Mission area 04

Systems the next team can run.

Shipped on schedule, passed security review the first time, handed off with runbooks: lifecycle systems engineering, enterprise service migration, databases and virtualization, application security and DevSecOps, site reliability, and dashboards that run on live data.

Talk to us Capability statement

What is at stake

The customer's rule: adopt before you buy, buy before you create.

Headquarters IT organizations carry years of accumulated systems, each with its own owner, its own risk, and its own bill. The job is to modernize without disruption: migrate to approved enterprise services where they fit, retire what no longer earns its cost, and build only what the mission truly needs.

What gets built has to ship on schedule, pass its security review the first time, and hand off to operations with documentation the next engineer can use. Leaders who read a dashboard need to trust that the number is live.

What we do

From requirement to retirement.

Engineer the lifecycle

Requirements, design packages, engineering reviews, test and evaluation, transition packages, and decommissioning, inside the customer's governance. Integrated master schedules, RAID management, and phase-gate reviews.

Migrate to enterprise services

Moving capabilities to approved enterprise and cloud services, aligning to architecture and service catalogs, rationalizing tools, and reducing technical debt and total cost of ownership.

Run the platforms

Windows and Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint, endpoint and server management, SQL, Oracle, Sybase, and MySQL high-availability clusters, VMware and VDI, storage, backup, and failover at primary and alternate sites.

Build and secure applications

Salesforce, SharePoint, .NET, Azure, and Kubernetes applications; Jira and Confluence workflow automation; secure code policy; static and dynamic testing and API management in the CI/CD pipeline.

Keep it reliable

Site reliability engineering and DevSecOps: monitoring and alerting, DNS and infrastructure as code, disaster recovery plans with defined RTO and RPO, post-incident reviews, and COOP test, train, and exercise.

Show leaders live data

Power BI dashboards with drill-down on direct queries, compliance heat maps that integrate patching, vulnerability, and baseline data, and AI-assisted summaries for the people who read them.

How we do it

Built to pass review. Handed to operations with runbooks.

COMPLIANCE INSIDE THE PIPELINE

Security and records in the workflow

Security standards, RMF, and records obligations are enforced during engineering, not retrofitted at delivery. Deliverables pass review the first time.

TEST BEFORE YOU TRUST

Automated regression on every change

Boundary conditions and exception paths tested deliberately; automated suites run on every update so regressions surface before users do.

TRANSITION IS A DELIVERABLE

Nothing is done until operations can run it

We hand the documentation, the monitoring, and the runbooks to the operations team before we call the work done.

LIVE DATA ONLY

Dashboards that query the source

Direct connections to the operational databases, deployed on redundant servers, so leadership reporting survives peak demand and never shows a stale extract.

What a project delivers

Every engineering project leaves the same record behind.

The artifact set is fixed before the work starts, so the customer knows what they will own at the end and the next team can operate what we built. This is what CMMI Level 3 looks like on an engineering task.

DefineOperational capability requirements document, risk register, work breakdown structure, RACI, communications plan, concept of operations.

Design and testSystem design document, test plan, test validation report, authorization package, engineering change request for every configuration change.

DeployDeployment plan, deployment validation report, operational readiness review, service transition plan.

OperateAdministrator, configuration, and user guides; maintenance procedure cards; service support plan; backup and restore guide; continuity of operations plan; operational system fact sheet; executive summary.

Technologies we work in

The tools our people run today.

Listed by product so an evaluator can match us to a requirement and a candidate can find a role. Tools are named; the environments they run in are not.

Platforms and virtualization

VMware
Citrix
Windows Server
Linux and Unix
Oracle Linux ODA
Docker

Databases

SQL Server HA clusters
Oracle
Sybase
MySQL
Replication and failover

Cloud and automation

AWS, including classified regions
Azure and Microsoft 365
CloudFormation
Ansible
OctoDNS
Infrastructure as code
JMeter

Messaging and collaboration

Exchange
SharePoint
Cisco IronPort
Jira and Confluence development

Data and AI

Power BI
Azure OpenAI
Microsoft Copilot
SitScape

Storage, backup, and identity

NetBackup
Cohesity
Brocade
Spectra Logic
DFS-R
Microsoft Entra ID
PKI
BYOK key management

In practice

Where this has already been done.

Described without identifying the customer, as our release policy requires. Prime or subcontractor role is stated.

References for this work go to contracting officers and teaming partners on request. Request past performance

Subcontractor · Tools, 262 to 140Led a modernization of a headquarters infrastructure and operations environment that rationalized 262 management tools to 140 with no reduction in capability, and integrated the remaining telemetry into a single operating picture for operations staff and executives.

Subcontractor · Compliance you can seeBuilt Power BI compliance dashboards and automation for a regional network enterprise that integrate patching, vulnerability, and baseline data into real-time STIG, IAVM, and order-compliance views, replacing manual data calls.

Subcontractor · Databases at three levelsAdministered SQL Server high-availability clusters and SQL, Oracle, Sybase, and MySQL application databases across three classification levels, including replication, synchronization, and failover on virtual and physical servers.

Subcontractor · Virtualization at scaleManaged an enterprise virtualization environment of more than 2,000 virtual servers on more than 200 hosts at 13 sites, including VDI for mission-essential systems.

Careers

The people who do this work.

Systems engineers and architects, developers, SREs, database and virtualization administrators, and data analysts, cleared to the level the program requires.

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