Desra Secure
Cleared people.Controlled environments.
Desra Secure is the federal defense division of Desra Group. We support Department of War and defense programs at Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, and SAP levels - RMF and ATO accreditation, GCC High and Azure Government, and cleared leadership embedded where the mission runs.
The federal defense division of Desra Group.
The Classified Reality
Clearance is the entry fee. Execution is the job.
Classified programs rarely stall because the technology is hard. They stall because the accreditation package is incomplete, the cleared seat is empty, or nobody owns the controls between assessments.
Desra Secure fills those seats with our own employees - cleared, badged, and accountable for the work through the period of performance.
Who It Is For
Built for programs that are audited, accredited, and inspected.
- Department of War and defense agency programs
- Prime contractors and Defense Industrial Base subcontractors
- Programs operating at Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, and SAP levels
- Organizations migrating to or operating in GCC High and Azure Government
- Systems working through RMF authorization, ATO renewal, or eMASS remediation
- Contractors preparing for CMMC, DFARS 7012, or NIST 800-171 obligations
What Desra Secure Does
Leadership, technology, and GRC at the classified level.
Cleared Leadership & Program Support
Cleared program, project, and security leadership embedded with defense and Department of War programs - owning schedule, deliverables, and accountability inside the customer's environment.
RMF, ATO & Accreditation Support
ISSO and ISSM coverage across NIST 800-53, RMF, eMASS, and Xacta - body of evidence development, control assessment, POA&M management, and sustained authorization support.
GCC High & Government Cloud
Microsoft 365 GCC High, Azure Government, and DoD cloud enclaves - migration, configuration, identity and access management, and CUI-boundary engineering aligned to DFARS 7012 and NIST 800-171.
TS/SCI & SAP Environment Support
Cleared personnel supporting SCIFs, SAPFs, and closed areas - systems administration, cross-domain support, classified network operations, and industrial security coordination under NISPOM.
FSO · ISSM · ISSO
The security roles programs cannot run without.
Governance, risk, and compliance work for the Defense Industrial Base lives in a handful of named roles. We maintain a deep network of professionals who have held them - for primes, for small subcontractors, and for government customers directly.
Facility Security Officer (FSO)
Industrial security program ownership under 32 CFR Part 117 (NISPOM) - facility clearance sponsorship and maintenance, DD254 interpretation, DISS administration, personnel clearance processing, visit requests, self-inspections, insider threat program support, and DCSA engagement.
Information System Security Manager (ISSM)
Accountability for the security posture of accredited systems - authorization strategy, control implementation and oversight, risk decisions briefed to the AO and program leadership, audit and inspection readiness, and management of the ISSO bench beneath them.
Information System Security Officer (ISSO)
Day-to-day execution on classified and controlled systems - body of evidence and SSP upkeep, STIG and SCAP compliance, audit review, POA&M closure, continuous monitoring, and change support in eMASS, Xacta, and DAAG environments.
GRC & Security Program Leadership
Senior GRC leaders who can sit across the table from a government customer or a prime's security organization - shaping the program, setting the standard, and mentoring the security staff already in place.
Three Ways In
However the requirement has to be structured.
Hire Into Your Organization
You want the seat filled internally. We identify, vet, and present cleared FSO, ISSM, ISSO, and GRC professionals from our own network - the same approach we have used for large primes and for small subcontractors.
Augment With Our People
The requirement is real but the headcount is not. We place Desra employees into your program or contract - on our payroll, under our management, accountable for the deliverable.
Prime or Subcontract
Desra Group performs as prime contractor or subcontractor, carrying the security scope of the effort and standing behind it through the period of performance.
Every one of these starts the same way: a conversation with leadership about what the mission actually requires. Relationships and trust are the product - the contract vehicle is just how it gets delivered.
How We Work
Mission support that survives inspection.
Scope
We read the PWS, the security classification guidance, and the contract clauses to define exactly what the mission requires and at what clearance level.
Staff
We assign cleared professionals on our payroll, under our management, matched to the labor category and the environment they will actually work in.
Perform
Our people badge in and do the work on-base, in the SCIF, or in your facility - documentation, accreditation, engineering, and operations.
Sustain
Continuous monitoring, recurring reviews, backfills, and surge coverage so the authorization and the mission hold through the period of performance.
Tell us what the contract requires.
Bring us the labor category, the clearance level, or the accreditation milestone. We will tell you plainly what it takes and who should own it.
Desra Secure is the federal defense division of Desra Group. Clearance levels and program details are discussed only through appropriate channels.