FEMA Case Study

Federal Emergency Management Agency

When the US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) office planned to update and modernize its IT support for emergency management, ALTA was called upon by its teaming partner to provide key members of the project.

Background

The agency's Office of the CIO was modernizing its Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) to enhance services provided to customers under the Enterprise Applications Development, Integration and Sustainment (EADIS) program. The goals of the program were to:

• Stabilize and integrate technology
• Provide proposal to completion emergency management support
• Protect the emergency management infrastructure from compromise
• Enhance infrastructure
• Reach CMMI Level 3 application development standards
• Enhance and implement project management practices

Results

Working in a sub-contractor capacity, ALTA identified and provided top talent in the following areas:

• Application architecture specialists to enhance the functionality of current applications, to meet growing demand
• Development teams to create and deploy new applications and technology, to increase efficiency and capability
• Configuration management for the development and maintenance of the testing environment
• Communication specialists also working on the development and maintenance of the testing environment