Under contract GS-35F-0372V, SOLUTE offers a range of systems and software engineering, information assurance, technical writing, and administrative support services through the GSAAdvantage website at www.gsaadvantage.gov.  SIN 132.51 allows for: resources and facilities management, database planning and design, systems analysis and design, network services, programming, conversion and implementation support, network services project management, data/records management, electronic media subscriptions/publications, and other services.  The contract builds on SOLUTE’s current GSA Professional Engineering Services (PES) schedule, allowing Federal customers to purchase IT engineering on an hourly basis from the company without the need for long term contracts or requirements for an in-house contracts shop.  SOLUTE’s GSA vehicle allows for purchases up to $500,000 at a time.  It provides greater flexibility and less overhead than a number of other industry standard alternatives.  Using this schedule, SOLUTE will be able to pursue a much broader range of customers within both the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  The company’s schedule provides rates for both on and off site work in locations throughout the U.S.  Under this vehicle, SOLUTE can provide systems, software, and security personnel for highly specialized projects at clearance levels up to Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).  

January 2009 NEWS - SOLUTE awarded Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for Airborne Cross Domain Solutions (CDS)

On January 21^st, SOLUTE received official notification that the company was awarded a Phase I SBIR grant worth $100,000 to study scalable airborne architectures for cross domain communications as an alternative to the use of expensive satellite resources for tactical communications.

SOLUTE Consulting has extensive experience in airborne networking and will leverage this expertise in the research of this topic.  Current CDS products are often too cumbersome for airborne use and require a human-in-the-loop.  Under this tasking, SOLUTE will conduct research to develop a modular hardware architecture for implementation of an automated airborne CDS for use in a chip, card, and blade environment.  SOLUTE will determine space, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints of candidate aircraft and aerial vehicles, define applications and their security requirements, and determine Real Time Operating System (RTOS) requirements for implementing a Multiple Independent Layers of Security/Safety (MILS)-based CDS architecture.  Globally, the satellite communications (SATCOM) market has increased by more than 40% in the past five years, and the U.S. Government currently makes up 75% of the world’s demand for services.  The impact of the technology from this study will be immediate once implemented, saving potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in DoD SATCOM spending by making greater use of existing airborne assets for tactical communications.  This solution can be applied to any U.S. military aircraft currently utilizing MILS based solutions, including the B-1, B-2, F-35, F-22, and C-130.  The technology is also applicable to several commercial markets as well, which include the multi-billion dollar cellular communications market, software defined radios, and other industries requiring data compartmentalization and high uptime, such as utility infrastructure management, financial services, and data centers.   

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