Improving mission support with modernized applications
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (DOT-FAA): Updated legacy technology to better assist aviation services
Challenge: FAA seeks to modernize its legacy applications used to deliver mission support, which rely on outdated technologies and frameworks. To reduce their security risk, which could result in higher costs to sustain these legacy applications, FAA needs to migrate these applications to an advanced cloud-based platform.
Approach: With TMF support, FAA is focusing on an initial 22 critical services to:
- Migrate critical business applications to an advanced cloud-based platform
- Make applications zero trust ready, running on a modern set of programming tools with automated build, test, and deployment capabilities
- Use operational cost savings to modernize its remaining legacy services
- Create an operational playbook to repeat this work across remaining legacy services
- Investment start: 04/2023
- Project status: Active
- Transfer status: 100%
- Repayment status: 37%
- Schedule delay: No
- Cost overruns: No
- ARP funding: Yes
- Commercial product: Yes
- Total TMF investment amount: $6,430,000
- TMF spend to date (obligated): $6,430,000