Our Mision
Cogent Solutions provides reliable IT, project management, and web excellence.
About Cogent Solutions
Pioneering IT Services for Federal Success
About Cogent Solutions
Founded in 2000 by Glen Adams and headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Cogent Solutions is a leading provider of IT, web, and project management services to the Federal Government. We deliver award-winning support on a variety of mission-critical projects, including Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 self-certification. Our entrepreneurial approach, combined with a continuously educated staff in emerging technologies, ensures we exceed contract requirements and customer expectations. "IT Services, PPMM & Software Consultancy. Trusted Since 2000."
Our Vision
Leading federal IT solutions with innovation, scalability, and adaptability.
Our Services
Explore Our Comprehensive IT and Support Services
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Program and Project Management
Cogent Solutions adheres to PMI standards, including the PMBOK Guide and other PMI publications. Our Program/Project Management process covers initiation, monitoring, controlling, reporting, and closing, ensuring quality, communication, cost, schedules, and risk management throughout the contract.
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Software Engineering & App Development
Cogent Solutions utilizes an SEI-certified CMMI Level-3 iterative SDLC methodology to deliver high-quality, fully-functional software. This approach follows industry best practices, ensuring continuous discovery, innovation, and predictable, repeatable project completion, driving development team efficiency.
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Network Engineering and Management
Cogent Solutions excels in operations management, ensuring system availability, performance, and cost control. Through effective planning, design, implementation, and maintenance, we deliver reliable network IT services, backed by proven network engineering and management practices.
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Cloud Technology
Cogent Solutions is an AWS GovCloud and Microsoft® Azure reseller, delivering evolving cloud support with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions. We provide on-demand computing, storage, databases, applications, and resources with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing.
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Web Services
Cogent Solutions offers end-to-end web services, creating innovative, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to client needs. With expertise in public, private, and hybrid cloud, we’ve supported DoD’s Web Center of Excellence and ATO achievement for public cloud websites.
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PR & Communication
Cogent Solutions provides expert PR and communication services, focusing on strategic messaging, public outreach, crisis communication, and content creation to enhance organizational outreach, streamline internal messaging, and align with agency goals.
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Training NextGen
Cogent Solutions offers customized training programs to prepare professionals in emerging technologies like cloud computing, software development, cybersecurity, and IT management. Our hands-on approach bridges skill gaps and supports certifications for future-focused workforce development.
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Information Assurance
Cogent Solutions offers Information Assurance support using NIST's Risk Management Framework (RMF), ensuring comprehensive cybersecurity capabilities, risk-based implementation, system lifecycle integration, and continuous monitoring to secure Information Systems (IS) and Platform IT systems effectively.
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Help Desk and End-User Technical Support
Cogent Solutions provides comprehensive customer support, handling thousands of tickets across Tier I, II, and III levels. Tier I support includes live voice, online interaction, and onsite visits. We use BMC Remedy, Jira, Zendesk, and Freshdesk for ticketing and CMDB management.
Empowering businesses with IT solutions. Cogent Solutions delivers innovative services in IT, PPMM, and software consultancy, exceeding client expectations through expertise, enthusiasm, and award-winning support. A trusted partner for federal agencies and mission-critical projects.
Cloud Technology
Cogent Solutions follows the Program Management Institute (PMI) standards reflected in the PMI PMBOK Guide, Program Management Practice Standard, Portfolio Management Practice Standard, and other PMI publications. Our Program/Project Management approach consists of initiation, monitoring and controlling, reporting, and closing out. The process oversight includes management of quality, communications, cost, schedules, and risks, and will apply to all tasks and subtasks throughout the contract. Our approach to project management is based on the nature of the tasks, determining which are interrelated or independent projects managed by a Program Manager (PM) in a centralized, coordinated effort aimed at achieving organizational strategic objectives and benefits as listed in the PWS. The process oversight includes management of quality, communications, cost, schedules, and risks, applicable to all projects/tasks throughout the contract. Our specific approach to individual projects/tasks is based on their nature and interdependencies and is reflected in the integrated program management to be overseen in a centralized coordinated effort. Cogent Solutions’ Project Plans provide scalable project processes under sequential or parallel schedules, e.g., Waterfall/Agile. Under our Program Management Plan, we also develop an integrated master schedule and use EVM (Earned Value Management) to manage the budgetary issues in an integrated fashion. The following illustrates our basic approach to Program/Project Management.
Software Engineering & App Development
Compared with other development methodologies, Cogent Solutions iterative process has the following advantages:
- Risks are mitigated earlier
- Change is more manageable
- There is a higher level of software reuse
- The project team can learn along the way
- The product has a better overall quality
Network Engineering and Management
Cogent Solutions organizes its approach to maintaining the client network into three distinct practices which follow the logical flow of the IT Life Cycle: Planning and Design, Implementation, and Operations & Maintenance. The latter of these practices, operations and maintenance, represents the majority of work conducted daily on the client network.
Cogent Solutions’ operations and maintenance phase provides agencies with support over the following task areas:
- Monitoring and Reporting
- LAN/WAN/VPN Connectivity
- System Administration
- Hardware and Software Maintenance
- Infrastructure Management
- Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)
Web Services
Support services include analysis of alternatives, technology assessment, cloud-based test environment implementation, implementation of a cloud-based production environment along with scripting to allow for both public cloud and private cloud using a hyperconverged environment. Additional support services include help desk support on web development, content, and security requirements.
Help Desk and End-User Technical Support
Our Tier I specialists support application operation demands that require the support of end users and provide configuration and sustainment maintenance of the core Help/Service desk modules: Service Request, Knowledge Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change and Release Management, and Configuration Management. These modules are customized to meet client specific requirements. For example, we would set up Incident and Problem management processing by the client policies of priorities, and in the case of Incident management, the priorities could be directly dependent on the Impact as exemplified below.
Security and Enterprise Architecture
- System categorization,
- Security control selection,
- Security control implementation,
- We will support technical aspects of control assessment and authorizations (e.g., creation of POA&M)
- In the post-authorization period, the Cogent ISSEs will support continuous monitoring.
Cogent Solutions’ Enterprise Architecture (EA) services help agencies plan and execute the Information Technology (IT) strategies that support their mission-critical functions. The methodology is based on industry best practices and frameworks developed by the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) framework.
Cogent Solutions’ EA services help agencies to comply with the FEA, which has become an integral part of the federal government’s Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process for making investment decisions, assessing investment process effectiveness, and refining investment related policies and procedures.
Agencies can realize significant cost savings and avoidance, as well as reduced redundancy as a result of Cogent Solutions’ Enterprise Architecture expertise. The FEA framework includes standards, tools, and models for agencies to use in developing EA artifacts. This framework focuses on improving in the areas of budgeting, performance, integration, and collaboration. Cogent Solutions utilizes the FEA framework as a basis to develop IT strategic plans, segmented architectures, EA transition plan, and other required EA documentation.
Program and Project
Management
Cogent Solutions follows the Program Management Institute (PMI) standards reflected in the PMI PMBOK Guide, Program Management Practice Standard, Portfolio Management Practice Standard, and other PMI publications.
Our Program/Project Management approach consists of initiation, monitoring and controlling, reporting, and closing out. The process oversight includes management of quality, communications, cost, schedules, and risks, and will apply to all tasks and subtasks throughout the contract.
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Software Engineering & App Development
Cogent Solutions utilizes an iterative Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology to deliver high-quality, fully-functional, and high-performance software development services to the client. The iterative approach below is an SEI-certified CMMI Level-3 SDLC methodology.
Cogent Solutions methodology is based on industry best practices, supporting continuous discovery, invention, and implementation with each iteration, and forcing the development team to drive the project’s artifacts to completion in a predictable and repeatable way.
Cloud Technology
Cogent Solutions is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud and Microsoft® Azure reseller providing a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform support hosted by Amazon.
It provides a mix of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings. These offerings provide on-demand delivery of computing power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Our Program/Project Management approach consists of initiation, monitoring and controlling, reporting, and closing out. The process oversight includes management of quality, communications, cost, schedules, and risks, and will apply to all tasks and subtasks throughout the contract.
Network Engineering and Management
Effective and efficient operations management is key to Cogent Solutions’ ability to deliver Network Information Technology (IT) Services. Cogent Solutions provides a well-conceived and constructed operations management environment to achieve system availability, performance, and cost control of client environments.
This includes the planning, design, implementation, and maintenance of agency networks through a proven network engineering and maintenance approach.
Our Program/Project Management approach consists of initiation, monitoring and controlling, reporting, and closing out. The process oversight includes management of quality, communications, cost, schedules, and risks, and will apply to all tasks and subtasks throughout the contract.
Web
Services
Cogent Solutions provides end-to-end web service with professionals who specialize in creating unique, innovative and sustainable solutions to meet each client’s requirements. Our focus is on performance, scalability, and security – with experience in both public cloud, private cloud and hybrid solutions for agencies moving toward more efficient cloud approaches.
Cogent Solutions has past performance experience in standing up and operating a Web Center of Excellence (CoE) for DoD within the Pentagon and helping to achieve the first DoD Authority to Operate (ATO) for public facing websites on a public cloud environment within the Pentagon.
Help Desk and End-User Technical Support
Cogent Solutions provides customer support experience processing thousands of tickets for tier-structured Help/Service Desk support. Support provided is across Tier I, II, and III levels.
Tier 1 support includes online or live voice interaction with a user and onsite visits. Cogent Solutions has hands-on familiarity with the BMC Remedy (specifically RemedyForce), Jira, ChangeClear, CA, Jira, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and other Helpdesk tools providing ticket generation, prioritization, and CMDB.
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Information Assurance
Cogent Solutions provides Information Assurance support services using NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Risk Management Framework (RMF). RMF describes the process for identifying, implementing, assessing, and managing cybersecurity capabilities and services, expressed as security controls, and authorizing the operation of Information Systems (IS) and Platform Information Technology (PIT) systems.
Our solutions provide a risk-based approach to the implementation of cybersecurity, supports cybersecurity integration early and throughout the system lifecycle, promotes reciprocity to the maximum extent possible, and stresses continuous monitoring.
Security and Enterprise Architecture
Cogent Solutions’ approach to Security Engineering is a review process and coordination with the expected outcome of identifying the application vulnerabilities. Code reviews containing insufficient functionalities and tainted code segments are made available to the developers for fixing. The known application system vulnerabilities are provided to the Information System Security Engineer (ISSE), including mitigation or remediation.
This process is two-fold: Cogent Solution ISSEs schedule patching of the application security vulnerabilities, or if that effort is outside the time allowance and availability of resources allocated in the project plan, a Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) is developed.
