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Account for all of it
Services, hardware, software, licenses and associated components, reported to the DoW CIO in alignment with the Technology Business Management taxonomy.
DoW Instruction 8000.02 requires every component to account for all of it — hardware, software, licenses, services — and report against the Technology Business Management taxonomy. Wolverine reconciles your asset, license and contract data into one model of the stack, then shows which duplication is redundancy and which is coverage you can't lose. Ontology-driven, sitting on top of the tools you already run. No rip and replace.
Splunk Enterprise
4 components
Total licenses 4,050+
Overlapping capability 3 tools
Load-bearing coverage 2 of 3
The requirement
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Services, hardware, software, licenses and associated components, reported to the DoW CIO in alignment with the Technology Business Management taxonomy.
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Establish plans to bring spending under management and increase adoption of best-in-class solutions.
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CETAs, ESAs and JELAs before individual IT investments, unless mission or cost dictate otherwise.
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Document evaluation factors and the rationale for selection in the acquisition strategy.
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Consolidate laptop and desktop configurations onto authorized contract vehicles.
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Appoint ITCM representatives to the Cross Functional Board and ESI Working Group, plus a software product manager.
Source: DoW Instruction 8000.02
Why it stalls
Every submission is accurate on its own and incomparable to the others. The same product appears under five different names across five components. Nothing reconciles it, and nothing tells you which overlap is waste and which is coverage that disappears the moment you consolidate.
The department's own definition of IT asset management sets a higher bar than that: identify duplicative licenses, find redundant hardware and software, capture usage for both, and continuously discover, manage and monitor all globally deployed assets including cloud — using commercial off-the-shelf solutions to do it.
The stack model
Layer 01
Wolverine connects to the systems you already run — asset management, license records, contracts, CMDB — and reconciles what they produce into a single digital twin of the stack.
Layer 02
A capability-level analysis engine maps feature parity across an ontology of tools, features, domains and controls — so the answer is reasoning, not a list.
How Wolverine works
Ingests asset, license, contract and cost data from across the stack.
Normalizes it into a shared ontology of tools, features, domains and controls.
Evaluates duplication, utilization, cost and coverage with ontology-driven AI.
Recommends what to consolidate, in what order, and what it saves.
The loop closes
Every update improves the model before the next decision.
What Wolverine delivers
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Cost reduction and enterprise agreement adoption are only provable against a baseline. Wolverine sets it, then tracks utilization after.
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Retire a license, fold three contracts into one, standardize a configuration — and see what goes dark before it does.
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Knowing what overlaps isn't knowing what to move first. Wolverine produces a sequenced plan with the risk on each step.
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Every recommendation carries its reasoning path, so the savings claim and the exception both hold up under review.
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Benchmarks your actually-configured controls against frameworks, not what a vendor datasheet claims the product can do.
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One consistent data format from every organization, so enterprise licensing decisions rest on comparable numbers.
Ask your stack
Wolverine query // 01
›Which software are we licensing separately in more than one component?
Wolverine query // 02
›If we move to the enterprise agreement, what capability do we lose?
Wolverine query // 03
›Which tools should we defend as mission-or-cost exceptions, and what's the evidence?
Deployment
ENTITY — Cyberhill Intel LLC · CAGE 5VTS6 · UEI CQPSEH72RDB7 · Small business
ENVIRONMENTS — Secure, classified and air-gapped deployments supported
TENANCY — Single-tenant isolation
AUTONOMY — Human-in-the-loop by design: approval gates, change windows, kill switches, explainable and audited actions
CONTINUOUS AUTHORIZATION — Supports continuous monitoring and cATO objectives
Frameworks
ITCM — Technology Business Management (TBM) taxonomy
CONTROLS — NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, Risk Management Framework (RMF)
THREAT — MITRE ATT&CK
STANDARDS — ISO/IEC 27001
Offer
A 30-minute mission demo with the federal team. No discovery deck.
Scoped proof of concept against one component or portfolio, using data you already hold.
You keep the output: duplication map, dependency read, sequenced plan, documented rationale.
FAQ
A department-wide policy on IT category management, approved 23 July 2026 and effective 29 July 2026. It requires every DoW component to manage IT — hardware, software, licenses and services — as a coordinated enterprise rather than buying and tracking separately.
To stop duplicate spending on overlapping tools and licenses, standardize how IT spend and usage data is collected, and give the DoW CIO the visibility needed to negotiate enterprise-wide agreements instead of each component negotiating alone.
All DoW Components: the Military Departments, the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Defense Agencies, DoW Field Activities and related organizational entities. It does not supersede Director of National Intelligence policy — Defense Intelligence Components comply with both.
All IT assets: services, hardware, software, licenses and associated components, across every IT category — including national security systems and defense business systems.
The instruction became effective 29 July 2026 and does not set a single hard compliance date. It establishes ongoing obligations: components report IT asset management status to the DoW CIO on a recurring basis, and the ESI Working Group maintains the DoW CIO ESA Plan as a living document.
The ITCM Cross Functional Board is the senior executive decision body, chaired by the Deputy CIO for the Information Enterprise, with standing membership from Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Health Agency, DISA, Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Manpower Data Center and Missile Defense Agency. The ESI Working Group — representatives from every component, co-chaired by a Navy designee — is the lead agent for implementation.
Technology Business Management taxonomy — the structure components must align to when reporting ITCM and IT asset management status to the DoW CIO. The reporting requirement isn't just a list; it's a list in a specific shape.
Yes. Components use enterprise capabilities first "unless mission or cost dictate otherwise." That exception has to be justified, and acquisition personnel must document evaluation factors and the rationale for selection in the acquisition strategy.
Core enterprise technology agreements, enterprise software agreements and joint enterprise licensing agreements — vehicles for consolidating buying power. Components are directed to use them to the maximum extent practical, and DISA serves as the DoW JELA lead.
IT spending that sits outside managed, best-in-class contract vehicles. Reducing it is one of the ESI Working Group's named focus areas.
An inventory tells you what is in it. Wolverine reconciles inconsistent records across components into one model, then adds the analysis those tools don't: capability-level feature parity, what-if modeling of a proposed consolidation, and the evidence behind a savings claim or an exception. It works on top of what you already own.
No. It connects to the discovery, asset management and CMDB tooling already in place and unifies what they produce. No rip and replace.
Yes — Wolverine is built for deployment into secure, classified and air-gapped environments, with single-tenant isolation.
No. Human-in-the-loop by design: approval gates, defined change windows, kill switches, and fully explainable, audited actions.
A scoped proof of concept against a real environment in under 30 days, starting with a 30-minute mission demo.
Source: https://www.esd.whs.mil/DD/
A 30-minute Wolverine mission demo, on your stack's terms.
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