1. Legato, LLC is a dynamic small business providing comprehensive IT Engineering Services to the Intelligence
Community. Legato’s founders have 50 years of combined service supporting the National Security Agency as both
Government employees and contractors, with experience in software engineering, systems engineering, network
engineering, cyber security, and program management and acquisition. Legato’s core values consist of:
 Customer satisfaction
 Employee well-being
 Passion in the work we do
 Commitment to all aspects of our business
 Integrity across all aspects of the company’s dealings
Legato possesses a full capability of corporate functions for finance, contracts, security and human resources. Legato’s
recruiting resources are focused on candidate compliancy with position requirements, utilizing an optimal combination of
automated tools, existing databases and employee referrals. Legato provides a competitive benefits package, with
emphasis on low employee turnover through understanding and matching candidate abilities to open positions, as well as
continual assessment of employee career path progression.
Core Capabilities
Legato’s core capabilities span software engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, cyber security, and
program/project management and acquisition.
Software Engineering: Legato provides software engineering support in architecture and design utilizing agile, spiral,
waterfall, RAD, and SOA approaches. Legato has familiarity with virtually all languages, to include C, C++, C#, TCL,
Pascal, SQL, Python, J2EE.net, ASP, PHP, and Ruby. Legato’s web development capabilities touch HTML, XML, JSP,
Perl, Java Script, and Flash.
Systems Engineering: Legato capabilities include requirements definition, allocation, and traceability at the system, sub-
system, and configuration item levels, as well as risk management and mitigation at the enterprise level. Legato provides
software vulnerability assessment and supports the certification and accreditation process, ensuring security engineering
rigor throughout the entire system development life cycle, through a thorough understanding of DITSCAP/DINCAP and
NISCAP.
Network Engineering: Legato provides architecture development and engineering expertise in VOIP, TC/IP, SATCOM,
network modernization and productization, backup and recovery, wireless communications, CDMA, GSM,
telecommunications, Frame Relay, ATM, and security engineering for firewalls and VPNs. Legato engineers support lab
environment configuration and testing to include throughput, specification confirmation, stress and load testing, as well as
latency testing. Legato supports system deployments both CONUS and OCONUS.
Cyber Security: Legato provides vulnerability minimization, threat prioritization, and security process refinement. Legato
is experienced with infrastructure design, enterprise configuration and penetration testing. Legato has familiarity with
firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection and prevention, email security, proxy servers, web content filtering, gateway and
enterprise client virus, unified threat management platforms, incidence response and forensics.
Program/Project Management and Acquisition: Legato has on staff program and project managers experienced in
managing large life-cycle development programs. Legato provides acquisition professionals possessing a thorough
understanding of the FAR and DFAR, contract formulation, and milestone tracking against budgets, commitments,
obligations and outlays.