AI belongs in mission systems only where it can be made defensible by construction — where every fact traces to an authorized source and every output leaves an audit trail. We build secure, auditable AI and cloud systems for federal environments, and we productized that conviction as Sourcine.
David McCaskill has spent twenty-five years architecting federal compliance automation, cloud security, and AI/ML systems for classified and air-gapped environments. He designs multi-agent AI pipelines deployed inside FedRAMP-authorized boundaries with zero external cloud-AI dependencies, and the deterministic validation gates that keep AI-fabricated guidance out of compliance work.
That body of work — pre-LLM security validation, source-bound retrieval, protected-field enforcement, and OSCAL-integrated control documentation — is the architecture now formalized as Sourcine. His career spans senior engineering and program leadership across the Intelligence Community (IC), the U.S. Navy, and the Department of Defense, on both prime and subcontract delivery.
A consistent arc: securing and modernizing mission systems for federal customers, from penetration testing and authorization through cloud architecture and production AI.
Formed the firm to bring the deterministic-first assurance architecture to market as Sourcine — source-bound retrieval, protected-field enforcement, and audit-grade evidence for federal compliance environments.
Developed and ran in production the deterministic-first assurance architecture now formalized as Sourcine — pre/post-LLM validation, source-bound retrieval, and protected-field enforcement; the basis of the 18-month, 10,000-artifact production study.
Led security scanning and vulnerability assessment of networks, applications, and operating systems; authored SOPs and CONOPS and validated findings to drive remediation.
Managed a $10M capital and $4.1M operating budget across security operations, network services, data center operations, and application systems for a Navy program.
Stood up enterprise vulnerability scanning and a penetration-testing program; contributed to a DoD security architecture framework and led DoD service delivery and program operations.
Led teams performing penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and server hardening using NIST and OSSTMM methodologies for armed-services and intelligence customers.
Facts originate from governed, version-controlled sources. The model may refine presentation; it never authors a fact, citation, or identifier.
We design for forensic auditability — claim-level traceability and tamper-evident records — not confidence scores. Correctness must be demonstrable, not asserted.
Control mappings, baselines, and release evidence accumulate as the system is built — not assembled as a separate paperwork track after the fact.
No system is released without named human review against explicit criteria. The reviewer’s decision, identity, and timestamp are part of the record.
SAMDAM Mission Partners is a founder-led federal solutions firm. We take on work where deep federal cybersecurity, cloud, and AI-assurance expertise is the differentiator — and where the customer needs the engineer in the room, not a layer of account management.
Start with an assessment: we characterize your mission, data sources, query profile, and assurance requirements — then scope a pilot against an approved source set.