Booz Allen Hamilton Partners with U.S. Air Force to Commercialize Platform One
November 18, 2021 at 08:00 am EST
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Booz Allen Hamilton announced they have partnered with the U.S. Air Force to commercialize Platform One?s Big Bang product and Iron Bank container hardening services, propelling the delivery of modern, secure mission capabilities at scale. As a plank holder of Platform One?and now a commercialization partner?the firm, teamed with Rancher Government Solutions (RGS), is at the forefront of enterprise-wide software modernization and innovation for Department of Defense (DoD), federal government, and private sector organizations who can leverage Platform One to accelerate delivery through continuous, reusable, flexible, and secure solutions. Booz Allen?s implementation of Platform One products and services will provide immediate value for clients across the government, as well as for industry partners by rapidly delivering innovation to federal organizations with increased mission assurance. Organizations throughout the DoD, federal government, and commercial sector will now work with Booz Allen to leverage Platform One?s Big Bang product, which deploys a software factory built on DoD hardened and approved packages in a customer owned environment This baseline of open-source software development tools allows organizations to deploy and customize Platform One?s software factory for their specific mission needs to accelerate modernization of mission capabilities from Day One. This significantly reduces overall project costs and time, while mitigating mission risk due to a robust, proven, and enterprise-grade solution built and supported by Platform One and Booz Allen. Booz Allen will also onboard commercial software to the Iron Bank, resulting in DoD-wide reciprocity. The offering of Platform One?s Iron Bank expands access to a ?plug and play? development library, so teams within government and commercial entities can execute quickly into production?while ensuring security and resiliency are configured from the start. Booz Allen has been integral in delivering and maturing all phases of Platform One capability development and operations, including working to harden the Iron Bank?s repository of more than 800 digitally signed, binary container images, including both Free and Open-Source software (FOSS) and Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software to support rapid software development.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation is a holding company. The Company provides management and technology consulting, analytics, engineering, digital solutions, mission operations, and cyber services to United States (US) and international governments, major corporations, and not-for-profit organizations. Its analytics service offering focuses on providing solutions the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), such as machine learning (ML), deep learning, data science, such as data engineering and predictive modeling, automation and decision analytics, and emerging areas, such as quantum computing. Its consulting service offering focuses on the talent and expertise needed to solve client problems and develop mission-oriented solutions for specific domains, business strategies, human capital, and operations through new approaches. Its engineering solutions deliver engineering services and solutions to define, develop, implement, sustain, and modernize complex physical systems.