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.

The EPA Superfund Cost Recovery Package Imaging and On-Line System (SCORPIOS) application is used to recover the cost of cleaning up hazardous waste spills at Superfund sites across the country. The original SCORPIOS application was developed over 16 years ago and has reached the end of its development life cycle. NARTech was contracted to update the SCORPIOS application using modern technologies. Tasks on this contract cover the entire SDLC from Requirements Management through Design, Development, Testing, and Transition to Operations and Maintenance.

NARTech designed and developed HUD AFFH UI tool using Microsoft Azure cloud-based ASP.NET application with responsive UI that integrated GIS-based data to allow HUD Grantees and PHAs to visually analyze demographics and impediments on geospatial maps when planning how to use HUD grants to improve communities. AFFH UI was the first successfully launched application within the HUD Azure Cloud accessible via HUD Secure Systems to both internal and external users.

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.

NARTech provided support to the FDIC Virtual Supervisory Information on the Net (ViSION) system. Multi-tiered architecture using the SOA model and Microsoft development platform. Utilizes the MAAP User Manager component and exposes services for error handling, search, and reporting to support many bank supervision and case management functions.

NARTech assisted with requirement-based independent validation & verification (IV&V) testing, software configuration management, and software quality assurance for over 40 FDIC mission-critical application systems developed using Microsoft ASP, SQL Server, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Java, Oracle, Rational, and Mercury toolsets.

NARTech developed and maintained MS SharePoint-based Project Management Dashboard for the FDIC Software Release Management Testing Center (RMTC) performing all phases of independent application compatibility testing and quality assurance required before the software is released in the standard production environment that included Lotus Notes, Java/Oracle, MS ASP, and SQL Server.