Validate mission critical applications before the first deployment
SHIFT™ is CACI’s patented platform that ensures commercial and government off the shelf applications are fully ready for first use, whether deployed as SaaS, on premises, or in containerized environments.
By precisely emulating the behaviors of specialized and controlled cloud regions, SHIFT enables applications to perform exactly as they will in high side, air gapped, or secure systems.
Overview
A trusted path forward
Through accurate replication of restricted cloud conditions, CI/CD integration, and region specific behavior modeling, SHIFT allows teams to validate early, resolve issues quickly, and maintain security throughout the development lifecycle. Temporary credentials and cross account access support secure collaboration for both cleared and uncleared teams.
The challenge
Commercial cloud applications often fail in secure, isolated settings
Software built and tested in commercial cloud regions frequently break when deployed in air gapped or classified environments. These failures lead to delays, costly rework, and slowed mission progress, especially when access to cleared developers is limited and iteration cycles are constrained. Agencies need a reliable, scalable way to validate application behavior before software reaches secure domains.
The difference
Full-scale emulation of restricted and classified regions
SHIFT provides comprehensive, realistic emulation of cloud conditions, enabling teams to test and validate performance with confidence, and without requiring access to secure systems.
By mirroring real world connectivity limits, regional service behaviors, endpoint differences, and API responses, SHIFT helps teams identify and remediate issues early in development, long before software touches a high side environment.
Reliable testing, faster delivery, and broader mission impact
SHIFT provides developers, integrators, vendors, and cloud service providers clear visibility into how their applications will behave in restricted regions while still maintaining full control of their code and products.
Teams can:
Accelerate delivery and reduce costly rework
Identify environment-specific issues early in the lifecycle, allowing teams to fix problems long before they impact schedules or budgets.
Identify environment-specific issues early in the lifecycle, allowing teams to fix problems long before they impact schedules or budgets.
Prevent deployment failures before they occur
SHIFT exposes regional incompatibilities and hidden configuration gaps early, ensuring applications deploy smoothly in secure cloud regions the first time.
SHIFT exposes regional incompatibilities and hidden configuration gaps early, ensuring applications deploy smoothly in secure cloud regions the first time.
Support hybrid cleared and uncleared development workflows
With temporary, controlled credentials, SHIFT enables secure collaboration across mixed teams without risking sensitive environments or slowing development.
With temporary, controlled credentials, SHIFT enables secure collaboration across mixed teams without risking sensitive environments or slowing development.
Improve training, telework, and distributed collaboration
Teams can safely develop, test, and learn from anywhere, using realistic emulation that removes location and access barriers.
Teams can safely develop, test, and learn from anywhere, using realistic emulation that removes location and access barriers.
Deliver mission critical software faster, with more confidence and compliance
Accurate, repeatable validation gives organizations confidence that their software will perform as expected in high-side or restricted domains from day one.
Accurate, repeatable validation gives organizations confidence that their software will perform as expected in high-side or restricted domains from day one.
Reliable testing, faster delivery, and broader mission impact
SHIFT provides developers, integrators, vendors, and cloud service providers clear visibility into how their applications will behave in restricted regions while still maintaining full control of their code and products.
Teams can:
Accelerate delivery and reduce costly rework
Identify environment-specific issues early in the lifecycle, allowing teams to fix problems long before they impact schedules or budgets.
Identify environment-specific issues early in the lifecycle, allowing teams to fix problems long before they impact schedules or budgets.
Prevent deployment failures before they occur
SHIFT exposes regional incompatibilities and hidden configuration gaps early, ensuring applications deploy smoothly in secure cloud regions the first time.
SHIFT exposes regional incompatibilities and hidden configuration gaps early, ensuring applications deploy smoothly in secure cloud regions the first time.
Support hybrid cleared and uncleared development workflows
With temporary, controlled credentials, SHIFT enables secure collaboration across mixed teams without risking sensitive environments or slowing development.
With temporary, controlled credentials, SHIFT enables secure collaboration across mixed teams without risking sensitive environments or slowing development.
Improve training, telework, and distributed collaboration
Teams can safely develop, test, and learn from anywhere, using realistic emulation that removes location and access barriers.
Teams can safely develop, test, and learn from anywhere, using realistic emulation that removes location and access barriers.
Deliver mission critical software faster, with more confidence and compliance
Accurate, repeatable validation gives organizations confidence that their software will perform as expected in high-side or restricted domains from day one.
Accurate, repeatable validation gives organizations confidence that their software will perform as expected in high-side or restricted domains from day one.
Connectivity that mirrors air gapped environments
SHIFT enforces internet isolation and secure communication paths, enabling teams to test application behavior under true high side constraints.
Region specific endpoints and certificate authorities
Accurate regional endpoints and custom certificate authorities validate authentication flows, trust chains, and connectivity logic.
Emulated cloud services and configuration parameters
SHIFT reproduces service availability, system limits, and environmental settings unique to restricted regions, supporting realistic, repeatable testing.
Accurate API responses and real world error messages
The platform returns the same API outputs and error codes seen in secure cloud domains, along with actionable remediation guidance — no classified access required.
Integrated CI/CD validation workflows
Region compatibility checks integrate directly into existing pipelines, automating validation with every build.
Secure testing with temporary and cross account credentials
Controlled, time bound access enables collaboration across cleared and uncleared teams without exposing sensitive systems.
Value
Software that works the first time it reaches a secure cloud
SHIFT empowers organizations to deliver software that performs correctly on the first deployment. By identifying issues early and validating behavior accurately, teams reduce rework and accelerate timelines. SHIFT supports secure, hybrid development models and unlocks new opportunities for vendors and providers operating in the federal market.
