STARTUP THINKING AT GOVERNMENT SCALE

Creating Software that radically improves how government connects
with people and its agencies.

 

FEDERAL & STATE

Consistently deliver value, even when requirements change.

We use startup thinking and enterprise experience to create amazing solutions for our nation’s most important missions.

To build products that thrive and scale, it requires deep understanding of the mission, applying emerging technologies and aligning the two to produce a purposeful solution.  That is exactly what we do.

By using our collaborative “Lean Thinking” approach and agile methodology we consistently deliver solutions that provide the best customer experience without compromising quality.  Our solutions do exactly what you want.

 

Core Capabilities

CIO Executive Services

Identify organizational opportunities and constraints, prioritize organizational services, and implement strategic initiatives to drive the executive agenda.

  • Strategy Definition
  • Emerging Technology Research
  • Customer Segmentation
  • Business Case Development

Program Management and Governance

Design and implement program and portfolio management and governance to manage programs, facilitate interdependencies and vendor interactions to deliver on strategy.

  • Sourcing, Contracts & Procurement
  • Portfolio Management & Forecasting
  • Scaled Agile Framework Agile Program Management
  • Agile Project Management

Enterprise Architecture

Develop future state goals, identify pain points, process improvements and current state gaps.  Define a future state architecture.  Create implementation roadmaps along with milestones.  Create architecture guard rails and solution architecture.

  • Business Process Analysis
  • Business Architecture
  • Information, Technical & Application Architecture
  • SOA, System Integration & Microservices
  • Data, System and Customer Migration Strategy

Agile Software Development & Engineering

Elaborate and refine needs, purpose and mission of the project, develop prototypes and concepts and custom build solutions specific to agency needs.

  • Web Application Design & Development
  • Automation & DevOps
  • Web Services, System Integration
  • Open Source, Java Implementation,  & Support
  • High Throughput Web Scale systems
  • Legacy Modernization

Advanced Analytics, Big Data & Data Warehousing

Partnering with organizations and agencies to introduce and implement advanced analytics capabilities for better decision making and predictive analytics.

  • Advanced Predictive Analytics
  • Open Source tools like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, HBase and Flink
  • Advanced visualization with tools like Tableau, Oracle or Platfora
  • Business Intelligence solutions
  • Data reconciliation and ETL

Cloud Engineering & Cyber Security

Evaluate business and technology needs and develop a strategy for securing and scaling cloud compute infrastructure based on industry best practices.

  • Cloud Adoption, Migration & Management
  • Cloud optimization
  • Cloud Security Assessment (Cloud Security Alliance & ISO 27001)
  • OWASP application security assessments

Terafuze Contract Vehicles & Teaming Partners

SBA 8(a) Certified Small Business

    

State of Maryland,  Commonwealth of Virginia

Contract Information

  • DUNS: 045052229
  • CAGE CODE: 7MFE8
  • SBA 8(a) Certified
  • State of Maryland DBE/SBE Certified
  • Commonwealth of Virginia DBE Certified
  • Minority Owned Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

8(a) certified companies may receive sole-source contracts up to $4 million and partner with other business owners to bid on contracts. Our 8(a) status can facilitate awards relatively quickly, reducing time spent on RFP development and evaluation.  Contracting through a well qualified 8(a) certified vendor like us helps agencies fulfill their commitment to teaming with small businesses.

NAICS Codes

541512 : Computer Systems Design Services (Primary)

541511 : Custom Computer Programming Services

541513 : Computer Facilities Management Services

541519 : Other Computer Related Services

541611 : Administrative Management & General Management

541618 : Other Management Consulting Services

541690 : Other Scientific and Technical Services

518210 : Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services

Certifications & Partnerships

Docker

Docker provides a completely open platform for developing distributed applications. Customers turn to Docker to build, run, and deploy, portable cloud ready applications

Scaled Agile Framework

SAFe is a knowledge base of proven success patterns for implementing Lean – Agile software and systems development at enterprise Scale. Our program management team passionately believes in SAFe and are experienced in applying SAFe at the enterprise scale.

ITIL

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and policies to manage IT infrastructure development and operations.

In the waterfall approach to software development, everything goes through phase gates that are sequential. Simply put, this means a service may be obsolete by the time it is ready for use.

It starts with a universe of requirements, followed by Big upfront design (BUFD), followed by code marathons leading to a big bang software release. This type of software development practice is too risky and inflexible with too many unknown dependencies and produces a product that can be leap years from real user requirements.

Resource fungibility is a traditional practice that consulting organizations use to optimize resource utilization. Simply put, this means move resources from one contract (less profitable) to another (more profitable).

The core premise of this model is “Fungibility” assuming the same level of productivity and domain knowledge and expertise when moving from one project to another.

In reality, these challenges lead to half baked knowledge, rigid designs,  lack of flexibility, and suboptimal services.

Our Approach is Different.  How?

 

Agile and DevOps

Our passionate engineering team is committed to following a disciplined agile delivery approach with just enough architectural runway ,incremental delivery and quick feedback cycles.

Purposeful Software

We aim to completely understand and maximize the purpose of everything we do.  We are very picky about projects we work on and look for ways to transcend beyond ourselves to something meaningful, connecting truly with the mission.  Why? Research shows, and we agree that this is the only way to think from the heart.

Emerging Technology Expertise

We have a dedicated R&D function that focuses on leveraging emerging technologies used by the best and brightest in silicon valley to elevate government services.

Impeccable Credentials & Domain Knowledge

Our people are our secret sauce.  We only hire the very best and the most passionate.  We believe in investing our team’s growth, empowering them with the best tools possible and empowering them to solver for our customers.  Our resources are top 1% in the industry and are very selective about what we do.

Project Turnaround

The best laid plans are just that, the best laid plans. Projects invariably run into issues. You are not alone. A recent study put the chances of failure or delay for large projects at 94%. If your projects are trending yellow or orange, we might be able to help.

We can bring in our experienced SWAT team of technologists to get things back on track.

By combining our decades of industry experience to identify root causes coupled with our proven process to move downstream and eliminate bottlenecks, we may be that team that can save the day.

If you have a project that could use a face lift or a turnaround, we can help.

Time is of essence, If you connect with us early enough, we might be able to turn things around quickly. If it can’t be done, we will help you apply best practices and mitigations required to communicate to stakeholders and will collaborate on creating a revised plan.

SOME OF OUR BRILLIANT CLIENTS