A named lead, with the team the work requires
Every engagement has a named lead. We staff to the scope, but the program always knows who owns the work, the open actions, and the next decision.
About Glacier Byte
The authorization should have an owner.
Glacier Byte Technology is a small, agile RMF and ATO support company. We get defense systems authorized, handle the integration work that gets them there, and run continuous monitoring after the ATO so they stay authorized.
Based in Helena, Montana. Serving defense programs nationwide. Working with a Montana small business
Why Glacier Byte exists
RMF work breaks down between teams.
Authorization work crosses engineering, security, program management, and assessment. Problems appear when decisions, evidence, and follow-up do not move with it.
Glacier Byte takes responsibility for the work between those groups. We set the boundary, keep control statements tied to implementation, prepare the record for assessment, and maintain it after the authorization decision.
We use the program’s systems, meetings, and approval path. The delivery team should not have to maintain a separate compliance process just so we can do the job.
These rules guide each engagement.
Control statements must match the system
We tie the package to the people, configuration, test results, and records that show how the system operates.
Use the program’s process
We work inside the existing boundary, toolchain, approval path, and classification constraints. The team should not have to maintain a second process for us.
Agree on scope up front
Access, staffing, and the owner of every deliverable are settled before the work starts, so nothing is decided by default later.
Small by design
Senior people do the work.
Glacier Byte stays small on purpose. Our CISSP-led team works every engagement directly: the people who set the RMF approach sit in the working sessions, make the package decisions, prepare the assessment, and close the follow-up actions. Nothing is handed from a sales team to a junior delivery team.
Each engagement is staffed to the agreed scope with TS/SCI clearable personnel, working inside your program's security boundary.
The same operational experience informs Cordevan, our air-gapped RMF and vulnerability-management system.
Three ways to bring us into a program.
Lead the RMF workstream
We can own the authorization effort from boundary and baseline decisions through assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring.
Take a defined technical scope
We can take a bounded need such as documentation repair, hardening, assessment preparation, or air-gapped SIEM implementation.
Join under a prime
We can join as the RMF and cybersecurity subcontractor inside the prime’s delivery and security structure.
Federal due diligence
Federal registration details.
Our registration is public in SAM.gov. Contract paths and teaming details are on the procurement page.
- CAGE
- 9WYP0
- UEI
- N3UKUXEY4RE5
- Primary NAICS
- 541512
- Additional NAICS
- 541715
- Business
- Small business
- Location
- Helena, Montana
What makes a small firm a good fit for RMF work?
Glacier Byte Technology stays small on purpose. The person who scopes your package is the person who writes it, answers the assessor, and keeps it current. There are no hand-offs between a capture team and a delivery team, so decisions move at the speed of the program instead of the speed of a staffing model.
Can you work alongside our prime or our assessor?
Glacier Byte Technology works alongside primes, independent assessors, and internal security staff. We take a defined scope or the whole lifecycle, and we follow the customer's tools, access process, and approval chain.
Start with the current state
Tell us where the program stands.
We will review the current work, identify the first decision or gap to resolve, and explain where Glacier Byte can take responsibility.
Talk with Glacier Byte