AI-native sustainment for contested operations.
An agentic logistics platform designed for the way U.S. and allied forces will actually fight in the Indo-Pacific decade — degraded comms, dispersed nodes, mission-priority decisions at the edge.
DoD obligates north of $50B annually on logistics through DLA alone, but the underlying decision stack was designed for a permissive theater.
GCSS-Army is being folded into Army Enterprise Business Systems Convergence; Navy ERP's SAP HANA core reaches end-of-life in 2027 with Navy ERP+ authority-to-proceed expected Feb 2026. Modernization windows like these only open every 15–20 years.
INDOPACOM commander ADM Paparo called sustainment 'existential' at LANPAC 2025. Pacific posture assumes degraded GPS, contested LOCs, and JLOTS-style expeditionary distribution — none of which today's ERP-centric workflows are designed for.
Inventory, maintenance, transportation, and demand data already flow through GCSS, NAVSUP, DPS, and GTN. What's missing is an agentic layer that turns those records into prioritized, auditable recommendations operators can act on.
GCSS-Army's 2025 Disconnected Operations rollout to ~15,000 motor pool users confirms what TRANSCOM and Marine Corps planners have been saying: tactical logistics must function without continuous cloud connectivity.
DoD logistics is a Fortune-500-sized line item with a clear modernization mandate and active commercial procurement pathways.
Most platforms in this category are ERPs with ML bolted on. Tessera inverts that.
Operators interact in natural language with agentic workflows; the system handles record-keeping, data plumbing, and citation. Every recommendation links back to the underlying inventory, maintenance, or movement records that produced it.
Tactical edge runtime targets DDIL (denied, degraded, intermittent, limited) bandwidth profiles. Models run locally on ruggedized hardware; cloud sync is opportunistic, not required.
Read/write adapters for GCSS-Army, NAVSUP-ERP, DPS, GTN, and emerging JADC2 data buses. Tessera augments incumbent systems instead of competing with their modernization timelines.
Supply, maintenance, and movement plans optimize jointly against operational tempo and commander's intent — not just SLA targets. Useful in garrison; essential in contested theater.
Every model output is traceable to source records and policy. Designed from day one for CMMC 2.0 Level 2, FedRAMP Moderate, and DoD Impact Level 4 inheritance.
Multimodal LLMs released 2024–2026 can finally reason over the messy, mixed-format, partially-classified data that DoD logistics actually generates.
DIU's Joint Sustainment Decision Tool (launched Aug 2025 with INDOPACOM, NORTHCOM, and DLA) awarded prototype OTAs to two AI vendors in Jan 2026 — a template, not an outlier. Tradewinds and AFWERX provide parallel paths.
CDAO's August 2025 realignment under USD(R&E) ties AI procurement directly to capability development, shortening the path from prototype to program of record.
Defense-tech raised more by mid-May 2026 ($13.6B) than in all of 2025 ($8.8B). Most of that flowed to autonomy and maritime; AI-native logistics software remains under-capitalized — and that's the wedge.
The incumbents are real and well-positioned. The opening is where they aren't.
No incumbent combines agentic, tactical-edge, accreditation-track, cross-service sustainment in one product. That is the Tessera footprint.
Accreditation is the moat. We're architecting backward from IL5.
| Phase 1 | NIST SP 800-171 baseline · CMMC 2.0 Level 2 readiness | 2026 H2 |
| Phase 2 | CMMC 2.0 Level 2 third-party assessment | 2026 H2 – 2027 H1 |
| Phase 3 | FedRAMP Moderate · DoD Impact Level 4 | 2027 |
| Phase 4 | DoD Impact Level 5 (sponsored) | 2028 |
CMMC 2.0 became enforceable Nov 10, 2025, with phased rollout through Nov 2028. Pre-accredited DevSecOps PaaS (Game Warden, Second Front, Platform One) can inherit substantial control burden, materially compressing time-to-IL4.
Tessera is at concept / pre-seed. This site is a thesis brief, not a product page. We are not announcing contracts, accreditations, or pilots that do not yet exist.
Tessera is a concept brief presented on the demo.sarl demonstration domain. It is not a registered company, not an active program, and makes no claim to DoD contracts, accreditations, sponsorships, or affiliations. All third-party programs, vendors, and figures cited above are drawn from publicly reported sources. This page is provided for discussion and exploratory purposes only.