AUVSI Continuous Compliance
Iterate designs, diversify your suppliers, and maintain certification — without full re-authorization every time something changes.
The opportunity
The Blue UAS Cleared List is the standard for federal drone procurement. AUVSI's Green UAS certification offers a streamlined pathway to achieving it. But getting on the list is only the first step. To win, manufacturers need to iterate designs, diversify away from adversary-dependent suppliers, and scale production — all while staying certified.
Today's compliance model wasn't built for that. Every design revision triggers full re-authorization. There's no monitoring between certifications. Recertification starts from scratch. And as export restrictions and sourcing rules evolve in real time, a value chain that's compliant today may not be tomorrow.
The compliance model meant to secure the supply chain is actually inhibiting manufacturers from building more secure, more resilient supply chains.
Altana changes the model
Impact
Testimonials
"AUVSI’s efforts are expanding through new partnerships like our collaboration with Altana, whose AI-powered global supply chain platform is helping us better illuminate supplier networks, and enhance the continuous monitoring capabilities of our Green UAS and Blue UAS Recognized Assessor programs. Together, we’re helping government and industry identify and mitigate supply chain risks; supporting the trusted industrial base our nation needs."
Michael Robbins,
President & CEO, AUVSI
Michael Robbins,
President & CEO, AUVSI
“Altana’s platform brings unprecedented clarity to global supplier networks. This partnership ensures the Green UAS program delivers the transparency, speed, and analytical depth the market and federal agencies now require.”
Casie Ocaña,
Vice President of Public Affairs, AUVSI
Casie Ocaña,
Vice President of Public Affairs, AUVSI
“We’ve spent decades inventing, innovating, and delivering disruptive new defense technologies in support of the United States and its allies. We selected Altana because we need a trusted partner to help us reveal and manage our upstream value chains, ensure secure and compliant sourcing, and expand our technology capabilities across the world.”
Charles McVicker,
Vice President of Supply Chain, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
Charles McVicker,
Vice President of Supply Chain, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
“What Altana is doing is not only an awesome business enabled by AI, but also matters so much for American national economic security and competitiveness. I’m all in because this matters.”
Gina Raimondo,
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Gina Raimondo,
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
“Altana helped us rank companies by forced labor exposure, improving UFLPA enforcement and enabling significant targeting of Xinjiang-based companies.”
U.S. Law Enforcement Investigator
U.S. Law Enforcement Investigator
Altana at XPONENTIAL
The Altana team exhibited at XPONENTIAL 2026 showing drone manufacturers how continuous compliance works in practice. This included walkthroughs of multi-tier supply chain tracing, product-level NDAA and ASDA screening, and the supplier collaboration workflows that accelerate Blue UAS eligibility.
Missed us at the conference? We would love to show you what verified, deep-tier compliance looks like — and how to maintain it between certification cycles.
Green UAS is AUVSI's cybersecurity and supply chain compliance certification for drones, components, and software manufacturers. It verifies that a system is built securely, uses trusted components, and follows best practices for cybersecurity and supply chain integrity. The program offers two tiers: Green UAS Cleared, a streamlined pathway aligned directly with Blue UAS Cleared standards, and Green UAS Certified, which adds corporate cyber hygiene and remote operations and connectivity assessments. Both pathways are recognized as authorized routes to Blue UAS Cleared status.
Blue UAS is managed by DCMA and focused on DoW procurement. Green UAS, managed by AUVSI, was originally built for commercial and non-defense markets but now serves as a direct, streamlined pathway into the Blue UAS ecosystem. Green UAS Cleared evaluates the two foundational security areas required for Blue UAS alignment. Green UAS Certified goes further with additional cybersecurity frameworks. Altana powers the supply chain compliance layer of the Green UAS program — providing multi-tier value chain tracing, screening, and continuous monitoring.
You start by uploading your BOM. Altana uses AI to illuminate your multi-tier value chain. You collaborate with your suppliers to verify their tiers in a shared, secure environment — they don't need a separate subscription. Your value chain is screened for NDAA compliance at the product and facility level, and findings surface in real time within your Product Passport. Returning Gauntlet 1 manufacturers start with pre-populated records.
Suppliers are invited into a shared, secure environment to verify their portion of the value chain. They don’t need a separate Altana subscription — collaboration is built into the platform.
Altana screens for NDAA compliance at the product, facility, and transaction level — tracing value chains into the deep tiers where company-level screening can't reach. As DCMA's requirements expand to include additional regulatory frameworks such as ASDA and FOCI, screening will evolve with them.
Altana's continuous monitoring detects changes to your value chain automatically — supplier acquisitions, sourcing shifts, component substitutions. When you swap a PRC-origin part for an allied-nation equivalent, replace an end-of-life component, or qualify a new supplier, Altana traces the new value chain and screens it against the same compliance criteria — immediately, at no additional cost. Design revisions are screened in real time, so you're not starting from scratch every time you improve your platform. Recertification becomes a verification of what changed, not a full rebuild.
When Altana detects a material change — a supplier acquisition, a sourcing shift to a covered country, a new sanctions designation hitting a company deep in your value chain — you and DCMA are alerted in the same shared environment. The alert includes full context: what changed, which components are affected, and which platforms share that component. You can remediate directly within the Product Passport, and DCMA reviews the change from the same record.
Rather than treating every component change as a re-authorization event, Altana screens substitutions in real time as part of continuous monitoring. When you swap a PRC-origin part for an allied-nation equivalent, replace an end-of-life component, or qualify a new supplier, Altana traces the new value chain and screens it against the same compliance criteria — immediately, at no additional cost. This means you can actively diversify your supply chain and iterate designs without compliance becoming the bottleneck.
