Large-Scale IT Program Management for Government Operations

Some engagements aren't about writing the system — they're about running it. We took day-to-day operational and security ownership of a state government's outsourced network environment: dozens of concurrent workstreams, a large mixed staff, and an uptime bar with no room for excuses.

Program ManagementNetwork OperationsSecurity OperationsVendor CoordinationIDS / Firewall ArchitecturePenetration TestingStaff Leadership

Industry

Government / Public Sector

Scale

Large · $70M multi-year contract

Status

Delivered for full contract term

// Problem

The challenge

Large government IT outsourcing contracts rarely fail on technology — they fail on operations. Dozens of task orders running in parallel, unclear ownership across vendors and internal teams, and a security program that gets treated as a once-a-year audit instead of daily practice.

// Solution

What we ran

Took direct operational and security leadership across a $70M, multi-year state government network-operations contract spanning 22 concurrent task orders.

Directed a staff of 80+ across team leads, network engineers, database administrators and security specialists
Stood up and personally ran the contract's security program: firewall and intrusion-detection architecture, plus hands-on penetration testing against the environment it protected
Coordinated across many simultaneous workstreams and subcontractor teams so 22 task orders moved together rather than blocking each other
Owned the security and reliability posture directly, rather than delegating it to a separate compliance function

// Operating Model

How it ran

Every task order reported into one operational picture rather than 22 separate ones, so a slip on one workstream was visible against the others immediately instead of surfacing at a milestone review. The security program ran the same way: firewall/IDS posture and internal penetration testing were continuous inputs to daily operations, not a once-a-year external exercise bolted on afterward.

// Outcome

Results

A $70M, multi-year contract run at a zero-tolerance reliability and security bar, sustained across its full term
A security program — firewalls, intrusion detection, and internal red-team testing — integrated into daily operations rather than treated as a separate audit exercise
22 concurrent task orders and an 80-person mixed technical staff kept coordinated without one dropping the others

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