Black Pearl

Power Beneath the Surface

Black Pearl delivers secure, scalable, and Navy-accredited DevSecOps at operational speed. It enables mission-ready software anywhere in the world—with proven compliance, automation, and cloud-to-edge flexibility.

Black Pearl accelerates mission-critical software delivery in a government-owned environment supported by contractor expertise. Its secure, scalable DevSecOps platform reduces costs, eliminates bottlenecks, and keeps knowledge and control in the hands of the DoD—delivering faster, safer, and more effective solutions than traditional software factories.

Secure & Accredited:

Has Authority to Operate (ATO) and designation as the RAISE Platform of Choice is in process.​

Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated:

Ensures Navy control while leveraging contractor expertise.​

Fast & Efficient:

Onboards users in hours/days, not weeks/months; delivers authorizable mission-ready software in days, not months.

Cloud-to-Edge Ready:

Seamlessly deploys software from enterprise cloud to the tactical edge.​

Battle-Tested:

Provides a proven DevSecOps pipeline supporting operational Navy programs with 99%+ uptime.

Cost-Saving:

Can enable 90% reduction in setup costs, 98% reduction in onboarding time, 97% reduction in bug-fix turnaround.​

Scalable & Standardized:

Offers a multi-tenant environment, reusable tools, and consistent practices across the Naval enterprise.​

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About Us

Built for Defense. Driven by Innovation.

With proven performance, Black Pearl has achieved U.S. Navy Authority to Operate and is designated as the RAISE Platform of Choice.

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What Black Pearl Delivers

Black Pearl is a portfolio of DevSecOps products and services that supports modern software
development and delivery. The platform is anchored by a central development environment that provides the required building blocks for testing, delivery and deployment.


The Black Pearl ecosystem provides commoditized DevSecOps tooling and pipeline component templates, integration infrastructure and compute. Together, these enable fast, cost-effective standup of software factories built on:

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Solutions

The Black Pearl Arsenal

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Lighthouse

This Infrastructure as Code (IAC), cloud-to-edge software development environment gives programs a pre-built, secure, and scalable DevSecOps foundation. It eliminates months of setup—so developers can focus on delivering mission-critical capability at operational speed.​

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Party Barge

This resilient, always-on DevSecOps platform is built from the Lighthouse baseline. It delivers 99%+ uptime with auto-healing, continuous monitoring, and disaster recovery—so mission-critical software stays secure, reliable, and ready at the speed of the Fleet.​

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Mentoring

Our experts provide customized training and assistance to mission owners and their teams. This helps them adopt new development tools and deliver results faster to maximize return on investment.​

FAQ

Declassified: What You Need to Know

  • Black Pearl is the umbrella Portfolio of people, processes, and technologies aimed at modernizing the Naval Software Practice.
  • Party Barge is the common DevSecOps environment offered as a Software as a Service to the Naval Enterprise. If teams do not have their own DevSecOps environment, they can rapidly onboard into Party Barge and start developing immediately.
  • Lighthouse is the core software Platform that powers the DevSecOps environment as well as the production runtime environment where applications are deployed. Lighthouse can be used to stand up your own DevSecOps environment, or used as the baseline platform for your mission application hosting environment.
Black Pearl is a government-owned, contractor-operated DevSecOps software development platform that has achieved U.S. Navy Authority to Operate and designation as the RAISE Platform of Choice is in process. Onboarding for new users takes less than a day compared to weeks and months for other platforms. The platform maintains 99% uptime, with little to no interruption for maintenance and a help desk response window of less than 60 minutes. It is supported by a staff of experienced software engineers and professional services experts who work alongside their government counterparts to deliver mission-critical software quickly, securely and effectively.

Black Pearl, with Party Barge and/or Lighthouse, enables customers to create their own software factories. A component of Black Pearl, the Party Barge product is a DevSecOps environment that enables rapid standup of new software factories and provides turnkey, compliant tooling for use throughout the enterprise. As such, Black Pearl is not prescriptive in pipeline structure and is not a software factory.

We provide a foundation of DevSecOps capabilities in a centralized environment that can be accessed via a web-based environment, including:

  • Turnkey and accredited tooling​

  • Host-level and runtime security, monitoring, and compliance​

  • Logging and metrics​

  • Zero Trust security​

  • Cluster-level and infrastructure-level compliance​

  • Standard interface formats for inter-software factory communications​

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC)​

  • The ability to stand up high-fidelity testing infrastructure in development environments​

  • The ability to stand up common environments at higher classification levels​

  • Expert guidance from seasoned DevSecOps practitioners​

Our Partners

We partner with DoD DevSecOps Enterprise Services and software factories to accelerate the delivery of software solutions critical to the mission success of today’s warfighter.

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