Tessera Defense Systems
Tessera Defense Systems provides verifiable identity software for defense missions operating in denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) connectivity environments. The platform shifts from remote status checks to locally held evidence, enabling identity decisions at the point of decision without reach-back to central servers. Its containerized identity gateway, Tessera Warden, is available for pilot on existing tactical networks.
- Defense Tech
- Cybersecurity
- Government Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$120KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
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Product
Problem
Military digital identity systems rely on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which requires systems to reach back to central servers to confirm credential validity and revocation status. In denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments, this reach-back is often unavailable, causing trust to degrade silently and undermining Zero Trust mandates, slowing Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2), and complicating coalition operations.
Solution
Tessera provides verifiable identity software that enables local, evidence-based verification and policy-dependent decisions when remote status services are unreachable. The platform shifts from remote status checks to locally held evidence, allowing identity decisions to be made at the point of decision within the available trust state and mission policy. Tessera's software is containerized and drops into existing tactical networks without new hardware mandates, and it is engineered with identity recovery as a core design principle. The platform supports real-time Zero Trust for combat systems by verifying every data access request in near real-time, regardless of user location or device.
Target Audience
Primary customers are defense and allied teams evaluating verifiable identity for contested operations, including U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy programs addressing identity at the tactical edge and Zero Trust for combat systems.
Features
- Containerized identity gateway (Tessera Warden) that brings DDIL-native verification to existing tactical networks, available for pilot
- Embedded identity module (Tessera Nomad) in development for drones, sensors, and radios operating under constrained connectivity
- Planned SDK (Tessera Core SDK) for primes and integrators building verifiable identity into their platforms
- Works fully disconnected with no reach-back to a central server, built for denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited conditions
- Software-delivered and containerized deployment with no new hardware mandate or rip-and-replace requirement
- Identity recovery engineered into the platform, with recovery assumptions addressable via technical briefing