Accelerating legacy modernization
With over a decade of government benefits expertise, Nava helps agencies rapidly understand and transform legacy systems while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Nava is building a suite of tools and best practices to help state and federal agencies rapidly and effectively migrate off legacy systems. Our work is backed by a decade helping agencies deliver best-in-class digital services.
During a quick demo call, one of our experts will share which of our solutions can meet your agency’s unique needs and goals.
Why legacy modernization
Legacy technology compromises many federal and state government IT systems, causing governments to spend billions annually to support the maintenance and operations of aging technology. These outdated systems burden government, increase costs, lock agencies in with a single vendor, and inhibit modernization, all of which negatively impacts outcomes for the public.
By modernizing your legacy system, we’ll help you improve your program's security, effectiveness, and efficiency while avoiding vendor lock-in.
What we're offering
We believe that modernizing government systems requires more than updating the underlying technology. Effective system transformation reenvisions how policy, process, organizational structure, and technology can work together to deliver better outcomes.
At Nava, we apply best practices and solutions to help our partners solve their specific modernization challenges.
Converting policy to business rules
Converting policy to business rules
Government modernization starts at the policy and regulatory layer, before teams write a line of code. Technology teams often lose months trying to translate policy and regulation into business rules a modernized system can execute.
Our approach compresses this process by using our AI-powered solution to turn policy into business rules while keeping subject matter experts in-the-loop. This service unlocks valuable time for our partners, helping them realize value more quickly.
Rapidly building open source, modular systems
Rapidly building open source, modular systems
Too often, agencies embark on modernization only to find themselves once again locked into brittle, proprietary software or professional services vendors.
We build systems that are open source and modular by default, empowering our partners to own and run their systems in the long term. Our approach leverages Strata, Nava’s suite of open source tools that gives government agencies everything they need to run a modern service. With Strata, our partners inherit proven best practices and patterns to avoid mistakes or duplicative rework. This helps agencies save months of time without sacrificing the sound technical decision-making that ensures long-term success.
Conducting parallel comparison testing
Conducting parallel comparison testing
When millions of dollars and eligibility decisions are at stake, it’s crucial for new systems to match the behavior of legacy systems. Nava is building technology that can help delivery teams quantitatively assess the gap between legacy and modern systems, helping reduce the risk and uncertainty that comes with launching new features and systems into production.
This will enable you to:
Verify feature completeness and reduce uncertainty before launch
Identify gaps between old and new systems
Build stakeholder confidence in migration readiness
De-risking data migration
De-risking data migration
To ensure successful data migration and syncing, we build out a system’s data layer iteratively. This allows us to de-risk modernization by catching and addressing issues early. Iterative modernization also enables us to maintain parallel systems in sync until all stakeholders are confident the new system is ready to be the source of truth.
An end-to-end approach to system modernization
Each of the methods above solve for common challenges modernization teams face. While teams can tackle these challenges individually, we believe an end-to-end approach is most effective. By coordinating across the entire modernization lifecycle, we help our partners rapidly increase the speed and lower the cost of modernization.
Our approach builds on a decade of experience helping agencies break free from vendor lock-in and deliver modern, human-centered services.
Nava has vast domain expertise, including work in unemployment insurance, Medicaid, Veterans Affairs, and Medicare. Currently, we’re helping three federal and three state agencies modernize their legacy systems to make their programs more resilient, efficient, and effective.
Contract vehicles and certifications:
Rated at CMMI Development (Dev) 3
ISO 9001
ISO 27001
GSA Schedule 47QTCA18D008M
54151S IT Professional Services
Why we're different
We’re more invested in your agency’s success than we are in any technology, product, model, or stack.
Our approach stands in stark contrast to traditional industry models that lock agencies into costly vendor relationships and inflexible technology, while agencies hold all the risk.
We believe there’s another way.
We build with, not for our government partners, enabling them to:
Meet and adapt to the demands of the digital age
Reduce risk by modernizing iteratively
Own systems and software long after a contract ends
Work with us
Our approach is available to federal and state agencies. Please contact us if you’re interested in learning more. When you reach out, we’ll get in touch within one business day.