Contract Vehicles: Seaport-E
Point of Contact and Customer Support
SPARC’s success is measured by the value we bring to our customers. For any Seaport queries or feedback please contact: Doug Ross at SPARC_Seaporte@sparcedge.com
The SPARC Team
SPARC, LLC is a Charleston, S.C. based Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that specializes in providing full software development life cycle (SDLC) support services with significant experience working with and developing for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARSYSCEN). SPARC’s mission is to provide business solutions through the agility and knowledge of our people and the performance they can drive for our clients.
Maga Design Group, headquartered in Washington DC, specializes in weaving together concepts, metaphors, words, and visuals to build powerful communications messages that inspire stakeholders to work toward the success of the organization. Maga Design Group has years of experience in Information Technology working with U.S. Navy initiative to bring high-level strategic communications to Federal Government leaders.
Control Systems Research, Inc. (CSR) is a minority owned and controlled business headquartered in Valparaiso, Florida with field offices located in all Seaport-e zones. CSR’s corporate structure consists of two divisions, Engineering and Weather. CSR’s Engineering Division provides support for Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corp missions encompassing a broad range of support including custom hardware and software development, range safety weapon footprint development, navigation system analysis, simulation and modeling, and platform weapon interface analysis. CSR’s Weather Division supports Air Force, Army, National Guard, Homeland Security, Navy, and FAA missions. CSR also provides weather observations, weather forecast, weather mission support, weather flight briefings, and weather equipment maintenance services.
Task Order Awards
| TO Number | Delivery Order Number | Zone | Customer | Downloads |
| N00178-11-D-6682 | 0001 | 2 | SPAWAR Charleston | Award Document |
Quality Assurance Program
SPARC uses the agile SCRUM methodology approach to software development and testing. As part of this methodology, QA testers are embedded within software development teams and work side-by-side with Software Developers to ensure the quality of the code that is being delivered by the development teams.
Process Description
During the development) phase, the QA Tester creates test cases and test scripts that provide functional test coverage of the user stories that are being worked by their development team. Testers conduct both manual and automated testing alongside Software Developers throughout the development iteration. Defects that are found by the QA Tester during the development iteration are captured as tasks against specific work items. The QA Tester then works closely with the Software Developers to resolve the defect and to re-execute the test case once the code has been updated. Defects found within the current iteration are pushed to be resolved within the current iteration. This process of embedding the QA Tester within the development team and testing code as it’s delivered (as opposed to after) creates a continuous feedback loop within the team, and helps to ensure the delivery of quality code by the end of each development iteration.