• Read more about MOBOMO IS PROUD WINNER OF GSA - BPA

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.

• Read more about Mobomo ranked #73 on the Washington Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Companies in the greater D.C. area list

Mobomo is happy to announce that we have ranked #73 on the Washington Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Companies in the greater D.C. area list. This list evaluates companies based on the average percentage of revenue growth between 2018 – 2020.

Throughout the last three years, Mobomo has accomplished some amazing successes. This includes new contracts with federal clients such as the PRAC pandemicoversight.gov and FERC, as well as some continued work with amazing clients such as NOAA Fisheries. Through this incredible work, our team has also been recognized among the industry with awards such as Muse Creative Awards, Vega Digital Awards, and the Web Excellence Awards.  

It’s our continued passion and drive that has supported the revenue growth over the last three years. We are extremely proud of our hard work and plan to continue building and innovating new products that not only satisfies our clients’ needs, but exceeds them.

The full list of companies included can be found here: link to rankings

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 Washington Business Journal:

The Washington Business Journal is the leading source for business news and data for the Washington, D.C., region. The Business Journal publishes all the information and insights you need to succeed in business — through the weekly edition, website, email products and our events and awards programs. Owned by parent company, American City Business Journals – the Business Journals brands are recognized on the local level in 43 markets and have 400+ journalists entrenched in their local markets and industries.

• Read more about MOBOMO, LLC WON THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY’S SEAPORT NEXT GENERATION CONTRACT

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.

• Read more about Mobomo, LLC Won Three Awards from the 2021 Muse Creative Awards: Season 1

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.

• Read more about Unveiling HumanProgress.org with the Cato Institute

On Wednesday morning, Intridea CEO Marc Garrett will be on stage at the Cato Institute to officially introduce HumanProgress.org to the world. The result of a months-long collaboration between Intridea and the Cato Institute, HumanProgress.org is a comprehensive research tool that allows users to explore a wealth of data on human well-being and human development indicators.

We've loved working with the Cato Institute to bring HumanProgress.org to life -- it's been a thrilling opportunity to showcase Intridea's deep expertise in user experience design, Ruby on Rails development, data analysis, and data visualization. They're also a wonderful group of people to work with!

Please join us at 10am eastern as the conference is live-streamed at www.cato.org/live, or follow along with the event tweets at @CatoEvents.

Following the unveiling will be a keynote address by Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank President, and a panel discussion on "the extent of improvements in human well-being and what challenges lie ahead" with Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post and Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine.

• Read more about Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Intridea's CTO

I’m excited today to formally welcome Ezra Zygmuntowicz to Intridea as our Chief Technology Officer.

I first met Ezra in 2006 at a hastily-arranged Ruby on Rails workshop at a Washington, DC charter school. Back in those early days of Ruby on Rails, there were very few training opportunities available, and I was thrilled to learn from one of the earliest adopters and most well-known Rails developers in the world. That was the day I fell in love with Ruby and Rails. Learning from Ezra was one of the formative moments in my becoming a Rails developer. Soon after that workshop, I joined other like-minded Ruby developers and started building Intridea.

Since that workshop, I’ve followed Ezra’s career with great interest; from his founding EngineYard (the most well-known Ruby on Rails web host), to his position at VMWare heading the development of CloudFoundry (the leading open source Platform-as-a-service), to his starting Trinity Labs (a company that builds 3D printers and performs robotics R&D).

As thrilled as I was to learn from Ezra back in 2006, I’m even more thrilled now that he has joined Intridea. Ezra will grow and mentor our engineering team, continue his open-source work -- not to mention spreading the open-source love -- and help deliver scalable and well-engineered products to our clients.

Ezra’s open-source contributions are legendary among Rubyists and the wider development community. From his own creations like merb and nanite, to his numerous contributions to other projects, Ezra has left an indelible mark on Ruby development. His history of innovation is a perfect fit with the Intridea team that released OmniAuth, Grape, and Stately, among many other open-source projects.

I couldn’t be more excited to call Ezra an Intridean.

• Read more about Announcing MacRuby In Action

MacRuby In Action, a new book that teaches Ruby developers how to code OS X applications in Ruby, was released this week through Manning Publications. Jerry Cheung, a senior engineer at Intridea authored the book alongside Brendan Lim and Jeremy McAnally.

In the book you'll explore key Cocoa design patterns, along with a few twists that MacRuby makes possible. You'll also pick up high-value techniques including system scripting, automated testing practices, and getting your apps ready for the Mac App Store. It was written for Rubyists by Rubyists and no previous experience with Cocoa, Objective-C, or Mac OS X is required!

I asked Jerry what inspired him to work on this book:

MacRuby in Action bridges that gap between two great development communities: Mac desktop development and Ruby. If you're a seasoned web developer using Ruby on the web then MIRA is a gentle intro to the Cocoa runtime and Apple's development tools. If you're a veteran Mac developer, then MIRA shows you the dynamic and fun nature of Ruby. Macruby gives you the full power of the Cocoa framework to help you build native desktop apps that are indistinguishable from their Objective-C counterparts.

The Ruby community prides itself on test driven development, and the same practices can be applied to MacRuby. The book also cover gotchas and other tips to watch out for when bridging between these two technologies. The examples showcase commonly used components and help you get your feet wet in practical development while showing key development concepts.

You can get your eBook copy of MacRuby in Action today or preorder your pBook version now through Manning! After you've had a chance to digest some of the content, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the book. Leave your comments below or let us know on Twitter!

Additionally, let us know in the comments why you want to learn MacRuby and get a chance to win a free MacRuby in Action eBook today!