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Vyalex management Solutions, Inc. (VMS) has a proven track record of assisting the U.S. Navy in the development of performance measures and business processes and providing leading-edge technical support. Our nation's defense agenda has changed significantly in recent years and VMS helps defense organizations meet rising performance demands by identifying and delivering cost-effective solutions that produce immediate, consistent, high-performance results. VMS specializes in helping government clients inject proactive change, performance measurement and strategic planning processes into their culture to continuously improve the results they produce. Our clients have broadened their relationship with us because we provide talented and creative personnel to support many aspects of their evolving missions.
With expertise in both strategy and technology, VMS transcends the conventional categories of consulting. Committed to delivering innovation, VMS collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance organizations. The functional areas that we propose to support are:
- 3.1 Research and Development Support
- 3.2 Engineering, System Engineering and Process Engineering Support
- 3.5 System Design Documentation and Technical Data Support
- 3.20 Program Support
- 3.21 Administrative Support
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Vyalex Management Solutions (VMS) is working with the Avionics Architecture & Systems Engineering division of the Naval Air Systems Command Avionics Department to align resources across multiple product lines and facilities. Our goal is to provide the means for the organization to first prioritize its resources and then to formulate an understanding of its inventory. The challenge is that although the organization is responsible for all avionics related inventory, most of the products are managed by separate entities in four states.
To complete this task, the customer challenged VMS to develop a new paradigm. We developed a detailed strategy to allocate each inventory item to its cognizant activity. We developed a specialized tool using our PowerTrack integrated solution to provide the customer with an approach that meets the overall goals and objectives for the program while minimizing cost. Our tool, Avionics Status Tracking and Report System (ASTARS) has allowed the customer to store a series of data including listing of several events according to their dates of occurrence which can be retrieved through a number of intelligent searches. This best value strategy was accomplished by thoroughly reviewing the customer's needs and approaches. |
VMS provided cost-conscious solutions for digital avionics systems integration and architecture development to NAVAIR Engineering for this effort. Our founder and principal consultant developed the roadmap for the electronic warfare integrated suite on the F/A-18E/F program. The Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) system is by the far the most complex and sophisticated electronic warfare suite in the U.S. Navy tactical aircraft fleet today. The challenge was to effectively develop and test the electronic warfare suite, with a primary concern that the Navy be able to deploy the system on cost, on time and on schedule.
To accomplish this daunting task, we assisted in the development and to introduce new techniques to enhance program success. Our team is highly knowledgeable and experienced in Naval Aviation platform mission systems and RF sensors therefore, we presented a detailed strategy to thoroughly evaluate multiple alternatives, develop resource allocation models and submit the mission systems software/hardware integration and airborne electronic warfare analyses.
Our team contributed to the development of the core architecture for the integrated EW suite on the F/A-18E/F including mission computer cockpit controls and displays. Our founder functioned as a key contributor to the overall design of the Avionics 1553 Mux-Bus and the EW 1553 Mux-Bus while facilitating implementation of the overall integrated cockpit controls and displays. By providing the customer with common sense alternatives that still met overall program goals and objectives, he helped save millions of dollars over the life of the program, while laying the groundwork for maritime dominance. This was accomplished by documenting capabilities, assessing value of opportunities, conducting research, reviewing, validating and documenting the end-to-end needs assessments for key program milestones.
We continue to provide this type of support to our client for continued program support and development. |
VMS played an integral role in NAVAIR's effort to realign their services and to create new paradigm for leadership across the entire organization. Our staff have quickly gained the confidence of Navy leadership and played a significant role on this project. We have worked very closely with Six Sigma trainers by providing a custom-tailored template for the project through our analyses of their needs.
VMS supported NAVAIR in their efforts to achieve their vision through end-to-end business processes with the end result being better support to the warfighter. VMS supplied the analysis to consolidate multiple functional areas across the command and thereby made it more efficient. For the process to be successful, VMS lead activities to ensure the requirements from NAVAIR are correlated with actual Chief of Naval Operations goals and directives. This is accomplished by conducting analyses and monitoring closely all the outcomes and deliverables.
VMS conducted analyses for the organization in terms of demonstrating the effectiveness of the organization to the fleet, ultimately making recommendations on how to automate and integrate the many IT systems for efficient cross-leveling.
We have produced both long-term and immediate "quick-turn" benefits for AIRSPEED. Our deliverables are currently being used by the leader of the AIRSPEED program to make recommendations at the command level.
Our analysis has been incorporated in the cornerstone strategy for how metrics may be adopted in a service industry to ascertain long-term effectiveness across the entire organization. We have implemented a phased-in approach to document current and future systems requirements to uncovered gaps, disconnects and latencies in the current process. The final result will be a newly aligned organization able to radically reduce cost and positioned for 21st century challenges. |
| INS provides services to U.S. Navy and Marine Corps clients in the following areas: R&D Support; Engineering Support; Modeling; System Des Doc/Tech Data; Software; RM&A; HF Engineering Support; System Safety; CM Support; QA Support; IS/IA/IT; Ship Inactivation/Disposal; Interoperability/T&E/Trials; Measure Facilities/Ranges; Acquisition Logistics; Supply & Provisioning; Training; In-Service Engineering; Program Support; Administrative Support |
Since 1990, Performigence has been helping clients to improve how they manage the business, financial and technical resources needed to perform their program and operational activities. Its approach is to provide a full array of services to help clients improve processes and manage all aspects of the operations management. Performigence accomplishes this by designing and implementing the business and automated systems required to manage this cycle more efficiently and effectively. Improving an organization's technical and business processes often involves looking at ways to automate tasks. As a result the company's activities fall under the following functional areas:
- Engineering Support, System Engineering and Process Engineering Support
- 3.12 Information System (IS) Development, Information Assurance (IA), and Information Technology (IT) Support
- 3.18 Training Support
- 3.20 Program Support
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N00024-01-D-7029, NAVSEA 04L Logistics and Financial Support, Mr. Dave Poppert, Tel. 202-781-1791
- N000140-02-D-0593, NAVSUP/NAVICP Program Management, Financial & Technical Support, Ms. Catherine Rix-Payne, Tel. 215-697-4410
- M67854-02-A-9013, USMC BPA for Acquisition Logistics, Ms. Cindy Wells, Tel. 703-432-3773 |
| Navair Avionics Systems Engineering needed to improve its processes and bring its complex and dispersed information together into one integrated resource for its workers. Navair Avionics engaged Performigence to provide assistance in capturing this information in an application, which it entitled the Avionics Systems Engineering Support System (ASESS). Among its capabilities, the application can walk staff through the various technical reviews involved in managing a program through the research and development phases. Other process areas captured in the application include Project Management, Risk Management, Systems Engineering and Systems Integration. |
| Performigence was engaged by Port Hueneme Division Business Process Reengineering and Innovation to train its personnel in operations management cycle methodologies. The training involved the use of a hands-on effort to use the government purchase card processes as an example of how the methodology can be used to define the processes and implement tools that insure that workers perform them efficiently and in compliance with the best practices and regulations. |
| The United States Environmental Protection Agency needed to improve its pesticide registration processes. Pesticide registration is the process through which EPA examines the ingredients of a
pesticide and evaluates it to ensure that it will not have unreasonable adverse effects on humans, the environment and non-target species; and that it fulfills all claims made on the product label. A
pesticide cannot be legally used if it has not been registered with EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs.
EPA not only wanted a way to capture its process knowledge for improvement but also needed a way to provide knowledge and assistance to both its employees and the regulated community (i.e.,
the pesticide manufacturers). The body of knowledge involved with the processes is large and dispersed. It includes the laws and regulations, memoranda, policy documents and scientific information.
EPA engaged Performigence to help in creating its application entitled the Antimicrobial Registration Information System (ARIS). An application for access by EPA workers was created first. A team of EPA workers was organized for Performigence to work with in building the application.
The application's intelligent interfaces allow workers to describe various situations or issues they face and get the particular assistance needed for the circumstances at hand. ARIS is linked to the various repositories of related information so that it can retrieve whatever is needed to help guide a worker through a process or assist in solving a particular problem. For example, a particular relevant memorandum could be identified or a spreadsheet that can help in a calculation of pesticide levels could be retrieved.
A pilot of the version for the regulated companies has been deployed to pesticide manufacturers and EPA and Performigence are receiving feedback. Performigence is currently working on improvements as identified by the end-user survey (e.g., the ability for the application to walk users through automated forms is being added). |
| Performigence was engaged to help Ginnie Mae create a pilot application that captures its mortgage-backed securities processes and provides guidance to its workers and banks involved in their issuance.
The application presents the information contained in an intelligent and interactive application that provides orientation and training on the programs and assists workers get the information they need to perform processes. The applications can be deployed to users through the World Wide Web, through the customer's internal LAN or WAN networks or to stand alone workers without network connectivity. |
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