/ 01Projects · Index

WHALE and what runs on it.

WHALE is the sovereign control plane — permanent infrastructure for secure and air-gapped environments. FALCON, STARLING, and RAVEN are mission applications governed and deployed through that layer. Each entry states the operational challenge, intent, and outcome.

/ Core

WHALE

/ Mission apps

3 active

/ Domains

Defence · Space · Tasking

/ Updated

Continuous

/ Ref/ Title/ Outcome/ Stage

P-00

Sovereign infrastructure

Core

WHALE

Mission applications run under a single sovereign layer with verifiable audit trails, blocked egress, and one-click rollback — without cloud or external dependencies.

Pilot-ready

P-01

Capability development

FALCON

A disciplined, audit-ready view of the supplier landscape with evaluation notes attached to every tracked technology.

Concept Phase

P-02

Constellation Tasking

STARLING

Analysts task the right asset over the right area at the right time, without leaving the workspace.

Pilot-ready

P-03

Space domain awareness

RAVEN

Analysts see corroborated tracks, conjunction risk, and decay signals in one workspace — with clear provenance for every fused object.

Active development

/ 02Dossiers

Core platform

The permanent sovereign layer. Applications are replaceable — WHALE is not.

P-00 · Sovereign infrastructure

WHALE

CorePilot-ready

/ Challenge: Defence and government programmes deploy mission applications without a consistent sovereign layer — deployment, runtime control, data egress, and audit are fragmented or dependent on external platforms.
/ Objective: Provide a permanent control plane for packaging, deploying, running, and governing any mission application in secure or air-gapped environments — with enforced data boundaries, tamper-evident audit, and doctrine-based decision support.
/ Technologies: Offline sovereign bundlesRuntime posture governanceData boundary enforcementHash-chained audit ledgerDoctrine engine
/ Intended outcome: Mission applications run under a single sovereign layer with verifiable audit trails, blocked egress, and one-click rollback — without cloud or external dependencies.

/ Product tiers

WHALE ships as two product tiers. CORE lands the platform on a single site. POD adds fleet scale, observability, hardened supply chain, and commercial support.

WhaleOS CORE

The sovereign operating system for one classified or air-gapped site — deploy mission applications, enforce data-boundary posture, and maintain a tamper-evident audit chain without a platform license fee.

WhaleOS POD

For organisations operating multiple sovereign sites or requiring fleet-scale trust — central package distribution, cross-site observability, hardened supply chain, accreditation evidence, and commercial SLA.

/ Area	WhaleOS CORE	WhaleOS POD
Scope	One sovereign site — offline or air-gapped	Multi-site fleet with central governance
Platform license	No platform license fee	Platform license with commercial SLA
Command Center	Deploy, run, govern, and audit from a single surface	Everything in CORE, plus fleet-wide visibility
Sovereign bundles	Offline packages with manifest, checksum, and rollback	Central package catalog across sites via Whale Registry
Data boundary	Enforced egress policy and routing rules per site	Fleet-wide mesh visibility and enhanced boundary control
Audit & governance	Hash-chained ledger, verify, export — single site	Fleet aggregation and accreditation-grade evidence export
Doctrine engine	Written doctrine → governed recommendations, human approval	Included — decision replay across fleet audit trails
Observability	Runtime health and posture for one cluster	Whale Observatory — fleet metrics, logs, and alerts
Supply chain	Signed bundles with SBOM verification	Hardened, near-zero-CVE, and FIPS-validated images
Accreditation	Audit evidence export for local assessors	ATO artifact pack — SCTM, SSP, diagrams, evidence bundle
Support	Community and best-effort Core updates	24/7 named support with response SLAs

Mission applications

Subscribed capabilities deployed and governed through WHALE.

P-01 · Capability development

FALCON

Concept Phase

/ Challenge: Capability planners have no consistent way to track emerging defence-tech innovation or assess supplier readiness across a global, fast-moving market.
/ Objective: Identify the latest innovation in priority technology areas and capture initial evaluation of the supplier and product so findings can feed directly into capability planning.
/ Technologies: Open-source intelligence pipelinesStructured supplier evaluationAnalyst workspace
/ Intended outcome: A disciplined, audit-ready view of the supplier landscape with evaluation notes attached to every tracked technology.

P-02 · Constellation Tasking

STARLING

Pilot-ready

/ Challenge: Tip-and-cue workflows are bottlenecked by manual coordination across multiple satellite constellations and disjoint operator portals.
/ Objective: Provide unified access to pass availability and the ability to task specific passes — enabling tip-and-cue workflows from a single operator surface.
/ Technologies: Multi-constellation APIsTasking orchestrationTip-and-cue automation
/ Intended outcome: Analysts task the right asset over the right area at the right time, without leaving the workspace.

P-03 · Space domain awareness

RAVEN

Active development

/ Challenge: Operators lack a unified surface to fuse orbital catalogs, screen conjunctions, and triage debris, decay, and launch traffic across disconnected public and authenticated sources.
/ Objective: Deliver space domain awareness with fused catalogs, 3D orbital visualization, conjunction screening, and a workflow inbox for analyst triage — integrating CelesTrak, Space-Track, and multi-source corroboration.
/ Technologies: SGP4 propagation & conjunction screeningMulti-source track fusion3D orbital visualizationWorkflow inbox & alerting
/ Intended outcome: Analysts see corroborated tracks, conjunction risk, and decay signals in one workspace — with clear provenance for every fused object.

/ 03Adjacent

Evaluating WHALE for a sovereign site, or prototyping a mission application on top of it?

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