Tagup’s Manifest Platform Achieves Impact Level 5 Authorization via Second Front Systems

Strategic partnership accelerates delivery of AI-powered logistics technology to Department of War users by leveraging proven security and compliance infrastructure

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tagup, a leading defense technology company delivering logistics decision advantage with next-generation AI, and Second Front Systems (2F), a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world, today announced that Tagup’s Manifest platform can now operate at Department of War (DoW) Impact Level 5 (IL5) by leveraging Second Front’s Game Warden platform.

This partnership with Second Front enables the delivery of Tagup’s Manifest platform to DoW users on infrastructure that meets federal security and compliance requirements. This significantly accelerates the operational deployment timeline while maintaining established standards for trust and security.

“The modern battlefield demands logistics decisions that account for uncertainty, competing constraints, and disruption,” said Paul Plemmons, President of Tagup. “Deploying Manifest in a secure IL5 environment enables us to deliver mission-critical logistics capability faster in environments where logistics decisions directly affect readiness and mission outcomes.”

Second Front’s Game Warden platform is a fully accredited DevSecOps platform that enables commercial software companies to operate across unclassified and classified networks. By leveraging existing government authorizations, companies can inherit controls and deploy into IL2–IL6+ environments without navigating the authorization process independently, eliminating rework and accelerating time to mission. For Tagup, this means enabling our warfighters with faster access to mission-critical AI-powered logistics.

“AI doesn’t change outcomes unless it’s deployed where missions happen,” said Mamie Cruse, Chief Mission Officer at Second Front. “This is about giving the ecosystem a backbone to deliver capability at speed and scale. With Game Warden, companies like Tagup can operate wherever the mission demands, including IL5 environments and beyond, without slowing innovation.”

The partnership reflects a broader shift toward trusted, repeatable models for bringing commercial software into regulated defense environments, enabling forces to modernize capabilities faster within a proven secure infrastructure and with reduced risk.

About Tagup

Tagup is a defense technology company founded at MIT that is delivering logistics decision advantage with next-generation AI. The company’s platform, Manifest, is an AI-powered multidimensional logistics decision engine that simulates and optimizes logistics courses of action under constraints and uncertainty, delivering a decisive operational advantage in contested and degraded environments. A trusted partner of the U.S. military, Tagup supports logistics operations across supply, maintenance and mobilization, including active deployments with aviation and medical logistics units. For more information on Tagup’s AI-powered logistics solutions or to request a demo of Manifest, email [e-mail] or visit tagup.ai.

About Second Front Systems

Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.