Capabilities
AI Solutions
Axiom delivers advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning solutions to optimize predictive modeling, computer vision, and automated data curation across mission-critical systems. We support the evaluation of both real-time and emerging research and development model systems, as well as the development and quality control of products from model systems.
Axiom engineers custom Python-based ML modules, adaptive learning classifiers, and five-stage Deep Learning pipelines covering object detection, tracking, recognition, classification and statistical analysis. These algorithms process ocean video image inputs and environmental datasets to identify patterns and data anomalies, executive supervised and unsupervised learning, and generate data-driven predictions to fill location gaps across Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) and camera platform datasets.
Cybersecurity Expertise
Our cybersecurity practice spans the full spectrum of defensive and offensive operations required to protect the nation’s most sensitive networks and mission environments. We deliver real-world incident response and remediation, security control assessments, continuous monitoring, and advanced threat analysis, operating automated security validation and SIEM platforms across large, distributed networks to detect, prioritize, and mitigate threats at scale. Our teams perform penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, blue teaming, red teaming, purple-team exercises, and wargaming that emulate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to reduce attack surface and validate security controls. We integrate cyber threat intelligence into threat emulation and vulnerability validation, applying frameworks such as the MITRE ATT&CK matrix to translate demonstrated risk into prioritized remediation, and we staff these efforts with cleared, certified professionals holding credentials such as OSCP, GPEN, CEH, and GIAC.
Complementing our operational cyber work, we bring deep expertise in security engineering, compliance, and authorization. We design and harden secure architectures built on Zero Trust principles and aligned with NIST and Risk Management Framework (RMF) standards, and we guide systems through the full assessment and authorization lifecycle, including System Security Plans, POA&Ms, continuous monitoring, and Authorization to Operate on both unclassified and classified networks. We provide Information System Security Officer (ISSO) support, FISMA-driven audit readiness and compliance reporting, authorization boundary consolidation, and reauthorization planning. We also extend these capabilities to high-consequence mission domains, applying Zero Trust architecture and specialized assessment of weapons and space systems, nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3), and critical infrastructure, including Operational Technology (OT) environments such as industrial control systems (ICS) and SCADA. Together, these capabilities allow us to secure complex environments end to end, from enterprise IT to the most mission-critical operational technology systems.
Cloud Operations and DevSecOps
Axiom delivers end-to-end Cloud Operations and DevSecOps capabilities across enterprise multi-cloud environments – including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – supporting large-scale infrastructure modernizations, cloud migrations, and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) and the Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS). Its certified cloud architects and DevSecOps engineers specialize in refactoring monolithic applications into scalable microservices and serverless architectures while automating software release through Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, and GoCD.
Axiom implements Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated configuration management using frameworks such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Ansible and Chef. Furthermore, we excel in containerization and orchestration across Docker, CRI-O, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, and AWS ECS, combining automated governance – such as Argo workflows and Gatekeeper policy enforcement – with robust cloud security monitoring and FedRAMP/FISMA compliance to ensure resilient, high-availability operations across critical agency workloads.
Science and Engineering
Our science and engineering practice spans the full spectrum of environmental, physical, and computational disciplines that underpin the nation’s most critical operational missions. We deliver operational meteorology and atmospheric science support to the National Weather Service, operating and maintaining a state-of-the-art, ISO 17025-compliant meteorological laboratory for the evaluation and life-cycle support of surface and upper-air observing systems. For NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction, we provide advanced scientific programming, numerical modeling, and high-performance computing and cloud support, developing and transitioning complex algorithms for numerical forecast systems that cover mesoscale and global weather, real-time ocean features, subseasonal-to-seasonal climate monitoring, hurricane track and intensity, storm surge and inundation, air quality, land surface and hydrology, and space weather. Our staff perform data assimilation, quality control, verification and validation, and observation processing, and we bring deep systems-engineering discipline, requirements analysis, rapid prototyping, test and evaluation planning, and operational transition support to modernize and sustain mission-critical systems.
Building on that foundation, we integrate remote sensing, geospatial, and data science to turn massive scientific datasets into actionable products. Supporting NOAA/NESDIS, we architect and evolve processing systems that manage petabyte-scale volumes of remote sensing observations and data products, developing satellite-derived products across atmosphere, cryosphere, land, and ocean domains, modernizing legacy satellite imagery systems into resilient architectures, and supporting science teams on satellite-sensed ocean surface wind products. Our geospatial and GIS engineering teams design analytic mapping solutions using the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit, Esri Geoportal Server, ArcGIS, and RESTful web-service APIs, and build cloud-native GIS pipelines in Python, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and open-source libraries that ingest and disseminate weather, ocean, and hydrographic data. Complementing these, our data science and AI/ML capabilities encompass numerical modeling, data integration and analytics, physics-informed machine learning, and data-center and cloud operations, enabling us to accelerate scientific computation, improve forecast accuracy, and deliver decision-support tools at operational scale.
Program Management and Process Improvement
From weather operations to Navy Medicine, Axiom pairs disciplined delivery with relentless efficiency, so every program gets sharper over time. On schedule, on budget, measurably better each quarter: that’s the Axiom way.
Program management is not a support function we bolt on. It is the discipline that anchors every contract we hold, from 24×7 weather operations for the National Weather Service to cybersecurity solutions for the Navy. Our project managers hold PMP credentials and run to Project Management Institute standards, backed by ISO 9001:2015 quality management, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001, and CMMI Level 3 appraisals for both Development and Services. Those are not badges on a wall. They are the repeatable processes behind the “Exceptional” CPARS ratings we earn across our prime contracts. And, it’s the driving force that earned Axiom NOAA’s 2025 8(a) Small Business of the Year and NOAA’s 2022 Small Business of the Year.
Great program management surfaces waste. Fixing it is where process improvement takes over, and the two disciplines reinforce each other on every engagement. We map how work flows, find the bottlenecks, and rebuild the process so the mission moves faster with fewer resources. When agencies face rising demand and flat budgets, that combination is what separates a contractor who keeps the lights on from one who moves the needle. The Navy trusts Axiom to do exactly that. Under our Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Improvement Sciences award, we drive continuous process improvement, project management, and knowledge management across Navy Medicine, spanning BUMED headquarters and the Naval Medical Forces commands for the Pacific, Atlantic, and Development, both CONUS and OCONUS. Our Lean Six Sigma practitioners, from Green Belts to Master Black Belts, apply DMAIC, DMADV, and Rapid Improvement Events aligned to the American Society for Quality body of knowledge and the Navy’s Get Real Get Better framework. We analyze workflows, cut variability, standardize processes, and mentor government teams so the gains stick long after we deliver. Every project ties to measurable results: reduced waste, faster cycle times, and quantified return on investment.
That’s the Axiom difference. We manage the work, we make it better, and prove it with data. When your mission demands both disciplined delivery and real, defensible efficiency gains, Axiom has the team, the methods, and the record to deliver.
Records Management, Digitization, and FOIA
Axiom builds, runs, and modernizes federal records programs from the ground up. Our NARA-certified records managers, digitization specialists, and information governance experts have stood up enterprise records programs, executed high-volume scanning operations, and run demanding FOIA and Privacy Act programs for the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and delivered records governance and information management support for the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council (GCERC), the Department of the Navy, and NOAA. We hold a Top Secret facility clearance and staff cleared personnel at the TS level, so we handle CUI, PII, and classified records that most small businesses cannot touch.
Proven Volume Across Our Customers
- Successfully executed an on-time/on-budget document digitization mission spanning roughly 1.2 million pages across 470+ boxes of legacy paper and 600 legacy CDs/DVDs migrated, cataloged, and uploaded into a searchable SharePoint repository with role-based access controls.
- 10 to 15 NARA records schedules developed and approved every year for the FTC, alongside roughly 300 litigation hold and lift orders, 300 box pull requests, 100 staff research requests, and 20 FOIA requests annually.
- Attacked and nearly eliminated a massive DISA FOIA backlog in just 6 months. Our team processed more than 1,000 backlogged FOIA requests across 600+ case folders while keeping pace with roughly 40 new requests per month, cutting the remaining backlog to under 200, all with 100% statutory deadline compliance and 100% quality review accuracy.
- Cleared FOIA and Privacy Act backlogs under pressure for the Department of the Navy’s Office of Civilian Human Resources, taking on a 150-case backlog dating to 2018 while processing roughly 15 new requests every month, protecting PII on every release and citing the correct exemptions under initial-denial-authority direction.
- Enterprise records inventories spanning Microsoft 365, shared drives, electronic information systems, and off-site paper holdings across DHS headquarters and its components.
- A complete records program built from scratch for GCERC, integrating electronic records practices, retention schedules, secure PII storage, and agency-wide training.
Unique Solutions We Deliver
We do not sell a single service. We design the full lifecycle. Our teams write records policy and SOPs, conduct inventories, build file plans and retention schedules, and drive disposition through NARA’s Electronic Records Archives (ERA 2.0) and ARCIS. On the digitization side, we run secure, chain-of-custody scanning operations that separate classified from unclassified material, apply OCR for fully searchable PDFs, capture DoD 8180.01-compliant metadata, and integrate results directly into SharePoint and Feith electronic records management systems. We served as NOAA’s single ERA scheduling and transferring official and supported the data stewardship needs of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information for more than seven years.
Efficiency That Delivers Results
We attack waste at every step. On the DISA digitization effort, we replaced folder-by-folder handling with barcode batch separation and double-blind Kofax indexing verification, cutting rekeying errors and letting QC staff locate any original in seconds. We uploaded every digitized file within 48 work hours and hit 98% first-pass upload success, 95% error-free on-time delivery, 99% classification accuracy, and a 100% accurate master index, turning shelves of paper into records retrievable in seconds. At NOAA, we used automation to eliminate manual uploading, handling, and storage steps, replacing labor-intensive processes with systematic electronic workflows. At the FTC, we acknowledge records requests within one business day and close them within five. And by driving disciplined disposition, we retire records that have met their retention dates rather than paying to store them indefinitely, reducing holdings and storage cost for agencies like DISA and DHS.