Federal Government
Sovereignty for Agencies
Mission impact
Federal agencies are judged on whether public-facing services remain in service under scrutiny and load — and on whether they can prove control over the data, code, and AI behind them. By engineering sovereignty and compliance into the platform itself — owned infrastructure, governed AI with tamper-evident audit, and zero-trust access — we help agencies deliver citizen-facing services faster while lowering the cost of every audit that follows. Control becomes something the agency can demonstrate on demand, not merely assert, and modernization proceeds at the pace the public expects.
Federal agencies operate under a mandate commercial vendors rarely face: deliver modern digital services to the public while retaining complete, demonstrable control over the data, code, and infrastructure that power them. Wilkes & Liberty is a company of forward-deployed engineers for that mandate — we sit inside the actual delivery and IT workflow, build sovereign-by-design platforms on infrastructure the agency owns and can inspect, and leave behind the documentation and access an agency's own team needs to run it without us.
The failure mode we close
Modernization, cloud migration, and the rush to adopt AI have left many agencies dependent on opaque platforms they cannot fully audit or govern. Sensitive data flows through systems of record the agency does not control, AI tools operate without attribution or oversight, and compliance becomes a paperwork exercise chasing a system rather than a property the system was engineered to have.
What we deliver
- Sovereign content and public-facing platforms — Enterprise Content Management delivers headless, agency-owned publishing with records discipline (OMB/NARA M-19-21, 36 CFR 1236) and Section 508/USWDS conformance built into the content model, not retrofitted.
- Governed AI over agency data — AI Governance & MCP Integration puts field-level redaction, tamper-evident audit, and allow/deny policy between AI systems and sensitive records, so AI adoption is attributable and governed at the source.
- Zero trust across the delivery stack — Zero-Trust Architecture secures staff portals, intranets, and citizen-facing services under one consistent identity and access model.
- A documented path to ATO — Compliance & Security Governance converts FedRAMP-aligned and NIST 800-171 requirements into System Security Plans and POA&Ms your team can maintain after we leave.
Built for the federal delivery stack
Federal delivery has a shape, and we build to it directly: content platforms aligned to USWDS and Section 508 from initial deployment rather than as a remediation project; federated search with classification-aware indexing that returns only what the requesting user is authorized to see; and sustainment documentation that lets agency IT operate and evolve the platform without ongoing vendor dependency. For oversight bodies and Inspectors General, we build isolated publishing environments with data-segregation architecture that enforces the boundary between public findings and restricted investigative records, with the access controls and audit logging that boundary requires.
Engagement path
Start with the AI & Sovereignty Readiness Assessment to map data exposure, AI governance gaps, and compliance posture against your agency's actual environment. Ready to move on a specific system? Open a ticket — structured intake (problem, systems, constraints, desired outcome) lands in our private queue and triages into assessment, implementation, or managed ops.
Sovereignty features
Every platform runs on infrastructure the agency owns and can inspect: compute, identity, and telemetry answer to agency authority, with no external control plane or management SaaS in the critical path. Configuration is version-controlled code the agency's own team can read, extend, and operate without ongoing vendor dependency — sustainment documentation is a deliverable, not an afterthought. The same architecture runs air-gapped or in agency-controlled cloud where the mission requires it.
Defense & government relevance
Built around the mandates federal delivery teams answer to: a documented, FedRAMP-aligned path to agency Authority to Operate with data sovereignty maintained inside the agency boundary; USWDS and Section 508 conformance built into the content model at initial deployment; electronic records management aligned to OMB/NARA M-19-21 and 36 CFR 1236; and classification-aware search that enforces need-to-know at the index layer. Oversight and Inspector General platforms carry dedicated data-segregation architecture, access controls, and audit logging that satisfy IG-specific compliance requirements. All AI governance infrastructure is deployable fully inside agency-controlled environments.