Modernize legacy systems without the rewrite-from-scratch trap

Because that's how modernization programs die. A 20-year-old depot or claims system has thousands of business rules buried in stored procedures, batch jobs, and the heads of two senior analysts. A clean-sheet rewrite has to rediscover all of them while also building new infrastructure. We use the strangler pattern instead: wrap the legacy system in an API, replace one module at a time, ship working software every few weeks, and decommission old code only after the replacement is proven.

Yes. We're SDVOSB-certified through the SBA Veteran Small Business Certification program, registered in SAM with an active CAGE code, and structured to take prime or sub work on set-aside vehicles. We've worked the realities of long-cycle DoD procurement: ATO timelines, CMMC posture, ITAR-controlled data, and the gap between award and kickoff. We can come in directly or through an existing prime if that's the cleaner path for your contracting shop.

GovCloud is physically separated, staffed by US persons, and authorized for ITAR, CUI, and FedRAMP High data. Commercial AWS handles FedRAMP Moderate and most non-regulated workloads at lower cost and with faster service availability. Honest answer: a lot of OKC organizations get pushed into GovCloud when they don't actually need it. We assess your data classification first and only land in GovCloud or Azure Government IL4/IL5 when the regulation genuinely requires it.

For a system of meaningful size — say, a depot work-order app, a regional insurer's policy admin platform, or an energy operations dashboard tied to field SCADA — plan on 18 to 36 months from kickoff to legacy decommission. The first 90 days is discovery and the API seam. Modules then strangle in priority order. Anyone quoting you six months for a full replacement of a 15-year-old system is either lying or hasn't read the code yet.

Yes, regularly. These stacks dominate Oklahoma's older insurance, energy, and government back-offices. We don't preserve them — we replace them — but you have to read them first to extract the business rules. Our engineers are comfortable spending the first phase of an engagement reverse-engineering a PowerBuilder DataWindow or a VB6 form to figure out what the system actually does before designing the .NET, Java, or TypeScript replacement.

Often that's the right structure. We provide senior engineers — typically 10-20+ years of experience — who embed with your team for 6 to 18 months. They write production code, mentor your junior staff, and leave behind capability rather than dependency. This works especially well when you have institutional knowledge in-house but lack cloud, security, or modern .NET/TypeScript depth. We charge by the engineer, not by seat count games.

We design for the target compliance posture from day one rather than bolting it on at the end. That means CMMC Level 2 controls baked into the GovCloud landing zone, separation of CUI from non-CUI workloads, IaC that enforces encryption and logging by default, and an audit trail that an assessor can actually follow. We'll work with your existing 3PAO or RPO and produce the SSP artifacts your contracting officer needs.

It stays where it is until we have a tested, reversible cutover plan. We mirror data into the new system, run both in parallel for a defined period, reconcile differences, and only flip authoritative writes after the new path has run clean. For regulated data we document chain of custody, encryption at rest and in transit, and key management explicitly. No 'big weekend cutover' cowboy moves on systems that pay claims or schedule depot work.

We're a US-based veteran-owned firm with engineers who work on-site across OKC, Tinker, and the broader region as engagements require. We don't subcontract overseas, we don't offshore code on regulated work, and we don't pretend a sales office is an engineering presence. For federal and CUI engagements all work is performed by US persons inside the United States, full stop.