Verified trust.
ETS replaces security questionnaires with a continuous, verified score. One number that tells you whether a vendor is compliant — right now.
Know before you contract.
The trust verification problem
The defense industrial base spends millions annually on processes that produce no verified signal.
Questionnaires don’t verify anything.
Self-reported data is unverifiable and goes stale the moment it is submitted.
Point-in-time audits miss what happens next.
A passing audit from six months ago says nothing about today’s posture.
Every prime re-assesses the same vendors.
The industry wastes millions re-asking the same questions with no shared trust layer.
Posture, Not Paperwork.
What is ETS
A scored protocol that aggregates verified data from authoritative external sources and produces a single queryable trust signal — analogous to how credit scores function in lending, but applied to the compliance posture of organizations in regulated commerce.
Point scale
Scores computed from SEC breach filings, CMMC registries, CVE/NVD data, audit results, and cryptographically signed attestations.
Security dimensions
Access Control, Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, Data Protection, Physical Security, and Personnel Security.
Continuous computation
Scores decay mathematically as evidence ages. A certification expiring next month looks different from one expiring in two years.
How It Works In Practice
One query. Verified trust.
A prime contractor needs to verify a supplier's security posture before contract award. Instead of a questionnaire, they query ETS.
Four principles
Verified, not self-reported.
Data flows from government registries, certification bodies, and breach disclosure systems. The entity does not author their own score — the evidence does.
Continuous by design.
The score updates as new events occur — a breach disclosure, a renewed certification, a patched CVE. There is no assessment cycle.
Mathematically comparable.
Two entities pursuing different certification paths produce scores that can be meaningfully compared through cross-framework normalization.
Confidence-weighted.
A self-attested control and an independently certified control are both counted, but weighted differently — 0.50 versus 1.00 confidence.
The 0–850 scale
ETS does not make contracting decisions. It provides the verified data layer that procurement, legal, and compliance teams use to make their own determinations.
Authoritative sources
ETS draws exclusively from sources that carry legal, regulatory, or cryptographic authority. No self-reported data. No questionnaires.
Who uses ETS
Prime Contractors
Query supplier scores at contract award and throughout performance. Replace manual questionnaires with a live API call.
Defense Suppliers
Claim your ETS profile. Your certifications and compliance data feed your score automatically. Share it with any prime — once.
Government Program Offices
Establish ETS score thresholds as a baseline requirement in solicitations. Continuous view of supplier posture.
One Protocol. Any Framework.
How to adopt ETS
Most organizations complete registration and data linkage within days, not months.
ETS is framework-agnostic. Entities pursuing CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or NIST 800-171 self-attestation all produce scores on the same 0–850 scale.
Entity Registration
Link government identifiers — CAGE code, EIN, DUNS/UEI — to a verified entity profile.
Data Linkage
Certifications and audit results are pulled automatically from authoritative sources.
Attestation Integration
Push cryptographically signed attestations from your compliance management system.
Score Activation
Receive a live score accessible via the ETS query API. You control who can query it.
Verified Trust.
Starting with a Single Query.
Whether you are a prime contractor verifying your supply chain or a supplier building your trust profile, ETS begins with one lookup. No questionnaire required.