Application Development, Modernization, and Enhancement (DME)
GET JV specializes in the development, modernization, and enhancement of COTS and GOTS applications for the federal government.
Example of Relevant Experience:
GET JV member Tantus Technologies, Inc. was awarded a contract specifically to assist the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Environment Health Sciences (NIEHS) Office of Information Technology (OIT) to manage, maintain, develop, and enhance its IT and information systems environment. Among the many task areas led by Tantus is the O&M of NIEHS enterprise systems, web, and software applications. The environment consists of over 40 enterprise systems, websites, web applications, and software. Many of the applications consist of either custom-built Government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) applications and highly customized commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) applications. The application design is tailored to support the needs of NIEHS scientists, practitioners, physicians, statisticians, laboratory research analysts, and support staff. The applications provide automated, systematic functionality essential tools and platforms used to conduct scientific research, statistical computations, bioinformatic reporting, genomics, mathematics, management of taxonomic data. The applications range from scientific program evaluation systems, training systems, budget resource tracking systems, databases for research results, and clinical and scientific workflow solutions.
Proven Performance:
Our application development and modernization support tasks (e.g., datacenter infrastructure specifications) for NIEHS encompass the complete lifecycle of activities required for application and system development, including feedback evaluation, requirements elicitation, analysis and validation, system design (i.e., Security Concept of Operations), code generation, COTS customization / configuration, testing, deployment, and documentation. For example, Tantus is developing major functional enhancements for IMACS (International Myotosis Assessment & Clinical Studies Group) which facilitates data collection for the IMACS study. Tantus is also modernizing two critical scientific support systems: MRS (Manuscript Review System) which tracks requests from scientists to publish manuscripts according to guidelines established by NIH and MIMS (Mouse Information Management System) which enables the forms and approvals for principal investigators to request transgenic mice, cage space, and other mouse services. Both applications were legacy and programmed using an outdated version of ColdFusion with known cyber vulnerabilities posing a data security risk. Tantus is redesigning the applications using .NET to address and mitigate the security risks.