Wilkes & Liberty

Industries

Forward-deployed engineering for mission-driven organizations—sovereign systems shaped to each sector’s threat model, with one engineering bar throughout.

One Discipline, Many Threat Models

The through-line is constant wherever we work: infrastructure our clients own, platforms they operate, and architecture that keeps working under regulation, scrutiny, and adversarial pressure. What changes by sector is the threat model, the compliance regime, and what "mission-critical" means in practice — and that is exactly what we design for.

Sectors We Serve

  • Federal Government — sovereign content, governed AI, and a documented path to ATO for public-sector delivery.
  • State & Local Government — secure digital services, resilient public platforms, and practical modernization for agencies, municipalities, and K–12 systems.
  • Defense & Intelligence — sovereign platforms and governed AI for classified, air-gapped, and disconnected operations.
  • Aerospace — PX4-based UAS software engineering, secure delivery pipelines, and simulation-backed assurance.
  • Higher Education — content, search, and AI governance platforms institutions run themselves, at scale.
  • Financial Services — private market intelligence and governed AI on sovereign, auditable infrastructure.
  • Critical Infrastructure — zero-trust security and decision-grade observability across converged IT/OT environments.
  • Healthcare — private AI and sovereign data platforms that keep PHI under your control.

What Stays Constant

Every sector engagement draws on the same engineering foundation, delivered the forward-deployed way: sovereign infrastructure with no third-party platform in the critical path, zero-trust access enforced in the architecture rather than the policy binder, delivery pipelines that make every change reviewed and reversible, and complete ownership transfer — documentation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and runbooks your team operates without us. The full practice inventory is on our Capabilities page; the platforms that deliver it are on Platforms.

Federal Buyers

Contracting officers, program offices, and BD directors at primes: our Federal Buyers Hub carries procurement information — NAICS codes, past performance at HHS/CMS, USPS OIG, and pandemicoversight.gov, and how to engage under simplified acquisition or as a teaming partner.

Engagement path

If your sector is not listed but the requirements rhyme — sensitive data, hard compliance, no tolerance for failure — the discipline transfers. Open a ticket — structured intake (problem, systems, constraints, desired outcome) lands in our private queue and triages into assessment, implementation, or managed ops.