Bastion is the command center for facility security officers. It works your security program overnight. Travel reports, visit requests, debriefs, continuous vetting alerts, and contract reviews are drafted, checked against the rules, and staged before you sit down. Nothing files or sends without your approval, and every action writes to an audit trail DCSA can read.
Today the job is six to eight systems, and the FSO is the person that checks them. Bastion inverts it. Overnight it reads what came in, drafts what the rules require, runs every check, and stages the results with sources attached. Your morning is a queue of decisions, not a pile of tasks.
FSOs shouldn't be stuck with legacy software that costs too much and delivers too little. Bastion shows up with the work done, ready for your approval.
Bastion runs on premises within your company's environment. There's no cloud to breach or trust. Every action, yours and Bastion's, writes to an audit trail your reviewer can read.
Your program includes steel. Bastion tracks containers, locks, and the daily checks, and it connects them to your people. When someone with a combination separates, the change stages itself for their last day.
The Bastion Gatehouse is the employee portal: reporting, training, certificates, and messages to your office, in one place your people actually use. Each submission files itself to your side the moment it is sent.
The Founding Partner Program, capped at five seats, is how FSOs move the industry forward.
A facility security officer is responsible for compliance across an organization's entire cleared workforce. The work is scattered across six to eight disconnected systems: clearance statuses in one, training in another, deadlines and reporting requirements everywhere else.
Bastion does that work, staying ahead of deadlines and surfacing what needs attention before it turns into a finding, so an FSO runs cleared programs instead of chasing spreadsheets.
We're focused on midmarket defense contractors with 50 to 500 cleared employees, the teams stuck choosing between expensive legacy enterprise software and manual workflows in spreadsheets. There's nothing built for them. We're building it.
Bastion is built by a founding team with decades spent running industrial security programs inside cleared contractors, and military service in its ranks. Bastion operates under Apollo Universe, Inc., a Delaware C corporation.
The questions FSOs ask us first, answered the way we answer them in the room.
On hardware you own, inside your facility, full stop. Bastion runs entirely on premises: no cloud, no vendor tenancy, no telemetry phoning home. Your personnel records, your reports, and your SF-86s never cross your boundary. There is nothing on the other side to receive them. That is not a deployment option we offer. It is the firm belief this company is built on.
The model runs on the same box as everything else. It is an American developed, open weights model, and it executes entirely on hardware in your building. Nothing is sent to a third party API, and nothing you process is ever used to train anything. When Bastion reads a travel report at two in the morning, that reading happens inside your walls and nowhere else.
No. Bastion drafts, stages, and prepares; you approve. Every action waits for your approval. Judgment calls are never included in bulk approval; they are held out for you by design. The work shows up done, but done means ready for your signature, not sent behind your back.
No. Bastion works the unclassified administrative side of your program: personnel actions, reporting, training records, visit requests, and container tracking. Nothing classified is entered, processed, or stored, by design. Your program's classified work stays on your accredited systems, where it belongs.
Bastion arrives as a program stack inside your server room, provisioned before you first sign in. Setup is a working session with the founders, not a months long implementation. Your roster imports from a spreadsheet export, and Bastion runs alongside whatever you use today until you trust it enough to turn the old things off.
No, and be wary of anything that claims to. Those are government systems, and you remain the operator of record. Bastion prepares the work that feeds them: filings drafted, packets assembled, completeness gaps caught before submission. Your time in those systems is spent executing, not assembling.
Bastion is not another system to check. It is the consolidation of the six to eight you already check. The difference is the direction of work: trackers hold what you have to do, while Bastion arrives with it done and waiting for approval. Most FSOs measure the change in hours recovered per week, not features.
The Bastion Gatehouse: one door for everything security asks of them. Foreign travel, foreign contacts, life changes, assigned training, certificate uploads, and messages to your office all live there. Each one files itself to the record on your side the moment it is submitted. Same boundary rule applies: everything they submit goes to you and nowhere else.
Founding partners pay $15,000 a year, flat, and the price is locked for as long as they stay. It covers their full cleared workforce in the 50 to 500 band with no per person charges. There are five founding seats. When they are gone, that price goes with them.
Bastion is a compliance platform for security teams. Along the way, we're putting out free resources for the field: small tools that answer questions your workforce actually has, and research that puts real numbers behind the job. No cost, no strings. This is a small piece of what Bastion does for FSOs full time.
Send it to your cleared workforce, put it in onboarding, or drop it in your annual refresher. When something happens, an employee gets a clear answer and an easy way to notify you, instead of staying quiet because they were not sure. Add ?fso=your-security-inbox to the end of the link before you share it, and every report arrives addressed to you.
Bastion is now demoing live with FSOs at cleared defense companies. And these conversations never stop. The people who live this work still shape what we build, seat or no seat. Book the demo, or just tell us what your week looks like and what you'd like to see.