Adam Boas
Solutions Architect
Warfighter lethality through trusted autonomy, control planes, and execution at tempo.
Featured Reading
All writing →Agent Control Plane Reference Architecture (ACP-RA)
A reference architecture for governed, scalable agentic autonomy—single agents and swarms—aligned to DoD CIO patterns (Zero Trust, ICAM, CNAP, DevSecOps, cATO) and designed for contested/degraded operations.
From AI Force Multiplication to Force Creation
A white paper on agentic autonomy, trust scopes, and strategic imperatives for defense.
Notes: Research that shaped ACP-RA (agent security, tool use, evaluation)
Reading notes on prompt injection, tool-use at scale, and execution-based evaluation that drove ACP-RA design choices (gateways, envelopes, evidence, anti-replay, and upgrade discipline).
Operating Principles
- Mission assurance over novelty: contested operations first, graceful degradation always
- Governed autonomy by default: trust scopes, policy gates, and operator override paths
- Evidence before action: signed traces, provenance, and auditable decisions
- Control planes over point solutions: PDP/PIP/PEP patterns with clean system boundaries
- Continuous adversarial validation: evals, red-teaming, and rollback as normal operations
Engagement
Consulting and hands-on support for high-tempo delivery.
- Architecture & modernization (cloud platforms, control planes, migration plans)
- Delivery systems (paved roads, CI/CD, SLOs, observability, rollback)
- Governed autonomy (evals, trust scopes, policy + audit trails)
- Proposal support (whitepapers, technical volumes, RFI/RFP responses)
Writing
All writing →Continuous Assurance Fabric Reference Architecture (CAF-RA)
A reference architecture for governed, scalable continuous assurance at mission tempo, with policy-governed swarm adjudication, replayable evidence, and enforced remediation closure.
- continuous-assurance
- autonomy
Don't Put Frontier AI Under ITAR: A Blunt Instrument for a Dual-Use Reality
A policy memo arguing against sweeping ITAR treatment for frontier AI and proposing a targeted control framework centered on dual-use export controls, defense-unique controls, and enforceable operational provenance.
Stand Up Delegated Autonomy Directorate (DAD) as a Joint Control Plane Authority
Decision memo recommending immediate standup of a Delegated Autonomy Directorate (DAD) as a joint authority to accelerate trusted delegated autonomy at mission tempo.
Agent Control Plane Reference Architecture (ACP-RA)
A reference architecture for governed, scalable agentic autonomy—single agents and swarms—aligned to DoD CIO patterns (Zero Trust, ICAM, CNAP, DevSecOps, cATO) and designed for contested/degraded operations.
- autonomy
- agents
Notes: Research that shaped ACP-RA (agent security, tool use, evaluation)
Reading notes on prompt injection, tool-use at scale, and execution-based evaluation that drove ACP-RA design choices (gateways, envelopes, evidence, anti-replay, and upgrade discipline).
From AI Force Multiplication to Force Creation
A white paper on agentic autonomy, trust scopes, and strategic imperatives for defense.
- autonomy
- governance
From PDFs to Pull Requests
Code-as-Policy: transforming Department of Defense policy workflows with DevSecOps, version control, and continuous verification.
- devsecops
- modernization
Experience
Solutions Architect
Solutions Architect
Solutions Architect
Solutions Architect
Cloud Architect / Site Reliability Engineer
Architecture Analyst / Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Jr. RF Engineer
Programming Consultant
Programming Consultant
Education
Education pages →- Bachelor of Science — Cybersecurity Management and Policy University of Maryland Global Campus • 2023
- Security+ (SY0-601) CompTIA • 2023
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Amazon Web Services • 2019
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Amazon Web Services • 2019
- HPE ASE – Fortify v1 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) • 2016
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Scrum Alliance • 2016
- Associate of Science – Computer Science College of Southern Maryland • 2015
- CCNA Exploration: Networking Fundamentals 4.0 James A. Forest Career and Technology Center • 2011