We build portable, secure compute platforms that deploy in hours — not months — in environments with zero internet connectivity. Your teams get modern infrastructure without the complexity.
Defense programs face a convergence of urgent infrastructure problems. The platforms your teams depend on are expensive, vulnerable, and weren't designed for the disconnected environments where your mission operates.
Your program needs compute at a site with no internet. Traditional approaches mean months of manual provisioning, custom builds, and on-site troubleshooting. Meanwhile, your mission timeline doesn't wait. You need a platform that arrives ready to operate — not one that requires a team of engineers to assemble on-site.
After Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, licensing costs surged overnight — some organizations saw 3x increases. At the same time, critical vulnerabilities in vSphere infrastructure are being actively exploited by nation-state actors. You're paying more for a platform that's becoming a liability.
A Top 5 defense prime was running thousands of workloads on VMware when Broadcom announced the licensing changes. The cost increase alone triggered an emergency migration review. When their security team flagged active exploitation of vSphere vulnerabilities by foreign adversaries, the timeline went from "next fiscal year" to "now."
When your engineering teams develop and test on the customer's disconnected network, the intellectual property created there belongs to the customer — not your company. Every line of code, every tested configuration, every innovation your team produces on someone else's infrastructure is IP you can't take home.
A mid-tier defense contractor realized their engineers had spent three years building tooling and automation on a customer's classified network. When the contract ended, none of that work product was theirs. They needed a sovereign platform on their own network — one that could operate in the same restricted environments, but under their control.
Sovereign compute platforms designed for the most restricted environments on earth.
The Field Platform
A portable, self-contained compute platform that ships to your site and works on Day 1. Pre-loaded with everything your teams need — development tools, container registry, CI/CD pipelines, security hardening — all operating with zero internet connectivity.
The Cluster Factory
Our secure build environment where platforms are born. Citadel is the managed service behind every Outpost — where we configure, harden, test, and certify your platform before it ever leaves our facility. Think of it as the factory floor for sovereign infrastructure.
A proven deployment pipeline that bridges the air gap.
Your platform is assembled, configured, and hardened in our secure build environment. Every component is tested against your requirements — security policies, network configurations, software packages, compliance controls.
A hardened bootstrap device physically carries the complete platform image across the security boundary. No network connection required — the air gap is bridged by hand, maintaining complete isolation between environments.
The Outpost receives the platform image and boots into a fully operational environment. Your teams have a production-ready, air-gapped compute platform within hours — not months. Development, testing, and operations begin immediately.
The result: a sovereign compute platform on your network, under your control, with your IP staying yours. No internet dependency. No vendor lock-in. No six-month deployment timeline.
Most vendors need internet access to deploy and manage their platforms. We specialize in environments with zero connectivity — it's not an afterthought, it's our entire design.
You don't need another team of consultants billing hours. You need a platform that arrives ready to operate. Outpost ships pre-built, pre-hardened, and pre-tested. Plug it in, power it on, start working.
When your engineers work on someone else's network, someone else owns the output. Palisade gives your team a sovereign platform — your network, your infrastructure, your IP.
Broadcom's licensing changes turned VMware from an asset into a liability. We provide a modern alternative that eliminates the dependency — and the known security vulnerabilities that come with it.
STIG hardened. FIPS validated. Built for RMF and ATO timelines. Your security team won't need to retrofit compliance — it's baked into the platform before it ships.
Our team has spent years inside the environments we serve — TS/SCI facilities, SCIFs, disconnected data centers. We understand the operational realities, not just the technology.
Palisade Solutions is a defense-focused infrastructure company based in San Diego, California. We build sovereign compute platforms for organizations that operate in the most restricted network environments on earth.
We're not a consulting shop that staffs bodies on your contract. We're the engineers who actually design, build, and deliver the platforms. Our team combines deep systems engineering experience with modern platform architecture — we've spent years working inside the defense environments we serve.
When you work with Palisade, you work with the people who built the product. That's not a growing pain — it's by design.
Solutions architect with 11+ years spanning defense data centers, enterprise infrastructure, and platform engineering. Hands-on builder.
Business development and strategic vision. Bridges the gap between technical capability and program requirements.
Operational leadership and customer engagement. Ensures delivery meets mission requirements on schedule.
Whether you need a sovereign dev/test platform, you're planning a VMware exit, or you need compute deployed to a disconnected site — we're ready to help.
Our detailed product specifications, architecture diagrams, deployment timelines, and pricing are available to qualified organizations. Request access and we'll review your application — typically within the same business day.