Case Studies
Building mission critical IT systems.
Secure Access Digital Identity (SADI)
The IRS’s Identity and Access Management that provide secure access to twenty-nine mission critical IRS business systems to tens of millions of tax filers and tax professionals needed to be modernized to the latest NIST standards (800-63-3) for Digital Identity Management.
- Cybersecurity
STP Geospatial Engineers Helped Secure the Nation’s Borders
STP was able to find and staff two geospatial engineers who provided the program with invaluable expertise.
- Staff Augmentation
Deploying Experts from Other STP Projects to Fill Immediate Skill Gaps
STP utilized 13 of its subject matter experts, architects and developers who were working on other projects on an as needed basis to provide over 8,000 hours of expertise to infrastructure efforts that needed quick results.
- Infrastructure
- Staff Augmentation
Providing Expertise to Keep Critical Systems Operational
STP’s 10 industry professionals, working alongside IRS personnel, provided over 40,000 hours of expertise to keep the agency’s critical services always up and running.
- Infrastructure
- Staff Augmentation
Integrating Unix, Linux and Windows Applications with Mainframe Services
Since its implementation, over 30 IRS applications have successfully used the web services STP built to protect taxpayer information.
- Application Development
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure
Rearchitecting Software to Meet Peak Demand
Working via a contract with CSC, STP’s software engineers discovered that both systems were built to support only one transaction at a time.
- Application Development
- Infrastructure
Making Best Use of Existing Investments
STP’s Sr. Linux Engineer, with over 10 years of experience building Linux based solutions on the mainframe provided over 5,000 hours of expertise to the IRS’s efforts to migrate applications and systems to a mainframe Linux environment.
- Engineering
- Staff Augmentation
Using Automation to Migrate an Enterprise System
Through the use of automation, STP was able to successfully migrate the entire implementation within the IRS’s limited timeframe and budget.
- Automation
- Cybersecurity
- Engineering
- Infrastructure
Building a Better Interface
Knowing a long-term solution was needed, STP convinced CSC and IRS leadership to allow STP’s developers to build a new interface to manage the user data without the fear of bringing the system down.
- Application Development
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure
Building Infrastructure Shared Services
Eighteen STP architects, engineers and developers built custom and COTS services.
- Application Development
- Cybersecurity
- Engineering
- Infrastructure
Providing Informatica Expertise to Man a 24×7 Operation
After convincing the IRS to allow remote administration, STP staffed the team with 3 STP employees, who were cleared Informatica experts, to work in different 8-hour shifts staggered over the 7-day week.
- Staff Augmentation
Ensuring Continuity of Service
Working through a Unisys contract, STP engineers, project managers and subject matter experts were tasked with devising a strategy, managing the plan, and implementing the solution to keep the infrastructure up and running, 24×7, 365 days a year.
- Engineering
- Infrastructure
Using Lean Six Sigma to Streamline Engineering Processes
STP’s business process expert, with over 10 years of IRS experience, used Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve the efficiency and quality of the IRS review and analysis process.
- Engineering
- Staff Augmentation
Building a Mobile Simulation to Improve Application Usability
Knowing that external access to IRS R&D and development environments was forbidden, STP software engineers developed a complete simulation of the entire eAuthentication system, deployable on an IRS issued laptop.
- Application Development
- Engineering
Replacing COTS with Open Source to Support One of the Largest Sites on the Internet
STP staffed 4 experts who provided over 8,000 hours of expertise towards the successful migration to Drupal.
- Staff Augmentation
Building an End-to-End Software Distribution Workflow for the Enterprise
Based on DevOps principles, STP engineers working in conjunction with the IRS developed the Deploy and Release Integration and Visibility Engine (DRIVE).
- Automation
Architecting and Tuning Commercial Products to Meet Unique Customer Challenges
Having experience partitioning large database systems, STP’s experts designed the directory to use a series of service agents to access specific areas of the directory, greatly reducing the time needed to search for data.
- Cybersecurity
- Engineering
- Infrastructure
Building an Enterprise Security System
For over 7 years, 10 STP technical leads, engineers and subject matter experts built, integrated and maintained the IRS’s authentication, authorization and directory services.
- Cybersecurity
- Engineering
- Infrastructure
Improving Performance Through Automation
Working with the IRS, an expert STP performance engineer developed an approach to automate the qualification, selection and packaging of performance data.
- Automation
- Engineering
Providing Expert Support Toward Replacing the Oldest System in the Federal Government
Having success using STP to fulfill its most difficult needs, Northrop Grumman tasked STP with staffing five different CADE 2 engineering work orders.
- Engineering
- Staff Augmentation
Providing 21 Experts for the Price of 6
STP staffed 6 full time positions with experts in hardware, networking, automation, systems integration, and application architecture.
- Application Development
- Automation
- Cybersecurity
- Engineering
- Infrastructure
- Staff Augmentation
Helping the IRS Adopt Cloud Computing
Working directly for the IRS, STP teamed with Northrop Grumman and Amazon Web Services to integrate the IRS’s security system with the AIR system in the AWS cloud.
- Cybersecurity
- Engineering
- Infrastructure
Moving from Waterfall to Agile Development
Through the use of Agile, STP’s developers and testers work on collaborative cross functional teams with IBM and IRS business owners to plan, design and build small increments of changes over short durations.
- Application Development
- Cybersecurity
Designing for the Future
STP’s engineers successfully integrated Equifax’s proprietary KBA service with eAuthentication’s proprietary commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) identity proofing software.
- Application Development
- Cybersecurity
- Engineering