About ACES

Alpha Omega Integration, LLC. (AOI) and Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc. (CTS) have formed an unpopulated mentor-protégé joint venture (JV), Alpha Columbus Engineering Services (ACES). ACES is the combination of proven leadership and technical expertise of two well-established NASA and Federal IT partners.

ACES offers a very experienced managing partner (AOI) with proven performance and competency managing large data centers, deploying cloud computing solutions, and implementing Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices. AOI receives significant support from our mentor, CTS, who brings ACES a long history of NASA Prime contract successes in mission IT, flight, and ground systems software, hardware, and network systems at both NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

ACES Capabilities

Application and Infrastructure Modernization

ACES core competencies include application and infrastructure modernization delivered through Agile processes and within CMMI ML5 and ITIL service delivery framework. We provide IT services using Waterfall, Hybrid Agile, and Full Agile processes. Our experience covers legacy systems maintenance using mainframe/Cobol and ColdFusion to manage modern microservices and serverless architecture applications. We transform traditional IT application delivery to Agile processes and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) using low risk gradual processes to avoid the shock of “DevOps”.

Our Application and Infrastructure Modernization Enable Uninterrupted Service Delivery while Infusing Technology and Innovation.

We manage FISMA high data centers at physical locations that provide network operations, virtualization, server administration and security services. ACES manages in-house Innovation Practice Centers (IPCs) that provide innovation support to all of our contracts without any charge to our customers. Our established partnerships with product vendors and technology companies provide us additional avenues to bring innovation and problem-solving into the contract.

Business Process Management

Our systematic approach to web application development and maintenance includes both incremental and traditional waterfall methods and applies best practices using the ITIL framework.

Big Data and Analytics

We are able to leverage critical data sets to produce significant results. Capabilities include Data Extraction and Integration, Big Data Lakes and Data Warehouses, Machine Learning and Cognitive Data Science, Streaming Analytics, and Data Visualization.

Cloud Computing

We provide cloud architecture, migration and modernization services on all three clouds: AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Digital Services

Improving user experience across platforms including Native Application Development on Prominent Platforms, Universal Platform Application Development, Responsive Designs, and User Experience Strategy Planning

Management Services

With our IT Service Management (ITSM) team, we’re able to establish, document, and monitor delivery processes, service reporting, ITSM budgeting, capacity management, information security, and more.

Information Security

We use state-of-the-art technologies to provide physical and digital security measures to protect data from unauthorized access, use, replication, or destruction. Capabilities include Certification and Accreditation (C&A), Vulnerability and Threat Management, FISMA Compliant Information Architecture, Data Encryption in Flight and at Rest, Identity and Access Management, Role-Based and Attribute-Based Access Controls, and Privileged Access Management

Full Mission Lifecycle Support

We Support all lifecycle phases for all classes of space missions – from cubesats to large observatories.

Space Systems Engineering and Space Communications

Developing system architecture, communications infrastructure, and data systems. Centralizing and standardizing hardware and software platforms using model-based systems engineering.

Flight and Ground Software Engineering

Designing and developing ground and flight system components across the mission lifecycle. Designing, developing, integrating, testing and deploying ground systems for telemetry, tracking and communications.

Certifications

  • ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management System)
  • ISO 20000-1:2011 (IT Service Management)
  • ISO 27001:2013 (Information Security Management System)
  • CMMI ML5

ACES Partners

Alpha Omega Integration, an 8a woman-owned small disadvantaged business, offers a full range of IT Services including Modernization and DevSecOps to eight federal agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as American Institute of Architects (AIA). With 19 years of IT service delivery experience in the federal sector and as a CMMI ML 5 appraised system integrator, we understand how to preserve institutional knowledge while infusing innovations and technology gradually, in a low risk manner.

Columbus Technologies and Services is a leading Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) technology provider rooted in IT and engineering-based support of federal agencies and boasts strong credentials in software, hardware, engineering, and program management, serving NOAA, NASA, DoD, and various other branches of the US Government since 2001. CTS brings ACES a long history of NASA prime contract successes in mission IT, flight, and ground systems software, hardware, and network systems at both NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Our 2017 JPL Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year award, SBA’s 2017 8(a) Graduate of the Year award, and 2019 NASA GSFC Small Business Subcontractor of the Year award provide proof of Columbus’s past successes.