A dedicated practice of operators brings Tulip's frontline operations platform to defense primes, suppliers, and government production and sustainment sites, so they can stand up new programs fast, adapt when requirements change, and keep a complete record of every unit they build.
BOSTON, Mass., October 7, 2026 — At Operations Calling 2026, Tulip, the leader in frontline operations, launched the Tulip Federal Practice, a practice dedicated to manufacturers in America's defense industrial base and to federal production and sustainment operations. Tulip Federal helps primes, suppliers, and government sites digitize assembly, inspection, quality, maintenance, and repair work on the frontline, then roll what works out across programs and sites. Customers with controlled data run Tulip in a segregated FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent environment on AWS GovCloud (US).
The limit on American industrial capacity is how fast factories can change, not how many factories get built. The manufacturers winning new programs stand up new lines in days, absorb engineering changes as they're released, and can show an auditor a complete record the moment one walks in. Much of the defense industrial base isn't there yet. Frontline work still runs on paper travelers, checklists, and legacy systems that take months to change, and the only way to know what's happening on a line is to walk over and look. Meanwhile, the backlog is measured in years.
Demand is rising at the same time. New autonomous and next-generation platforms are driving more new product introductions, and most manufacturers can't add people or floor space fast enough to keep up. They have to get more output from the lines and teams they already have.
“Some companies build software for the warfighter. Some build the arsenal. Tulip is the production system for the warbuilders. The Tulip Federal Practice is a team of operators ready to solve the hardest problems in front line operations, and are dedicated to bringing these capabilities to the defense industrial base." said Erik Mirandette, Chief Business Officer at Tulip.
Introducing the Tulip Federal Practice
The Tulip Federal Practice brings Tulip in as the composable execution layer for that work. Standardized workflows, guided assembly, and real-time visibility into work in progress lets teams find and clear bottlenecks, cut cycle time, and raise output without adding headcount or square footage.
“Wars are won in the factory as much as on the battlefield,” said Chandler Kamenov, Director of Federal Programs at Tulip, who is leading the practice.
A former Air Force officer, Kamenov draws on a decade of experience across the Air Force, defense consulting, and defense technology to help mission-driven organizations turn complex strategy into executable programs. Prior to Tulip, he worked in strategy at Forterra, a ground autonomous systems company, and at Pallas Advisors, where he advised three- and four-star general officers on executive communications strategy.
The practice covers program management, solution delivery, and partner coordination for defense and federal customers.
Powering the Defense Industrial Base
Tulip has been serving Aerospace and Defense manufacturing for over a decade, helping increase throughput, quality, auditability, and uptime.
50% Increase in production capacity
Test Devices by SCHENCK, which spin-tests, balances, and inspects high-value serialized parts for aerospace customers such as GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney, replaced paper travelers and binders with Tulip workflows. With guided workflows and built-in end-to-end traceability, the Test Devices teams raised annual volume by about 50%, from roughly 8,000 to 12,000 parts, without adding to its administrative workforce.
“We’ve had several AS9100 audits recently. Tulip helps with audit readiness by giving us traceability across production and quality, and it gives us a practical way to address findings as they come up” says Darren O’Neil, Industrial Engineering Manager, SCHENCK USA Corp.
Release time cut from weeks to hours
Avon Technologies, which makes helmets and respiratory protection for the U.S. Department of War and the UK Ministry of Defence, captures 300 data points on every helmet it builds with Tulip. It completed a manufacturing-execution project planned for 18 months in under six, cut release time from weeks to about an hour, and raised inventory turns from 0.6 to nearly 7.
“We used to spend days chasing paper and reconciling data,” said Daniel Barker, Group IT Lead at Avon Technologies during his Operations Calling 2025 presentation. “Now, we can see what’s happening in production instantly, and act on it just as fast. Because of this no-fault-forward mindset, product-wise, we’ve unlocked people tremendously.”
Learn more about Operations Calling 2026 announcements here.
About Tulip
Tulip is the Frontline Operations Platform. Manufacturers in regulated and complex industries use Tulip to build apps, agents, and automations in no-code, with AI, or in code, and to run them on one governed, composable platform with end-to-end traceability and the full context of the operation. A spinoff from MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, Hungary, Singapore, Israel, and Japan.