As the Pentagon moves toward Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO) and imposes new cybersecurity requirements on commercial satellite vendors, mission-critical space systems security has become a condition of doing business with the Department of Defense. The latest rules emphasize that space systems must implement continuous security patch management for both on-board and ground-segment software, ensuring the DoD can rapidly detect, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities across the entire mission architecture. In a contested and software-defined space domain, the DoD must maintain assured control of its platforms, even when physical access is impossible and threats emerge in real time.

DeployHub directly addresses these new Pentagon requirements by delivering space systems security purpose-built for continuous authorization and continuous patch management. DeployHub provides ongoing monitoring of deployed software, real-time open-source package vulnerability detection linked to live SBOM data, with AI-driven remediation, enforcing the DoD’s mandate for rapid, repeatable security updates across satellites and ground systems. Designed for cloud-native, containerized, and air-gapped environments, DeployHub becomes an operational enabler for Pentagon-aligned DevSecOps pipelines such as Platform One and Space CAMP. It ensures that mission systems remain continuously authorized, continuously patched, and continuously protected across the full lifecycle of space operations.

With DeployHub, the DoD moves from periodic compliance checks to true Continuous ATO, ensuring cyber resilience not just at deployment—but throughout on-orbit operations, ground control functions, and multi-domain missions.