Critical Infrastructure &
National Laboratories.
For program managers, lab engineers, prime contractors, and infrastructure owners who need industrial control systems that keep doing their job under failure, attack, and disruption. Porritt Inc. is an independent, SAM.gov-registered engineering and software company (CAGE 9Z7B9, Layton, Utah) available for teaming, subcontracting, and direct engagement.
Consequence first. Then the controls.
We apply Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) — the consequence-driven framework developed by Idaho National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy — from the first P&ID forward. Founder Timothy Porritt is a member of the INL Cyber-Informed Engineering Community of Practice. Every Porritt control architecture starts with the question "what must never happen here?" and engineers the answer into the plant, not only into the network.
- Consequence-focused design
- Engineered controls and non-digital backstops
- Secure information architecture
- Design simplification
- Layered defenses and active defense
- Interdependency evaluation
- Digital asset awareness
- Resilience planning and engineering information control
Consequence-driven design
High-consequence event identification, engineered limits, and control architectures whose worst case is bounded by physics, not firmware.
Functions that cannot be lost
Cooling, containment, shutdown, power delivery: identified, ranked, and protected so they survive the loss of any single system — including the control network.
Keep running, degrade gracefully
Ride-through design, islanding, manual fallback, and recovery sequencing so a disruption is an event in the log, not a headline.
AI inside the fence line
Offline, no-cloud analysis for standards compliance, event prediction, and materials degradation — NORMEX, NEXUS Event Prediction, MATDEG.
Fission first, fusion ready
Heat-source agnostic balance-of-plant architecture and supervisory control for advanced fission today and commercial fusion tomorrow.
Compute as critical infrastructure
Power, liquid cooling, and facility controls for high-performance computing halls, plus SENTINEL — Porritt Inc.'s AI accelerator reliability program.
Grid-edge control
Dispatch, ramp, frequency response, and interconnect compliance at the plant edge, with protection paths that do not depend on the enterprise network.
Process control for regulated production
Unit-level SCADA, PSM-aware interlocks, and integrity-informed operations for facilities that answer to OSHA, EPA, and their own balance sheet.
Standards you can cite
NORMEX Standards AI and NORMEX Federal: regulatory answers grounded in the governing text, for facilities that answer to Washington.
Porritt Inc. is an independent company. Names of federal agencies and national laboratories on this page identify the audiences we serve and the published frameworks we apply; they do not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or an existing contractual relationship. Cyber-Informed Engineering is a framework published by Idaho National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Discuss a federal or laboratory engagement.
Teaming, subcontracting, SBIR/STTR collaboration, or a direct scope. Start with the consequence you cannot accept.
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