Transforming government missions with cloud computing

ASRC Federal’s partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides secure, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions to support the unique requirements and missions of the U.S. federal government. Services can be utilized to meet mandates, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation across civilian agencies, the intelligence community, and the Department of Defense. The AWS partnership enables ASRC Federal to take advantage of these capabilities and apply to cases such as:

• Rapid Application and Data Migration to the Cloud
• Streamlined data transfer
• Disaster recovery and business continuity
• Data analytics and management
• Compliance

Supporting every phase of a Lean-Agile transformation

Through our Scaled Agile Gold Partnership, we are uniquely qualified to support government agencies through every phase of a Lean-Agile transformation.

Our Agile solutions drive maturity in practices and the right level of SAFe adoption for our customers.  We focus on improved coordination and shared ownership to support a lean culture while transforming ad-hoc Agile adoption to a model that drives value for each unique case.  Our Agile implementation leads, and coaches leverage our partnership with SAFe. We have access to fellows and SAFe training to continually improve coordination, transparency and prioritization of work.  We also understand the importance of using concepts of Lean-Agile Leadership and DevOps culture to support multi-vendor environments for cross vendor collaboration to grow a “badge-less” society, greatly increasing productivity and quality for successful incremental deliveries.

We are committed to:

• Supporting the whole enterprise in its Lean-Agile transformation
• Spreading the principles and practice of SAFe throughout the enterprise, beyond just the development teams
• Teaching an extensive, rigorous, role-based curriculum that addresses all key positions in a SAFe implementation to enable their success
• Achieving business results for their customers through the full application of SAFe principles

Aiding the U.S. federal government agencies to innovate in the cloud

Our solutions modernize energy programs, contact centers, space programs, regulatory oversight and more. With FedRAMP Moderate our teams leverage Salesforce PaaS and SaaS to deliver responsive solutions. ASRC Federal’s delivered Salesforce solutions increase the security and effectiveness of mission delivery.

Our Salesforce services include strategy, design, change management, and DevSecOps.

• Transformation Roadmaps; Leadership Engagement; Readiness and planning
• Salesforce Organization Design
• UI/UX Design; Mobile Applications; Responsive Web
• Agile DevSecOps toolchains with SalesforceDX
• Lightning Components

CASE STUDY: ASRC Federal Delivers Web-based Application in Support of USDA Rural Development

Building workflows for software development teams

With our Silver Level consulting partnership, we bring structure to development projects across civilian and defense agencies, helping teams adhere to development schedules, define roles and responsibilities, and provide transparency to agile environments. Tools like Jira and Confluence help ASRC Federal software developers plan, track, release, and report on the state of their products in near real time to customers like the USDA and NASA.

Full-scale data streaming solution

Confluent Platform is a full-scale data streaming platform that enables you to easily access, store, and manage data as continuous, real-time streams. Built by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, Confluent expands the benefits of Kafka with enterprise-grade features while removing the burden of Kafka management or monitoring. Today, over 80% of the Fortune 100 are powered by data streaming technology – and the majority of those leverage Confluent.

Helping provide critical geospatial information to government missions

ASRC Federal provides expert support to maintain GIS applications that will provide agency-wide geospatial visualization, analysis and decision support. We perform geospatial analysis and cartographic production, application development, geospatial data acquisition, development and management, GIS R&D, training, and technical presentations to government GIS users and decision makers. 

Leveraging open-source tools to support high performance computing

ASRC Federal supports several government customers in the operation, maintenance, and development of applications that run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating systems, and the maintenance of the underlying infrastructure and configurations supporting RHEL. We are responsible for server engineering at the NAS High Performance computer in California which runs primarily on RHEL systems.

We leverage Red Hat programs ideal for DevSecOps transformations like Ansible Tower to bring increased efficiency to application development and sustainment through automation.

Transforming government missions with cloud computing

The ASRC Federal Partner at Scale relationship with Microsoft provides best in class technology to better serve customers and to easily connect with one of the most active, diverse networks in the world with Azure™ cloud infrastructure. ASRC Federal and Microsoft are working together to enable federal agencies to better engage with citizens, optimize operations, transform products and empower employees with solutions and tools that support the modern workplace, business applications, cloud infrastructure data and artificial intelligence.

Agreement management application that enables businesses to sign documents electronically

DocuSign is an agreement management application that enables businesses to create, send, and automate a wide variety of forms and contracts and enables signees to sign documents electronically, thereby eliminating the need for hard copies of documents. Businesses of all sizes and all industries use DocuSign to manage their entire agreement process. Similarly, DocuSign can be adapted to fit a wide range of departmental needs, including those for finance, human resources, IT/operations, legal, marketing, and sales. Products include: eSignature, Contract Lifecycle Management.

Combines the best elements of data lakes and data warehouses to deliver reliability

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines the best elements of data lakes and data warehouses to deliver the reliability, strong governance, and performance of data warehouses with the openness, flexibility and machine learning support of data lakes. This unified approach simplifies your modern data stack by eliminating the data silos that traditionally separate and complicate data engineering, analytics, BI, data science and machine learning. It’s built on open source and open standards to maximize flexibility. And its common approach to data management, security and governance helps you operate more efficiently and innovate faster.

Implementing IBM Maximo for optimal enterprise asset management solutions

ASRC Federal currently leverages several IBM products to provide our government customers proven IT solutions for asset management, storage, and analytics. We execute the implementation, operations, and management for Maximo asset management applications supporting NASA centers across the country. We leverage IBM’s Cloud Pak for Data to support law enforcement customers to synthesize disparate forms of data in support of law enforcement end users and we also use IBM Rational Jazz suite of tools to test hundreds of Departments of State applications yearly.

Empowering scientific missions through advanced supercomputing solutions

ASRC Federal partners with HPE to deliver best in class IT infrastructure solutions to support scientific and research-based missions across the federal government space. We develop Advanced Supercomputing solutions in partnership with HPE to support world-class production supercomputing systems, data storage, local and wide area networking, and 24×7 user services.

In addition to managing the lifecycle of advanced computing systems, we provide a comprehensive and integrated set of services designed to solve any user challenge and to help users to be maximally productive with these systems.