Solutions · Sovereign deployments
Your hardware. Your network. Your key.
Defence contractors, aerospace manufacturers, pharma producers, and critical-infrastructure operators can't route sensitive operational telemetry through someone else's cloud. Furcate is sovereign by design — air-gapped operation, customer-perimeter inference, hardware-rooted attestation, GDPR / HIPAA / FIPS / NIST / CMMC compliance, with the audit trail to prove every byte stayed inside your boundary.
Azure Local / HPE / Crusoe Edge supported
Air-gapped
hardware root of trust per device
TPM 2.0
compliance regimes met by design
GDPR · HIPAA · FIPS
Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud at thousands of nodes
Apr 2026
Use cases
What the platform actually does, here.
Air-gapped operation
Microsoft Azure Local Disconnected Operations (April 2026): full sovereign cloud, productivity, and AI in air-gapped environments with consistent management UX. HPE Private Cloud AI for turnkey isolated AI training and inference. Crusoe Edge Zones for modular sovereign DCs. Furcate runs on top of any of these — and on bare-metal clusters when the customer's policy says no third-party hypervisor.
Hardware-rooted device identity
TPM 2.0 + Trusted Execution Environment (Intel SGX / ARM TrustZone) on every supported board. Every device authenticates via hardware-attested identity at OTA enrolment, firmware update, and federated-learning round. Confidential inference inside the TEE for the most sensitive models.
Customer-controlled PKI
Device PKI runs under your CA hierarchy. Certificates issued by your offline root, intermediate CAs you control, and short-lived end-entity certs for each device. SunSpec-class PKI patterns for any customer that wants utility-grade discipline; full custom hierarchies for defence and intelligence customers.
Compliance by design
GDPR (data minimisation, residency, deletion), HIPAA (PHI handling, BAA-ready), FIPS 140-3 (cryptographic modules), NIST SP 800 series, CMMC (DoD supply chain). Compliance evidence isn't bolt-on — it falls out of the audit log because every dispatch is already provenance-tracked.
Defence + dual-use sectors
Sovereign computing means retaining total physical and logical ownership over proprietary models and the specific data they ingest — critical for aerospace manufacturers, defence contractors, and pharmaceutical companies that cannot route sensitive operational telemetry through external routing hubs. Furcate is built for that posture.
Federated AI under sovereignty
FL aggregations under sovereign constraints: data never leaves the perimeter, only model deltas (and only after secure aggregation). Multi-party FL across sovereign boundaries when regulators allow it (Tri-Labs Sandia / LANL / LLNL is one of the cited deployments). Coalition-network operation for defence partners.
How a deployment runs
From accreditation to operation.
- 01
Accreditation: compliance and threat-model workshop. Map customer regimes (FedRAMP High, IL5, GDPR, HIPAA, FIPS 140-3, IEC 62443, NIS2, CMMC) to Furcate's compliance matrix. Identify gaps and remediation work upfront.
- 02
Architecture: choose deployment topology — air-gapped on-prem, sovereign cloud (Azure Local, HPE PCAI, Crusoe Edge), or hybrid with strict data-flow rules. Customer PKI hierarchy designed alongside.
- 03
Hardware procurement: validated boards purchased, TPM provisioning workflow established, secure-boot chains attested.
- 04
Pilot: small fleet operates inside the sovereign boundary for 60-120 days. Audit log reviewed by customer's compliance team. Findings remediated.
- 05
Operation: full fleet under customer policy envelope. 24/7 escalation through customer-cleared support. Audit packs delivered on the customer's regulator schedule.
Stack active in this configuration
- Furcate runtime
- TPM 2.0 + TEE
- KubeEdge / OpenYurt offline
- NVIDIA FLARE secure aggregation
- Customer PKI
- Azure Local / HPE / Crusoe