More than 90 percent of what American forces need in an overseas fight moves by sea, carried by a surge sealift fleet that is old, undercrewed, and shrinking. Inside the least modernized link in the defense supply chain.

Partos has completed its SOC 2 Type II audit, covering the Security, Availability, and Confidentiality Trust Services Criteria across a continuous observation period, audited by an independent CPA firm under the AICPA's AT-C 105 and AT-C 205 attestation standards. It is the most rigorous third-party verification of operational security discipline a private SaaS company can carry, and the appropriate baseline for a platform that exists to inform decisions inside the defense industrial base.

The defense industrial base has spent the past five years quietly absorbing the same supply chain shock that reshaped automotive: batteries — once a checklist line item — have become a strategic raw material. From submarine batteries to soldier-worn power systems to directed-energy weapon magazines, lithium-ion and emerging solid-state chemistries are increasingly the binding constraint on what defense systems can do. The supply chains behind those cells lead, with rare exceptions, through China.

The defense industrial base's cyber threat surface used to be cleanly separable — IT was where attacks landed, OT was air-gapped and ignored. That separation is gone. In 2025 and 2026, ransomware actors, state-affiliated APTs, and criminal groups routinely pivot from IT to OT, with consequences that no longer stop at the data exfiltration boundary. Cyber-physical convergence is now the operating condition of the defense industrial base.