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NARTECH Leading Stabilization and Expansion of the HUD FHEO IT Systems and HEMS

January 2024

NARTech is playing a key role in stabilizing operations and expanding the business functionality of the HUD 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 Form.io 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 Appraised 4th time at CMMI Level 5 for Software Development

November 2022

BETHESDA, MD, November 2022 – NARTech announced that it has been appraised a 4th time at the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 5 for developing software products with the highest quality and productivity that meet customer needs . With this significant achievement, NARTech remains in an elite group of forty (40) companies across the United States who have reached this notable milestone. This CMMI Level 5 appraisal places NARTech among the Top 5% of appraisals in the United States , according to the CMMI Institute’s Published Appraisal Results. As organizations mature, they progress through the following levels: 1-Initial > 2-Managed > 3-Defined > 4-Quantitatively Managed > 5-Optimizing. Thus, CMMI-Dev L5 is analogous to the organization having a doctorate-level degree of knowledge, i.e., the highest level of software development capability.


NARTech Appraised a 3rd time with Top CMMI level

January 2020

NARTech today announced that it had been appraised a 3rd time at the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 5 for developing software products with highest quality and productivity that meet customer needs. With this significant achievement, NARTech remains in an elite group of thirty-five (35) companies across the United States who have reached this notable milestone.





NARTech plays key role in major HUD initiative on Fair Housing compliance

July 2015

On July 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a final rule to equip communities that receive HUD funding with data and tools to help them meet long-standing fair housing obligations in their use of HUD funds. The final rule aims to provide all HUD program participants with clear guidelines and data they can use to achieve those goals. HUD’s rule clarifies and simplifies existing fair housing obligations and creates a streamlined Assessment of Fair Housing planning process, which will help communities analyze challenges to fair housing choice and establish their own goals and priorities to address the fair housing barriers in their community.





FHFA awards NARTech a 5-Year Application Development Support Services Contract

September 2013

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) awarded NARTech a 5-Year contract to provide Application Development Support Services for FHFA’s more than thirty (30) internally developed applications. These applications support FHFA’s mission to regulate and supervise Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and twelve (12) Federal Home Loan Banks.


NARTech awarded a 3-year IV&V contract by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

September 2013

NARTech, a CMMI Level 4 organization, is pleased to announce that they have been selected by HUD to provide Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) support services for the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Under this 3-year IV&V contract, NARTech will provide quality assurance and control services to support the successful implementation of HUD’s IT projects, systems and services, including solution development and delivery for the various program areas within the agency, using industry standards, such as PMBOK, CMMI and IEEE.




NARTech was awarded a 5-year prime contract

March 2011

NARTech was awarded a 5-year prime contract for providing full system development life cycle services for Web Access Security System (WASS). WASS serves as the single sign-on portal and provides a common framework for administering application-level security for over 35 HUD program area business application systems and over 140,000 external and 4,000 internal HUD end-users.


NARTech selected as prime IT provider for OGC

June 2010

NARTech was selected to provide Information Technology (IT) Services for the five (5) Office of General Counsel (OGC) application systems and the E-Discovery program. This involves maintenance as well as modernization and integration of OGC application systems to align with evolving business and technology refreshment needs.


NARTech staff completed Advanced E-Discovery Certifications

April 2010

NARTech staff completed Advanced Administration Certifications for the E-Discovery Clearwell tool set to assist our federal clients in implementation of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) for Information Management, Identification, Preservation, Collection, Review, Analysis, Production, and Presentation of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in support of Federal Rules of Civil Procedures (FRCP) Amendments.


NARTech team applauded for producing phenomenal results

November 2008

NARTech team applauded for producing phenomenal results in delivering collaboration solution using Agile/SCRUM development methodology with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) thus reducing software release cycle period from 6 months to 2 weeks in support of the Federal Government Regulatory Compliance and E-Discovery initiative for the Electronically Stored Information (ESI).





NARTech received prime contract

April 2007

NARTech received prime contract to provide application systems development, operations and maintenance support for the Enforcement Center Imaging, Management Reporting, and Integrated Tracking systems.





NARTech began work on Configuration and Management Support contract

October 2004

NARTech began work on Configuration and Quality Management System task order assisting with requirement-based Independent Validation & Verification (IV&V) testing, software configuration management, and software quality assurance for over 40 mission-critical application systems.