Bridging Innovation
and National Security

The U.S. government, particularly the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), requires cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions to maintain national security and operational superiority. However, startups and innovative companies often face significant barriers when attempting to do business with the U.S. government. These barriers include stringent security requirements, complex authorization processes, contacting hurdles, and the need for compliance with various regulations.

GovLeap is the fastest path for startups to secure and scale their innovations with the U.S. government and DoD, driving national security and technological advancement. With GovLeap, startups and innovative companies can seamlessly navigate security, compliance, and contracting challenges, enabling them to successfully do business with the U.S. government, the DoD, and the Defense Industrial Base, thereby driving technological innovation and national security.

Process Breakdown

HOSTING
Compute Storage Networking
DevSecOps CI/CD
Identity Management

ACCREDITATION
Sponsorship Inherited
SSP - System Security Plan
3PAO Assessment
3PAO Pent Test
Findings Remediation
CTF Certificate to Field

SECURITY
Container Security
Continuous Monitoring
Incident Response
SAST
NIST Controls
BCAP

DEPLOYMENT
FedRAMP High
DoD IL5
DIB
Azure Gov
IL6
TS
AWS
GCP

GO TO MARKET
Contract Vehicles
SIBR Assistance
(Optional)
Events
Marketing & PR
Sales Accelerator
(Emailing and Intros)

Breakdown Legend

Provided by GovLeap

Customer Responsibility

Shared Responsibility

Coming Soon

Challenges

Security and Compliance Requirements

Startups must meet high security standards such as DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) and FedRAMP High, which involve extensive controls and assessments. Achieving these standards often takes 2 to 3 years and costs around $1M to $2M to get started.

Authorization to Operate (ATO)

Obtaining an ATO is a critical step for any company looking to deploy solutions within the DoD and other government agencies. The process involves rigorous documentation, assessments, and approvals, which can be daunting for smaller companies.

Contracting and Procurement

Navigating the government contracting landscape is complex, with various contract vehicles, regulations, and requirements. Startups often lack the expertise and resources to effectively engage in this process.

Marketing and Sales

Gaining visibility and traction within the government sector is challenging. Startups need support in marketing, promotion, and sales to effectively reach and engage with government decision makers.

Deployment and Monitoring

Ensuring secure and compliant deployment of solutions, along with ongoing monitoring and maintenance, requires specialized knowledge and infrastructure.

Solutions

GovLeap aims to address these challenges by providing an end to end offering designed to enable startups and innovative companies to successfully do business with the U.S. government, the DoD, and the DIB.
The key components of GovLeap's value proposition include:

Sponsorship and Security

GovLeap provides accesss to its existing deployments such as DoD IL5 and FedRAMP High, along with security readiness reviews and deployment Infrastructure as Code (IaC) packages.

Assessment and Authorization

GovLeap provides automated tools and support for creating the System Security Plans (SSP), assisting with Third-Party Assessment Organizations (3PAO) for Security Assessment Reports (SAR), and conducting yearly penetration tests

Contracting Support

GovLeap assists with navigating contract vehicles, supports Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) engagements, and helping with the letters of support process to facilitate contracting processes.

Marketing and Promotion

GovLeap helps companies with marketing and promotion through events, live social media, tradeshows, training sessions, joint public relations, and joint advertisements.

Sales Accelerator

GovLeap provides email introductions and support for sales engagements, helping companies connect with potential government customers.

Deployment and Monitoring

GovLeap offers a DevSecOps pipeline for continuous monitoring of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) and compliance, automated CI/CD, and deployment options to customer-dedicated tenants. This includes ongoing monitoring and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) support.

Value Proposition

DISA IL5 PA AND FEDRAMP HIGH FOR GLOBAL RECIPROCITY

NO VENDOR LOCK-IN, FULLY OPEN-SOURCE PLATFORM (UDS)

END TO END GOV ACCELERATOR
from authorization to contracting to go to market

3PAO ASSESSMENT

INHERITED ASSETS
80% controls & SaaS Offerings

FLEXIBLE HOSTING
SaaS Dedicated tenant Multi cloud options Edge

CONTRACTING
Contract vehicles SBIR assistance
Contracting Officer Support

GLOBAL CUSTOMER ACCESS
DoD
FEDCIV
DIB
NATO / FYEY

From Sponsorship to Authorization to Contract

1. Security Review

Review of requirements for DOD IL5 and FedRAMP High Feasibility assessment

2. Deployment Package

Configure and creation of infra as code deployment package

3. SSP Evidence Collection

Customer to provide evidence to their compliance

4. SSP Finalization

5. 3PAO Assessment & Pen Test

6. Remediation of Findings

Configure and creation of infra as code deployment package

7. Certificate to Field

8. Deployment

9. Go to Market

GovLeap DevSecOps Pipeline

As published by the DoD enterprise DevSecOps reference design, gov leap DevSecOps pipeline is fully compliant with the security requirements dictated by the DoD, which were created by Gov Leap founder, Nic Chaillan.

The process starts by the containers being rebuilt on top of Chainguard hardened STIG and FIPS validated images. They are then pushed to the GovLeap Secure Container Registry where they will be tested, scanned, signed, and deployed into staging after remediation of findings. The images are then made available to the various Kubernetes clusters running on DoD IL5, FedRAMP High, DIB, edge, dedicated tenants and upcoming high side tenants.

Bridging Innovation
and National Security

Process Breakdown

Challenges

Solutions

Value Proposition