Cleared workflows
Actions bound to actor clearance and authority — enforced at the layer, with evidence captured per step.
Industry
Defense & aerospace
Cleared workflows, governed decisions, full chain of evidence.
The sector reality
How the sector operates today.
Defense and aerospace operations carry standards no other sector matches. Clearance levels, configuration control, supply-chain provenance, export controls — every workflow has to satisfy obligations enforced by inspection, not faith.
Programs run for decades. Configurations evolve, suppliers consolidate, personnel rotate — and the evidence trail still has to hold up to a Section audit a decade after the decision was made.
Decisions cross authority boundaries. Engineering, contracting, security, operations and program management each own a piece, and the workflow that bridges them is usually email plus a shared drive.
Mistakes are not budgetary; they are mission-affecting and legally exposing. Documentation cannot be reconstructed under pressure — it has to exist as the work is done.
Where Sommatic fits
A cognitive layer that shapes itself to your operation.
Sommatic encodes program workflows under the clearance, configuration and authority rules each domain requires. Every action is bound to actor identity, clearance level and explicit policy — enforced at the workflow layer, not assumed.
Cross-authority handoffs become structured. Engineering changes, contract modifications and security reviews flow through the same governed layer instead of email threads that lose context.
Configuration control becomes the workflow itself. Every change carries baseline, justification, approval chain and traceability — the artifacts a program audit will require already exist before they are asked for.
Decades-long evidence is built into the operation. The audit a decade from now becomes a query against the same trail the work generated as it happened.
Common workflows
The first things the cognitive layer starts operating.
Configuration control
Baselines, change requests, approvals and impact analysis tracked end-to-end with full audit chain.
Supply-chain provenance
Supplier vetting, parts genealogy and export-control checks captured against every component and every shipment.
Contract & program ops
CDRLs, modifications and milestone evidence orchestrated under program governance with HITL at the decision points.
Audit & accreditation evidence
Evidence chains produced as the work happens — ready for program audit, security review and oversight.
What you will see change
Three things your team will notice first.
Authority chains stop slipping
Every action is bound to the cleared actor, the right authority and the policy in force at that moment.
Configuration drift becomes visible
Baselines, changes and approvals stay in lockstep. Drift surfaces as a live signal, not a quarterly finding.
Audits hold a decade later
Evidence is captured as the work runs. The audit ten years from now becomes a query, not an excavation.
Where you start
Your recommended entry point.
Start with cleared workflows for one operational domain. Expand to adjacent domains once chain-of-evidence reviews pass.