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Friday, April 8th Karsun celebrated the grand opening of their third Herndon, Virginia office location. Team members have already start settling into the modern office space. Soon the office will hold fifty employees. It is finished in Wink whiteboard paint and inspired employees can literally write their ideas on the walls. They can also utilize two different conference rooms for more formal meetings.

Karsun celebrated company growth and employee birthdays during this time. Co-founder and Managing Partner Sundar Vaidyanathan took the opportunity to share company updates. He announced Terry Miller as Karsun Solutions’ new Chief Operating Officer (COO). He also emphasized that not only is the company’s footprint expanding, Karsun’s teams are growing and looking for talented individuals to join them. Take a look at the new space below.

Karsun Solutions LLC; Software Development and Maintenance Unit today announced that it has been appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)® for Development. The appraisal was performed by DQS Certification India Private Limited. CMMI® is a capability improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance.

An appraisal at maturity level 3 indicates the organization is performing at a “defined” level. At this level, processes are well characterized and understood, and are described in standards, procedures, tools, and methods. The organization’s set of standard processes, which is the basis for maturity level 3, is established and improved over time.

Karsun’s Software Development portfolio offers Agile development and DevOps services using its proprietary GoLean methodology. This Agile-based framework applies the principles of Lean, Kanban and CMMI® to all phases of the software development lifecycle.

The CMMI® Institute, a subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University, is dedicated to elevating organizational performance through best-in-class solutions to real-world challenges. The Institute is the home of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)® for Development, Services, and Acquisition; the People Capability Maturity Model; and the Data Management Maturity Model (DMM)^SM, which are capability improvement models that create high-performance, high-maturity cultures. The models are used in thousands of organizations worldwide to deliver business results that serve as differentiators in the global market.

Update: In 2022, Karsun Solutions announced it was awarded, as part of a team led by Softrams, work under the General Services Administration (GSA) Business Intelligence (BI) FUSION Support Services Task Order. The contract supports the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Office of Customer and Stakeholder Engagement (CASE) with enabling the internal GSA Business Development Community to eliminate redundancies, increase efficiency, and deliver better value.

Karsun Solutions was awarded a $4 Million prime contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) providing support to the Business Intelligence Professional Support Services (BIPSS) Program.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions is a fast-growing, innovative enterprise modernization firm. Recently awarded Best Company Culture by Comparably.com, its teams deliver modern software development, cloud, and data solutions to customers at government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration and General Services Administration. Leveraging GoLean, Karsun teams drive digital transformation and help its government customers Do Extraordinary. Learn more at Karsun-LLC.com.

Karsun Solutions LLC was included in Inc. 5000’s annual ranking of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in the US. Karsun is an offerer of enterprise modernization services to civilian and defense federal agencies, including IT strategy, software development, and delivery management. An important milestone for the firm, the Inc. 5000 ranking measures growth rate over the three years prior to the award.

For 27 years, the Federal 100 Awards have recognized government, industry and academic leaders who have played pivotal roles that affect how the federal government acquires, develops and manages IT. This year it recognized our own co-founder, Kartik K. Mecheri for his success in “Making GSA more agile.” Kartik has spurred agile development at the General Services Administration with an eye to boosting efficiency. He has been instrumental in helping GSA move away from traditional waterfall development to agile and other methods that stress communication, collaboration and use of the cloud. His influence has extended to GSA’s agile delivery team and innovation lab. Essentially, Kartik and his team created a robust repository of proven, free code for federal agencies to reuse.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions modernizes enterprise systems enabling agencies to make the next technological advancement their next opportunity to elevate mission capability. IT solutions from Karsun are tailored to meet agencies’ unique needs and optimize operations. These solutions adapt and stay relevant to current trends while using secure, digital architecture built to last. It is a proven modernization partner whose expertise elevates agency capabilities and ensures every next opportunity is within reach.

HERNDON, Virginia —Karsun Solutions, a government contractor specializing in IT modernization, announced its accounting system received DCAA Approval. An audit conducted by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) determined that Karsun Solutions, LLC’s accounting system design complies in all material respects with the criteria contained in FAR 53.209-1(f), SF 1408. View Karsun’s complete list of awards and certifications here.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions was awarded a five-year prime contract with a ceiling value of $110 million by the General Services Agency (GSA), Federal Acquisition Systems (FAS), under the CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Operations Small Business (CAMEO SB) contract. Karsun Solutions provides comprehensive transformation management support to General Services Administration (GSA) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) to modernize and streamline the GSA Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) portfolio, reduce the dependencies where possible of systems and environments, and to improve efficiencies and align the application portfolio with the business needs of the organization. The transformation focus includes operationalizing adaptive and agile development to increase efficiency and reduce O&M costs over the period of performance, achieving cost savings through a more efficient portfolio of applications, and architecting solutions which maximize the reuse of GSA’s software assets & platforms and develop “Cloud-Ready” applications.

About Karsun Solutions

HERNDON, VA – Karsun Solutions was awarded a $75M five year subcontract by Lockheed Martin in support of the General Services Agency (GSA), Federal Acquisition Systems (FAS), under the CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Operations Large Business (CAMEO LB) contract. Under this contract, Karsun provides services for application modernization, cloud migration, application development, enhancements, maintenance, DevOps services and database management services. The scope also includes strategic consulting services to realize GSA’s vision of Common Acquisition Platform (CAP) that seeks to provide Government-wide transactional data and reduce the costs of operating redundant acquisition systems.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions, LLC recently announced it received its ISO:9001:2008 Quality Management Systems Certification. The firm is proud to have achieved certification of its Quality Management approach, certified by an accredited certification body against the standards developed by the International Standards Organization. View Karsun’s complete list of awards and certifications here.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions is a premier IT and consulting services company with a culture of innovation. We offer a portfolio of Enterprise Modernization services to both Federal agencies and commercial clients. Karsun combines years of institutional knowledge, emerging technologies, and customer commitment to ensure delivery excellence. Our established quality, development, and information security practices make us a preferred partner for any organization, be it public sector or private enterprise.

CIO Review magazine rated Karsun Solutions among the 20 Most Promising Government Tech Companies. The selection criteria considered a vendor’s capability to support core business processes of all government verticals including innovation areas related to advanced technologies and smart customer management. They also looked at capabilities related to cloud, Big Data analytics, mobility and social media.