Tangent Technologies · About
Veteran-owned is ownership. Hiring veterans is the mission.
Tangent Technologies is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned and Woman-Owned Small Business running federal cybersecurity operations, security engineering and compliance, and the IT work around them. What the certifications describe is who owns the company. What we are actually trying to do is put veterans to work on federal cyber programs and keep them moving up.
Why we exist
The set-aside describes the owner. The hiring describes the company.
Every company in this market lists its certifications, and those describe who owns the business. They say nothing about who gets hired. We would rather be judged on the second thing: more than half of the people who work at Tangent are military veterans.
Service-disabled veterans leave the military with clearances, operational discipline and a working knowledge of the mission, then compete for jobs against candidates whose resumes read more conventionally. We hire into that gap on purpose, on the programs we already run.
Keeping them is the harder half. We run structured cyber career pathing tied to enterprise certifications, competency-based promotion standards, and a progression that people are actually promoted against.
The marks here are issued by other people, not claimed by us. The V3 seal is the one about hiring: Virginia Values Veterans certifies a company on how it recruits, hires and retains veterans, not on who owns it.
Leadership
Who runs the company.
Ramona Rae Gomez
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Rae founded Tangent Technologies in 2015 to build a federal IT services company that would also be a route into civilian work for military veterans. More than half of the workforce are veterans today, which is the clearest measure of whether that worked.
She retired from the United States Marine Corps as a Chief Warrant Officer-2 after twenty years of active duty, last serving as Program Manager for Acquisition of Combat and Logistics Services Support Equipment at Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Virginia.
Across thirty years of military and private sector program management, the last fifteen have been network and cyber infrastructure operations. Before founding Tangent she was Deputy Director of Information Assurance at QinetiQ-NA, and Program Manager for the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection OneNet Network Operations Center. She holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
How we work
Quality that is appraised, not asserted.
Three independent frameworks govern how Tangent delivers. Each one was assessed by somebody outside the company, which is the only reason to mention them.
CMMI Level 3, Services
Delivery processes are defined at the organization level rather than invented per contract, which is what a Level 3 appraisal tests for. New programs inherit the process instead of building one.
ISO 9001 quality management
Our quality management system is built on the ISO 9001 standard: documented procedures, corrective action that closes, and management review on a schedule rather than after a problem.
CMMC Level 1
Basic safeguarding requirements for federal contract information, maintained against the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework that governs the defense industrial base.
Company profile
Everything a contracting officer needs to look us up.
- Registered nameTangent Technologies, LLC
- ClassificationSmall Business
- UEIVGRPWZJMHN64
- CAGE Code7GV74
- SBA set-asidesService-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB)
- GSA MASGS-35F-656GASIN 54151HACS (all six subcategories) and SIN 54151S
- NASA SEWP VI80TECH26D1722Category C, Mission-Based ITC/AV Service Solutions
- CertificationsCMMI Level 3 (Services)ISO 9001 · CMMC Level 1 · Virginia Values Veterans V3
- NAICS517919All Other Telecommunications
- NAICS519190All Other Information Services
- NAICS541330Engineering Services
- NAICS541519Other Computer Related Services
- NAICS541611Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- NAICS541618Other Management Consulting Services
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Tell us the mission, not the labor category.
Send a requirement, a scope, or a problem you have not been able to staff. We will tell you where we have done it before, how it would be ordered, and what we would not take on.
