Built for the Defense Supply Chain

Before TRANUSA, I spent close to twenty years in manufacturing — industrial single-board computers, large-format fine-pitch LED displays, and the aerospace machine shops and CNC operations that build parts for the U.S. military. I know what a shop floor runs on, what a schedule costs, and what happens when a control gets in the way of production.

In 2025 I moved TRANUSA fully into compliance for the Defense Industrial Base, for one reason. I kept watching small and mid-sized manufacturers get buried under CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 requirements they had no staff to absorb — while depending on DoD work for a large share of their revenue. The requirement was not the problem. Having nobody whose job it was to carry it was the problem.

So we carry it, and we hold ourselves to the same standard. TRANUSA brought its own environment into NIST SP 800-171 compliance, operates its own Microsoft 365 GCC High tenant, and runs its stack in U.S. sovereign cloud with a U.S. Persons-only team. Every control we ask a client to implement, we have implemented ourselves first.

I also hold an MBA and a master’s in information technology, and I teach cybersecurity and information assurance at community colleges and universities. That is not decoration on a bio. Explaining this material to people who have never seen it before is most of what this job actually is — the hard part of compliance is rarely the technology, it is getting a room full of people to understand why the requirement exists and then keep following it after we leave.

That is also why the tooling is not the pitch. A stack is a week of procurement. A compliance program that survives an assessor, and keeps surviving one, is something else entirely — and it is the only thing your customer is actually asking you for.