


Each team is made up of Scrum Masters, business analysts, architects, full stack developers, user interface/ user experience (UI/UX) developers, and automation testers supporting system and software development. Octo structured its teams into four portfolios each with 15 Agile teams. This new process significantly decreases the time it would take to load millions of rows of data manually and allows GSA to better manage their cloud costs by expanding S3 buckets only when needed. Once data is received these services send out automated notifications, extract the compressed data, and process it asynchronously. To improve application performance, we developed an API in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Services Cloud Services (FCS) environment built on AWS by leveraging S3 buckets. To improve efficiencies and security, Octo leverages CI/ CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure to deploy and operate secure applications. Octo is accomplishing this as GSA transitions from a systems-based development organization to a product-based organization following DevSecOps processes using a variety of Agile tools and processes to deliver new system features, while ensuring O&M continues to be prioritized.

Octo supports the modernization of GSA Halley’s COMET portfolio of applications, reducing the number of systems and eliminating dependencies while streamlining the user experience. As the prime contractor on the Halley’s COMET task order, Octo’s team of more than 140 technologists and domain experts is responsible for the development, modernization, enhancement, and operations and maintenance (O&M) of 50+ mission critical applications that provide services for more than 1.5 million external users and more than 3,000 GSA Acquisition Work Force employees with 24×7 need for availability and usability.
