BLACKARC SYSTEMS // FEDERAL AI // PRACTICE 03

AI Security & Assurance.

AI introduces a new attack surface — prompt injection, tool abuse, data exfiltration, runaway cost. We harden agentic systems and give you the audit trail to defend them.

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01 // OUTCOMES

What you get.

01 A security posture an accreditor recognizes and an adversary doesn't beat.
02 Runtime controls — redaction, signing, sandboxing, budgets — verified, not assumed.
03 Red-team findings on prompt injection, tool abuse, and data exfiltration paths.
04 An audit trail that answers 'which version of which policy made which decision.'

02 // CAPABILITIES

How we deliver it.

The capabilities below are what we ship under defined scope. Custom work outside this list is welcome, and scoped explicitly.

CAP / 01

Agent red-teaming

Adversarial testing for prompt injection, jailbreaks, tool abuse, and unintended data exfiltration — with reproducible findings and fixes.

CAP / 02

Runtime hardening

PII redaction, request signing, sandboxed tool execution, allowlists, and token/cost budgets that stop runaway agents.

CAP / 03

Identity & access

Role-based access, scoped credentials, input validation, and output filtering on every agent and tool call.

CAP / 04

Tamper-evident audit

Cryptographically verified event chains and decision provenance built for accreditation and after-action review.

CAP / 05

Data sovereignty

Architectures that keep mission data and model weights inside your enclave — on-prem or air-gapped, never in someone else's cloud by default.

CAP / 06

Accreditation support

Documentation, control mapping, and evidence packages aligned to the security expectations of a federal ATO process.

03 // ECOSYSTEM

OEMs we build on for ai security & assurance.

We carry authorizations across each, accessible on federal contract vehicles through our partner CTG Federal. Call us if a vendor matters to you and isn't listed.

Palo Alto Networks

Okta

Red Hat

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04 // PROOF

We ship systems, not slides.

BlackArc runs 150+ agents in production across federal, SLED, and commercial deployments — versioned, evaluated, and observable. Every recommendation here comes from work that has held up on a duty cycle, not from a pitch deck.

How we build

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PROOF // IN THE FIELD

AI Security & Assurance in the field.

Anonymized mission patterns — the shape of the work, without the names. Each one ran in production, with a human on the decisions that mattered.

Analyst & Intelligence Support

National laboratory

SITUATION

Analysts spending more time collating sources than reasoning about them — long documents, scattered systems, fixed deadlines.

WHAT WE BUILT

A research-support agent that summarizes across documents with citations back to the original, resolves entities, and drafts RFIs — running air-gapped where the work required it.

WHAT CHANGED

Analysts start from a first pass instead of a blank page and keep their judgment on the assessment. Nothing leaves the enclave, and every claim points to its source.

ANONYMIZED · PATTERNS, NOT CLIENTS How these get built →

05 // RELATED PRACTICES

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Discovery & AI Roadmap

Find and rank the workflows worth automating — with engineers in the room, before anyone writes code.

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Custom & Tuned Models

Models tuned on your mission data, in your style, for your decisions — run inside your enclave.

ENGAGE

Scope a ai security & assurance engagement.

Start with a 30-minute briefing. Bring the workflow, the architecture, or the accreditation question. We bring the engineer who can answer it.

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