Dispatches,
from the substrate.
Technical field reports on sovereign AI, PQC, accreditation, federation, and the peculiar challenges of shipping an AI backend a DoD program office will actually deploy.
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Field Report — Phase 1 Closed
The foundation is in. The AI part starts next. Here's what landed, what we dropped to get here, and what's honestly not happening yet.
Why We Shipped Post-Quantum Crypto on Day One
The federal deadline for code-signing was 2025. The deadline for networking gear is 2027. Changing a running system later costs roughly ten times as much as building it in from the start.
One Contract, Not a Catalog
A department store with twelve counters — each with its own register, its own return policy, its own bag-check rules — is still twelve counters. Here's why a single API is different from a gateway in front of twelve of them.
Sovereign by Default, Federated by Opt-In
Real missions span multiple sites. Real security approvals don't. Here's how both can be true at the same time.