NARTech leads technical support services for HUD Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) IT systems, including the HUD Enforcement Management System (HEMS), FHIP Performance Tracking, Fair Housing Discrimination Complaints (903 form) submissions, FHEO Program Compliance Data Visualization, FHEO SharePoint and internal/external web sites. Our work covers all application development and maintenance lifecycle phases, including definition, build, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance. Recently, NARTech has extended the functionality of HEMS with the Site-and-Neighborhood-Standards (SNS) Checklist module using the FormIO tool as a low-code solution, reducing the implementation time for this 25+ page form from 6 months to 6 weeks without any additional labor or licensing costs. We are assisting the HUD FHEO in defining and implementing AI-based data analytics and operational improvement solutions. We use Scalable Agile Framework (SAFe) integrated with DevSecOps and our High Maturity CMMI-Development Level 5 practices for high-quality product delivery. Since NARTech’s return on this support contract, the HEMS application is back to having zero defect releases!

NARTech performs design, development, system maintenance, and restored operations of the SPEARS application that enables FHEO staff to oversee and monitor Section 3 outcomes for more than 5,000 direct recipients of HUD funding, facilitate online electronic submission of the HUD 60002 form by covered HUD grantees. We also implemented the Section 3 Business Registry. NARTech integrated SPEARS with the GSA Login.gov and HUD Secure System Portal for user authentication / authorization and with the Financial Management System (Financial DataMart - FDM) to query financial disbursement data for HUD grants subject to the Section 3 rule to promote economic opportunity for HUD-assisted residents.

NARTech provided Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to the HUD Office of the General Counsel (OGC) on this LawManager (OGCLM) support services contract. We performed market research, analysis, documentation, development, implementation, and provided ongoing maintenance and support for the customized HUD OGC LawManager (OGCLM) implementation hosted in the Amazon Web Services GovCloud region. LawManager is a COTS product from Bridgeway (Mitratech) Software Inc. that is used to manage legal case files.

NARTech has been providing the full system life cycle support. WASS serves as a single sign-on portal and provides a common framework for administering application-level security (authentication and authorization) for over 80 HUD program area business application systems and over 140,000 external and 4,000 internal HUD end-users. Technologies used: Java, J2EE, SQL Server, SharePoint, SiteMinder, ColdFusion, CASS/Peregrine, Serena, Tracker, Quality Center, QTP, and Unix.