# How NASA and Chainguard used AI to support secure, compliant Artemis mission readiness

DevFeed: [How NASA and Chainguard used AI to support secure, compliant Artemis mission readiness](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/securing-the-next-moon-age-automated-compliance-powers-the-next-giant-leap-13226.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/securing-the-next-moon-age-automated-compliance-powers-the-next-giant-leap>)

Author: Dimension

Published: 2026-04-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Chainguard: Unchained](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chainguard-unchained.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [chainguard](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chainguard.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Retrieval-Augmented Generation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation.md>), [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol-mcp.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-in-space](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-in-space.md>), [artemis-2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artemis-2.md>), [artemis-ii](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artemis-ii.md>), [automated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automated.md>), [chainguard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chainguard.md>), [chainguard-containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chainguard-containers.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [fedramp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fedramp.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipelines.md>), [retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrieval.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [space](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/space.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how NASA and MRI Technologies partnered with Chainguard to build a secure, continuously compliant software foundation for Artemis and Habitable Worlds Observatory missions. It discusses attempts to use retrieval-augmented generation and MCP with mixed-format safety data, while highlighting unresolved data-fidelity and traceability challenges.

## Source excerpt

How NASA Artemis used AI and Chainguard to enable secure, compliant software and faster mission readiness in high-stakes environments.