Mobomo is proud to announce that Brian Lacey, CEO of Mobomo, has been named one of OrangeSlices’ 2025 Engage Federal Citizen Services 150 Honorees. This prestigious recognition celebrates Brian’s leadership in pioneering innovative solutions within Federal Citizen Services. Under his direction, Mobomo has advanced human-centered design, Agile collaboration, transformative use of open-source technology, infrastructure-managed services, and emerging technology.
The 2025 Engage Honorees represent the top echelon of industry and government IT professionals driving forward the mission-critical work of Federal Citizen Services and Federal Financial sectors. As one of these visionary leaders, Brian has been instrumental in Mobomo’s collaborative efforts across the Federal landscape to promote transparency, enhance service delivery and build solutions that align with Federal missions.
“It’s an incredible honor to be recognized among those who are truly ‘doing it right’ in the GovCon community,” said Brian Lacey, Mobomo CEO. “This award celebrates our commitment to fostering a culture of purpose-driven innovation that aligns with our values and the mission objectives of our federal partners.”
The selection process for the 2025 Engage Honorees was highly competitive, underscoring Mobomo’s contributions under Brian’s leadership. The company’s expertise, from its SAFe® Agile practices and partnerships with FedRAMP-certified providers to its dedication to secure, resilient solutions, has driven change across projects with agencies like the Department of Education, NOAA, NASA, and International Trade Administration.
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About Mobomo
Mobomo, a private company headquartered in the D.C. metro area, is a CMMI Dev Level 3, ISO 9005:2015, and CMMC Level 1 provider of digital transformation system integration services.
A premier provider of mobile, web, infrastructure, and cloud applications to federal agencies and large enterprises, Mobomo combines leading-edge technology with human-centered design and strategy to craft next-generation digital experiences. From private sector companies to government agencies, we have amassed deep expertise helping our clients enhance and expand their existing web and mobile suite. Interested in learning more about Mobomo? Take a tour of our capabilities, our portfolio of work, the team members who make our clients look so fantastic, and feel free to reach out with any questions you might have.
Mobomo Named One of Only Six Partners to Achieve Elite Diamond Status
Gaithersburg, MD – Mobomo, a full-service DevOps agency, today announced its recognition as a Diamond Level Certified Partner to Drupal, a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) managed by one of the largest open-source communities in the world. With over 1M passionate developers, designers, trainers, strategists, coordinators, editors, and sponsors working together, the Drupal community builds Drupal, provides support, creates documentation, shares networking opportunities, and drives the success of this flexible, innovative software.
Mobomo is honored to be recognized as a Diamond Partner, as we have actively supported and engaged with Drupal.org for close to a decade. While there are nearly 5000 Partner organizations, few reach elite status (Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond). This achievement is not a paid subscription – it is the result of involvement. As an open-source CMS, the quality and functionality of Drupal is dependent upon the efforts of dedicated professionals who contribute their time and talent to enhancing the software. Their efforts are ranked by Drupal using a weighted scoring system.
Mobomo’s ascension to the Diamond tier is a profound accomplishment. There are only 6 organizations out of 5000 who have attained this status. What’s more, Mobomo ranks #4 amongst all of these partners for the number of issue credits in the past 90 days – a separate but equally staggering feat.
“There is so much to be proud of with regard the recognition of Mobomo as a leader in the Drupal community. We have been champions of all things Drupal for many years and it’s an honor to be a part of this talented community,” said Brian Lacey, Mobomo CEO. “I would especially like to thank Stephen Mustgrave for his tireless commitment to enhancing Drupal and ensuring it is one of the best CMS’ available.”
At Mobomo, we pride ourselves on providing top-tier teams of professionals to our customers and delivering innovative solutions to complex problems. This combination of excellence has gained the company positive press and many awards, including: The Webby Awards, Muse Creative Awards, Acquia Awards, the W3 Awards, Vega Awards, PR News Digital Awards, Washington Business Journal’s Awards, Web Excellence Awards, and more. We continue to be grateful for the talented team that has driven exceptionalism in our work, leading to recognition from our peers in the industry, and we look forward to showcasing our future work! View our Drupal profile including marquee case studies: https://www.drupal.org/mobomo.
About Mobomo, LLC
Mobomo is a CMMI Dev Level 3, ISO 9005:2015, and CMMC Level 1 provider of digital transformation system integration services. A premier provider of mobile, web, infrastructure, and cloud applications to federal agencies and large enterprises, Mobomo combines leading-edge technology with human-centered design and strategy to craft next generation digital experience. For more information, For more information about Mobomo, LLC and its services, please visit www.mobomo.com and/or contact us directly at hello@mobomo.com.
At the beginning of November, The Department of the Interior announced a lifetime pass providing free entrance to National Parks, Wildlife Refuges and Other Public Lands for veterans and gold star family members. The VA followed this announcement with an email to every Veteran and all eligible family members on November 17, 2022.
Mobomo developed and has managed the USGS Store site for several years now so when USGS stakeholders realized that approximately 20 million people had been notified of this fantastic opportunity, they made the Mobomo team aware that the site might experience an increase in traffic; which was exactly what happened (see chart below) – with 2.5 million requests funneled through the site across a 6-hour period and elevated activity throughout the course of the week.
USGS Store historically has maintained a steady flow of traffic through the site without large shifts in traffic. The spike in traffic the site experienced proved to be a significant testament to how well the Mobomo team engineered the site, which uses AWS elastic Kubernetes service (EKS) and leverages two scaling groups: one for running the applications (Drupal, nginx cache, redis), and one for running Elasticsearch clusters. More importantly, however, millions of our service members and their families were able to successfully obtain their lifetime National Parks passes – providing them the opportunity to build wonderful memories and enjoy our country’s treasured lands.
For more information on how we create elegant solutions to complex problems, please visit the Mobomo website or reach out to us directly for more information.
This advertisement is not intended to state or imply that the products or services provided are approved or endorsed by the Government or are considered by the Government to be superior to other products or services.
Mobomo team members are truly passionate about discovering ways in which technology can solve difficult everyday challenges. For over 13 years we have supported Departments and Agencies in the Federal Civilian marketplace, creating elegant solutions to solve complex problems. Some challenges are more important than others; our work with the Veterans Administration (VA) and the United Service Organizations (USO) has focused our team to find solutions to real-world issues that affect the men and women who have served in the armed forces.
According to a June 2022 article published by the USO, the suicide rates for US military personnel are historically double that of the civilian population. Since record-keeping began following the events of 9/11, suicide rates among active-duty military members are at an all-time high. One of the biggest contributors to mental health is a sense of community and alleviation from feelings of isolation. Transitioning to civilian life is often difficult for many service members. The loss of mission and feeling a part of something bigger and more important than themselves, even years later they express a feeling of disconnection from their military family.
We take pride in all our work, especially in support of the VA and in working together with the Veterans who work alongside us here at Mobomo. Our team is acutely aware of the need for active outreach opportunities to promote mental health and reduce stressors, especially when it comes to our Veteran population. Utilizing resources allocated through MobomoLabs, our Engineering team and technical SMEs began a two-year discovery journey that would culminate in the rise of Sentinel, a human-centered mobile platform built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities.
The concept of Sentinel began with the vision of developing an ethical tool that would provide health equity for all, improve access to Veterans Crisis Line Services, allow for interoperability between smartphones, tablets, and web-based devices, aid in the reengagement of the individual, screen for early signs of distress, and be scalable across a broad veteran population. Current published metrics identify that 85% of the U.S. population uses smartphones, 75% own a desktop/laptop, and nearly 50% use tablets. Therefore, a digital platform was a logical connection point for the community of 1.2 million active duty and 19 million Veterans. Sentinel was designed as an all-inclusive ecosystem, delivered through a simple, intuitive user interface that is accessible across mobile, tablet, and web-based devices. The features within Sentinel were developed to target areas of interest specific to our military members and serve as a conduit for attaining and/or retaining the connection to those unique cultural unifiers that bond and bind service members to each other.
The thoughtful design began by creating an intuitive tool that would engage individuals, creating repeat users, and improving access to Veterans Crisis Services. The initial release has a landing page that provides access to critical support for service members (VHA, VA locations, the VA Crisis Line, Veteran Community Organizations, Veteran Support Groups, and the individual’s safety plan) prompting them to discover different ways to access support services available to them and their families. Utilizing the AI voice automated screening developed by our partner, Clearspeed, Sentinel could identify early warning signs through our scalable and interoperable risk prevention analytics. Sentinel has infinite scalability and can be expanded as usage and the user network grows, perhaps to encompass resources including but not limited to educational and career resources, geo-fencing to events in the direct vicinity, veteran-based business advertisements, and veteran networking, among other features.
During Sentinel’s development, we focused on the unique attributes of the military culture – honor, loyalty, and commitment. As an experienced VA contractor currently tasked with developing the Mental Health Check Up (MHC) application for the VA, Mobomo utilized our lessons learned, constructing the front-end of the Sentinel platform around activities that fulfill service member needs/desires (specifically a sense of community, purpose, and communication vehicles), providing direct access to support systems should the user require immediate intervention. With the push of a button, an individual could access the Veterans Crisis Hotline or Chat, a self-created safety plan, their support network, local resources available to them (geo-fencing), and the AI-based risk assessment check-in tool.
Sentinel’s Secret Sauce
The risk assessment component within Sentinel uses an AI-driven, voice-based technology from Clearspeed. Clearspeed voice analytics proactively identify potential suicide ideation and risk prior to escalations that could result in self-harm. Clearspeed voice analytics technology has been used successfully across a range of personnel screening applications: risk assessment, insider threat detection, protection of proprietary information, insurance fraud, force protection, resilience screening, and detection of malicious actors. Preemptive identification of suicide ideation requires the verbal answering of 3-4 simple, automated, and non-intrusive questions eliciting “Yes/No” responses. The proliferation of research regarding suicide across the Veteran population confirms that suicide is often precipitated by a culmination of disparate factors that add layers of stress on an individual, eventually becoming unbearable. According to the 2021 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report, 60% of the Veterans who died by suicide in 2019 did not utilize resources available to them through VHA. Sentinel serves as a “sensor” by proactively identifying those service members developing suicidal thoughts. Sentinel has the capability to detect stressors in the user and direct health care providers to proactively reach out to the user, providing resources and/or engaging in interventions prior to behavioral escalations that could result in harm to themselves or others.
Bringing together Mobomo’s core competencies of User-centered design, rapid prototyping, and application development with a bleeding-edge technology company and innovator, Clearspeed, we built a mobile platform, to include cloud infrastructure, resources, dependencies, compliance checks, and network connections necessary to deliver a scalable, flexible, and reproducible experience. Our team automates every aspect of a product pipeline to ensure 100% reliability on every release. We built fault-tolerant, highly available solutions that heal themselves, which helps eliminate single points of failure. Additionally, we future-proofed our designs by architecting them around containers, micro-servers, and fully managed serverless computing and storage solutions.
While Sentinel is a mobile application geared to support our service members, the possibility of its application across other groups and for different purposes is limitless; and that is what MobomoLabs is truly about – discovering and designing elegant solutions to even the most seemingly insurmountable challenges. For more information about how Mobomo conceives, builds, and delivers mission-critical products that people love to use, please visit our site or reach out to us directly.
In September 2022, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. announced its plans to award Team Mobomo the opportunity to build MBN’s Radio Sawa Mobile Application.
Radio Sawa provides news and information to audiences throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through different media platforms, including mobile devices and the Internet. Radio Sawa maintains an active all-news website (www.radiosawa.com) which provides both up to the minute news and information as well as audio live streaming, making the network one of the most trusted sources of news and insights on social and political life in the Middle East and North Africa.
The project will consist of building a modern, user-friendly, and engaging mobile application for smartphone users living in the MENA region. It will be an audio-content-based app that allows users to seamlessly stream audio channels, listen to on-demand audio content/radio shows/podcasts, read about shows and episodes, and interact with the content and channel. The primary objective is to revamp the website and the mobile application of Radio Sawa which currently has three streams/channels, such that they meet the audio channel’s digital transformation needs. The app will be available on both iOS and Android app stores and be compatible with the devices used in the MENA region.
ABOUT MOBOMO
Mobomo is a CMMI Dev Level 3 premier mobile, web, and cloud application development company that has extensive experience in creating award-winning, Agile, user-centered design solutions and providing DevSecOps capabilities. As a proud Drupal Association member, Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector partner and reseller, Microsoft certified partner, Acquia partner, and member of the Digital Services Coalition, Mobomo is well positioned to provide our clients with quality service, executing tasks on time and within budget, while minimizing risk.
ABOUT MBN:
The Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN) is the non-profit news organization that operates Alhurra Television and Radio Sawa under a grant from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
To learn more about Team Mobomo, please feel free to visit our website.
In the days of old, long, long ago, civilization nearly came to a standstill all because of sloppy code and a lack of foresight. Geniuses promoting the impending catastrophe creatively named it Y2K (Year 2000) and in the months that preceded the impending doom that the world would reap as a result of the “millennium bug” (as it was also so aptly referred to), programmers across all industries scrambled to save the culture’s – neigh – the world’s recent and vast leaps in technology made during the dawn of the internet. Some 20+ years later, Drupal developers find themselves beset by a similar foe – Drupal 10 and the premature, planned obsolescence of CKEditor 4.
Okay…so that was all a bit hyperbolic (but there is a slice of truth to it). Drupal 10 is actually going to be a really great upgrade that is streamlined and refined, utilizing the most popular and critical modules for development while simultaneously retiring unused, underused, and non-essential modules – all the great features of Drupal 9 without any of the dead weight. Furthermore, Drupal releases are going to be performed in tandem with Symphony releases with a continuous focus on honing the core so that it is a sound infrastructure upon which modules can be used to strengthen and expand that core going forward.
But the elephants in the room are CKEditor 4 (under planned obsolescence) and CKEditor 5 (being built from scratch). The trouble with building something from scratch to replace something old (at least in the case of CKEditor 5) is that the old library is filled with “hard copy books” while the new library is “digital” – and there is no automated “module converter” available. With very few of the modules within CKEditor 4 being transferred to CKEditor 5, a large selection of plugins that are currently being used on existing modules are not yet compatible and because Drupal is an open-source community, it falls to the community to contribute patches back…which isn’t happening fast enough.
Unlike Y2K, the patches that need to be made between CKEditor 4 and 5 are not currently being backed and funded by corporations and federal agencies and by the time the urgency in doing so is realized, it may be too much of a crunch to accomplish the fix. The beauty of open-source software is that it belongs to everyone. But, as Peter Parker’s uncle said, “With power comes responsibility” and if we as a Drupal community don’t all take a little responsibility for this, we will all pay the price. For more information, the upgrade coordination can be found here and information on the deprecated and obsolete modules and themes can be found here. Within Mobomo, we pride ourselves on being thought leaders and valued contributors to this open-source community. If you have any questions, please reach out to us here and send a message directly to the Mobomo team.
Each year, the best and brightest in the web development community gather at Drupal GovCon to expand their expertise and share the latest insights and trends regarding Drupal, the free and open-source web content management system (CMS) that provides the back-end framework for at least 1300 of the top websites worldwide.
Mobomo, a leader in scalability who has worked with federal agencies from NASA to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association), has been a key contributor to Drupal GovCon since its inception in 2015 and, as the sole Accessibility Sponsor for this year’s convention, our team of experts embraced the honor of hosting several shorter presentations in addition to an extensive training on Drupal infrastructure best practices.
Widely recognized for a track record building some of the most trafficked sites for government entities, the Mobomo technical team is committed to serving the 1.4 million strong Drupal community as a partner and thought leader. This year, Mobomo aces Jason Schulte, Dan Narkiewicz, and Jeff Beagley focused on Mobomo’s unique approach and philosophy regarding what doing Drupal right really looks like. An infrastructure, hosting, and web development veteran with more than 20 years experience fostering cohesive teams dedicated to innovation, Jason Schulte, Mobomo’s CTO, joined Dan Narkiewicz, a Full Stack Developer and Engineering Manager who specializes in Docker-in-the-Cloud solutions for Drupal 7, 8, and 9, and Jeff Beagley, a DevSecOps Engineer with a wide-ranging background in software development and a focus on building automated and efficient applications/architectures at scale. Together, they created a playbook for the more technically savvy Drupal GovCon attendees to hone their abilities in designing sites that strike the right balance between speed and aesthetics without sacrificing long term scalability capabilities.
The “Mobomo Way” deep dive Jason, Dan, and Jeff engaged in with the group began with Drupal on a single server using docker containers and then scaled it to a high-availability, production-ready cloud deployment utilizing AWS managed cloud services to scale the Drupal infrastructure with the capability to leverage AWS automation to its fullest extent. Taking advice from John Wooden, who famously once said, “If you don’t have the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”, Jason, Dan, and Jeff shared the most critical elements involved in building sites that perform – and will keep performing no matter the scale; namely, memcache, docker containers, and appropriate planning of the reverse proxy caching layer and CDN.
Memcache
Speeding up dynamic web applications by reducing the database load, memcache is an open source, high-performance distributed memory caching system that is widely recognized for optimizing the user experience. Mobomo believes every Drupal site should be built using memcache because, without it, sites can encounter performance issues in the long term. We have seen it too many times and the scalability issues that arise from not using memcache can become cost and performance prohibitive for you and your clients.
Docker Containers
Packaging applications and all their dependencies together in the form of “containers”, Docker ensures that each application is independent of other applications, will not interfere with one another, and is easily replicable by QA teams. This containerization platform works seamlessly in any environment but most importantly, Docker Containers force developers to view site infrastructures in terms of separate components and separate the site components at the beginning of the development process, which allows for easy scalability of individual layers throughout all site expansion efforts today and into the future.
Reverse Proxy Caching Layer and the CDN
Maximizing site performance is critical to the user experience, but a great deal of care and planning must go into a reverse proxy caching layer and the CDN (Content Delivery Network). This can truly be one of the most difficult things to set up and configure properly, primarily because this is never a one size fits all situation. The reverse proxy and CDN is how you make the site perform really fast for the public, but whenever you publish new content to the site, you run up against the CDN – so, striking a balance between these two forces (pushing content out quickly without hitting the backend all the time) is very challenging. Mobomo’s training seminar touched on this, but in reality, reverse proxy caching and the CDN is a topic that could have its own intricate training course. In other areas, developers can be prescriptive, but in this instance, the way in which each is calibrated is entirely dependent upon the site needs and usage. For example, a news organization that publishes articles by the minute will require different planning than a government entity with static pages updated on an infrequent basis.
Jason, Dan, and Jeff made this look extremely easy through their training, but suffice it to say, practice makes perfect – and as experts in their fields, these gentlemen have seen and worked their way through many challenging site builds/rebuilds.
Have questions about performance audits or scaling your site? Interested in learning more from Jason, Dan, and Jeff? We at Mobomo pride ourselves on redefining the status quo in product design and DevSecOps engineering and are committed to sharing knowledge with our colleagues, so we’ve included a link to our Drupal GovCon training presentation. We welcome any thoughts you have on our work and or suggestions you have for future training that would be valuable to you and your organization.
Please feel free to reach out to us via LinkedIn or click this link to access our contact form and share how we can help you.
MOBOMO, LLC AWARDED CORPORATE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) SERVICES BPA
Mobomo, LLC is honored to be awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S General Services Administration (GSA). This five year, $250M agreement will support GSA’s Office of Corporate IT Services. Within the agreement, Mobomo will have the opportunity to support the agency’s digital technology transformation and opportunities may fall under the following categories:
Mobomo is thrilled with the opportunity this GSA-wide procurement vehicle offers to any GSA group or sub-agency. The easy-to-access solution will streamline the government’s ability to procure and utilize our technology services, which will continue to build on our decades’ history of work at the GSA.
Between our subject matter experts and our award-winning offerings, we know that we can provide GSA and their sub-agencies with elegant solutions to support any of their challenges. We look forward to this future partnership and the opportunities that may arise.
About Mobomo: Mobomo, LLC is a premier mobile, web, and cloud application development company that has extensive experience in creating award-winning, agile, human-centered design, and providing DevSecOps capabilities. Mobomo has helped revolutionize the digital federal landscape through our innovative designs of high performing websites and applications that are engineered to fit the needs of government agencies. Through a collaborative, consultative process, we use cutting-edge DevOps techniques to deliver mobile, web, and cloud solutions that are integrated with our proven Agile software development methodology.
About GSA:
The U.S. General Services Administration’s mission is to deliver value and savings in real estate, acquisition, technology and other mission-support services across the government. Overall, creating an effective and efficient government for all. GSA does this by leading acquisition and procurement strategies that help agencies access inventive and effective commercial solutions. They work with vendors and suppliers to create beneficial partnerships that make it easier to do business and drive lower costs for government, therefore, saving tax payers money and improving overall performance.
See more about our federal capabilities and customers here.
Mobomo, LLC is honored to be awarded the SeaPort Next Generation (SeaPort NxG) contract with the Department of the Navy. The Department of the Navy was looking for a contractor that could provide services in two key areas that incorporated 23 sub-categories. Mobomo bid under both of the two key categories presented which were Engineering Services and Program Management Services.
There were two main factors that led to our success with this contract. First, we have a team of award-winning experts that have expansive experience inboth service categories. Secondly, we have previously developed a mobile app for the Navy Office of Information as well as developed a new web portalfor the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. Between the overall services we have offered and our strong performance on these two past contracts, we were able to secure the Seaport NxG contract.
This contract is a huge opportunity for our company as the task orders that will be issued could span across the following departments: the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, Military Sealift Command, Naval Facilities Systems Command, Office of Naval Research, Naval Air Systems Command, Strategic Systems Programs, or the United States Marine Corps.
About Mobomo:
Mobomo, LLC is a premier mobile, web, and cloud application development company that has extensive experience in creating award-winning, agile, human-centered design, and providing DevSecOps capabilities.Mobomo has helped revolutionize the digital federal landscape through our innovative designs of high performing websites and applications that are engineered to fit the needs of government agencies.
About Department of the Navy:
The U.S. Department of the Navy (DON) is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense. Their overall mission is to protect America at sea. Under the Department of the Navy, there are many sub-departments that all support and contribute to this overarching goal. To defend American interests, the U.S. Navy must be prepared to execute at all times, as directed by Congress and the President.
The Muse Creative Awards has released their 2021 Season 1 web design award winners and Mobomo has proudly won three different awards:
Gold Award for NOAA Fisheries under the Science/Technology Website category
Silver Award for NOAA Fisheries under the Government Website category
Gold Award for the PRAC Pandemic Oversight work under the new Covid-19 Related Website category
The Muse Creative Awards recognizes those who “reign above change, with creativity that pens history and designs which stand against the test of time.” Created by the International Awards Association (IAA) in 2015, Muse Creative Awards honor creativity by a new standard of excellence. The competition is international and meant to showcase the creative professionals who inspire and become “muses” for others. Judging is based off of creativity, content and execution, visual design, innovation and functionality, and memorability.
Mobomo is honored to have received these three web design awards. Both the NOAA Fisheries and PRAC teams have worked incredibly hard from researching, designing and developing both of these award-winning sites. A big congratulations to each and every team member. Mobomo is grateful to have their dedication to each project and to providing the clients with top-of-the-line work.
To check out other awards we’ve won, please see our Awards page.
More about these projects:
NOAA Fisheries:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, also known as the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), is a federal agency responsible for the stewardship of the nation’s ocean resources and their habitat. Their services include: conservation and management of U.S. waters to promote prevention of overfishing, declining species, and degraded habitats. NOAA Fisheries manages five coastal regions broken down by department, fisheries management, science centers, and labs. Each office ran their own independent site creating inconsistency and overlap in content and design as each isolated digital property.
Mobomo partnered with NOAA Fisheries to assist in restructuring and redesigning their digital presence. Merging all their core web properties into one Drupal site allowed users to go to one destination to find and discover information they need. Mobomo focused on improving content efficiency, design consistency, and unifying NOAA Fisheries voice. Mobomo followed a user-centered approach that consisted of discovery, research, design, and validation phases to deliver a comprehensive, documented and validated user-centered design and information architecture that unified the 16 previously disparate web properties into one site.
Within one year, we launched the framework for their next generation site.
The NOAA Fisheries site is more than a conveyor of marine life information and research. It offers a large variety of information; from summaries of upcoming rules, permits, funding opportunities, to various types of helpful resources. Each section had its own challenges for the Mobomo team to learn and develop automated solutions around. The goal was to automate and simplify the content for users to locate, as well as for editors to post and manage.
The PRAC:
In 2020 the Coronavirus reached the United States calling for the development and passing of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). To help inform the public of the spending provided by the CARES Act, the PRAC (Pandemic Response Accountability Committee) and Mobomo teams launched PandemicOversight.gov. The overarching goal of this site is to promote transparency for the government’s spending in response to COVID-19 by displaying the details of who received the $2.6 trillion relief and how they will be spending it. The site also provides helpful resources for reporting fraud and funding abuse.
Mobomo’s objective was to redesign, develop and deploy a new website for the PRAC built using a Drupal content management system (CMS) and deployed into the Microsoft Azure cloud. The website needed to support displaying interactive graphics for showcasing Coronavirus relief funding, as well as various government reports surrounding pandemic response and instances of fraud, abuse and mismanagement of relief funding. Due to resource circumstances, the new website had only a 5-week timeframe for redesign, develop and deployment of the new website.
Within the tight turnaround, Mobomo successfully launched the new site. The layout was designed using Mobomo’s human-centered design process. This resulted in a modern and clean look that is easy for viewers to use and understand the data and funding information provided.
