The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) needed a standard service for the public to look up safety and related information on their vehicles based on each vehicle’s identification number (VIN). Each manufacturer had made a unique series of VINs with their own layout and interpretation for items like model and production year.
Strongbridge worked across the commercial and government transportation communities to support the definition of VIN interchange, interpretation, and storage mechanisms and successfully migrated the NHTSA’s VIN Lookup Service to the Microsoft Azure commercial secure cloud for use by the public on a nationwide scale.
This solution allows the public to go to one common site, NHTSA Lookup Service, and then enter their VIN to receive vital information to maintain safe vehicles.
The Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) holds hundreds of thousands of descriptions of vendors’ past performance in their work for the government. Contracting officers (COs) are able to find past performance examples relevant to the new work in a vast collection of historical data. The amount of textual historical data facing the CO is daunting.
The Strongbridge solution uses machine learning (ML) to “read” all the prior performance assessments and recommend examples in a relevance ranking.
The solution analyzed and ranked the best past performance examples for the DHS CO, saving hours of research in every vendor assessment.
The Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) holds hundreds of thousands of descriptions of vendors’ past performance in their work for the government. Contracting officers (COs) are able to find past performance examples relevant to the new work in a vast collection of historical data. The amount of textual historical data facing the CO is daunting.
The Strongbridge solution uses machine learning (ML) to “read” all the prior performance assessments and recommend examples in a relevance ranking.
The solution analyzed and ranked the best past performance examples for the DHS CO, saving hours of research in every vendor assessment.
The DOL Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is responsible for enforcing the minimum wage, overtime, and child labor provisions of the Fair Standards Labor Act (FSLA). The unprecedented growth in data quantity and information sources available to WHD leadership across the entire agency domain was difficult.
Strongbridge supported the collection, quality assurance, integration, and analysis of very large data collections to enable enforcement and policy decision-making by the government. Our technical solutions and system modernization were built upon a foundation of scaling infrastructure provided by secure clouds and government resources and the merging of many data types.
We have managed millions of source lines of code and substantial data collections sourced nationally, and have kept systems and content collections in compliance with rapidly evolving statutory labor acts and laws. We are experts in applying IT to inform decision-making for labor law.
DOS required a mission-critical application used worldwide for their employees, including embassy staff. Proving that the application deployment was secure was a key challenge.
Strongbridge routinely scanned DOS operational implementations for security weaknesses. We identified a security rating, risk totals by severity, risks total by instance count, the most prevalent issues, a remediation road map, and issue status. A commercial code analyzer allowed our staff to analyze and resolve possible issues far more efficiently than a manual process could have.
The solutions implemented resulted in demonstrating that all code and deployment issues were resolved, resulting in a more secure worldwide mission system for the DOS.
DOS required a mission-critical application used worldwide for their employees, including embassy staff. Proving that the application deployment was secure was a key challenge.
Strongbridge routinely scanned DOS operational implementations for security weaknesses. We identified a security rating, risk totals by severity, risks total by instance count, the most prevalent issues, a remediation road map, and issue status. A commercial code analyzer allowed our staff to analyze and resolve possible issues far more efficiently than a manual process could have.
The solutions implemented resulted in demonstrating that all code and deployment issues were resolved, resulting in a more secure worldwide mission system for the DOS.
HUD needed to modernize its COBOL systems and move them to a secure cloud. The information in the Computerized Homes Underwriting Management System (CHUMS) is sensitive and includes data on individuals who have obtained a mortgage insured under HUD’s/FHA’s single-family mortgage insurance programs and individuals who unsuccessfully applied for an insured mortgage.
Strongbridge developed a comprehensive set of tools and methodology to move COBOL systems to secure clouds. We created an end-to-end collection of advanced tooling to enable continuous integration and testing of COBOL functions. Our process and tools ensured that each requirement and capability of the legacy system was captured and tested in the new target cloud environment.
The migration of a legacy COBOL system to the Microsoft Azure cloud enables HUD to run the mortgage mission capabilities using a modern, scalable, cost-effective set of cloud services with robust multiregional failover capabilities, supporting high availability and improved continuity of operation (COOP) for customers.
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