Vannevar Labs

C2 Labs is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business trusted by over 100 organizations and institutions to revolutionize compliance through automated data collection, machine-readable documentation, AI-driven insights, and dynamic dashboards. The company partners with clients on their IT transformation journey via industry-leading capabilities in full stack development, hyper automation/DevOps, cybersecurity compliance, ISSO as a Service, and FedRAMP Enablement. C2 Labs enables organizations to innovate with speed and scale seamlessly while maintaining a robust and effective security posture. As digital transformation partners, C2 Labs addresses the most urgent needs holding back clients including proactively addressing cultural change, quantifying risk, automating compliance paperwork, and addressing critical skill gaps. The company specializes in cybersecurity risk and compliance, AI business strategies, and ATO-as-a-Service, providing advisory services to Cloud Service Providers seeking authorization under various compliance frameworks. By leveraging automation and partnerships with proven products like RegScale, C2 Labs frees organizations from bureaucracy and delivers continuously compliant solutions that drive real business impact.

At Draper, we believe that the most impactful solutions emerge when diverse disciplines converge to tackle our nation's toughest challenges. As an independent nonprofit engineering innovation company, our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work collaboratively across domains from space exploration to biomedical engineering, where lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our culture thrives on the cross-fertilization of ideas, bringing together experts in guidance, navigation, control systems, biotechnology, cyber-physical systems, and autonomous solutions to push the boundaries of what's possible. We've been engineering solutions that matter for over 90 years, from the Apollo Guidance Computer that enabled lunar landings to cutting-edge organ-on-a-chip technologies transforming healthcare today. Our 2,000+ employees tackle complex problems in national security, space systems, strategic defense, and human health with an unwavering commitment to delivering working solutions that make a real difference. We foster an environment where technical excellence meets mission-driven purpose - where your work contributes to safeguarding democracy, defending our nation, and improving humanity.

KODE Labs builds KODE OS, an enterprise data platform that functions as an operating system for commercial buildings. Founded in 2017 by the Demaj brothers and Gentrit Gojani, the company positions itself in the PropTech space where building management systems, IoT infrastructure, and facilities operations converge. The platform ingests data from HVAC systems, IoT sensors, meters, work orders, and alarms across vendor-agnostic building management deployments - a technical integration challenge that requires handling diverse protocols and legacy systems common in commercial real estate. The platform's scope covers cloud-based building management systems (BMS), fault detection and diagnostics (FDD), digital maintenance workflows, commissioning processes, and energy management. For security practitioners, this translates to working at the intersection of operational technology (OT) and IT systems: HVAC controllers, sensor networks, and cloud infrastructure all generating and transmitting data that requires protection. The vendor-agnostic architecture means integration surface area spans multiple third-party systems, each with its own security posture and access requirements. KODE OS operates in an environment where building systems increasingly connect to enterprise networks and cloud platforms, expanding attack surfaces that historically existed in air-gapped or isolated control systems. The company's work involves data aggregation from physical infrastructure - sensors, mechanical systems, access control touchpoints - creating a unified operational layer that must balance accessibility for facilities teams with protection of critical building systems. The technical domains span IoT device security, API integration security, cloud infrastructure protection, and the unique challenges of securing systems that control physical environments where downtime has immediate operational consequences.

For more than 70 years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has applied science and technology to make the world a safer place. The Laboratory's defining responsibility is ensuring the safety, security and effectiveness of the nation's nuclear deterrent. Born during the Cold War in 1952 to meet urgent national security needs, LLNL has evolved into a premier research institution where multidisciplinary teams pursue bold and innovative science to address the most pressing challenges to global security. LLNL's mission is to enable U.S. security and global stability and resilience by empowering multidisciplinary teams to pursue breakthroughs in nuclear deterrence, counterterrorism and nonproliferation, defense and intelligence, and energy and environmental security. From maintaining the nation's nuclear stockpile to achieving fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility, the Laboratory leverages cutting-edge science and engineering to deliver solutions that strengthen national security and advance scientific discovery for the betterment of society.

Encrytpedge Labs Limited is a UK-registered cybersecurity training company founded in 2023 and based in London. The company runs remote internship programs designed to address the cybersecurity skills gap through hands-on, practical experience across four core tracks: Red Team operations, Blue Team/SOC analysis, Network Security, and Penetration Testing. Programs are delivered entirely remotely and accessible globally, with mentorship provided by practitioners currently working in cybersecurity roles. The company's approach centers on real-world work over theoretical coursework. Interns engage with actual security scenarios under the guidance of industry professionals who perform red team exercises, SOC analysis, network defense, and penetration testing in their day-to-day roles. This structure is intended to bridge the gap between academic cybersecurity education and the operational realities of security work - an issue the industry continues to face as demand for trained analysts, pen testers, and defenders outpaces supply. Most of the Encrytpedge Labs team comes from cybersecurity industry backgrounds, bringing operational context to program design and delivery. The remote format removes geographic barriers to entry, allowing participants worldwide to access training that mimics production security environments. The company positions itself less as a traditional training vendor and more as a community-building effort for emerging security professionals seeking verifiable, hands-on experience before entering full-time roles.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory operates three leadership-class computing facilities and multiple nuclear research reactors - infrastructure that makes it a high-value target for state-sponsored adversaries and a proving ground for operational security at scale. Founded in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, the lab now runs the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, the Spallation Neutron Source, and the High Flux Isotope Reactor, all of which draw thousands of external researchers annually. The threat model is straightforward: adversaries want access to exascale computing resources, nuclear research data, and the intellectual property flowing through user facilities that host scientists from over 70 nations. The security perimeter spans physical and digital domains - HPC architectures running at exascale, operational technology controlling reactors and neutron sources, and data pipelines connecting eight major research divisions covering everything from isotope production to computational fluid dynamics. The lab's tech stack includes Palo Alto and Cisco network infrastructure alongside specialized scientific computing environments built on MATLAB, Simulink, and machine learning frameworks. With more than 7,000 staff and a constant flow of visiting researchers, identity and access management isn't theoretical - it's the daily work of protecting classified national security research while enabling open scientific collaboration. ORNL sits on a 32,000-acre site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, operating as the Department of Energy's largest multi-program laboratory. The scale creates complexity: securing user facilities that must remain accessible to legitimate researchers while defending against sophisticated intrusion attempts, all within a regulatory environment that includes both open science mandates and national security classification requirements.