The Bronze Shield
THE BRONZE SHIELD

🇨🇩 DRC Starlink Implementation Partnership

A national program to build, secure, and scale sovereign connectivity — with measurable outcomes, strong governance, and local capacity building.

What Success Looks Like

Clear national outcomes with verification and handover.

Connectivity

Priority ministries, hospitals, and schools connected with validated uptime, latency, and throughput targets.

Security

Zero-trust architecture; SOC with defined use-cases; incident response with national CSIRT integration.

Capacity

500+ trained and certified Congolese professionals; documented SOPs; full knowledge transfer and handover.

Phased Roadmap

Assessment & Architecture → Deployment & Integration → Sustainment & Growth.

Phase I (1–6)

Audit, blueprint, security framework, site prioritization, pilot design.

Phase II (7–24)

Installations, NOCs/SOC, data-center integration, compliance and KPIs.

Phase III (25–36+)

Scale-up, optimization, local ownership, innovation ecosystem enablement.