Case Studies

Engineering

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
Making Best Use of Existing Investments

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
Using Automation to Migrate an Enterprise System

Building Infrastructure Shared Services

Eighteen STP architects, engineers and developers built custom and COTS services.

  • Application Development
  • Cybersecurity
  • Engineering
  • Infrastructure
Building Infrastructure Shared Services

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
Ensuring Continuity of Service

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
Using Lean Six Sigma to Streamline Engineering Processes

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
Building a Mobile Simulation to Improve Application Usability

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
Architecting and Tuning Commercial Products to Meet Unique Customer Challenges

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
Building an Enterprise Security System

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
Improving Performance Through Automation

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 Expert Support Toward Replacing the Oldest System in the Federal Government

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
Providing 21 Experts for the Price of 6

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
Helping the IRS Adopt Cloud Computing

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
Designing for the Future