Throughout its two-decade history, CTAC has built a reputation for its ability to strike a balance between using cutting-edge technology and still operating within requirements. Whether those requirements take the form of security mandates, boundaries or guidelines, we work within the set parameters to build robust platforms where innovation seamlessly occurs. Our knowledge of open source software has allowed us to introduce key technologies resulting in cost savings and innovative solutions.
CTAC brings a personalized, customer-focused approach combining the best of traditional and agile methods. We know when and how to bring stakeholders and technical teams together to collaborate and design/build solutions.
CTAC brings a forward-thinking strategy to each project we support. We are constantly looking for ways to improve processes and implement cutting-edge technologies.
We use lean and agile methods to integrate and better utilize existing enterprise workflows and investments.
View Our WorkCTAC has powered 275+ government applications and has one of the highest success rates for government IT projects. We use our experience with the latest technologies to build solutions and offer full life-cycle development services.
CTAC has helped architect and deliver custom cloud solutions to 14+ agencies and clients Learn More
No cloud environment is the same. Whether you are ready to move an existing infrastructure to the cloud or need a custom cloud solution for a new application, our team of experts will evaluate your needs to find the best, most cost-effective solution.
We help our customers shift from complicated manually managed environments to flexible cloud environments with automated provisioning and monitoring resulting in improved performance, resource utilization and cost savings.
The CTAC Team has logged countless successful migrations of virtual data centers, data and applications in the cloud. Our team uses the latest technologies and, where possible, vendor APIs to improve migration quality and reduce risks.
We believe in building flexible, scalable infrastructures. Our approach to custom application and infrastructure development uses out-of-the-box frameworks for digital content management and delivery utilizing the latest open source technologies and in the FedRamp hardened environment.
CTAC has a dedicated Digital Strategy group that includes developers, user experience specialists, and solution architects to ensure IT systems provide rich user experiences anywhere, anytime, on any device. Learn More
CTAC has helped organizations such as GSA shift from legacy systems to extendable systems with open data and content-sharing APIs.
CTAC has been helping organizations expand their social media impact by incorporating the latest trends, reaching new demographics and engaging groups not previously accessible.
The CTAC team utilizes Agile and Scrum development practices to ensure strong communication and transparency among teams ensuring stakeholder value through iterative releases.
The most visible and interactive aspect of our work takes its cue from user experience. Our solutions are personally tailored for our customer’s purpose, keeping ease of use and access anywhere, on any device as a priority. We are highly proficient with the latest usability guidelines and research, incorporating innovative and contemporary aesthetics. We utilize tools for mind-mapping, workflows, and wireframing while observing results from constant user testing. Visuals and imagery are tested at every layer to assure quality from the end-user’s experience.
In an era where products/software can have increasingly short life spans, well designed and documented APIs play a key role in maximizing data and IT investments across the enterprise. We believe sustained results and success prove the real value of a solution.
CTAC has been a long time proponent and contributor to the open source community. We are a driving force behind the adoption of open source technologies by organizations across the industry.
CTAC has raised the bar with Application Program
Interface (API) development in the Federal Government. We develop modern ReSTful services, powered by industry standard frameworks, featuring innovative standards like Swagger & JSON.
CTAC is a solutions developer we work with big ideas and broad concepts. Creating real-world products from moments of inspiration, we’ve aggregated powerful social media services to form flexible social media applications.
As organizations and agencies realize the value of open data and open-source technologies, the question becomes: “How can organizations safely implement it in a sustainable way?”
An SDK can be a huge boon to developers looking to work with large systems quickly. SDKs can make integrating third party systems into your own infrastructure simple, convenient, and more cost effective than reinventing the wheel .
We’ve developed custom metrics collection and reporting tools to give accurate, time sensitive information to our clients.
CTAC provides full scope enterprise services. We have built award-winning, multi-agency enterprise systems as well as cloud environments spanning over 300 servers and supporting 100s of technology stacks. We have provided enterprise O&M support for HHS, OMB, EPA, DOT, ED, GSA, and the State of IL.
Our enterprise architecture frameworks are built and maintained on modular and container-based
technology stacks that are managed and automated with enterprise tools for provisioning, monitoring, logging, configuration, and patching all digital stacks across the enterprise.
We specialize in the integration and leveraging of Open Source technologies with the world’s leading IT vendors. By designing and implementing open standards and APIs we have helped our customers integrate enterprise solutions that are both cost effective and leverage investments with companies Oracle, Microsoft, and Google.
Our experienced team is able to quickly provide assessment, transition, and Operations and Management (O&M) services for enterprise systems and environment.
CTAC specializes in Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network design. CTAC architects software-based, token-based, dual factor, and point-to-point hardware, VPN solutions .
CTAC provides its clients with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Our team of architects have developed risk reductions methods and processes over the past 15 years of its enterprise IT services.
CTAC provides Fedramp, agency, and industry based security services to protect your services, IT systems, and data. We specialize designing and supporting FedRamp and agency specific Certification & Accreditation (C&A), System Security Plans (SSP), and Authority to Operate (ATO).
Our approach to systems engineering is focused on maintaining a secure, operational and cost-effective environment.
CTAC employs various tools to maximize application and server security while minimizing cost, down time and repetitive tasks. Such tools include but are not limited to LDAP, third party single sign on (SSO) and Multi-factor authentication (MFA).
We monitor industry communication channels for zero-day, out-of-band and known threats against our customer’s environment.
Our team enjoys a casual, flexible and close-knit working environment that fosters technological creativity and innovative solutions, our work has received national attention.
Upcoming conferences, press releases, awards & recognitions
View More News & EventsFalls Church, VA, April 9, 2018 – CTAC announced today that they have been awarded the GSA IT Schedule 70 – Health IT Special Item Number (SIN) 132-56. The GSA Health IT SIN 132-56 has a projected value of over $10 Billion, over the next five years and is available to all U.S. Government Agencies. […]
Read Full ArticleFalls Church, VA, February 2, 2018 – CTAC announced today that it has been awarded a task order at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA) to support web project operations development and research for ASPA’s Digital Communications Division (DCD). “ASPA is a long-time valued […]
Read Full ArticleFalls Church, VA, September 28, 2017 – CTAC announced today it has been awarded a contract with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to deliver a modern content management system (CMS) built on top of AWS infrastructure, giving the customer a more resilient web presence. The agency oversees a variety of individuals and organizations. These […]
Read Full ArticlePress Release – Using AWS to solve Government challenges Part 2 Falls Church, Jan 23, 2018 In 2017, CTAC continued deliver mission critical AWS solutions to the government by building an AWS cloud-native easy to use “heat map” application that provides populations estimates for Electricity Dependent devices for zip code, state(s), and national counts. This […]
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