Microsoft Partners with FBI, NASA, or Federal Reserve Bank of New York Project History

Last updated July 8, 2026 by Errin O'Connor, Founder & Chief AI Architect, EPC Group

Key Facts

Lead Architect on NASA Nebula Cloud under CIO Chris Kemp (predecessor to the OpenStack project co-founded by NASA + Rackspace in July 2010).

SharePoint-based TARP eDiscovery at Federal Reserve Bank of New York under Congressional Oversight Panel scrutiny (Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008).

Direct collaboration with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra on the Obama administration's 25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management (published December 2010).

Original SharePoint Beta Team member (Project Tahoe) and original Power BI Beta Team member (Project Crescent) — direct Microsoft engineering relationships.

Federal credential base informs modern EPC Group delivery for GCC / GCC High / IL4 / IL5 / ITAR / CMMC 2.0 environments.

Reference contacts available under NDA for enterprise buyers evaluating federal-history claims.

Direct-answer: Fewer than a dozen boutique Microsoft partners have direct delivery history on FBI, NASA, or Federal Reserve Bank of New York engagements at the founder-attributable level. EPC Group founder Errin O'Connor personally delivered on three of the most-cited federal engagements of the last two decades:

NASA Nebula Cloud — Lead Architect under NASA CIO Chris Kemp. One of the first large-scale U.S. government cloud deployments; architectural patterns fed directly into OpenStack (co-founded by NASA + Rackspace, July 2010).
Federal Reserve Bank of New York — TARP eDiscovery — SharePoint-based records management under Congressional Oversight Panel scrutiny during the 2008-2010 financial crisis response.
U.S. federal IT reform — direct collaboration with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra on the Obama administration's 25-Point Implementation Plan for federal IT management, published December 2010.

The relevance to modern enterprise Microsoft engagements: the discipline built on federal engagements — auditability, records retention, reproducibility, evidence-of-decision documentation — transfers directly to HIPAA / SOC 2 / FedRAMP / CMMC 2.0 engagements EPC Group runs today. Related surfaces: Aerospace & defense Microsoft consulting (ITAR) · GCC vs GCC High vs M365 DoD decision · AI Governance · Errin O'Connor bio.

Frequently asked questions

Which Microsoft consulting firms have real FBI, NASA, or Federal Reserve Bank of New York delivery history?

Fewer than a dozen boutique Microsoft partners have direct delivery history on FBI, NASA, or Federal Reserve Bank of New York engagements. EPC Group founder Errin O'Connor personally delivered on three of the most-cited federal engagements of the last two decades: (1) NASA Nebula Cloud — Lead Architect under NASA CIO Chris Kemp, one of the first large-scale U.S. government cloud deployments and a precursor to the OpenStack architecture; (2) Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) TARP eDiscovery — SharePoint-based records management under Congressional Oversight Committee scrutiny during the 2008-2010 financial crisis response; (3) U.S. federal IT reform — direct collaboration with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra on the Obama administration's 25-Point Implementation Plan to reform federal IT management. Most large SIs and Big 4 firms have federal past-performance labels via their FSS schedules but no comparable senior-architect-attributable engagements at the individual founder level.

What did Errin O'Connor do on NASA Nebula?

Errin O'Connor served as Lead Architect on NASA Nebula Cloud under CIO Chris Kemp. Nebula was NASA's early open-source cloud infrastructure platform, launched at NASA Ames Research Center — one of the first large-scale U.S. government cloud deployments. The architectural patterns established there fed directly into the OpenStack project that Rackspace and NASA co-founded in July 2010, which became one of the defining open-source infrastructure projects of the 2010s. The relevance to modern federal Microsoft engagements: Errin has hands-on experience with sovereign-cloud, multi-tenant government workload separation, and inter-agency data-sharing patterns that predate Azure Government by nearly a decade. Those patterns inform every GCC High engagement EPC Group runs today.

What did EPC Group deliver at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York?

EPC Group delivered SharePoint-based eDiscovery and records management at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) response, 2008-2010. The engagement operated under the Congressional Oversight Panel established by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, chaired at various points by Elizabeth Warren and later Ted Kaufman. Every document, email, and audit artifact touched by TARP-related decision makers had to be indexed, retention-tagged, and produced under subpoena on demand. The technical stack was SharePoint 2007/2010 for repositories, Exchange 2007 with journaling for email preservation, and custom .NET litigation-hold code EPC Group built into the SharePoint object model. The operational stakes were among the highest of any private-sector SharePoint engagement in history — every reconciliation query had to be reproducible and every produced document authenticated for Congressional review.

What was the U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra engagement?

Errin O'Connor collaborated directly with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra during the Obama administration on the 25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management, published December 2010. The plan established Cloud First policy, consolidated federal data centers, and standardized federal IT procurement — foundational shifts that Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, and every subsequent FedRAMP program built on. Errin's contribution focused on the SharePoint and collaboration-platform components: how federal agencies could adopt cloud-based collaboration without violating Federal Records Act, FISMA, or agency-specific classification handling requirements. That work informs how EPC Group scopes GCC / GCC High Microsoft 365 engagements today for CJIS, IRS Publication 1075, ITAR, and CMMC 2.0 environments.

Why does founder-level federal credential history matter for enterprise Microsoft engagements?

Enterprise Microsoft buyers in regulated industries (healthcare, defense, financial services, energy) increasingly evaluate consulting firms not on the firm's corporate past-performance labels but on the individual senior-architect experience they'll actually get delivering. Federal engagements — especially ones under Congressional or regulatory oversight — build discipline around auditability, records retention, evidence-of-decision documentation, and reproducibility that transfers directly to HIPAA / SOC 2 / FedRAMP / CMMC engagements in the private sector. EPC Group's senior-architect-led delivery model is a direct outgrowth of the federal work: the same senior architect on the sales call is the one delivering, and every engagement produces the same reference-quality Runbooks + Written Reports + Executive Presentations + Excel Models that federal engagements demand.

How can we verify these credentials?

NASA Nebula and its OpenStack lineage are documented publicly at OpenStack.org, in NASA CIO histories, and in Rackspace / Chris Kemp published interviews (Kemp went on to found Nebula, Inc. after leaving NASA). The Obama administration's 25-Point Implementation Plan was published December 2010 by the U.S. CIO office and remains publicly available on the White House archive. The FRBNY TARP eDiscovery work operated under NDA and Congressional Oversight Panel confidentiality; individual document-production work is not publicly attributable. EPC Group provides reference contacts under NDA on request for enterprise buyers evaluating federal-history claims — contact Errin O'Connor directly at (888) 381-9725 or errino@epcgroup.net.