● 5 miles from TACOM / Detroit Arsenal — Michigan-sovereign, American-built

RigidShield™ — Defense & CMMC

5 miles from the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan. Our infrastructure is designed from day one to meet the cybersecurity and sovereignty requirements of defense manufacturing.

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The Architecture Behind RigidShield
RigidVault™
Sovereign storage layer. Michigan-hosted, RAID-redundant, no foreign cloud.
RigidTrust™
Nine Bills of Rights. Constitutional architecture, not policy promises.
RigidAI™
Sovereign inference. No foreign models. Local or KI-hosted.
Defense & CMMC Domain

Every KI capability that serves defense contractors.

RigidSystems
Enterprise Deployment
Live Contact

Turnkey CMMC 2.0 compliance path. Sovereign hardware architecture eliminates foreign cloud dependency. 5 miles from TACOM.

RigidAI
RigidCMMC™
Live Contact

CMMC 2.0 compliance documentation AI. Auto-generates evidence packages and tracks controls.

RigidAI
RigidAccess™
Live Contact

AI-assisted access control. Recommends who should see what, based on role and need-to-know.

RigidVault
Creator Max
Live $199/mo

Air-gapped sovereign storage option. Michigan hardware under Michigan law. No foreign cloud. CUI-adjacent architecture.

RigidScan
Aerial / Ground Survey
Live Contact

Facility perimeter surveys, infrastructure documentation, as-built records. All data stays sovereign in RigidVault.

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The industry standard is guardrails. Ours are walls.

Every other platform tells you your data is safe — in a policy document. Ours makes extraction technically impossible. No cloud dependency means no cloud exposure. Local inference means no data in transit. Air-gap means no remote attack surface. The architecture enforces what the contract only promises. Constitutional principles enforced by technical architecture — not policy promises.

Beyond Compliance

What the Standards Leave Open

CMMC, NIST 800-171, ITAR, and DFARS define the requirements. They do not define who owns the data once you’re compliant, who holds authority when controls conflict, or what rights persist inside your supply chain. That architecture is RigidTrust.

Standard What It Provides What It Leaves Open RigidTrust Extension
CMMC 2.0 Cybersecurity practice requirements Data ownership once you’re compliant Manufacturer’s Rights — ownership survives the contract
NIST 800-171 Technical control requirements Decision authority when controls conflict under pressure Constitutional command layer — pre-mandated, not assembled in crisis
ITAR Export control requirements Data sovereignty at the infrastructure level Zero foreign cloud — sovereignty enforced by architecture, not policy
DFARS Contract flow-down requirements Worker and creator rights inside the sovereign supply chain Nine Bills of Rights — protections that only expand, never contract

CMMC 2.0 Compliance Path

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification becomes mandatory in DoD contracts by November 2028. Our infrastructure is built to meet CMMC requirements from the ground up. Level 1 self-assessment ready now. Level 2 pathway in progress.

NIST 800-171 Architecture

RigidVault runs on sovereign hardware — Michigan-sovereign, RAID-10 redundant, managed network segmentation via UniFi enterprise gear. VLAN isolation, geo-fenced firewall rules, encrypted data at rest.

Zero Foreign Cloud Dependency

No AWS. No Azure. No Google Cloud. All data on our hardware, geofenced to U.S. traffic. RigidAI runs locally on dedicated edge compute — no foreign AI models, no PRC-origin code. NDAA §1532 compliant.

TACOM & Defense Proximity

Clinton Township to the Detroit Arsenal: 5 miles. TACOM manages the Army's ground vehicle fleet. Our NAICS codes — 333517 (CNC Machine Tool Mfg) and 334413 (Motion Control) — align directly.

SAM.gov & Federal Registration

EIN obtained. LLC incorporated. SAM.gov registration pathway active. CAGE code in process. SPRS self-assessment scoring underway. Building the federal contractor identity alongside the products.

Sovereign AI — No Extraction

RigidAI trains only on consented data. No scraping, no foreign dependencies, no third-party cloud training. Every inference on American hardware in an American facility. Annual independent ethical audit.

CMMC
Compliance Path Active
NIST 800-171
Architecture Aligned
DFARS
2026 Class Deviations
NDAA
FY2026 Compliant
5 mi
From Detroit Arsenal

Brownfield Awakening

America doesn't need new factories — it needs to awaken the ones that already exist. RigidSystems wraps 1970s legacy equipment with RigidPulse controllers and RigidSense sensors, connecting invisible shops to the modern defense supply chain overnight.

Mobile Deployment Units

Ruggedized Pelican case or trailer-mounted sovereign nodes. Deploy a temporary RigidVault + RigidPulse instance anywhere — military FOBs, disaster recovery sites, remote facilities. Full sovereign AI, Michigan-sovereign, battery-backed.

Related Pages
Air-Gapped Storage for Defense ContractorsCMMC Compliance for Michigan ManufacturersNIST 800-171 for Michigan ManufacturersDefense & Sovereign Intelligence modules →

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Common Questions

Defense buyer questions.

SAM.gov registration and CAGE code assignment are in progress as of Q2 2026. If your procurement requires active registration before that, contact us — we can provide our EIN, Michigan LLC documentation, and a letter of intent while registration completes.
We are building toward CMMC Level 1 compliance across our infrastructure and CMMC Level 2 readiness for our RigidVault and RigidNode sovereign compute stack. Our architecture — Michigan-sovereign, Michigan-jurisdiction, no foreign cloud dependency — eliminates several of the hardest Level 2 requirements from the ground up.
Our architecture is designed with CUI handling in mind — Michigan-sovereign storage, encrypted transit, Michigan-only jurisdiction, no third-party cloud exposure. Formal CUI authorization is part of our CMMC Level 2 roadmap. Contact us to discuss your specific requirements.
We are headquartered in Clinton Township, Michigan — approximately 5 miles from the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, MI, the home of TACOM (Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command). Our proximity is intentional and our product roadmap is directly informed by TACOM unmanned systems and sovereign infrastructure requirements.
Yes, immediately and without friction. We have a standard mutual NDA ready to execute. Defense inquiries are treated as confidential from first contact. Email shaun@kavanaghind.com to initiate.
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