ITAR-Compliant AI
An ITAR-compliant AI deployment processes International Traffic in Arms Regulations data on infrastructure that is owned, operated, and physically located inside the United States and accessed only by US persons.
ITAR restricts the export of defense articles and technical data. For AI, the practical implication is that any prompt containing ITAR-controlled technical data must be processed on a system where no non-US person — including the cloud provider's offshore support staff — has logical or physical access.
Public cloud regions inside the US do not, on their own, satisfy this requirement. The provider's global support and engineering staff are part of the access boundary.
Backplain's sovereign deployment runs on dedicated bare-metal in a US-owned, US-operated Tier 3 data center in Carlsbad, California, staffed exclusively by US persons, with optional air-gap.
Sovereign compute is AI infrastructure where the hardware, network, and operational staff all sit inside a single jurisdiction's legal control — typically dedicated bare-metal servers in a domestically owned and operated data center.
CUI is information the US Government creates or possesses, or that an entity creates or possesses for the Government, that requires safeguarding consistent with the law and policies cataloged in 32 CFR Part 2002.