Core Competencies

OCONUS Solutions specializes in providing high-quality information technology services anywhere in the world where US interests lie in a responsible and realistic fashion, employing the most current technologies and knowledge. We stand by what we deliver every step of the way and work closely with our customers, from the top, down to the operators. OCONUS Solutions delivers superior results because with us, it’s more than just business as usual. We strive to be the best so our country’s finest can do their best.

Our company’s core competencies are:

IT SERVICES

OCONUS Solutions provides a wide array of information technology support services to include:

  • Project and program management
  • Infrastructure design
  • Hardware and software integration and installation
  • Network design and maintenance
  • Server builds, installs, administration and farming
  • Database design, development and maintenance
  • Software development

COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES

OCONUS Solutions delivers a broad range of communications support services including:

  • Program and project management
  • Infrastructure buildout
  • Trenching, pulling and laying cable
  • Network maintenance
  • Telephony, DSN
  • SATCOM, including VSAT
  • And a lot more

IT IN THE AOR

OCONUS Solutions prides itself on its ability to deliver highly capable and field-tested technical personnel globally, be it domestically in the US or AORs across the world. Our staff has in-depth experience supporting deployed (and garrisoned) Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps personnel by meeting their IT and communications needs in theater or back at HQ. Through years of negotiating deployment requirements and intra-theater transfers, OCONUS Solutions understands what it takes to deploy personnel and we are expert at working within customers’ deployment mechanisms. Adept at delivering top-notch, US talent to anywhere in the world, OCONUS Solutions delivers IT in the AOR better than anyone else!

SURGE REQUIREMENTS

Rapid response to surge IT and communications requirements, including overseas and in hostile areas:

From our background in on-demand staffing in the world of dot.com immediacy back in the early part of this century to being involved in getting new DoD contracts fully staffed and off the ground within often tight agency windows, OCONUS Solutions continuously maintains its ability to deploy quality personnel quickly, cost effectively and efficiently. We stand by our ability to fulfill even the tightest IT surge requirements. If you needed 15 network engineers in Afghanistan like yesterday, for example, we are confident we can deliver what you need faster than anyone else… and with better personnel.

C4ISR

As a veteran-owned small business, we are all about supporting the Joint Warfighter. We have an established business unit that is tasked with providing unparalleled IT and IS support for our nation’s warfighters. Managing, developing, integrating and maintaining Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and Information Systems, we are fully committed and capable of supporting your C4ISR/IT efforts.

  • Technology Analysis and Assessment
  • Design Definition, Development of Systems Specification
  • Systems Architecture
  • Systems Analysis
  • Systems/Equipment Integration
  • Developing test and evaluation criteria
  • Providing logistics, equipment, system, and programmatic support of C4ISR requirements
  • Technology Assessments
  • Acquisition Planning, and Budget Planning
  • Tactical, technical, and field-level expertise

NETWORKING SUPPORT

High level of expertise with designing, installing, maintaining and securing classified and unclassified networks, both hardware and software, including the connected servers and farms. This also includes a proficiency with monitoring network devices to perform fault and root cause analysis.

  • Cisco, Juniper, Foundry and other networking hardware
  • LANs, VLANs, WANs, MANs, ATM, wireless solutions
  • Intranets and cloud computing
  • Converged network and IT infrastructure
  • Layer One: Ethernet networks, Token Bus networks, Token Ring technology, Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM), Fiber Optics networks, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), ISDN, virtual private networks (including cloud-based models), wireless communications methods (802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g), 100VG Any LAN technology, Media Access Control (MAC) methods (Token Passing; CSMA/CD; CSMA/CA)
  • Layer Two: TCP/IP protocols, including Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Internet Protocol (IP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
  • Layer Three: CP/IP protocols include Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP), EIGRP, STP, VTP, ACLs, and Layer 3 tunnels
  • Layer Four: integration, design, development and maintenance of any applications running on this layer
  • JWICS
  • DISN
  • Data Services: NIPRNet (ITSDN/STEP), SIPRNet (GCCS, DMS), DISN-LES
  • Specialized networks, including expertise with classified intelligence networks such as HOCNet
  • Our personnel are DoDD 8570 certified, Cisco-certified, JNCP (Juniper-certified), ITIL v3 certified, and/or Microsoft-certified and are highly technical and well-traveled

SERVER SUPPORT

A long established part of our core business, server support covers all areas involving servers (stand-alone or farmed), to include the building of servers, integration, installation, maintenance, application, and administration. We pride ourselves on keeping current with all server technologies, as this is at the root of all IT. We support Microsoft, Unix (including Solaris), Linux (including Ubuntu), Citrix (including XenServer) and other server technologies. Our personnel are highly certified and acclimated to all environments. If it involves servers, chances are we can do the job, and maintain and administer the technology involved

SOFTWARE

OCONUS Solutions’ software capabilities include database design, development and maintenance (including Oracle 10G/11G and Clobs/Blobs; MySQL, PL/SQL, SQL, MS Access ) and Object-Oriented software development.

  • Project management
  • Systems modeling, simulation, and analysis
  • Java/J2EE/JEE
  • EJB, JSF, GlassFish, NetBeans/Maven, Eclipse IDE, JUnit, XSLT/XML/XML Schema, JUnit
  • XML/SOAP, JPA, JMS, Ruby on Rails
  • NET 3.5/4.0 Framework, Visual Studio 2008/2010, C/C++/C#, Entity Framework, Spring Framework
  • RESTFUL web services
  • Web 2.0 conscious
  • Other related technologies

SPECIALIZED COMMUNICATIONS

Our communications support services expertise includes installation and maintenance of hardware and software, cabling, VoIP/telephony, wireless solutions, and reliable satellite communications.

  • We work with all switches such as Juniper, Avaya, Extreme, Redcom IGX and Promina
  • Some of our high-end communications skillsets include RF/microwave, satellite, HF, VHF, UHF telecommunication systems, VSAT systems, C-Band, Ku-Band, Mesh Networking, Vipersat, Comtech, and much more – well-versed in satellite communications.
  • Expertise in the wireless arena includes Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME-PED) and wireless solutions using GPS, bar coding, and other features to drive field performance and accountability
  • Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) suite of products, including, but not limited to, Cisco routers and switches, phone switches (REDCOM & Avaya), Sidewinder Firewalls, encryption devices, Pairgain and Canoga Perkins modems, UPS’s, microwave radios, virtualized servers, GPS equipment, and more
  • Worldwide SATCOM expertise: Strategic or tactical multi-channel experience, Ku and Ka-Band Mobile Terminals, SATCOM UHT, antenna controller, satellite acquisition, HPA/TWT, LNA/LNB – Low Noise, Fiber/Coax/Ethernet Cable Work, FDMA/TDMA satellite modems, ViaSat Linkway Modems, up-converters, down-converters, MRT, and adept with various SATCOM trailer configuration
  • Extremely familiar with Tactical Command Facility (TCF) environments and REDCOM IGX and Promina expertise in support of the TCFs
  • Highly experienced with maintaining, testing, training, and configuring multiple SATCOM wideband and narrowband terminals – both fixed and mobile, including the USC-60 and commercial derivatives, VSAT, and Microwave Troposcatter systems.
  • Heavy experience with cryptographic systems
  • Design and implement telecommunications architectures
  • Our personnel have worked with most military and commercial radio sets such PSC-5, PRC 117, PRC-148, Land Mobile Radios and their associated support and test equipment

INFORMATION AND DATA SECURITY

Having supported DIA and NSA (and other intelligence agencies for nearly a decade, our staff knows the cleared space very well and is thoroughly familiar and comfortable working with security restrictions and clearance requirements. Our personnel have information security expertise within the Global Information Grid (GIG) to include:

  • Guards, routers, switches
  • Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, malicious code detection
  • Network monitoring tools
  • IP KVM, Virtual Secure Enclaves (VSE) and virtual private networks
  • Personnel are certified according to DoD 8570.1-M and perform a variety of functions, including IAT and IAM and CND-SP and IASAE roles.
  • PKI, CCNP, CCDP, JNCIP, CISSP, CCIE, ISSEP, CEH, ECSA, SCNA, CISA, CISM, GSE, GCIA, SSCP, Network +, A+, Q/EH, CNSA, GSLC+, Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT), and ethical hacking
  • COMSEC, OPSEC, IPSEC etc.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND GREEN CONSTRUCTION

OCONUS Solutions understands that U.S. military installations and government agencies around the world rely on their partners to deliver on the promise of technical expertise, performance and innovation. Green Construction Through a global joint venture with North Carolina-based LandE Networking Systems (with an office in Germany), OCONUS Solutions is able to provide ISEC /CITS approved communications solutions and engineering and design expertise in military communications infrastructure, as well as professional project management.

  • OSHA Construction Safety Certified
  • ISO-certified
  • 5th Signal Command and IMOD, NETCENTS installation expertise
  • Certified Green Professional
  • Member of the US Green Building Council