Case Studies

IBIS™ for Vendor Threat Mitigation

Vendor Threat Mitigation (VTM) is a critical DoD security requirement, with every contractor who supports military operations needing to be vetted for hidden risks and adversarial ties. Regardless of the agency, analysts all face the same operational challenge: manually searching multiple disconnected databases while racing against procurement deadlines. The current process can take 3.5 hours or more per complex vendor assessment, creating dangerous bottlenecks in force protection decisions.

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Summary

When the US Air Force sought to transform their VTM operations, Certus Core deployed IBIS™ to demonstrate how conversational AI could enhance this established security protocol. The platform integrated 4TB of vendor intelligence from the standard VTM data sources: SAM.gov, USA Spending databases, the Consolidated Sanctions List, and finished intelligence documents.

Rather than forcing analysts to maintain expertise in multiple different query languages, IBIS™ allows them to work naturally: "Show me all telecommunications vendors with recent contracts over $1M and trace their beneficial ownership to countries of concern."

The system orchestrates queries across every VTM database, correlates findings, and delivers comprehensive results in less than a minute, rather than multiple hours.

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