Cleared engineers who already speak DD-254, ATO, and PI planning.

Both, depending on the billet. We maintain a bench of engineers with active Secret and TS/SCI clearances who can transfer in via DISS within days, and we sponsor Public Trust and interim Secret for new hires when a program has runway. We're upfront on every SOW about which roles are 'available now' versus 'available after crossover,' so your PM isn't planning around a clearance that doesn't exist yet.

If you're a prime carrying SDVOSB subcontracting goals under FAR 52.219-9, our verified status counts directly toward those goals and toward category management credit. For DoD-direct work, SDVOSB set-asides under 13 CFR 128 let contracting officers route sole-source awards up to the simplified threshold. We can provide our SBA VetCert verification letter, CAGE code, and SAM registration on request during teaming discussions.

Yours. We've worked inside Azure DevOps Government, GitLab Dedicated for Government, Bitbucket Data Center on classified enclaves, and legacy ClearCase environments. We adopt your branching model, your code review rules, your CM board process, and your IV&V handoff. The only thing we bring is engineering judgment — we don't ask programs to absorb a new toolchain, retrain badged staff, or rewrite their ATO documentation around our preferences.

Every engagement on ITAR or EAR-controlled work is staffed exclusively with U.S. persons as defined under 22 CFR 120.62. Code remains inside your enclave or, for unclassified controlled work, our SDVOSB-controlled CONUS environment. We never subcontract offshore. Before kickoff we walk through which repositories carry technical data, document the export-control assumption per repo in writing, and brief our staff on disclosure events and the reporting chain to your empowered official.

Yes, and frankly this is where most commercial body shops break. Defense programs run on PI planning, CDR/PDR/TRR gates, DT&E windows, and CDRL delivery dates — not two-week velocity charts. Our engineers map their work to your increment plan and your contract data requirements list. We produce burn-down and earned value artifacts in the format your DCMA or program office actually consumes, not in whatever Jira dashboard a commercial scrum master prefers.

Senior software engineers (backend, full-stack, embedded), cloud and DevSecOps engineers familiar with IL-4/IL-5 environments and Platform One, application modernization leads moving legacy Java/.NET workloads into cATO'd cloud, AI/ML integration engineers for RAG over controlled technical data, and systems engineers who can write to a SRS and trace requirements. We don't staff junior generalists into program billets — every engineer we send has shipped production work in a regulated environment.

For roles requiring an active clearance our engineer already holds, we typically have someone billable within two to three weeks of the DD-254 being executed and the visit request approved. Roles requiring a new clearance sponsorship run on the government's timeline — usually three to nine months for Secret. We're transparent about both paths and structure SOWs so uncleared prep work (architecture, unclassified prototypes, documentation) starts immediately.

Both. We sub to large primes under teaming agreements and prime our own SDVOSB set-asides and sole-source awards on smaller programs and BPAs. As a sub we're comfortable with the standard FAR/DFARS flow-downs, CMMC Level 2 obligations, and the prime's own supplier code of conduct. As a prime we carry the contract, manage the CDRLs, and coordinate any further teaming through SBA-compliant subcontracting plans.

We operate to NIST SP 800-171 controls on any environment touching CUI and are aligned to CMMC Level 2 practices. For program work, our engineers operate inside your accredited environment whenever possible — that's the cleanest compliance posture for everyone. When we must hold CUI on our side, we do so in a documented enclave with MFA, FIPS-validated crypto, audit logging, and an SSP we'll share with your supply chain risk team.