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SDVOSB·ISO 9001 / 27001 / 31000·Arlington, VA

AI implementation for defense and federal operations.

We build practical AI systems for complex, regulated environments — readiness tracking, document intelligence, acquisition support, secure internal assistants, and the data infrastructure that makes them work.

Figure 03 · By the numbers
  • 100%
    SDVOSB owned

    Department of Veterans Affairs–verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.

  • ISO ×3
    9001 · 27001 · 31000

    Certified quality, information security, and risk management.

  • NIST 800-53
    Architecturally aligned

    Designed to land cleanly inside your accreditation environment.

  • FAR §19.14
    Sole-source eligible

    Eligible vehicle for set-aside and sole-source procurements.

§ 01 · Why Braetr

Built like engineering,
not theatre.

Most federal AI work fails not because the model is bad but because the work around the model is unowned. We treat AI as engineering — scoped, instrumented, tested, operated, and handed off.

  • 01
    Outcome-anchored

    Every engagement is tied to a measurable mission outcome — cycle time, cost per case, decision lag — not model accuracy in isolation.

  • 02
    Security-first

    Architectures aligned to NIST SP 800-53, RMF, and Zero Trust principles. Sensitive data never leaves the boundary you require.

  • 03
    Built to be operated

    Documentation, runbooks, and training so your team owns the system. No vendor lock-in. No black boxes.

Engineer at a terminal — federal data environment
In-boundary delivery · Federal data environments
§ 02 · Capabilities

What we build,
mapped to outcomes.

We're narrow on purpose. Within these capabilities, our engineers, data scientists, and human-centered designers deliver as one team.

Figure 01 · Capability × Mission outcome
Outcome ↓ / Capability →AI workflow automationDocument intelligenceDecision supportRetrieval assistantsSecure data pipelinesCompliance monitoring
Cycle time ↓
Decision quality ↑
Cost per case ↓
Risk visibility ↑
Audit posture ↑
Strong fitFit
§ 03 · Method

Six phases. One outcome.

Pilots in weeks, not quarters. Each phase produces concrete deliverables your team can audit.

Figure 02 · Engagement phases
01ScopeMeasurable outcomeTarget metric · Baseline02DataFoundation mappedInventory · Lineage · Governance03StrategyRight tool, pickedModel · Hosting · Fallback04BuildEvaluation inTest sets · Regression · HITL05DeployInside boundaryATO-ready · Runbooks · SIEM06OperateSteady, then handedSLO · Training · Ownership
§ 04 · Defense & Federal

Use cases we recognize
and ship on.

The work isn't theoretical. These are recurring mission needs we've scoped, designed for, or delivered against.

Engineering team working through a federal program problem
Mission scoping · Acquisition-aware design
  • 01

    Readiness tracking

    Roll up personnel, equipment, and training status across units.

  • 02

    Document intelligence

    Extract structured facts from policy, technical orders, and contracts.

  • 03

    Acquisition support

    RFP analysis, past-performance assembly, source-selection review.

  • 04

    Logistics optimization

    Demand sensing, anomaly detection, and route optimization.

  • 05

    Secure internal assistants

    Boundary-respecting AI with citations and access controls.

  • 06

    Compliance monitoring

    Continuous control evidence and policy drift detection.

§ 05 · Architecture

AI inside your accreditation boundary.

The model is one component. Identity, audit, governance, and compliance overlay are first-class architectural inputs — not afterthoughts.

Figure 04 · Reference architecture (accreditation-bounded)
ACCREDITATION BOUNDARYGovCloud / IL4 / IL5 / on-prem / enclaveUsersOperators · AnalystsIdentity (IdP)PIV / CAC · SSOApplicationRAG · Workflow · UIAudit · SIEMLogs · EvidenceAI COREModel · RetrievalEvaluation · Refusal · Citationsin-boundary · auditable · explainableAuthoritative sourcesPolicy · Records · TelemetryData pipelinesIngest · Normalize · GovernCompliance overlayNIST 800-53 · RMF · Zero Trustpolicy-awaredata pathcontrol / audit pathpolicy overlay
“We treat AI as engineering, not theatre — scoped pilots, measurable outcomes, and systems your team can run after we leave.”
The Braetr method
Engagement

Bring us a process.
We'll come back with a scoped pilot — not a slide deck.

Tell us what the process costs you today: review time, error rate, the staffing you can't hire. We respond with a one-page pilot plan naming the target metric, the security boundary, and the budget.