HUNTSVILLE, AL — ROCKET CITY

Veteran-owned software consulting, badged onto Redstone programs

SDVOSB-certified engineers who can sit on your program at Redstone Arsenal, Cummings Research Park, or MSFC — and ship CMMC-aware, ITAR-aware code primes can actually deliver.

Veteran-Owned SDVOSB
001 / 005 Field Conditions

Huntsville programs do not need another generalist consultancy — they need engineers who understand the contract

Situation

Most software vendors that show up in Huntsville are either national consultancies pricing for a Beltway market or local body shops with a thin senior bench. Program managers end up with engineers who have never read a CDRL, do not know what a DD-254 implies for their laptop, and treat CMMC as somebody else's problem. Meanwhile the actual work — modernizing a sustainment app, integrating an AI assistant against CUI data, getting a system through ATO — sits on the PM's desk because nobody on contract has done it before on a DoD or NASA program.

  • Vendors quoting commercial rates with no plan for GovCloud, GCC High, or US-persons-only access controls.
  • Senior engineers on the proposal, junior engineers on the program after award.
  • No real artifacts when ATO time hits — no SSP, no POA&M, no SBOM, no test evidence.
  • Legacy ColdFusion, Delphi, or .NET Framework sustainment apps that nobody wants to touch and nobody can replace.
SDVOSB
SBA VetCert certified, prime-ready
Secret → TS/SCI
Clearance range on the bench
1–3 wks
Typical start on CUI engagements
002 / 005 Operational Approach

How we plug into Huntsville programs without slowing them down

  1. STEP-01

    Scope against the actual SOW

    We read the PWS/SOW, the DD-254 if there is one, and the CDRL list before we quote. You get a fixed-scope SOW mapped to WBS elements, not a t-shirt-sized estimate that falls apart at PDR.

  2. STEP-02

    Stand up a compliant enclave

    CMMC 2.0 Level 2 aligned environment on GCC High or AWS GovCloud, with hardened GitHub Enterprise or GitLab, ITAR-segregated storage, and FIPS-validated crypto. We bring the SSP and POA&M templates from prior audits.

  3. STEP-03

    Embed senior engineers on-site

    Cleared engineers (Secret minimum, TS/SCI available) sit at Redstone, Cummings Research Park, or your SCIF. No junior bench, no offshore handoff. Badging and visit requests handled through your FSO.

  4. STEP-04

    Integrate with GFE and sustainment

    We integrate with the GFE stack you already have — DOORS, Jama, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, GitLab on-prem — and write deployment runbooks the sustainment contractor can actually execute after we roll off.

  5. STEP-05

    Transition or extend cleanly

    Every engagement ships with as-built docs, ATO artifacts, and a 30-day transition window. If you want us to stay through O&M as a sub or prime, the contract vehicle is already in place.

YAML PATTERN
# voostack-engagement.yml
# Typical shape of a Huntsville program engagement

program:
  customer: AMCOM / MDA / NASA MSFC / Prime sub-tier
  vehicle: SDVOSB set-aside | SeaPort-NxG sub | GSA MAS | prime subcontract
  classification: Unclassified // CUI // Secret // TS/SCI (as required)

compliance:
  cmmc_level: 2
  enclave: AWS GovCloud (US) or Azure GCC High
  itar_ear: segregated S3 + KMS CMK, US-persons-only IAM
  crypto: FIPS 140-3 validated modules
  scanning: [SonarQube, Anchore, Nessus, Fortify SCA]

team:
  on_site: Redstone Arsenal / CRP / customer SCIF
  clearances: [Secret, TS, TS/SCI]
  roles:
    - Principal engineer (15+ yrs)
    - Cloud / platform engineer
    - AI integration engineer (RAG, Claude, GPT)
    - DevSecOps lead

deliverables:
  cdrls:
    - SSDD (System/Subsystem Design Description)
    - SVD  (Software Version Description)
    - STP / STR (Test Plan / Report)
  artifacts: [SSP, POA&M, SBOM (CycloneDX), ATO package]

transition:
  window_days: 30
  to: sustainment contractor or government team

Standard engagement profile we use on Redstone-anchored programs.

003 / 005 Common Questions

Field FAQ.

Are you actually local to Huntsville, or is this a sales office?

We have engineers in and around Huntsville who badge onto Redstone Arsenal and work out of Cummings Research Park. We are not a national consultancy with a P.O. box on Bob Wallace. When a prime needs a sub at a kickoff next week, we can be in the room. Travel and per diem are not baked into our rates because we already live here.

Do you hold an SDVOSB certification that primes can use for set-aside credit?

Yes. We are SDVOSB-certified through the SBA Veteran Small Business Certification (VetCert) program, which is the certification DoD and VA require for set-aside and sole-source awards. Primes can count subcontracted dollars to us toward their small business and SDVOSB subcontracting goals under their SSP. We can provide our certification letter, CAGE code, UEI, and NAICS list on request.

What clearance levels do your engineers hold?

Our bench includes engineers cleared at Secret and TS, with TS/SCI available for the right program. We work through your FSO for visit requests and badging at Redstone, MSFC, and contractor SCIFs in the area. For unclassified CUI work we can move in days; cleared seats depend on billet availability and crossover timelines, which we are honest about upfront.

How do you handle CMMC 2.0 and ITAR on a development contract?

We develop inside a CMMC Level 2-aligned enclave on AWS GovCloud or Azure GCC High, with US-persons-only access enforced at the IAM and KMS layers for ITAR-controlled data. Source, artifacts, and CI/CD all live inside the boundary. We bring SSP, POA&M, and SPRS scoring templates from prior assessments, and we will hand the documentation to your prime or the government PMO.

Can you support AMCOM, MDA, or NASA Marshall directly, or only through a prime?

Both. We hold GSA MAS and can sub on SeaPort-NxG, OASIS+, and Alliant 2 through teaming agreements. For smaller efforts, SDVOSB sole-source authority up to the DoD threshold gives a contracting officer a fast path to put us directly on contract. For larger programs we typically sub to an incumbent prime and embed on their program team.

What does AI integration look like on a DoD or NASA program?

Pragmatic. We integrate Claude or GPT against CUI-safe endpoints (Bedrock in GovCloud, Azure OpenAI in GCC High) and build RAG pipelines over technical data packages, maintenance manuals, ICDs, and test reports. We do not push models into safety-critical loops. Typical wins are engineer-facing copilots over DOORS and Confluence, and triage assistants over ServiceNow and Jira backlogs.

How fast can you put engineers on a program?

For unclassified or CUI work with an existing contract vehicle, 1 to 3 weeks from signed SOW to engineers committing code. For cleared work, the gating factor is your visit request and badging timeline, not ours — typically 2 to 6 weeks depending on whether we are crossing clearances or standing up new ones. We are direct about which lever is slowing the start.

Do you do legacy modernization for sustainment programs?

Yes, and this is a large share of our Huntsville work. Typical pattern: a ground system or logistics app written in Delphi, ColdFusion, classic ASP, or early .NET Framework, with an Oracle backend, that sustainment is tired of patching. We strangler-pattern it onto a current stack, keep the data model honest, and ship it into a GovCloud enclave with an ATO-ready package.

What happens when the contract ends?

We write the as-built documentation, deployment runbooks, and ATO artifacts during the engagement, not at the end. The last 30 days are a structured transition to your sustainment contractor or government team, including pair-programming sessions and a recorded walkthrough of the build pipeline. We do not hold systems hostage with tribal knowledge — that is a fast way to never get hired again on Redstone.

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