GovEagle Achieves FedRAMP Authorization

GovEagle has achieved FedRAMP Authorization and is now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace.

GovEagle was the first tool of its kind to achieve FedRAMP moderate equivalency. When a meaningful path to authorization opened, the company was quick to pursue it.

GovEagle's underlying security architecture has not changed with this announcement, because it was already built for this level of scrutiny.

For example, GovEagle uses only FedRAMP High certified data centers physically located within the United States for all storage and processing of customer data, and no customer data is stored, processed, or transmitted through data centers located outside the territorial United States.

GovEagle's SaaS model operates a multi-tenant cloud within a FedRAMP High environment, using the same multi-tenant isolation model as every major FedRAMP authorized SaaS platform the federal government already trusts, such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft GCC High.

Data is protected at the model level, as well. GovEagle does not train any models on user prompts, proposals, or anything else customers bring into GovEagle.

Many GovEagle customers operate under strict regulatory requirements, including CMMC, ITAR, and NIST 800-171. The company is authorized to store, handle, and process ITAR data on behalf of customers, and all GovEagle employees who can access customer data are U.S. persons as defined by ITAR §120.62.

Full FedRAMP Authorization builds on that same foundation — it does not replace it.

What This Changes for You

Agencies and compliance teams looking for independent verification of GovEagle's status no longer need to do that on their own. The review is already done and discoverable in the Marketplace. If a contracting officer, security office, or teaming partner asks how GovEagle meets federal security requirements, customers can point them directly to the Marketplace listing instead of walking them through a private body of evidence review.

As CTO and Co-Founder Gabe Villasana put it: "The government contracting process is stymied by the inability to transfer institutional knowledge between teams or pursuits. GovEagle is a revenue engine for government contractors, speeding up the proposal process, simplifying knowledge transfer, and securely handling customers' data and intellectual property. Our FedRAMP Moderate Authorization ensures that our customers have access to a secure AI platform that supports the entire pursuit at the security level required for federal work."

What FedRAMP Authorization Actually Means

FedRAMP Authorization means a cloud service has been formally reviewed and approved to operate within an already-authorized federal boundary, at a defined FedRAMP impact level.

GovEagle has held FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent status for some time, and that status was never a lesser form of security. The security control baseline, the FedRAMP Moderate baseline of NIST SP 800-53 controls, is exactly the baseline the platform has been built and assessed against all along.

What has changed is who stands behind that assessment and how easy it is for customers to verify it. Under Moderate Equivalency, organizations would typically need to make an independent equivalency determination, reviewing GovEagle's body of evidence and accepting the residual risk of that determination.

Because GovEagle is now authorized, organizations no longer need to make an independent equivalency determination or accept the residual risk of one. The review has already been performed and accepted by an accredited party inside the federal authorization system itself — specifically the Knox Systems CISO acting under its FedRAMP Moderate agency authorization — rather than by each individual customer evaluating GovEagle's documentation independently.

This also gives customers an easy, straightforward answer when someone asks how to verify the claim. GovEagle's status can be verified through the Knox Systems FedRAMP package, ID F1206111371, and supporting authorization documentation is provided for a team's review on request. That is a meaningfully different conversation than sending a customer a private body of evidence and asking them to reach their own conclusion.

Let's Talk

If your team has been holding off on scaling your pursuits because of security concerns, this changes the equation. Reach out to our team, or visit our listing on the FedRAMP Marketplace to see the review for yourself.