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Five competency areas.
One kind of problem.

We are a services company, not a product company. What our customers buy is people who can work out the thing nobody has worked out yet.

01 / Cybersecurity Engineering

Active defense

The work that does not get written up afterwards. Finding out how something was built by taking it apart, and finding out how it failed by reading what it left behind.

Capabilities

  • Active defense
  • Computer network operations
  • Reverse engineering
  • Insider threat avoidance
  • Digital forensics

02 / Software Engineering

Systems that hold under real load

Long lived systems for customers who cannot take an outage, built by people who will still be on the program in three years.

  • Service oriented architectures
  • Cloud architectures
  • Enterprise applications
  • DevSecOps
  • Web services
  • Embedded development
  • Microservices
  • High performance computing

03 / Systems Engineering

Design before code

The part of the job that decides whether the next four years go well. Requirements that survive contact with reality, and a life cycle plan somebody will actually follow.

  • Complex system design
  • Cloud systems
  • Requirements generation
  • Life cycle planning and integration
  • HPC systems

04 / Data Science

AI and ML on real mission data

Models built against data that is messy, classified, and nothing like a benchmark set. The interesting problems are in the data, not the architecture.

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Predictive cloud analytics
  • Data mining
  • Text mining

05 / Infrastructure and Engineering Support

The ground everything stands on

Nobody writes a press release about the infrastructure. Everything else stops working without it.

  • Cloud computing
  • System administration
  • Network design and administration
  • Database design and administration
  • HPC administration
  • Automated test
  • Virtualization

How a hard problem
gets staffed here

A large contractor answers this with a bench and a rate card. We answer it with names, because there are few enough of us that we can.

  1. Step one

    We read the problem, not the labor category. If the work needs a reverse engineer and the contract says systems engineer, we say so.

  2. Step two

    We put a named person on it who has done the thing before, and we tell you who they are.

  3. Step three

    They stay. Continuity is most of the value on a cleared program, and turnover is the thing our customers complain about elsewhere.


Who we serve

Government and commercial customers, with the work concentrated in the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense.

Most of what we do cannot be described here in any useful detail, which is a limitation every firm in this corridor shares. What we can tell you is the shape of it: long programs, cleared spaces, and customers who have already tried the obvious answer.

CMMC Level 2 Certified

CMMC Level 2 Certified

Assessed against the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification at Level 2, the tier required to handle controlled unclassified information.

Defense Industrial Base

A member of the Defense Industrial Base, the network of organizations that supply the Department of Defense.


This list is not finished

We invest in creating new work for the services we offer, which means the five areas above are a snapshot rather than a boundary. If your problem sits next to one of them rather than inside it, that is usually still a conversation worth having.


Would you rather
do this work than read about it?

Most positions require a clearance and sit in Maryland or Northern Virginia, with openings in Texas and elsewhere. Send a resume and a person reads it.

Where it goes

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