DIU POINT BREAK — SOLUTION BRIEF

Survivability and Data Sovereignty in Contested Environments

Submission to: Defense Innovation Unit, Point Break Open Solicitation Submission deadline: 15 May 2026, 23:59 ET (corrected 2026-05-11 from internal "17 May" target — DIU LinkedIn announcement is source of truth) Pathway: Other Transaction Authority (OTA) — Commercial Solutions Opening

SECTION A — ADMINISTRATIVE

This solution brief includes proprietary information — see FAR 52.215-1(e) restrictive notice.

SECTION B — PROBLEM

Tactical, operational, and joint formations operating in DDIL (Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, Limited) environments need AI-enabled decision support that satisfies four constraints simultaneously:

1. Data sovereignty — no agent reasoning may transit a commercial public-cloud LLM endpoint. Every machine assertion must be attributable to a sovereign LLM stack (Azure Government IL5, Google Distributed Cloud, Oracle Government, or corpus-only fallback).
2. Survivability — agents must continue to function under intermittent connectivity. CoT messaging and decision pipelines must be idempotent under reconnection. No agent may fail open.
3. Auditability — every machine-generated assertion must carry full provenance: source URL hash, STANAG 2511 reliability/credibility scores, LLM provider and model version, prompt hash, and citation chain. Reviewers must be able to replay any decision.
4. Native PoR vocabulary — the solution must speak CoT (TAK/JBC-P), AIP/Foundry tool-calls, MSS/NGIC2 widgets, and SAM.gov procurement events without requiring the warfighter to learn a new console.

The market today forces a false choice between three inadequate options:

• Commercial agent stacks (Claude, GPT, Lattice closed agents) — capable but ungoverned, public-cloud only, fail closed under DDIL.
• PoR-internal AI (Maven, AIP-native agents, MSS modules) — governed but slow to add new agents, no native support for sovereign LLM endpoints, no edge survivability guarantees.
• Edge-only AI (tactical AI radios, on-device inference) — survives DDIL but lacks the synthesis layer the operational and strategic echelons require.

ATLAS exists to close the gap.

SECTION C — SOLUTION

SHIELD/ATLAS is a headless agentic intelligence layer comprising 19 cycle-driven agents (12 autonomous), each callable via OpenAPI 3.1. ATLAS is not another GUI for the warfighter — it is the layer Foundry, AIP, MSS, NGIC2, ATAK, and JBC-P call when they need agents they cannot afford to build themselves.

Three architectural commitments answer Point Break's framing directly:

C.1 — Sovereign LLM stack only (data sovereignty)

All agent reasoning routes through a tiered orchestrator (ai-provider-orchestrator agent):

No agent can reach a commercial public-cloud LLM endpoint. Citation enforcement gates every emission — an agent that cannot cite cannot speak. The orchestrator is the single integration surface; failover is automatic and audited.

C.2 — CJADC2-aligned, zero-trust per lane (auditability)

Every agent slots into one of the four CJADC2 reference architecture lanes:

SBOM generated per build, attached to every release. Full lane mapping and zero-trust posture browseable at /cjadc2-alignment.

C.3 — DDIL-resilient by design (survivability)

The swarm-failsafe agent enforces RTB / hold / handoff per platform doctrine on comms loss. Outbound CoT replay is idempotent under reconnection. ATLAS never receives unauthenticated CoT. The kill-chain bridge (intel-killchain-bridge agent) emits to FreeTAKServer or TAK Server identically; loss of one upstream does not disable the other.

SECTION D — TECHNICAL APPROACH

D.1 — Live posture, replicable in five minutes

A reviewer can replicate the full C-UAS sensor-to-CoT trace end-to-end against the live deployment in under five minutes. The trace at /vertical-loop walks through:

1. AERIS-10 (open-hardware PLFM phased-array radar, NL, CERN-OHL-P) detects a Group-1 UAS at 2.7 km.
2. sensor-fusion (Sense lane) emits a fused track.
3. wez-engine (Decide lane) returns engagement zone per available interceptor.
4. intel-killchain-bridge (Act lane) translates to CoT v2.0.
5. tak-bridge (Act lane) dispatches to ATAK / WinTAK / JBC-P.
6. intel-tag-watcher (Sense lane, division echelon) appends ledger row for pattern analysis.

A reviewer can replicate the same trace locally against ATAK-CIV + FreeTAKServer in under thirty minutes (see /demo-stack — three-component open-source stack, no licensing friction).

D.2 — Two additional traces shipping today

• OSINT analytic trace (/vertical-loop trace 2): collector swarm pulls 47 events across Telegram, Mastodon, Bluesky, RU/CN media, GDELT, procurement, and cyber CVE feeds. Provenance scored. DIME/PMESII synthesis emitted with deep-link citations. Tag-watcher diffs prior synthesis to flag status changes (e.g., Geran-3 family countermeasure update). DIME briefing routed via AIP tool call into the operator's existing AIP workspace.
• Acquisition trace (/vertical-loop trace 3): sam-watcher detects matching opportunity on SAM.gov. Acquisition-flavored intel-CUB rolls it into the daily 0500Z brief with PEO portfolio routing.

D.3 — Foundry / AIP ingest is one curl

/api/atlas/foundry-actions.json is a 30-path OpenAPI 3.1 spec with echelon and produces-for tags per path. A Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer ingests the spec and wires the first agent into an AIP workspace in an afternoon. There is no separate API contract to negotiate.

SECTION E — TRL AND PAST PERFORMANCE

Key personnel:

• Dr. Terry Flood, DHA, DBA — Principal Investigator. Retired U.S. Army Targeting Warrant Officer (131A); Chief Targeting, EW, Fires & Intelligence Officer. Operator-PI; sets mission/doctrine framing and agency engagement.
• Lucas Finco — Technical Architect / Co-PI. Computer Engineer; Professor, New York University. Technical lead for the ATLAS agentic cyber stack, sensor-fusion engine, multi-domain anomaly classifier, and AGOS audit-chain implementation. Named technical co-lead on the AGOS NIBRS submission and the agentic-cyber proposal stack.

Prior submissions: AFRL PACER BAA (FA2391-23-S-2403) submitted April 2026; AFRL ACES RFI; ACC AMIC CSO Quad Chart and 5-page white paper submitted April 2026. Same architecture, same ATLAS posture; documents available on request.

CW4 J. Drow (USARMY 528 PA BDE) feedback on the 28 April 2026 CAPES brief substantively shaped the current architecture: PoR integration over standalone GUI, agentic posture over static analytics, government-cloud LLM commitment, no new operator console.

SECTION F — PROPOSED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE AND PRICING

Phase A — Point Break Demonstration (90 days)

Deploy ATLAS in a DIU IL5 enclave. Integrate with one named PoR reviewer (AIP, Foundry, or MSS — DIU's choice). Stand up three production agents on cycle. Deliver full ZT/SBOM artifacts and a documented operator-on-the-loop demonstration against a contested-environment scenario provided by DIU.

Deliverables:

• ATLAS instance in DIU IL5 enclave with mTLS / PIV-CAC / SBOM
• Three named agents wired into the chosen PoR
• Demonstration script + recorded walkthrough
• Zero-trust audit package (lane-by-lane attestation)
• FedRAMP-aligned third-party penetration test report

Rough order of magnitude: $480K (3-engineer team × 90 days, plus enclave standup, plus pen test)

Phase B — Operational Pilot (12 months, optional)

Scale to four agent classes across two PoR consumers. Live SIPR pilot with one named operational unit. Field validation under realistic DDIL conditions.

Rough order of magnitude: $1.6M (full team × 12 months, plus operational pilot support)

SECTION G — WHY DIU AND WHY NOW

DIU's OTA pathway is the only acquisition vehicle that moves at the speed of the underlying technology. ATLAS is in production today — twelve public pages, ten JSON endpoints, every claim hyperlinked to its proof artifact at /brief. Integration with AIP and Foundry is days of work, not months.

A 2026-05-04 ground-truth audit of the transition map (/transition) re-graded engagement honestly: one transition pathway is ENGAGED in the strong sense (SAM.gov via the sam-watcher agent running production against the live feed); nine are in PROSPECT with documented entry points (TAK / JBC-P / WinTAK via CoT bridge; MSS via CW4 informal feedback; AIP and Foundry via the OpenAPI spec they have not yet ingested; Maven, CJADC2 via public reference architecture); two are OPEN (Anduril Lattice, Gemini Enterprise SIPR). We do not claim relationships we do not have.

The Point Break framing — survivability and data sovereignty in contested environments — is not a stretch fit for ATLAS. It is the brief ATLAS was built against. The gov-cloud-only LLM stack, the DDIL-resilient swarm-failsafe agent, the zero-trust posture per CJADC2 lane, and the citation-gated emission policy were all design decisions made in direct response to this framing.

We are asking DIU for an OTA to formalize a 90-day pilot with a named PoR reviewer. Ninety days from award, ATLAS is on cycle inside a DIU enclave, integrated with the reviewer's preferred PoR, with full zero-trust attestation and a pen-test package. The risk is contained, the deliverables are concrete, and the path to operational pilot is already mapped.

SECTION H — PROOF URLS (live deployment)

Submitted by: Dr. Terry Flood, DHA, DBA — Integrated Services and Solutions LLC Date: May 2026