Case Studies/U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
DevSecOps
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Agency-Wide DevSecOps Platform for 100+ Projects

Enterprise CI/CD platform with pre-built pipeline templates for 10+ tech stacks, integrated SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA security scanning, and GitOps-only Zero Trust container promotion -- deployed across 100+ NRC software projects.

100+
Projects migrated
10+
Tech stacks supported
Zero Trust
Container governance
90%
Faster ATO timelines
Challenge

Fragmented Tooling Across 100+ Projects

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission had 100+ software development projects operating with inconsistent tooling, manual deployment processes, and no standardized security scanning. Each development team made independent technology decisions, resulting in technical fragmentation, compliance gaps, and operational challenges.

  • Inconsistent CI/CD tooling across projects (Jenkins, Bamboo, manual deployments)
  • No standardized pipeline templates or reusable workflows
  • Manual deployments taking weeks with high failure rates
  • No automated 508 accessibility testing
  • Manual SBOM generation (or none at all)
  • ISSO buried in duplicate compliance work across 100+ projects
  • No agency-wide visibility into software delivery metrics
  • Security vulnerabilities discovered late in development cycle
Solution

Enterprise DevSecOps Platform

Digital Charter deployed an agency-wide DevSecOps platform that gave every development team high-quality CI/CD pipelines, automated security scanning, and Zero Trust governance.

Pipeline Templates

  • Pre-configured templates for .NET (C#), Java (Spring), JavaScript (React, Angular), PHP, NodeJS, Python, and Power Platform
  • Reusable pipeline components reducing time-to-first-deploy from weeks to hours
  • Standardized build, test, scan, and deploy stages
  • Support for multiple deployment tiers with infrastructure-as-code

Integrated Security Scanning

  • SAST (Static Application Security Testing): Source code vulnerability analysis
  • DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing): Runtime vulnerability scanning
  • IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing): Active execution testing
  • SCA (Software Composition Analysis): Third-party dependency risk management

Automated Compliance

  • Containerized Google Lighthouse for parallel 508 accessibility test execution
  • Simulated Windows authentication for protected application scanning
  • Automated SBOM creation in every build with version-controlled artifacts
  • Vulnerability tracking tied to dependency manifests

Zero Trust Container Governance

  • Azure Container Registry (ACR) with machine-only access
  • GitOps-only image promotion (human push disabled at registry level)
  • All containers flow through CI/CD pipelines with security scanning before production
  • Eliminated unvetted, human-pushed images

Toolchain Migration

  • Migrated 100+ projects from IBM Rational to Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
  • Git-native workflows replacing legacy version control
  • Improved collaboration and modern development practices

UI Testing Automation

  • Playwright, Selenium, and Ranorex support for automated UI validation
  • Cross-platform browser testing
  • Regression detection before production

Agency-Wide Transformation

Scale & Adoption

  • 100+ projects migrated from legacy tooling to modern CI/CD
  • 10+ tech stacks supported with pre-built pipeline templates
  • Zero Trust achieved: GitOps-only container promotion
  • Deployment time reduced from weeks to hours

Compliance Automation

  • 100% automated 508c testing in every CI/CD build
  • 90% faster ATO timelines through continuous compliance
  • SBOM generated automatically in every build
  • Zero manual security scans -- integrated scanning eliminates manual ISSO workload

Operational Impact

  • Enterprise visibility via agency-wide delivery metrics dashboards
  • Reduced technical debt through standardized patterns
  • Teams inherit proven pipelines instead of building from scratch
  • Developer productivity gains across the agency

Security Posture

  • Proactive vulnerability detection: Issues caught in development, not production
  • Complete supply chain visibility via SBOM
  • Zero Trust enforcement eliminating attack vectors
  • Audit-ready with continuous compliance and automated artifact generation

Technologies Used

CI/CD Platform

Atlassian Bamboo
Bitbucket
Octopus Deploy

Container & Cloud

Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Registry

Security Scanning

SAST
DAST
IAST
SCA

Compliance

Google Lighthouse
Windows Auth Simulation

Supported Stacks

.NET
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Power Platform

UI Testing

Playwright
Selenium
Ranorex

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