Technology Design, Integration & Support for Federal Agencies

Helping federal agencies design, integrate, and support the broadcast, media, and content provenance systems required to operate at the intersection of mission, compliance, and creative production.

What We Do

Broadcast, Media Workflow & Technology Solutions

Federal media operations carry weight that commercial broadcasters never face. The footage your agency captures becomes part of the official record. The systems that store, protect, and distribute that footage operate under accreditation regimes, security mandates, and provenance requirements that shape every design decision from the network up. And the mission cannot pause for the upgrade.
CHESA helps federal agencies design, integrate, and support the broadcast, media, and content systems required to operate at the intersection of mission, compliance, and creative production.

ATO-Grade Broadcast Systems Design

Design and integrate broadcast environments that meet FISMA, NIST 800-53, and RMF/ATO requirements, including full SMPTE ST 2110 IP infrastructure with PTP timing, redundancy, and hitless protection.

Federal-Aligned Cloud Services

Store, manage, access, and distribute media in cloud environments architected around federal data handling, access control, and compliance requirements. Hybrid, on-prem-extended, and managed cloud patterns supported.

Content Provenance & C2PA Operationalization

Operationalize content authenticity, provenance, and audit trails to meet emerging federal mandates including the U.S. Digital Authenticity and Provenance Act, CISA guidance, and EU AI Act spillover for federal contexts.

Discovery & Design Before the Build

Document current systems, map workflows, identify accreditation gaps, and create a phased roadmap before any capital purchase, vehicle order, or transition effort.

Systems Integration That Meets Federal Standards

Connect production, post-production, storage, networking, cloud, and distribution into a cohesive, accreditable architecture, delivered on-time and on-vehicle

Service Level Agreements with Federal-Grade Support

Keep mission-critical media operations running with proactive maintenance, defined response tiers, system health monitoring, and cleared personnel where required.

What CHESA Makes Possible for Federal Agencies

Tangible outcomes our federal customers achieve once their media systems are designed, integrated, and supported the right way.
Operate within accreditation boundaries

Run broadcast and media systems that meet federal security and compliance frameworks from initial architecture through operational acceptance.

Deliver mission-critical content reliably

Distribute public communications, congressional testimony, scientific outreach, and agency messaging without infrastructure failure becoming the story.

Establish provenance you can defend

Maintain an immutable record of every file’s origin, authorship, edit history, and chain of custody — auditable across platforms and migrations.

Preserve the federal record

Archive media assets with NARA-aligned retention, immutable audit trails, and recoverable formats designed for the long horizon.

Modernize without breaking the mission

Move from legacy SDI to ST 2110 IP, from on-prem to hybrid cloud, and from manual to AI-enriched workflows without disrupting daily operations.

Built for the Demands of Modern Federal Media

Federal media teams are responsible for more than producing video. They are managing a full operational stack that may include broadcast engineering, content production, archival preservation, accreditation maintenance, contract vehicle planning, security posture, and cross-agency coordination — often with the same or fewer resources than they had a decade ago.

CHESA helps federal agencies create systems that are:

Accredited

Designed against FISMA, NIST 800-53, and RMF/ATO requirements from initial architecture through operational acceptance.

Secure

Built with zero-trust principles, hardened endpoints, FIPS-validated cryptography, and defensible audit trails.

Resilient

Engineered for 24×7 mission continuity, with redundancy, hitless protection switching, and tested recovery procedures.

Integrated

Connected across production, post-production, storage, cloud, and distribution — on-prem, in approved cloud environments, or hybrid.

Mission-Focused

Structured around the work agencies actually do — public communication, congressional engagement, public health messaging, scientific outreach, and the preservation of the federal record.

Design a Media Workflow That Supports Your Mission

CHESA works collaboratively with federal agencies to understand how your team operates today, where current systems are creating friction, and what your mission requires going forward.

Whether you are starting with a discovery engagement, planning a full SDI-to-ST 2110 transition, preparing for a vehicle order, operationalizing content provenance, or building an ongoing support strategy, CHESA can help you move forward with clarity.

Services

Common Challenges
We Help Federal Agencies Solve

“Our legacy broadcast infrastructure won’t pass the next ATO.”

CHESA can assess your current production environment against FISMA, NIST 800-53, and RMF requirements, identify the gaps, and design a phased transition that maintains accreditation throughout.

“We need to operationalize content provenance and we don’t know where to start.”

CHESA can design and implement C2PA-aligned provenance workflows, including capture-side credentialing, edit-step manifest preservation, and audit-grade chain of custody.

“Our SDI plant is end-of-life and we need a path to ST 2110.”

CHESA can design a full IP-based broadcast infrastructure with SMPTE ST 2110, PTP timing, and NMOS control — and execute the transition without taking the broadcast off the air.

“Our content archive is growing faster than our infrastructure can support.”

CHESA can implement media asset management and hybrid archive strategies that scale with growth and meet NARA-aligned retention requirements.

“We need to modernize, but we can’t take the mission offline.”

CHESA’s Discovery & Design process produces a phased transition plan that maintains operational continuity throughout the upgrade.

“We need a partner who understands both broadcast engineering and federal compliance.”

CHESA’s Federal Division operates at the intersection of broadcast systems integration and federal accreditation, with active positions on GSA Schedule, SEWP V, CIO-CS, and FirstSource contract vehicles.

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