open to teaming under domain 1 (Management & Advisory) or domain 4 (Technical & Engineering)

CIO-SP4Not on contract · open to teaming as small-business subcontractor

OTAs · consortiaEligible for OTA participation via DIU, AFWERX, NSIN, T&E enterprise · individual consortium memberships TBD

SBIR / STTRPre-Phase I · open to Phase I solicitations in DAF, Army, Navy, DHS, IC

§ 00.3 · Security posture

Hash algorithmSHA-256 (FIPS 180-4) · parity track SHA-3-256 (FIPS 202) supported in engine

FIPS 140-3Validation of the crypto module in process · CAVP test vectors targeted for next release

NIST SP 800-171Self-attestation forthcoming · all 110 controls mapped against current development posture

CMMCLevel 1 target for FCI handling · Level 2 target for any CUI handling in delivery enclave

FedRAMPTarget moderate (Astrolabe as a measurement service) · authorization not yet pursued · engine runs air-gapped today

EO 14028 supply chainSigned engine binary · SBOM published with each release · build provenance SLSA L3 target · key rotation policy published in /security (forthcoming)

CVE / vuln disclosuresecurity@planisphere.ooo · 90-day coordinated disclosure default

§ 00.4 · Past performance

Federal contractsNone to date · pre-revenue, pre-SBIR Phase I

Commercial pilotsAvailable on request under MNDA

Reference bundlesTwo public conformance vectors with sha-pinned attestation roots — see /cases and /astrolabe/verify

Co-attestationFFRDC / UARC independent recompute available — MITRE / Aerospace / Lincoln Lab / APL / GTRI / ARL-UT — solicitation pending

§ 00.5 · Federation roadmap

Single-vendor attestation is a structural weakness for an integrity engine. The v1 cohort is intentionally 1 (Planisphere). The protocol is designed so that any independent recomputer with the same inputs produces the same root; a federation of N co-attestors makes the attestation chain strictly stronger.

v1 cohort (now)1 attestor — Planisphere

v2 cohort (target)Planisphere + one FFRDC + one UARC + one commercial recomputer · root signed by ≥ 2 of N before release

v3 cohort (target)≥ 5 attestors · SCITT-style transparent log of issued receipts · public verifiability of the federation membership set itself

01 ·

What the instrument is.

Specification · Reference values

ClassMeasurement engine

SubjectsDomain-agnostic — adapters, models, prompts, RAG configs, vendors

CategoriesDynamic; customer-defined; discovered at intake

ProjectionStereographic, conformal · SVD on the centered grade matrix

OutputSha-pinned, Merkle-rooted attestation bundle

DeterminismBit-identical across runs for identical inputs and pinned code

VerificationReproducible by any third party from inputs alone

RuntimeStdlib + numpy · Air-gap capable · No network calls

Engine versionAstrolabe 1.0.0 (bundle stamps may show "planisphere 0.2.0" for pre-rename attestation bundles — immutable by design)

NAICS codes541511 · 541715 · 541990

Compliance packagingCMMC IL2 · IL4 · Custom bundling available on request

Reference root1cd0f2b48922b01dbcb131011fae40ac2da355a4470a89565a74802ed8a3d28d

Coverage on reference6 subjects · 5 categories · 5 distinct profiles · PC1 = 0.701

02 ·

What the instrument does.

Define · Score · Project · Compare

Define your subjects. Define your categories. Score once, compare forever — across runs, across operators, across domains.

The output is an artifact you can file and retrieve. Reproducible from the inputs and the pinned analysis code. The instrument carries its own proof.

astrolabe › measure ./fleet --fleet-id pilot-1
[ok] resolving subjects ······················· 6
[ok] discovering categories ···················· 5
[ok] projecting onto plane ····················· ✓
[ok] variance explained on PC1 ················· 0.701
[ok] distinct profiles ························· 5
[ok] attestation root ·························· 51b92e1ceec84a0d376ea438cab468862f9130a371ba79dd17371866662f1477
astrolabe › verify ./bundles/pilot-1
{ "verified": true, "root_match": true }

The instrument carries its own proof. Recompute the root from the on-disk artifacts using only the published algorithm; obtain a bit-exact match.

03 ·

Compliance mapping.

Per-artifact control IDs embedded in every bundle

Framework	Function	Controls addressed
NIST AI RMF 1.0	MEASURE	`M-1.1` · `M-2.5` · `M-2.7`
EO 14110 (Oct 2023)	§4.5 evaluation guidance	Direct
DoW Responsible AI Strategy	§3.4 behavioral measurement	Direct
ISO/IEC 42001:2023	§8.3 lifecycle controls	Drift artifact
CMMC 2.0	Packaging	IL2 · IL4 · Custom bundling

The mapping is authoritative in the NIST mapping file and is embedded per-artifact in every ATTESTATION.json. Read the methodology.

04 ·

Past performance.

Reference bundles · Reproducible by any third party

Engagement	Subjects	Distinct profiles	Attestation root	Case study
Bibles reference	6	5	`51b92e1ceec84a0d376ea438cab468862f9130a371ba79dd17371866662f1477`	Bibles
Backstaff v0.2	28	7	`408a536dc8b1e29f4f5d2a07e6b3c41928e7a9d05f6c8b3e2a1d97b0ab964e9a`	Backstaff-28

Both bundles verify clean. The reproducibility property means any third party in possession of the same inputs and the pinned analysis code can recompute every byte and obtain a bit-exact match. Turn over the stone yourself — recompute any Astrolabe bundle's root in your browser, no network calls.

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Three pillars.

01 · Engine, not solution

Astrolabe is the underlying measurement layer vertical applications are built on. Other vendors' tools consume Astrolabe outputs.

02 · Comparability is the asset

The value is not the score. The value is that two scores from two contexts can be compared at all.

03 · Pluggable by design

Dynamic categories and pluggable input formats are not features. They are the product.

06 ·

Single point of contact.

Emailemail@planisphere.ooo

AvailabilityLive demonstration, capability walkthrough, or RFI response on 30-minute notice

See Astrolabe in use Backstaff-28 case study Back to index