For aerospace and defense innovators operating within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), ITAR, EAR, and export-controlled data has turned the computational landscape into a complex web of compromises.

When your engineering teams need to run massive computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA), or physics simulations, you generally face three choices:

1. Build a Compliant, High-Cost Cluster: Spend an immense amount of capital building, maintaining, and auditing an on-premise, NIST SP 800-171rX compliant supercomputing cluster.

2. Accept Sluggish Cloud Latency: Attempt to force high-fidelity scientific codes into heavily virtualized, generic cloud environments that introduce latency and butcher solver performance.

3. Constrain Your Performance: Run your simulations on local laptops, desktops, or small-scale servers—typically limited to 4 to 64 cores—because scaling up securely is too complex and too expensive.

Are You Winning as Much Business as You Could?

When you are bidding on complex defense contracts, are your engineers pitching the absolute best, most optimized design possible? Or are they pitching the design that your 64-core local system was capable of solving before the proposal deadline?

Running on limited cores forces your team to leave performance and innovation on the table. It restricts the fidelity of your meshes and limits your design iterations. Today, that compromise ends.

By offering true HPC as a Service (HPCaaS) via an External Service Provider (ESP) model, we are giving the DIB a secure, bare-metal commercial alternative to elite federal supercomputing enclaves.

Born from Mission-Critical Defense Engineering

We didn't build Corvid HPC just because we wanted to start an infrastructure business. Corvid HPC was born directly out of Corvid Technologies.

For years, massive, high-fidelity HPC has been the beating heart of our own complex defense contract work. To support our mission, we built an enterprise-grade, bare-metal supercomputing center. As our customers saw what we could do—and realized the challenge of securing high-performance computing resources to NIST SP 800-171 standards—we realized we could help. We opened our excess capacity to the market to serve both our fellow DIB partners and commercial entities requiring uncompromised, secure compute power.

We aren't a generic cloud provider trying to build a simulation platform on the fly. We are a defense-born, commercial supercomputing facility built by engineers who live in the DIB every single day.

The Compliant Way to Descope Your Audit

Let’s be realistic: you can’t completely offload your CMMC footprint. Your organization still has to secure on-premise CAD workstations, PLM systems, and possibly manufacturing footprint.

However, trying to secure a sprawling, high-performance computing cluster to NIST SP 800-171 standards is an incredibly costly endeavor. The most effective way to reduce the cost of CMMC is to ruthlessly shrink the scope of the infrastructure under audit.

By shifting your heavy compute workloads to Corvid HPC via our ESP model, you draw a hard line at the IT boundary.

Under our shared responsibility model, the boundary is clear:

• Your Side: You own and manage everything on your side of the IT boundary around your specific business needs.

• Our Side: We own and manage the items on our side of the IT boundary, including the physical security of the supercomputing center, linux images, software inventory, hardware sanitization, and network boundary defense.

By utilizing our L2 certified ESP boundary, you inherit the vast majority of the security controls for your compute footprint, drastically reducing your internal CMMC audit costs and complexity.

Hands-On Support for Real CUI Work

Engineers working on CUI, ITAR, or export-controlled data face a silent nightmare when simulations fail. Because standard cloud providers and independent software vendors (ISVs) typically do not operate within CMMC boundaries, their support staff cannot interact with your sensitive simulation data.

Faced with this bottleneck, engineers usually do one of two things: they give up on getting support entirely, or they spend hours—sometimes days—recreating the issue or dummying down and scrubbing a model on their own time just to show a support representative.

Corvid HPC solves this. Because our entire bare-metal environment is CMMC Level 2 certified, we can actively work with you on your active CUI and export-controlled cases in a fully compliant manner.

• DIB Veterans: Our systems and application support engineers are US persons with years of active program experience on major DoD programs.

• Multidisciplinary Domain Expertise: We speak your language. Our team has deep, practical experience across critical defense domains, including hypersonics, fluid dynamics, impact physics, structural mechanics, radar signatures, computer vision, and AI development.

• Compliant Collaboration: We provide a compliant, structured pathway to collaborate and help you troubleshoot your workloads hands-on, without violating data boundaries or leaving you stranded in a generic help queue.

Unlock Your Engineering Potential

Compliance shouldn't force you to run paired down simulations on a desktop. By combining a certified CMMC Level 2 boundary with bare-metal supercomputing architectures, Corvid HPC delivers a new standard of value:

• Lower Compliance Costs: Stop trying to secure and audit massive local compute nodes. Descope your HPC footprint and inherit our certified environment.

• Unthrottled Performance: Move past the 64-core limit. Run high-fidelity, complex physics and fluid dynamics codes at scale on bare metal.

• DoD-Experienced Support: Partner with US-person engineers who actually understand the mission.

Let’s schedule a direct, engineer-to-engineer conversation about how descoping your HPC infrastructure to Corvid HPC will lower your CMMC audit costs, maximize your run economics, and unleash your engineering teams.