Test footage, lab recordings, sensor data, and flight reports are controlled data. Here's how one platform guards them, makes them useful, and proves who touched them for every person on a defense R&D program. For R&D and defense teams, the hard part isn't capturing data, it's controlling it. 110 NIST security controls apply to controlled unclassified information. This year, a Navy contractor paid more than half a million dollars to settle claims it hadn't met them.
And with CMMC Phase 2 paused, the Pentagon is still enforcing those controls. Let's follow one drone test campaign through the eyes of the people who run it: security, compliance, test, engineering, export control, program management, training, and legal. Each one has a different problem. They share the same data. First, the facility security officer who has to keep the site secure. Every camera sits in one place: the hangar, the flight range, the lab corridor, the perimeter fence, the data center, and the main gate.
At 6:42 in the evening, someone walks into the Lab 2 corridor, a restricted zone. The moment he crosses into it, he's flagged. On the north fence, a person stops and lingers. A loitering alert fires with a running timer. Cameras are only one source. Fence vibration sensors, badge readers, lab environment sensors, and drone telemetry stream into the same platform through webhooks, the REST API, or an MCP server. When the fence sensor spikes and the camera sees a person at the same spot, a correlation rule raises one high-priority alert with the clip and the sensor reading attached.
In the operations view, cameras with active alerts move to the top, with every alert listed beside them by severity. Every alert is saved with its clip, searchable by camera, type, and time, so a security review starts from the footage itself. Next, the compliance lead, who has to prove every control to an assessor. Each program and incident gets its own case. The flight test campaign, the lab access alert, the partner package. Video and documents sit together under one permission model.
Open any file, and its chain of custody is already there. Who viewed it, from which address, and when. Nobody rebuilds that record before an assessment. The test director needs answers from hours of range footage. Priya, the test director, opens the range camera recording from Sortie 2 and asks the intelligence hub to summarize the flight. The answer comes back with the details. The quadcopter lifts off, holds a hover, and lands back on the pad with three team members at the test table, and it cites the camera and the time.
Then she asks across every recording in the campaign, "Show every sortie with a hard landing." The answer points to Sortie 4 at the exact second and confirms the other 13 landed normally. No one scrubs through 14 videos. Engineers need what was decided, not just what was recorded. Elena, the propulsion lead, missed the critical design review. She asks the recording what was decided about the landing battery reserve and gets the decision, the owner, and the follow-up with the moment it was said.
Export control decides what can leave the program. Here's the flight test report. It names the test team with their phone numbers and email addresses and lists the serial numbers of the parts under test. Redactor removes the personal details, a custom pattern catches the serial numbers, and the redaction is burned into a new copy. The original stays untouched. Video works the same way. In the range footage, every face is masked and tracked across the frames, and every redaction is logged in a report.
What was removed, when, and by whom, and it runs as a pipeline. This workflow, drawn without code, reads each uploaded file, works out which program and department it belongs to, and applies their redaction rules. When confidence is low, the file is held for a person to review instead of being released. The program manager has to get deliverables to partners and the customer. Tom shares only the redacted copies through a limited share link with a start date and an expiry date.
No attachments and no copies left in inboxes. When the link expires, access is removed, and the audit log records it along with every share and change. That's the evidence an assessor asks for. The training lead has to prove technicians know the procedure. Procedure videos are transcribed and searchable to the second, so a technician jumps straight to the step they need. Add in-video quizzes, and completion and certificates are tracked for every learner.
And legal needs the record to stand up if something goes wrong. When Sortie 4 lands hard, counsel opens a mishap case. The range video, the telemetry, the test report, and the AI summary sit in one case. A legal hold suspends deletion, and every access is logged. Setting this up is quick. Adding a camera takes an address, a port, and a stream name. And a rule is a graph. The lab corridor camera feeds a person detector, which raises an alert and saves a recording.
More than 150 integrations are listed, and the list keeps growing. Anything not listed can be built to your requirement or reached through an MCP server or a REST API. And it runs where your policy requires, in your own data center, your own cloud, or fully air-gapped, with AI models hosted inside your boundary and FIPS 140-3 validated encryption. One platform, every stakeholder. Security and compliance, test and engineering, export control and programs, training and legal, all working from the same controlled record. See it on your own program. Request a demo at vidizmo.ai.
More than 150 integrations are listed, and the list keeps growing. Anything not listed can be built to your requirement or reached through an MCP server or a REST API. And it runs where your policy requires, in your own data center, your own cloud, or fully air-gapped, with AI models hosted inside your boundary and FIPS 140-3 validated encryption. One platform, every stakeholder. Security and compliance, test and engineering, export control and programs, training and legal, all working from the same controlled record. See it on your own program. Request a demo at vidizmo.ai.
