Defense and national security

Mission-ready secure access from fixed installations to the tactical edge

Executive overview

Modernization has to move at the speed of the mission. From fixed installations to the tactical edge, across coalition boundaries, and inside every enclave a soldier or operator needs to reach, defense operations demand secure access that keeps up with deployment cycles, not procurement cycles.

Citrix Platform for Public Sector delivers the same hardened, single-tenant platform across unclassified, secret, sovereign, and air-gapped defense networks, operated by cleared personnel when the mission requires it. Soldiers and operators get modern access on the same timeline as the mission, without compromising accreditation, isolation, or control.

Defense and national security challenges

Modernization stops at the air gap

Most modern cloud-based access models cannot reach IL5, sovereign, and disconnected enclaves, leaving defense workloads on aging infrastructure.

Business outcomes with Citrix

Modernize workloads traditional cloud services leave behind

Deploy Citrix Platform for Public Sector inside classified and disconnected environments with no dependency on outside connectivity, so defense workloads gain modern secure access.

Two experiences, one mission

Military personnel and operators switch between modern tooling outside the wire and a narrower toolset inside air-gapped networks, slowing mission tempo, and forcing redundant training.

Full feature parity across every enclave

Military personnel and operators keep every tool, feature and workflow when a mission crosses from commercial into secret, sovereign, or air-gapped networks.

Cryptography can't lag behind the mission

Defense workloads need PQC readiness on the same operational tempo as the missions they support, not on a re-platforming timeline that leaves aging cryptography in the field.

PQC-ready without re-platforming

Move classified workloads to post-quantum cryptography inside the existing platform, with hybrid PQC key exchange in Citrix NetScaler and pure PQC in CryptoKit.

Edge and disconnected operations

Forward operating bases, ships, and remote stations need the same secure-access posture as fixed installations, with no loss of control or auditability when the link back to home is intermittent or down.

Secure-access posture at the edge

Deploy secure access into forward sites, ships, and remote stations with local policy enforcement and persistent audit logging, so the control model holds even when the link to home is down.

Coalition and contractor devices at the mission edge

Coalition partners, contractors, systems integrators, and temporary duty (TDY) personnel arrive with their own devices—often unmanaged, often mid-deployment—and expect immediate secure access to mission apps.

Third parties inside the perimeter, not the data

Stream applications and data to contractor, coalition-partner, and TDY devices from inside the agency's environment, so the data never leaves the classified network and the endpoint never becomes a trust boundary.

Engaged at the standards layer

Citrix works directly with NIST, CISA, and OpenSSL on the standards shaping the next decade of secure access. That includes contributing to PQC method and protocol work with OpenSSL, participating in the CISA Edge Device Working Group on gateway hardening for Citrix NetScaler, and aligning to FIPS 140-3 and Secure-by-Design so defense customers stay ahead of the next standard, not behind it.