Recognized Assessors: Get your products on the Blue UAS List fast

Here’s how Edgesource turns Blue UAS requirements into decision-grade evidence:

• Company & ownership integrity — FOCI/ownership verification, export-control screens, and ownership documentation review.
• Software & firmware — Generate/validate SBOM, review source lineage, perform binary forensics, static/dynamic testing, and network/comms profiling; develop exploits only when needed to prove impact.
• Hardware & BOM — HBOM review against provided docs, physical teardown and component inspection, with provenance checks for critical microelectronics.
• Supply-chain & NDAA checks — Trace components/sub-components to origin and assess compliance with applicable NDAA and related policies.
• Decision-ready reporting — Photographic teardown record, consolidated findings with risk scoring, and mappings to applicable Blue/NIST criteria with prioritized mitigations.

The Edgesource Blue UAS Assessor team will deliver decision-grade evidence—in weeks, not months—so companies can efficiently and confidently progress through their Blue UAS Cleared and Select journey.

What you can expect from your Blue UAS Recognized Assessor partnership with Edgesource:

• Mission-bred, operator-minded. We’ve supported defense and national-security programs with hands-on exploitation, cyber hardening, and rapid assessments—built for real-world decisions.
• Objective, independent—never adversarial. Our ethos: “Objective and independent does not need to be adversarial.” We focus on true threats and rapid remediation to get capability to the field.
• Two fully equipped labs + trained bench. We scale to meet OEM and program demand with consistent artifacts and QA.
• Fast by design. Pre-flight checklists, capture tooling, and standardized reporting compress cycle time; parallel labs minimize rework and keep timelines measured in days, not months.

Edgesource Blue Assessor AdvantEDGE™ takes risk out of your decision: we move fast, test hard, show our work, and can scale up fast. We compress cycle time through automation, capture tooling, and structured templates so teams get decisions fast. We deliver end-to-end evidence—photos, logs, test traces—while truthing HBOM/SBOMs and, where appropriate, proving impact with exploit-backed findings. We organize and map results to the applicable criteria so PMs, cyber, and legal can move forward with confidence. And when timelines tighten, our parallel lab capacity scales to meet urgent demand.

Edgesource’s UAS Procurement AdvantEDGE™

Proven delivery on classified work— with pre-cleared teams, low-friction onboarding, and results and references that speak for themselves.

Edgesource Solution Advisor, Dan Flack, cites that Edgesource has collaborated with DIU continuously since 2018, helping to make Rogue Squadron a highly successful UAS program. This experience underscores our selection as a Blue UAS Assessor. Examples of this experience include:

• Department of Defense: Edgesource supports the Department of Defense with detailed teardown and analysis of Autel UAVs, and executed forensic analysis of DJI products.
• UAS Manufacturer: Edgesource conducted forensics to evaluate and validate security / compliance issues caused by either accidental or malicious insertion of hardware or code.
• Intel Community: Edgesource was contracted to support a national security program to perform independent, manufacturing-provenance verification of a small UAS platform—correlating component origins with production records to support procurement decisions.

Looking ahead, Flack stated that Edgesource will deliver a truly frictionless experience for all Blue UAS applicants—both fully-supportive and highly-efficient.