Produce reviewable evidence for fielded defense AI.

A fielded AI system is a black box. It recommends, it flags, it plans — and every one of those outputs runs through a process that puts the accountability on the program office, not the vendor. NIST AI RMF demands you measure the system, not trust it. The DoW Responsible AI pathway demands traceability and reliability across the lifecycle. OMB M-25-21 demands documented, accountable federal AI use. And the ATO process demands evidence that the system behaves as authorized — before it’s allowed to operate, and continuously after.

None of those questions can be answered by a vendor’s slide or a one-time test. They require a measurement of how the system actually behaves — taken on your fleet, inside your enclave, repeatable by an adversary, and produced without moving a single byte of mission data off the boundary.

The War Board points the Astrolabe at your fleet of fielded AI systems and grades each one on three axes. The same measurement cuts cost and survives an authorization review.

The leaner bill. Programs rarely run one AI system — they run several, often with overlapping mandates acquired across different increments. When the War Board clusters them by behavior, the systems that produce the same outputs collapse into the same group. Every duplicate is a sustainment line you can retire without losing a capability. The measurement names which ones.

The defensible record. The systems that survive get graded against the framework — and every grade is signed. When an authorizing official, an IG, or a red team asks how you knew the system was reliable, you have a record, not an assurance.

A fielded system produces an output. The program office needs to show whether that output stayed inside the reliability bar, and CUI or operational data cannot leave the enclave. The War Board measures the behavior where the system runs, signs one tamper-evident record for the output, and lets that record cross the boundary without carrying the mission data. You generate one record per output, so your ATO evidence accrues continuously — not at a once-a-year reauthorization.

The defense version uses the same Planisphere measurement engine as the rest of the system. It shapes the evidence around defense duties: runtime contracts, DoW and NIST anchors, and reproducible record fields a third party can check byte-for-byte.

The audit happens in code. audit_defense(responses, mission_band=…) asserts all five contracts — DoW RAI S&IP, CMMC Level 2, OMB M-25-21/22, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, and EO 14179 — before it returns, scores every framework axis, and emits the record through the Port — the same boundary the Law Board, the School Board, and the Med Board ship through. Want the full corpus? The complete pin-and-state reference lives at the Defense corpus surface.

The first engagement is a scoping conversation. System inventory, hosting topology and classification level, the mission band (program-office, j-staff, or ato-package), the framework anchor (DoW RAI / CMMC L2 / OMB M-25-21/22 / NIST 800-53 R5 / EO 14179), and the target ATO milestone. We return a Phase 0 scope and an evidence-record delivery date. No mission data changes hands at any stage.

Use this page to decide whether Planisphere fits the workflow. Use the hub when internal or external compliance needs the complete inventory: 69 compliance anchors, 50 state routes, and comparison pages for program offices and ATO-package owners.