Sparcle for Federal Civilian

GovCloud-deployable. Agency-held keys. Assessor-ready trust dossier.

Federal civilian agencies and their contractors operate inside an authorization boundary. Bolt and Aeira deploy inside that boundary: GovCloud or sovereign-cloud topology, agency-held KMS, controls evidence pre-mapped to NIST 800-53. The FedRAMP Moderate path is multi-quarter; the trust dossier is ready today.

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Compliance frameworks

What Sparcle ships against.

The federal civilian posture is the intersection of FedRAMP (sponsoring-agency gated), StateRAMP, FISMA, and the OMB AI memos. Each frame below maps to concrete implementation that the assessor walks during the authorization process.

FedRAMP (Moderate target)

FedRAMP Moderate is a multi-quarter effort that requires a sponsoring agency. Sparcle's controls evidence map walks every NIST 800-53 Moderate control to a concrete implementation; the architecture is built for the assessment, not retrofitted after.

StateRAMP

Many state and local agencies require StateRAMP-aligned posture before procurement. The same controls evidence map satisfies the StateRAMP requirements; deployment to AWS GovCloud or Azure Government is supported out of the box.

FISMA / NIST 800-53

Bolt and Aeira run inside the agency's authorization boundary. The Authority Policy SDK and ACL pre-filter enforce information-system access decisions mechanically; the audit chain is the artifact your Assessor pulls during ATO review.

OMB M-22-09 · M-24-10

Zero-trust architecture and the federal AI memos. Bolt's PII-masking layer at the LLM boundary, identity-bound retrieval, and audit-trail responses are the building blocks the OMB memos require.

Data residency posture

Inside the authorization boundary.

GovCloud regions

AWS GovCloud (US-East / US-West), Azure Government, and Google Cloud Assured Workloads. Helm chart supports each; configuration is a values.yaml flag, not a fork.

Agency-held KMS

Vault Transit, AWS KMS GovCloud, Azure Key Vault Premium, or PKCS#11 HSM. Sparcle does not hold tenant master keys.

Sponsoring agency assessment path

Sparcle works alongside the sponsoring agency's authorizing official. The trust-center artifacts (sub-processor list, controls evidence, incident-response framework, vulnerability disclosure policy) are pre-populated for assessor review.

No transfer outside the boundary

Customer data does not transit Sparcle infrastructure in the Helm or air-gap topologies. The sub-processor disclosure is asymmetric by design: customer-configured sub-processors handle customer data; Sparcle's own sub-processors handle Sparcle's software delivery.

1-page brief

Take this to your authorizing official.

The federal-vertical brief covers GovCloud deployment topologies, agency-held KMS posture, the FedRAMP Moderate roadmap, and the trust artifacts an authorizing official reviews.

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Workflows the founding team has built for

Four anchor use cases.

The workflows below are scoped with federal design partners. The Authority Policy SDK and connector configuration are the per-agency tuning points.

FOIA response drafting

Pull authoritative source-of-record material for FOIA exemption review; identity-bound retrieval respects sensitivity tags; audit chain records every retrieval for IG review.

Grant review and vendor risk

Cross-source synthesis across applications, prior award history, and risk indicators. Authority Policy ranks authoritative sources above unverified content.

Policy drafting with citation hygiene

The Authority Policy SDK's evidence-ladder pack demotes deprecated, rescinded, or superseded policy documents below the cut. Every cited authority resolves to a current source-of-record.

IG and audit response

Time-bounded audit-chain export with the standalone verifier binary. The IG runs the verifier; Sparcle is not in the verification loop.

Trust dossier for federal

The four artifacts your authorizing official will ask for.

  • /trust/controls — Controls evidence map walking SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 Annex A controls to concrete implementations. Pre-positioned for assessor review.
  • /trust/where-the-model-runs — Five-tier endpoint privacy taxonomy; the PII-masking layer at the LLM boundary; the three deployment modes.
  • /trust/incident-response — Five-phase response framework with severity SLAs (SEV1 1bd ack · 7d patch). The runbook a sponsoring agency's Security Operations expects.
  • /trust/subprocessors — Asymmetric sub-processor topology. Why customer data does not reach Sparcle infrastructure in the Helm or air-gap topologies.

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A 30-minute federal architecture review covers your GovCloud posture, your sponsoring-agency relationship, your KMS choice, and the workflows your team needs. Founder-led; the engineering team is on the call.

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