General Atomics, a leading global aerospace and defence manufacturer, has selected Ivalua as its enterprise-wide supplier collaboration platform, aiming to tighten supplier visibility, quality controls and coordination across procurement, planning, compliance and finance.
Ivalua said the platform will become General Atomics’ “single system of record” for supplier collaboration and will be deployed first on GovCloud. GovCloud is a restricted cloud environment used for government and contractor workloads that require tighter security controls.
Ivalua said the initial GovCloud deployment spans information management, supplier risk and performance management, issue and program management, strategic sourcing, contract management, supply chain collaboration, purchase orders, receiving and accounts payable automation.
General Atomics describes itself as a diversified defense and technology company founded in 1955 with operations that occupy more than 8 million square feet of facilities and employ more than 13,000 people, which helps explain why cross-functional supplier data can become hard to reconcile at scale.
Regulatory and Security Baseline
The supplier’s workflow data is deployed in a GovCloud environment rather than a back-office IT refresh. GovCloud environments are typically used for workloads that require additional isolation and compliance controls under U.S. government cloud authorization frameworks.
Ivalua has previously said it achieved “FedRAMP Ready” status for moderate impact certification and is listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace, positioning its GovCloud offer for U.S. public-sector and regulated workloads.
FedRAMP sets standardized security baselines (Low, Moderate and High) using impact levels tied to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and DoD overlays additional authorization requirements for certain mission use cases.
For defense contractors, these often map to DoD Impact Levels (IL), where IL4 and IL5 cover Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and mission-critical data.
Why General Atomics is consolidating supplier workflows
The move aligns with a federal push to improve supply chain illumination, a requirement underscored by the GSA’s 2025 award of the $919 million SCRIPTS contract and the Defense Business Board’s 2025 recommendations for permanent sub-tier visibility.
A DoD supply chain risk management guidebook describes roles and practices for identifying and mitigating supply chain risk. The same Defense Business Board report has argued that sustained illumination efforts are required to identify risks in “long-lead” components before they disrupt production.