NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
TMC Technologies has been supporting the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility, home of NASA’s IV&V Program continuously shortly after it first opened in Fairmont, West Virginia in 1994.
TMC Technologies is the Small Business prime contractor on both the Systems/Software Engineering Tools (SET) and Technical Expertise Support Services (TESS) contracts where we have developed several capabilities, tools, and technologies resulting in several NASA New Technology Report (NTR) filings. Many of the tools (e.g. RiskManager, NOS3), modeling/simulation capabilities, and cyber range simulation capabilities are now being leveraged in support of many programs across a myriad of NASA centers as well as the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) and the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC).
TMC Technologies continues to be the lead contractor company providing management for the Jon McBride Software Testing and Research (JSTAR) Lab which was named after West Virginia’s only Astronaut.
The JSTAR team develops software-only fully-functional spacecraft simulations to assist with flight software testing, including verification and validation activities. The simulation technologies have been used to find and fix significant faults in flight software on high profiles NASA and NOAA missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The development of these simulation technologies has paved the way for West Virginia’s first small spacecraft mission called Simulation to Flight-1 (STF-1), to be launched by NASA.
Innovations by the TMC JSTAR Team and TMC SWAT Team received several prestigious awards and accolades including the 2015 TechConnect WV "Innovator of the Year" award, named the NASA Software of the Year Award finalist in 2012, honorable mention in 2015, and two NASA Group Achievement Awards signed by the previous NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden.
TMC Technologies is also one of the largest Small Business subcontractors on the Systems/Software Assurance Services (SAS) contract in support of SAIC. The scope of past IV&V Program support includes IV&V, IV&V program metrics, Independent Test Capability (ITC), On-Orbit Anomaly (OOA) analysis, and supporting data management initiatives including data warehousing, business intelligence, and knowledge management improvement initiatives within the IV&V Program.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
TMC Technologies has a history of supporting the Department of Justice (DoJ) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Systems(CJIS) Division. TMC is a prime contract holder of the FBI Information Technology Supplies and Support Services (ITSSS) IDIQ contract. Under the ITSSS contract, TMC was awarded a task order to develop the Electronic Departmental Order (eDO) system allowing American citizens to electronically request and challenge their criminal history data in the FBI databases. The eDO program, which is part of the FBI’s Identity History Summary Checks System or IdHSC, is used for providing individuals with an Identity History Summary or, more commonly called a person’s criminal history or a rap sheet.
TMC was also awarded a task order to develop the Use of Force (UoF) data collection system. UoF is an electronic repository of cases of law enforcement use of force designed to give the public and other stakeholders the opportunity to analyze information related to use of force incidents. Beyond the eDO and UoF prime contract activities for FBI CJIS, TMC is currently performing systems engineering, database engineering, project management support, network administration, software development, and systems administration services for several CJIS information systems like:
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) - system that provides federal firearms license (FFL) holders the ability to perform background checks when Americans wish to purchase firearms.
Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) – system that provides nation-wide law enforcement organizations virtual command centers (VCCs) used to manage active-shooter and other large-scale incidents.
Next-Generation Identification (NGI) – system that provides integrated biometric information about persons-of-interest (such as terrorists) to nation-wide law enforcement, intelligence, and defense organizations.
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) – system that collects, maintains, and reports data relative to crimes within the United States.
National Data Exchange (NDex) – system that provides criminal justice agencies with a way to share, search, link, and analyze information across jurisdictional boundaries.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD)
TMC Technologies has a long history of supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) on Navy, Air Force, Army, and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) work going back to the 2006.
Currently, TMC Technologies is providing high-level technology and engineering services to the Department of Navy's Navel Surface Warfare Centers in Dahlgren, Virginia and Crane, Indiana. For the U.S. Air Force, TMC Technologies is working with the SAIC team to perform services for the Ground Systems and Space Operations Division under the SMC’s Advanced Systems and Development Directorate located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Program past performance for the DoD Biometrics Identity Management Agency (BIMA) included support of both Lockheed Martin and Computer Sciences Corporation and covered many IT areas including research and development, technology insertion, systems engineering/integration, operations and maintenance, HW/SW installation and deployment, Test and Evaluation, and other technical studies, inclusive of biometric product assessments. The projects supported included the Automated Biometrics Identification System (ABIS) and the Knowledge Management & Information Technology (KMIT) systems. Additionally, TMC Technologies has supported DLA through subcontracts with ManTech in providing support on the Centralized Catalog Hosting Site (CCHS) and the DoD Electronic Mall (EMALL) eCommerce sites.
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY (DON)
TMC Technologies is built upon a foundation of high-technology service to the United States Navy dating back to 1995. At the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division, TMC has grown significantly over the last few years leading to the opening of its first branch office location in King George, VA. Staff on base perform software and system engineering for the Aegis Combat System (ACS) which includes analysis requirements, troubleshooting software and system problems, designing software code changes/upgrades, and testing at all levels for the ACS. TMC also provides engineering support to the NSWC Dahlgren Division’s Electromagnetic and Sensor Systems Department Radar Systems Division B40.
At the NSWC Crane, Indiana Division, TMC staff support the Platform and Launch Systems Division (GXP) Program performing system and software engineering, acquisition, development, test and evaluation, integrated logistic support, and sustainment functions for a variety of platform, launch, missile systems, and transportation equipment. TMC also supports the Maneuver and Engagement Division (JXV) Program which includes working for the U.S. Marine Corps providing hardware, software, network, in-service engineering agent, program office, logistic, and training support for the Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S), Air Command and Control Sensor Netting (CTN), and the legacy Marine Air Command and Control Systems (MACCS). Additionally, TMC supports the U.S. Air Force Minuteman III (MM III) Sustainment program also taking place at the NSWC Crane Division. TMC staff provide high-level administrative, planning, execution and program management support services for the MM III Launch Control Center (LCC) Blast Door Break-in Kit (BiK) project.
U.S. AIR FORCE
TMC supports SAIC as a subcontractor under the engineering, development, integration and sustainment (EDIS) program for the Space and Missile Systems Center Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, Ground Systems and Space Operations Division at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. As a valued member of the team, TMC staff are providing modeling and simulation of spacecraft and/or flight systems development similar to the highly successful NASA Operation Simulator for Small Satellites (NOS3) software built by TMC engineers and scientists for the Simulation to Flight-1 CubeSat mission.
NOS3 builds upon the simulation technologies that have been used on several larger NASA missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission, the Juno Mission, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). NOS3 incorporates a flight software development framework, multiple small satellite hardware emulators/simulators, and an open-source ground system software. NOS3 is packaged such that it is a Ready-To-Run environment that is quickly available for software development and testing.
TMC Technologies has successfully developed model simulation environments, inclusive of some emulators, for the NOAA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM), James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). Work on the Space Launch System (SLS) simulation and emulation capabilities are also progressing.
For more information on the NOS3 system, click here: TMC Modeling and Simulation Capability.
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMININISTRATION (NOAA)
TMC Technologies has a history of supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). TMC was a prime contract holder for NOAA on the Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) and was CMMI Level 3 before being acquired by Global Science and Technology (GST) for the NOAA CLASS contract work. TMC is a mature WV-based small business prime contractor with its HQ office just minutes away from the Fairmont, WV NOAA Disaster Recovery/Continuity of Operations (COOP) and State-of-the-Art Data Center. The Fairmont, WV NOAA site also includes three Satellite Antennas and supercomputers. TMC does not have any current contracts with NOAA, but we are supporting NOAA through our modeling and simulation environment test capabilities on our NASA IV&V contracts. The science/satellite partnership between NASA and NOAA provides TMC with unique insights into NOAA missions like the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM), Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite- 2 (ICESat-2), and Joint Polar Satellite Systems (JPSS) through NASA programs and partnerships.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
TMC Technologies has supported the Department of Energy (DoE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) on several of its recent technology initiatives. Program past performance for the NETL began in 2014 by managing its IT Division enterprise e-mail migration project from the obsolete Novell Groupwise collaboration environment to the cloud-based Office365. TMC’s Vice President Matt Shorb received formal recognition from the IT Director of NETL that the Office365 migration project was the model for successful projects at NETL. In addition to the Office365 project TMC supported NETL with its enterprise certification and accreditation (C&A) project. Under this project TMC provided IS and Cyber Security staff that planned and facilitated multi-agency, multi-vendor round-table collaborations that enabled FISMA & FedRAMP compliance and system security enclave approval to operate across three geographically separated sites each with VPN tunneling to the Dept. of Energy HQ Trusted Internet Connection (TIC).