U.S. Army - Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) Program

isoterix, incorporated is a subcontractor to Sensor Technologies, Inc. (STI) for the recently awarded contract supporting the U.S. Army’s Communications- Electronic Life Cycle Management Command (C-E LCMC) Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) program. S3 will support the U.S. Army in meeting its requirements for a 21st-century war fighting force. The five-year S3 program, with a $19.25B ceiling and additional five-year option, was established to provide rapid, comprehensive, and cost-effective Engineering, Logistical and Business operations support to the Command Control Communication and Computer Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) community.

The C-E LCMC and C4ISR community aggressively respond to the needs of the U.S. Army to reduce the total lifecycle ownership cost of its systems while providing more lethal, survivable, and sustainable capabilities to today's Warfigher.

The STI Team: AT&T Government Solutions Inc.; BLACKHAWK Management Corporation; Classic Edge Operations Inc.; Cooper Materials Handling, Inc.; Datatek Applications Inc.; David H.. Pollock Consultants Inc.; Dimensions International Inc.; DRS Tactical Systems Inc.; Dynetics Inc.; EG&G Lear Siegler Services Inc.; Engineering and Professional Services Incorporated; SRA International; Infinite Group Inc.; Information Systems Support Inc.; INNOLOG Inc.; isoterix, incorporated; Morgan State University; MTC Technologies Inc.; Northrop Grumman Information Technology; Omega Training Group, Inc.; Pennoni Associates Inc.; Plexus Installations, Inc., DBA Plexus Com/Group; Science Applications International Corporation; Scientific Research Corporation; SMH LLC International; Tecolote Research Inc.; The Wexford Group International; Tobyhanna Army Depot; Unisys Corporation; VORTECHX Applied Technologies; Washington Group International; Westar Aerospace & Defense Group Inc.

U.S. Army - Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - 2Services (ITES-2S)

isoterix, incorporated has entered into several subcontract agreements with awardees of the U.S. Army Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - 2 Services (ITES-2S). The ITES-2S contract allows the U.S. Army to quickly procure high-quality, cost-effective IT solutions and services for the Army's Enterprise Mission Support Services Solutions contract. The services under ITES-2S include: Business Process Re-Engineering, Information Systems Security, Information Assurance, IT Services, Network Support, Systems Operations and Maintenance, Program Management, Enterprise Design, Integration and Consolidation, and Education and Training.

ITES-2S is a contract vehicle for products and services and serves as a follow-on to the original ITES-Enterprise Mission Support Services Solutions contract. The Army, Defense Department and other federal agencies will be able to order from ITES-2S by issuing individual task orders.

ITES-2S is a key element of the Army Enterprise Infostructure Transformation program, which was designed to reduce the cost of maintaining information systems while improving access to information and applications.

ITES-2S Contract Stats
Contract full name: Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2Services (ITES-2S)

Issuing Agency: Army Contracting Agency,Information Technology E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center, in conjunction with the Army Small Computer Program under the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems, the Army Chief Information Officer/G6 and Network Enterprise Technology Command.

Description: The purpose of ITES-2S is to support the Army with an array of servicesbased solutions that provide IT equipment, as well as the software and services to fulfill the Army’s end-to-end requirements for development, deployment, operation, maintenance and sustainment of systems and technologies to serve the nation’s warfighters worldwide.

Suppliers: Apptis Inc., BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI-ISS, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), EDS Corp., General Dynamics, Network Systems, IBM Corp., Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Multimax, NCI Information Systems, Northrop Grumman Corp., Pragmatics Inc., SAIC, STG Inc., QSS Inc.

Contract duration: Three year base contract, plus several optional periods for a total of up to nine years.

Value: $20 billion ceiling

Eligible agencies:IDIQ, open to Army, DoD and all other federal agencies, as well as foreign military sales customers.

U.S. Army - Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - 2 Services (ITES-2S)

Performance-based IT solutions enable transformation

isoterix, incorporated has entered a subcontract agreement with EDS for the U.S. Army Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - 2 Services (ITES-2S). The ITES-2S program is a performance-based, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract that will help the U.S. Army acquire innovative, standardized, turnkey solutions and services. EDS, along with our larger team of partners including isoterix, incorporated, can bring proven experience and capabilities delivering end-to-end IT solutions across all ITES-2S requirement areas.

The ITES-2S contract allows the U.S. Army to quickly procure high-quality, cost-effective IT solutions and services for the Army's Enterprise Mission Support Services Solutions contract. The services under ITES-2S include: Business Process Re-Engineering, Information Systems Security, Information Assurance, IT Services, Network Support, Systems Operations and Maintenance, Program Management, Enterprise Design, Integration and Consolidation, and Education and Training.

ITES-2S is a contract vehicle for products and services and serves as follow-on to the original ITES-Enterprise Mission Support Services Solutions contract. The Army, Defense Department and other federal agencies will be able to order from ITES-2S by issuing individual task orders.

ITES-2S is a key element of the Army Enterprise Infrastructure Transformation program, which was designed to reduce the cost of maintaining information systems while improving access to information and applications.

U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM) for the Rapid Response to Critical System Requirements (R2CSR)

isoterix, incorporated subcontractor to Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM) for the Rapid Response to Critical System Requirements (R2CSR). R2CSR provides a flexible contractual vehicle for specific engineering, training, studies and analysis, technology insertion, systems integration, installation, logistics capabilities, and other services. The contract scope of work includes programs that support aircraft, tracked and wheeled vehicles, ground support equipment, shelters and the warfighter. The R2CSR contract is available to all Department of Defense organizations, as well as any other federal agency.

Overview
WICAP allows DLA to evaluate suppliers’ capabilities to provide items in both peacetime and wartime, to take actions to mitigate quantifiable risks, and to examine broad industrial base issues and trends, using statistically valid information. The tools allow assessments to be made by individual item or grouped by items, product family, sector or sub-sector, weapon system or platform, or supplier. WICAP is an automated, interactive, Web-Based program that allows the gathering of information from industrial suppliers and the use of this data to assess the industrial sector’s capabilities for supplying millions of items. It also enables information to be analyzed in a wide variety of formats in order to identify strategies directed toward reducing costs and providing wartime readiness. WICAP replaced the old data collection process, which relied on mass mailings of lengthy (up to 22 pages), cumbersome questionnaires that suppliers had to fill out by hand. WICAP changed both the way information is collected from industrial suppliers and the way that information is used to conduct industrial base assessments and analyses.

To improve DLA's management of spare parts for the services, and thus reduce costs and inventory, isoterix re-engineered WICAP. The program consists of a data collection tool (DCT) and an analytical tool (AT), which is used to create management strategies. DCT provides the capability to gather new and updated information directly from private companies via the Internet. Company representatives voluntarily respond to a series of on-line survey questions that, depending on how answered, are self tailored to that company to simplify and speed up the survey process. Private companies provide information on what spare part items they can provide (or are willing to provide); what quantities they can produce; how long it will take to produce them under different scenarios (e.g., normal or crisis conditions); and what potential bottlenecks (e.g., availability of certain materials, or equipment constraints) exist that could limit the production of certain spare parts. DLA validates this information as part of its assessment process before acting on the information.
AT provides analysts with immediate access to the automated data collected from industry in addition to historical data acquired from the DLA Office of Operations Research and Resource Analysis (DORRA). This provides the capability to develop timely and reliable assessments of industry’s ability to provide various spare parts in peacetime as well as wartime. In addition, it provides the capability to use the analytical data to identify actual or potential parts availability problems (e.g., items with unusually long lead times or items that are involved in bottlenecks) and, based on this information, to create a management strategy for resolving these problems, for example, by changing its acquisitions procedures or targeting investments in material and technology resources to reduce production lead times.

Technical
WICAP has undergone an iterative development lifecycle. Upon receipt of a hard drive with no documentation using our in-house development processes we deployed the first useable version of WICAPAT and continue to make major improvements while keeping the application in production. During earlier versions numerous features were added including major areas such as Demand to Purchase Graphs, CAGE Analysis (analysis to determine capabilities for a specific vendor), Sector Analysis (analysis to determine capabilities within DLA hierarchies. e.g. (MACH SHOP TURNED PRODUCT MFG / NUTS, WASHERS / WASHERS-LOCK) and Trend Analysis (analysis of specific purchase trends within a branch of a DLA or weapon system hierarchy) all of which now include Live Industry data from DCT, as well as smaller features such as improved graphing. All of the aforementioned changes not only required strong development and analytical skills but also intense statistical computations. One of the largest changes to the application was it’s migration from a thin server component supporting only one user at a time to the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. This migration provided a number of necessary features such as exception handling, multiple concurrent user support, ease of management and a multitude of other benefits commonly found in J2EE applications. Prior to the migration to J2EE WICAPAT used a proprietary protocol requiring the use of two TCP/IP ports. This protocol proved problematic due to network configuration issues which lead to the adoption of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Another major feature addition is the ability to choose from multiple databases. This allows a user to analyze numerous data sets using a unified user interface without the overhead of managing multiple installations. Both of these improvements were made to the application without modifying the user interface avoiding costly end-user retraining. Numerous other features have been added to WICAP allowing the application to more fully meet end-user requirements.

Currently all portions of WICAP are being re-developed using Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 with analysis services to utilize On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and VS.NET as the development platform. The VS.NET IDE provides developers with the tools they need to bring standards based applications to production in record time. VS.NET provides highly advanced XML tools that allow developers to visually model their applications speeding development. Web applications using ASP.NET are much easier to develop due to the integration of full fledge object oriented languages. Additionally, VS.NET provides easy integration of cross-technology communication and infrastructure scalability via Web Services and SOAP. Microsoft’s push to standardize their technologies as well as foster the porting of the .NET framework to other operating systems shows that the .NET framework will be the de facto development standard for years to come.