Industries
Where a compromise stops being a company problem
We work with organizations that carry a national security nexus — whether or not they think of themselves that way yet. If your loss would be measured in capability rather than revenue, this is the practice.
The Common Thread
A nexus you may not have chosen
Very few of the companies we work with set out to be national security organizations. They set out to build compute, launch payloads, manufacture hardware, or move power. The nexus arrived with the customer.
It shows up as a clause in a contract, a tenant with an ICD number in their requirements, a program office asking for a facility clearance, an insurer asking questions that suggest they have been reading about substation attacks, or an approach to an employee that in hindsight was not a recruiter.
The obligation and the targeting arrive together, and neither waits for you to build a security function.
Sectors
Where we work
01
Data Centers & AI Compute Campuses
Hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and the new generation of AI training and inference facilities. The physical layer of the digital economy, now with strategic significance attached — and with federal and defense tenants whose requirements arrive as control families.
- Typical work
- Site and perimeter assessment, owner-side design, construction-phase security, MMR and control-space sweeps, PE control evidence for tenant diligence
- Common trigger
- A federal or defense tenant's security requirements, or a build entering design
02
Aerospace & Space Systems
Launch operations, satellite and payload manufacturing, integration and test. Facilities where the design is the asset, the schedule is unforgiving, and a single visitor with a phone in an integration bay is a collection event.
- Typical work
- Program space protection, secure-space and ICD 705 support, CST coverage on secure construction, TSCM of program and test areas, CUI program work
- Common trigger
- A classified or controlled program award, or a new facility standing up
03
Defense Technology & Advanced Manufacturing
Autonomy and uncrewed systems, munitions and energetics, microelectronics, and the new primes moving from prototype to production faster than their security functions can scale.
- Typical work
- NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC readiness, facility security for production and test, insider and supply chain risk, TSCM of engineering and program spaces
- Common trigger
- First DoD contract, a prime's flow-down, or a factory being built
04
Network & Energy Infrastructure
Switching centers, carrier hotels, substations, transmission assets, and the on-site generation behind compute. Interconnection points the network and the grid cannot lose.
- Typical work
- Physical security assessment against NERC CIP-014 logic, perimeter and standoff design, response planning, converged OT and physical review
- Common trigger
- Regulatory attention, an incident in the region, or a new interconnection
05
Cleared Industry & Federal-Adjacent Programs
Organizations carrying NISPOM, FAR/DFARS, or program-specific obligations — including companies facing their first facility clearance and first accredited space.
- Typical work
- ICD 705 secure-space support and accreditation preparation, construction security and CST, requirements mapping, inspection readiness, security program build-out
- Common trigger
- A facility clearance in process, or a secure space being built or re-accredited
06
Adjacent & Emerging
Critical minerals and processing, biotechnology, shipbuilding and maritime, quantum and advanced computing, and other sectors being pulled into the national security perimeter as policy catches up with dependency.
- Typical work
- Scoped assessment first — the honest answer is often that a narrow engagement resolves the question
- Common trigger
- A federal customer, a foreign investment review, or an approach that felt wrong
What They Share
Four exposures, in almost every case
Growth outran governance. The security program was assembled in reaction to specific events and nobody can articulate what it defends against.
The construction phase was nobody's job. Trades, vendors, and drawings moved through a sensitive facility with no security witness.
Compliance is documentary, not operational. There is an SSP, a score, and a binder, and the environment they describe is two years old.
The rooms were never tested. Sensitive discussion happens daily in spaces that have never been inspected once.
Next Step
Not sure whether this applies to you?
That question has a definitive answer, and it takes one call to get. If the nexus isn't there, we'll tell you.
Prefer to talk? 866.960.7475 · info@orbitalfederal.com