AEGIS celebrates a successful year by giving thanks through support of local and national charities. Charitable giving for 2010 has gone to: The Make-A-Wish Foundation, Doctors Without Borders (Haiti Relief), Safe Places of Fairfax County, Hope House of Fredericksburg, and various local children’s organizations. Corporate charity and giving back to the community remain strong pillars of AEGIS culture and we […]

AEGIS was engaged to create the Interoperability Test Platform for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) under the Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). The NwHIN Interoperability Test Platform allows automated, Internet-based interoperability testing against NwHIN specifications. This test harness, initially developed early in 2010, is the first to […]

AEGIS has been supporting various offices throughout the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) providing Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) services since 2002. The agency’s Office of Information Services has determined that incorporating IV&V into its Program Management Methodology will help the organization more fully leverage the proven benefits of IV&V enterprise-wide. This Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) […]

AEGIS has recently become a Corporate Supporter of the HL7 Association. A group dedicated to supporting the standardization of Health Information Technology (or HIT). HL7 is used extensively by VA, DoD, HHS and NIST. As we continue to develop our expertise in the Global Arena of HIT, our support of such organizations as HIMSS and HL7 […]

AEGIS has been rated CMMI-DEV v1.2 Maturity Level 3 following a SCAMPI Class A appraisal. The appraisal was completed in January 2010 and subsequently audited by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. The appraisal was led by Class A Lead Appraiser Dr. Richard Bechtold of Abridge Technology. “The CMMI Maturity Level 3 […]

AEGIS successfully completed a SCAMPI Class A appraisal during the week of January 11, 2010. It has been AEGIS’ goal to obtain a rating of CMMI-Dev v.1.2 Maturity Level 3. The rating will not be officially determined until the Class A appraisal results have been audited by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) which should occur […]

AEGIS received an award of recognition at the December 2009 Peak Performance Series seminar hosted by Mountaintop Marketing Group. The December event focused on the Department of State and featured a presentation by Deputy CIO Charles Wisecarver. AEGIS was recognized at the event as a successful small business engaged to support DoS as a small […]

AEGIS completed a successful SCAMPI Class B audit this month. This marks an important step in our progress toward the goal of achieving a CMMI-Dev v.1.2 Maturity Level 3 rating. AEGIS has scheduled our SCAMPI Class A appraisal for January 2010.

Timothy Barlotta has become a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM). Scrum is an agile software development framework where work is structured in cycles called sprints. As the Scrum Alliance states, “The simple rules of Scrum allow for continual inspection, adaptation, self-organization, and emergence of innovation. This can produce an exciting product for the customer, develop high team spirit and […]