Stories

A little more about us…

Over the years, we have been a little nervous about talking about what we do, because the clients we work with and the information systems they rely on to do their jobs can be, well, a little sensitive. This has driven us to “default to silence” when thinking about the production of…

These are, in fact, the bots we were looking for…

One of this summer’s automation projects was developing a bot that performs Configuration Management (CM) for us in Slack! This bot allows anyone at Bluestone to generate an accurate and unique CM number, without bothering our CM professionals…

ENCORE III protests upheld by GAO, DISA to amend RFP

Technical Debt — In Plain English

In business, all human problems are also business problems, viewed with a wide enough lens. Unhappy humans are unhappy workers, and unhappy workers are less productive. —…

Are Cloud and Cybersecurity Regulations More Important Now than Ever Before?

With more government contractors adopting cloud solutions for their businesses, the importance of maintaining security regulations has become more pressing.

Ensuring Quality through Process Discipline

It’s certifiably official now.

NDAA 2016 and the IT Reform Warfighters Need

On October 20th, Senator John McCain and Congressman Mac Thornberry discussed the National Defense Authorization Act, hosted by the Brookings Institution. Congress recently passed the act for 2016 with bipartisan support, but the President immediately…

My Summer

After my first internship at Honeywell in the summer of 2014, working primarily in the procurement division, I wasn’t sure what to expect of my future in “real world engineering.” My previous understanding of how engineering companies operated behind the scenes was shaped at Honeywell, however the work I was…