Web Development in Arlington, VA

Almost never for a public marketing site. FedRAMP authorization applies to cloud services that store, process, or transmit federal data on behalf of the government — that's an internal system, not a capability-statement page. CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information) handling is the same: it lives inside your contract performance environment, not on your public website. What does matter for an Arlington GovCon site is the adjacent posture: U.S.-region hosting, no PII leaking to overseas ad networks, a documented data-flow diagram your internal IT or compliance team can review before go-live, and a contact-form pipeline that lands in a system you actually control. We default to Cloudflare Pages U.S.-region deployment and write up the data-flow doc as part of every federal-services engagement so the firm's compliance lead has the artifact in hand instead of having to reverse-engineer it later.

Yes, and it should. We build a structured capability-statement section that lists NAICS codes, CAGE code, DUNS or UEI, socio-economic certifications (8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone where applicable), and active contract vehicles (GSA MAS, SEWP, CIO-SP3, OASIS, etc.) as indexable HTML — not as a PDF download. That matters because contracting officers running market research and small-business specialists searching for vendors use both Google and procurement-specific tools, and a PDF that's three clicks deep doesn't get found. Clearance levels for cleared-talent recruiting get their own section on careers pages, structured so candidates can filter by Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, or polygraph requirements without us collecting PII before the candidate is ready to share it. The whole capability-statement page also gets a downloadable one-page PDF version for buyers who do want a leave-behind, generated from the same source content so the web and PDF versions never drift.

One to three weeks depending on page count and integration mix. A single capability-statement microsite — homepage, capabilities, past performance, contact — typically ships in seven to ten business days from kickoff if the firm has approved copy and brand assets ready. A recruiting funnel tied to a paid campaign (landing page, application form routing into the ATS, thank-you page with calendaring) usually runs ten to fourteen business days because of the integration work. A multi-page corporate site with capabilities, past performance, federal-buyer FAQ, careers, blog, and lead-capture lands in two to three weeks. Where engagements stretch is when copy isn't approved at kickoff or when a federal-buyer security review needs to happen before launch — both predictable, both worth scoping for. We default to Astro for content-heavy capability sites and Next.js when there's meaningful interactivity (filtered job boards, gated past-performance pages, calculator tools), and we choose at intake based on the actual page count and integration mix, not a stack preference.

Two distinct conversion paths from the homepage, neither buried. Federal-buyer path leads with the capability statement, contract vehicles, past performance, and a contact route that lands with the BD or capture lead — not a generic info@ inbox. Cleared-talent path leads from a careers section that opens with clearance levels, location (on-site at a customer site, hybrid Crystal City, or remote-eligible), and a specific point of contact in talent acquisition. The information architecture treats both as primary, not "buyers first, careers tucked in the footer." We also separate the analytics: BD-driven traffic gets tracked against capability-statement and case-study engagement, talent-driven traffic gets tracked against careers and clearance-level page views, and both feed dashboards the leadership team can actually use in the weekly stand-up. On copy, we work with the firm's BD lead and talent acquisition lead in parallel during intake so the voice is consistent but the content for each audience is written by the people who actually know what each audience asks before they convert.

Two options, depending on the firm's bandwidth. If the firm has someone in BD or marketing who can write the update, we hand over the source repo with a documented content workflow — markdown or MDX files in a clearly structured directory, a preview deploy that runs automatically on every commit, and a runbook that walks a non-developer through editing, previewing, and publishing. Most Arlington firms with an internal marketing resource take this path because contract-vehicle updates are routine and they want the control. The second option is a small monthly retainer that covers content updates as wins land, page additions for new contract vehicles, analytics review tied to BD outcomes, and quarterly Lighthouse and accessibility passes. Same engineering team that built the web development work originally — no re-onboarding, twenty-four to forty-eight hour turnaround on routine content changes. Both options assume the site stays in a state where it can be updated quickly — no proprietary CMS lock-in, no agency that holds the deployment hostage, no surprise hosting bill when traffic spikes after a contract win gets announced.