Engineering for public sector and government-adjacent work.
We work on systems where the procurement cycle is twelve months and the audit cycle never ends. We hold ourselves to the agency control catalog and we bring documentation that passes ATO review without rework.
Standards we hold ourselves to
What we hold ourselves to.
FedRAMP Moderate
For federal customers. We deliver against the FedRAMP Moderate control baseline. ATO-ready documentation produced as an engagement artifact.
FISMA / NIST 800-53
Control implementation mapped to NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5. SSP, SAR, POA&M produced. We participate in continuous monitoring.
CJIS (Criminal Justice)
Compliance with FBI CJIS Security Policy for systems handling criminal justice information. Personnel screening, advanced authentication, audit logging.
StateRAMP
State and local government cloud authorization. Lighter-weight than FedRAMP but real review.
Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA
All public-facing surfaces accessible to citizens with disabilities. VPAT delivered as a project artifact.
FOIA-ready data architecture
Records retention, redaction workflows, request fulfillment automation.
Common engagements in this vertical.
Citizen-facing portals
Benefits applications, permitting, tax administration, licensing. Designed for low-bandwidth and accessibility.
Internal modernization
Migration off mainframe and legacy COBOL/AS400 to modern platforms with safe strangler-fig patterns.
Procurement & contracting
eProcurement systems, vendor management, contract lifecycle, compliance reporting.
Defense-adjacent
IL2 to IL5 workloads on AWS GovCloud or Azure Government. We do not pursue classified work.
Public health
Disease surveillance, registry modernization, reportable disease workflows.
Regulatory technology
Examination platforms, filings systems, public-facing transparency portals.
What is different about doing this work.
- We start from the SSP outline before we write the first line of code. Controls are not retrofitted.
- Continuous monitoring instrumented in the build. POA&M items flow into your existing GRC tooling.
- US persons-only personnel option available for engagements that require it.
- AWS GovCloud and Azure Government deployment patterns rehearsed. We do not learn on your project.
- Procurement-aware engagement structure: GSA Schedule, NASPO, state cooperative, GWAC paths available via partner primes.
Have a government build in flight?
A senior engineer with vertical experience responds within one business day.
Start a brief →The Plutobee team showed up understanding our ATO process and brought SSP outline draft on day three of discovery. We have worked with three other vendors on similar modernization. This is the only one that came back with documentation that did not need rework.
Vertical questions, answered.
The questions buyers in this vertical ask in week one.
Are you FedRAMP authorized?+
Our delivery practice supports customer FedRAMP Moderate boundaries. We are not a FedRAMP-authorized service ourselves; we build systems that operate inside customer boundaries with the appropriate control implementation.
Do you work via a prime contractor?+
Yes. We work as a sub on Federal contracts via primes with the appropriate vehicle (GSA Schedule, NASPO, GWAC). We do not pursue prime work directly without an established partner.
Can you work on AWS GovCloud or Azure Government?+
Yes. Our engineers have deployed to AWS GovCloud (US-Gov-West, US-Gov-East) and Azure Government. We rehearse the patterns; we do not learn on your project.
US persons-only personnel?+
Yes, available for engagements that require it. Background checks via standard federal channels (eQIP, position designation appropriate to the IT system risk level).
Can you support CJIS-regulated workloads?+
Yes. CJIS Security Policy compliance including personnel screening, advanced authentication, audit logging, and segregated access controls.
How we typically wire it.
A canonical layout for this vertical. Real engagements tune this to the specific stack and constraints.