ZERONE, Inc. is headquartered in the District of Columbia and Incorporated in Maryland in 1983.

ZERONE began with a core competency in building complex software systems for engineering applications in the telecommunications and satellite communications industry. Early work was “close to the machine” and was about the rapid and absolutely accurate movement and manipulation of streams of bits and the organization of bit patterns into meaningful information and services. Hence, the company's name is logically and literally a combination of the binary bit values “zero” and “one” – the raw materials of the information age.

Even while working at the level of bit manipulation, what distinguished ZERONE and its efforts from the beginning was a drive for, and grasp of, the big picture. In engineering systems, “big picture” meant system architecture, how all the complex pieces fit together. In engineering management the “big picture” meant building teams of professionals with the right mix of talents and personal natures. Engineering management was, to a large extent, about the creation and communication of system architecture to teams of people, and the building and management of those teams. Over time, the big picture has grown in scope to encompass total program management.

The growth of ZERONE has been about the natural and logical growth of engineering management into project and full program management. Building upon a core competency of developing systems and managing that processes, expertise was first added to the front end of this process in the area of requirements gathering and analysis.

Pursuit of a better definition of the problems to be solved was the initial motivation for this growth. With increased capabilities in requirements analysis, the scope of systems being developed was broadened from strictly deterministic engineering systems to business applications which had more potential for process and business change, as well as engineering tradeoffs.