Collaborate across organizations
without giving up control

Enable real-time collaboration between independent agencies, partners, and allies
with built-in governance, explicit trust, and no shared infrastructure

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Deployed by secure organizations globally

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Does this sound familiar?

Government operations increasingly span agencies, partners, and allies — but your communications tools weren’t designed for regulated, multi-organization environments?

You need to work with external teams, but can’t put them in your system

Guest accounts feel risky and hard to manage

Email slows down decision-making and creates audit gaps

Compliance teams lack visibility and confidence

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Designed for real-world collaboration scenarios

Accelerate coordination and decision-making between independent teams, agencies, and partners.

Coalitions and multinational operations

Coalition partners or allied nations coordinate operations while each organization or country retains full control of its infrastructure, identities, and security policies.

Public sector

Multiple agencies work on a shared initiative or task force, but each must keep its own systems, identities, and data residency intact.

Emergency response

Independent organizations coordinate during incidents or crises where speed, trust, auditability, and clear accountability are critical.

Defense and mission partners

Defense teams collaborate with contractors or allies on mission planning, logistics, or
intelligence — without onboarding them into a single platform or central environment.

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Work together without losing autonomy

An external collaboration model your security and compliance teams can approve.

Work together with full sovereignty: Each organization keeps ownership of its systems, identities, and policies.

Stay compliant and auditable: All collaboration remains inside governed environments with full traceability.

Reduce security and operational risk: Eliminate shadow IT, guest sprawl, and unclear ownership models.

Real collaboration, not just connectivity

Federation supports the way teams actually work:

Distributed channels: Collaborate in channels that span organizations while each side remains in its own environment.

Secure messaging and file sharing: Exchange messages and files while data stays inside each organization’s environment.

Identity clarity: Domain-qualified identities clearly show who belongs to which organization in every conversation.

Controlled access: Invite external users through governed workflows and restrict federation to approved organizations.

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Interoperability with
Matrix-compatible platforms

Rocket.Chat Federation supports optional interoperability with Matrix-compatible platforms, allowing you to collaborate with external organizations while keeping your own platform, policies, and governance model fully intact.

Strengthening NATO cyber resilience

Rocket.Chat is used by the NATO CCDCOE to support secure, cross-border collaboration between independent organizations while respecting strict security standards and organizational autonomy.

“Without scalable, real-time communication platform, information exchange slows and decision-making is delayed.”

Dan Ungureanu | Exercise Director at CCDCOE

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Trusted for secure, governed collaboration

Here’s what our customers have to say

Secure collaboration without shadow IT

“With 40+ programs running, we needed a secure way to stay connected. Otherwise, teams would use unapproved tools and create serious security risks.”
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Infrastructure Service Lead at a U.S. FSI
Privacy-first communication
at city scale

“Rocket.Chat enables secure communication across 50 departments, with full data privacy and controlled access to sensitive information.”
Rene Jahnke
Solution Architect, the City of Cologne
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Faster, safer collaboration with partners

“Rocket.Chat lets our teams collaborate with external partners faster, more easily, and more securely than any other solution we tried.”
Stefan Teubner
IT Project Leader,
Audi Business Innovation GmbH