Start with the mission and the system.
Clarify users, business functions, dependencies, data, operational constraints, support models, and the role the application plays in the broader portfolio.
Federal Application Modernization Advisory
Modernization guidance grounded in the application environment.
TDG helps federal application owners and delivery organizations navigate the technical, organizational, and agency-specific complexities of cloud modernization—from readiness and stakeholder alignment through migration and operations.
Our positionA connective layer between mission, application, agency process, and cloud execution.
EnvironmentFederal health
Complex application portfolios and regulated mission services.
SpecializationCMS application experience
Practical familiarity with application-owner and contractor needs.
DeliveryEnd to end
Readiness, migration planning, execution, and transition.
Advisory services
Clarity at the points where modernization becomes difficult.
TDG brings cloud engineering, program delivery, federal health domain knowledge, and stakeholder coordination together in one advisory model.
Identify what must be true before migration.
Assess technical and organizational readiness, modernization options, integration constraints, security needs, and the actions required to move responsibly.
Navigate the process around the technology.
Help teams understand funding, onboarding, architecture, security, provisioning, data authorization, and operational-readiness requirements.
Create a shared path to execution.
Connect application owners, delivery contractors, platform organizations, cybersecurity teams, agency leadership, and program stakeholders.
Carry decisions into delivery and operations.
Support migration sequencing, governance, risk management, decision tracking, transition planning, resilience, and post-migration improvement.
Modernization journey
A clear path from cloud intent to operational adoption.
The work is structured around decisions and outcomes—not a one-size-fits-all migration checklist.
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Understand
Establish the mission, application, dependencies, stakeholders, and constraints.
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Assess
Evaluate cloud readiness, risk, migration options, security, and organizational preparedness.
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Align
Clarify agency requirements, funding, roles, decisions, and the shared execution plan.
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Execute
Coordinate migration activities, dependencies, governance, risks, testing, and transition.
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Operate
Strengthen reliability, cost visibility, resilience, security, and continuous modernization.
Engagement options
Support matched to the decision in front of you.
The offering can begin with a focused assessment or operate as a continuing advisory function across a portfolio.
Cloud Readiness Assessment
Determine whether an application is ready to move, what stands in the way, and what must happen next.
- Readiness scorecard
- Dependency and risk overview
- Migration-path recommendation
- Initial roadmap
Application Modernization Advisory
Support an application owner or delivery contractor through planning, agency alignment, migration, and transition.
- Advisory sessions
- Architecture and migration reviews
- Decision and risk tracking
- Stakeholder coordination
Modernization Portfolio Advisory
Establish priorities, migration waves, shared dependencies, and executive visibility across multiple applications.
- Portfolio segmentation
- Migration-wave planning
- Readiness dashboard
- Cross-application risk analysis
Cloud Adoption & Governance Office
Provide a consistent advisory function for application teams moving through agency cloud modernization.
- Application-team office hours
- Standardized readiness reviews
- Governance coordination
- Reusable playbooks and reporting
Cross-functional by design
Three TDG practices working as one advisory system.
Federal application modernization rarely fits inside a single discipline. This offering combines cloud engineering, strategic program delivery, and federal health technology knowledge around the mission and application owner.
Cloud & Platform EngineeringArchitecture, migration, security, automation, operations
Strategic Program DeliveryGovernance, planning, risk, decisions, coordination
Health Technology & InteroperabilityFederal health context, data, integration, regulation
Agency & Stakeholder ContextOwners, contractors, platform teams, security, leadership
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Intended outcome
Move from modernization intent to an executable path.
Application owners and delivery teams gain a clearer modernization strategy, aligned stakeholders, documented decisions, visible risks, and a practical plan for moving forward.
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Earlier clarity
Dependencies, agency requirements, constraints, and decision points are identified before they delay execution.
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Stronger alignment
Application, contractor, platform, security, and leadership stakeholders work from a shared understanding.
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More informed decisions
Modernization choices reflect technical feasibility, mission needs, federal processes, and operational realities.
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Better execution readiness
The team enters migration with clearer ownership, sequencing, governance, risk controls, and transition expectations.
Federal health experience
Experience supporting CMS application environments.
TDG has experience supporting cloud-modernization activities across CMS application environments. Through that work, the team has developed practical familiarity with application-owner and contractor needs and with the processes that shape modernization planning and execution.
The value is not only cloud knowledge. It is the ability to help the people responsible for federal applications clarify decisions, dependencies, ownership, and the path to execution.
Start with the application
Need a clearer path through cloud modernization?
Share the application environment, the modernization objective, and where progress is becoming difficult. TDG will begin with the context.
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