Harness for Government

Harness is the governed, AI-powered software delivery platform for public sector missions. It orchestrates build, test, security, and deployment across the toolchain you already run, enforces policy as code at every stage, and records a tamper-evident audit trail for every pipeline execution. That record supports RMF assessments and continuous ATO without a separate evidence-collection effort.

Harness offers FedRAMP Moderate and High offerings built for federal authorization boundaries, and is launching in the FedRAMP Marketplace. For current authorization status, package access, and sponsoring agency details, contact the Harness public sector team.

Yes. The Harness Self-Managed Platform runs inside your environment, on-premises or fully air-gapped, including GovCloud and sovereign deployments. Self-managed deployments support FIPS-enabled configurations, and the same governance model applies in every environment. Capability coverage varies by module and release, so confirm module support with your Harness team.

Every pipeline execution records who ran it, which OPA policy governed it, what approvals were required, what was exempted, and when. Policy as code is evaluated on save and on run, and a pipeline that fails policy stops. That evidence maps to the controls your assessors work from — NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF), and the RMF — and flows into ServiceNow for workflow and ticketing, and exports for eMASS package submission. Because governance and evidence are part of the pipeline itself, teams support RMF assessments and continuous ATO with evidence generated as software moves, instead of assembled before an audit.

Harness integrates natively with ServiceNow and Jira for change approvals and ticket updates inside the pipeline. Pipeline execution records, policy evaluations, scan results, and SBOMs can be exported via API to support eMASS packages or your GRC platform.

Evidence is generated automatically as software moves, instead of being collected by hand before an assessment. Policy is evaluated on every save and run, so reviewers focus on exceptions rather than every change. Golden Templates let your team review a standard once and verify that pipelines inherit it, rather than reviewing each pipeline individually.

Core delivery and governance run across Harness Commercial SaaS, FedRAMP, and the Self-Managed Platform offerings. That includes pipelines, Golden Templates, OPA policy enforcement, RBAC, and the audit trail. Some capabilities, including AI-powered features, vary by deployment model and release. Talk to the public sector team about what is available inside your authorization boundary.

OPA policies are evaluated when a pipeline is saved and when it runs. Each policy can be set to warn or to stop execution. For security findings, teams can request an exemption with a justification. Only authorized roles can approve it, it is time-bound so it expires automatically, and it is recorded in the audit trail. Every exception has an owner, a reason, and an end date.

Harness Agents run inside your infrastructure with your identity, scoped permissions, and OPA policy gates, and every action is written to the audit trail. You set the level of autonomy per workflow, per environment, and by blast radius, from agents that help configure the delivery system to agents that execute with human approval to agents that act autonomously within the policies you set. The agents are prebuilt, and you bring your own AI model.

No. Harness acts as the orchestration and compliance layer over the tools your architecture boards approved and your authorizing officials authorized. It integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Jira, ServiceNow, Kubernetes, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and 40+ security scanners. The MCP Server connects Harness to Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible client. You can adopt one module at a time.

Golden Templates let you build a pipeline once at the organization level and have every pipeline below it inherit that definition. Swap a scanner or add an approval gate in the template, and the change propagates everywhere. Teams still author freely, but inside the OPA guardrails and supply chain security checks built into the path.

Supply Chain Security generates SBOMs, SLSA provenance, and signed attestations, and Security Testing Orchestration brings 40+ scanners into one governed step with risk-based stop gates and timed exemptions. Together they give you a chain of custody from code to artifact to deployment to runtime.

No. Harness has been building AI into software delivery since 2017, when we launched Continuous Verification, the industry first use of unsupervised machine learning to analyze observability data and automatically roll back failed deployments. Since then we have embedded AI across every module, including Test Intelligence, AI-powered pipeline creation, and automated vulnerability remediation. We are not adding AI to a delivery tool. We built a delivery platform on AI.