About the Blog

We write this blog because the engineering of defense software is poorly documented in public. Most of what is published either treats the field as a procurement exercise — vendors, programs, contract values — or stops at the marketing layer of buzzwords like "AI-enabled" and "next-generation." Neither is useful to an engineer who has to actually build a C2 dashboard, integrate a STANAG-compliant data link, or design role-based access control for a coalition deployment.

Our goal is to fill that gap with technical articles written by the people doing the work. Each piece is intended to be specific enough that an engineer encountering the problem for the first time can use it as a starting point — what the standard says, why the trade-offs exist, where the references live. We do not write opinion pieces about defense policy, vendor comparisons we cannot substantiate, or hype about emerging technology. The audience is engineers, technical buyers, and the analysts who advise them.

Articles are written by the Corvus Intelligence Engineering Team — the same engineers who design, build, and operate the defense software products we ship. Authorship is collective rather than per-byline: each article goes through internal technical review by at least one engineer with direct operational experience in the relevant area (C2 software, data fusion, ATAK/WinTAK integration, NATO interoperability, secure software supply chain) before publication.

For the company team, leadership, and our broader work, see the company About page.

Articles are grounded in three primary kinds of source material:

• NATO and allied standards — published STANAGs, ADatPs, FMN Spiral specifications, and the public portions of allied data exchange standards.
• Public vendor and project documentation — official documentation for tools we work with daily (Cesium, Mapbox, MQTT brokers, TAK Server, open-source CoT libraries, message-bus middleware, and similar).
• Operational engineering experience — patterns and trade-offs from building, deploying, and operating defense software in production environments.

We deliberately exclude several categories of content:

• Anything covered by a customer NDA — including system topologies, operator names, deployment locations, and specific configurations.
• Classified content of any kind, regardless of how widely it has appeared elsewhere online.
• Awards, contest results, or hackathon recognition — by editorial decision, the blog focuses on technical substance rather than recognition.
• Speculative claims about products we have not built or technology we have not used.

If an article relies on unpublished work or proprietary observation, we say so explicitly and describe it in terms general enough not to compromise any customer.

Where an article makes a specific factual claim — a STANAG requirement, a published vulnerability, a documented vendor behavior — we cite the public source. Typical references include:

• Public NATO STANAGs and ADatPs (the unclassified parts published via the NATO Standardization Office).
• IETF RFCs and other internet standards documents.
• Public cyber threat intelligence reports from CISA, ENISA, national CERTs, and reputable vendors.
• Open-source project documentation, release notes, and source code.
• Academic and industry publications that are freely accessible online.

If you find a citation that is wrong, outdated, or that points to a moved URL, we want to know.

The blog is organized around six pillar guides, each paired with a four-part implementation walkthrough series. Together they cover the full arc from architectural framing through engineering implementation to procurement context:

• Command and Control (C2) systems — operational picture engineering, tactical messaging, role-based access control over classified data.
• Defense data fusion — JDL-level multi-source correlation, lifecycle management, multi-INT classification handling.
• NATO interoperability — STANAG selection, tactical data links (Link 16, CoT, MIP4-IES), FMN Spiral readiness, CWIX accreditation.
• AI in defense — the F2T2EA sensor-to-shooter loop, edge AI, decision support, HITL boundaries.
• Defense cybersecurity — threat modelling, CTI pipelines (STIX/TAXII), SIEM/SOAR for classified enclaves, ICS/OT defense, zero-trust.
• Defense market and procurement — RFP mechanics, DCAA-equivalent compliance, EVM execution, sustainment growth.

Corrections, source pointers, and topic suggestions are welcome at contact@corvusintell.com. For business inquiries about the products discussed in these articles, use the same address.We do not run a sponsored content program and we do not accept guest posts.