# Orbis Operations

> Orbis Operations delivers a governed data fabric for defense, intelligence,
> and national security. We strengthen the security and decision advantage of
> the United States Government and its allies by delivering sovereign
> intelligence and decision capabilities that accelerate decision cycles,
> strengthen resilience, and preserve sovereign control in an increasingly
> contested world.

Founded 2008. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with three offices:
Washington, DC; Canberra, Australia; and Taipei, Taiwan. Not a consulting firm
and not a systems integrator. Every engagement is staffed by practitioners who have operated at
the mission edge. Customers are the U.S. Government, allied nations, and
critical enterprises. Tagline: Solutions Forged from Experience.

The problem we solve: data is the most valuable asset most organizations
already own, and it does not move. Eight root causes keep it trapped, and only
one of them is technical: fear, cost, legacy technology, governance gaps,
classification, organizational boundaries, complexity, and inertia.

The answer: a governed data fabric where governance and data flow are one
capability, built together, rather than two separate projects. Data flows up,
down, and back into existing tools, governed, enriched, and working. Orbis
deploys where the data already is, whether cloud-native, twenty-year-old
on-premises, or disconnected tactical edge. No modernization required first.

## Products

Each product stands alone and is independently valuable. There is no forced
bundle. Together they form one governed data fabric.

- [Catalyst](https://orbisops.com/catalyst): A transport-agnostic, declarative
  data-movement and transformation platform. Describe your pipeline in YAML,
  deploy it live to any node in your fleet, and Catalyst moves the data
  durably, observably, and under policy. The runtime unit is a single Go binary
  with no external dependencies. Nodes dial outward to the fleet manager, so no
  node exposes an inbound control port. Air-gap-native, built for the contested
  edge rather than retrofitted to it.
- [Pulse](https://orbisops.com/pulse): A multi-source data collection platform.
  Clients submit collection requests over HTTP, Pulse dispatches them to
  distributed workers, tracks status, and delivers results to the caller's
  configured destination. Deploys to commercial cloud or to IL5-hardened
  infrastructure for on-premises, air-gapped, and DoD IL5 and IL6 customers.
- [Discovery](https://orbisops.com/discovery): A single secure workspace where
  analysts research a question, collect and analyze what they find, and write
  it up, without revealing who is doing the looking. Four task types: General
  Search, Translation, Person Search, Social Media Collection. Secure browsing
  routes every source link through remote browser isolation.

## Key pages

- [Why your data doesn't move](https://orbisops.com/faq): The eight root causes
  of trapped data, explained one by one. The best starting point for
  understanding what Orbis solves and why it is mostly not a technology problem.
- [Use cases](https://orbisops.com/use-cases): Cross-domain solutions, OSINT at
  operational speed, sovereign AI, and coalition data sharing in practice.
- [Security](https://orbisops.com/security): Products are not individually
  certified. Discovery runs on infrastructure holding ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and
  27018, SOC 2 Type II, and FedRAMP Moderate, and customers inherit that
  posture. Data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS.
  Customer data is never used to train AI models.
- [Services](https://orbisops.com/services): Architecture, integration,
  training, advisory, and managed services delivered by practitioners.
- [Resources](https://orbisops.com/resources): Capability briefs, product
  overviews, and technical whitepapers.
- [Leadership](https://orbisops.com/leadership) and
  [About](https://orbisops.com/about): Who we are and how we work.
- [Careers](https://orbisops.com/careers): Open roles.
- [Contact](https://orbisops.com/contact): Request a briefing.
- [Accessibility](https://orbisops.com/accessibility): Accessibility statement and how to report an issue.

## Terminology

- Governed data fabric: the Orbis architecture. Governance and data flow
  unified in a single bidirectional system. Preferred over "platform".
- CODL, the Common Operational Data Layer: the standard for routing the right
  data to the right operators across nodes, domains, and partners. Catalyst is
  the CODL. This is a technical term, not the name of the whole portfolio.
- Asymmetric advantage: the outcome Orbis delivers. The data you already have,
  working for you.
- Decision speed, mission tempo: how fast an organization moves from data to
  decision.

## Notes

- Orbis serves the U.S. Government, allied nations, and critical enterprises.
- Every engagement is staffed by practitioners who have operated at the mission
  edge.
- Legal entities: Orbis Operations LLC, Orbis Federal Solutions LLC, Orbis
  Worldwide LLC, Orbis Operations Pty Ltd.
- Contact: impact@orbisops.com