More than ever, the Intelligence Community (IC) requires accurate, evidence-based, comprehensive, and timely foreign intelligence related to national security and defense. Secure IT solutions in support of data sharing among intelligence and homeland defense organizations are critical to these issues.
 
McDonald Bradley secure IT solutions:

• Technology refresh
• System incompatibility
• Data overload
• Legacy system interfaces
• Cost control
• Quality assurance

Our current satisfied Intelligence customers include:

• Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
  
• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
  
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  
• Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA)
  
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
  
• National Security Agency (NSA)
  
• National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

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Offering IT solutions
which turn information superiority into knowledge
superiority

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The fast pace of modern warfare requires that data be made available as quickly as possible to those who need it on the battlefield. Trusted information is key to military operations. Net-centric solutions provide the means to fuse data in a web-based environment so warfighters can use smart-pull techniques to query the data and find critical information.
 
McDonald Bradley support:

The Department of Defense (DoD) is building a joint, seamless, end-to-end Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR Defense Information) system that provides integrated, dynamic, interoperable, Internet-protocol based communications in support of network-centric warfare. This transformation will need to:

• Improve interoperability to deploy a secure,
  robust, and wide-band network
• Use dynamic, distributed, and collaborative capabilities
• Achieve data level interoperability and Internet-ready
  nodes for sensors, platforms, weapons, and forces

In addition, DoD must:

• Ensure systems mesh with a collaborative joint
  technical architecture;
• Evaluate systems to determine capabilities, limitations
  and interoperability in realistic joint-warfare scenarios;
• Incorporate Internet-based protocols in new IT,
  communications, weapons and logistics systems; and
• Retrofit legacy systems to meet the network-centric
  transformation goals.

A key to network-centric warfare is the capability for persistent situational awareness. This goes beyond the traditional analysis and presentation of data. It implies the need for information from disparate sources. Every commander must be able to consolidate information, analyze it with multi-disciplinary views, and present and disseminate it rapidly via knowledge walls or visual displays.

Turn information superiority into knowledge superiority.

McDonald Bradley has exceptional past performance with DoD operational, logistical and intelligence data analysis, horizontal fusion, Global Information Grid enterprise level integration, cyber forensics and warfare visualization, and communication infrastructure visualization. We also provide the Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) capabilities that incorporate the DoD Capability Maturity Model (CMM) standards to ensure system readiness.

Our functional staff understands the diversity and complexity of military mission planning and operations, and has the technical skills to exploit the latest net-centric technologies.

Demonstrated commitment to mission performance.

McDonald Bradley has been in the middle of the transformation to true network-centric warfare. Some of our recent successes include devising classified information-fusion knowledge environments and interoperability harnesses for DoD and national intelligence agency clients by using the Virtual Knowledge Base (VKB) as a baseline to:

• Define next-generation metadata tagging approaches
• Develop ontologies and taxonomies for
  enhanced data understanding
• Create new search algorithms to improve
  net-centric information delivery
• Utilize state-of-the-art visualization technology

Our repeatable software development process allowed us to build complex software routines that resulted in a tripled improvement of response time to field agencies in the U.S. Army’s software development center in Washington, D.C.

We also applied our visual intelligence expertise to allow the Office of the Secretary of Defense to monitor system readiness of all DoD worldwide systems in a single display. Ffor the Defense Department’s global intelligence dissemination initiative, our experts provided the Concept of Operations, two software architectures, and expert SETA services regarding new Web technologies. All of these capabilities applied leading-edge technologies to the Defense Department’s transformation to net-centric warfare.

We offer mature Defense Information infrastructures and fresh approaches for changing existing capabilities to meet the tasks, conditions, and standards of OSD’s net-centric strategic direction and vision. These proven solutions allow our experts to provide the full range of state-of-the-art tools for enterprise management.

At McDonald Bradley, we continue to do our best to be a technology leader and a highly valued partner in DoD’s all-encompassing plan for worldwide military transformation.

Our current satisfied DoD customers include:

• U.S. Air Force
  
• U.S. Army
• U.S. Navy

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The continued threat of terrorist events emphasizes the need to enhance the knowledge management solutions used by local, state and federal government. Accessing and analyzing information, while improved, continues to be disjointed and no single organization is fully cognizant of all information. Without cognizance, preventative action is extremely difficult.

McDonald Bradley Support:

• Implement standardized program management oversight and quality assurance support
  
• Design and build workflow systems
  
• Ensure data integration and systems interoperability
  
• Perform link analysis and visualization
  

Recent terrorist events illustrate the pressing knowledge management problems faced by local, state and federal government. There are no centralized portals for accessing and analyzing information and, therefore, no single organization is cognizant of all information. Without cognizance, preventative action is extremely difficult.

The threat to homeland security has highlighted the need for enhanced information gathering, analysis and sharing as well as coordinated decision-making in support of:

• Anti-terrorism;
  
• Investigative intelligence for drug enforcement;
  
• Border patrol and interdiction;
  
• Foreign national accountability;
  
• Anti-terrorism information analysis; and
  
• Case management.

Most agency IT systems and infrastructures are insufficient to adequately address these critical requirements. In part, the required IT system modernization highlights the need to:

• Develop robust, multi-system architectures;
  
• Replace aging hardware and software;
  
• Set design standards to strengthen security and functionality;
  
• Migrate to e-Government through the use of web technologies;
  
• Implement the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA);
  
• Eliminate legacy system limitations and stovepipes; and
  
• Provide advanced investigative and intelligence information processing.

Transform information into knowledge.

The McDonald Bradley Intelligence Gathering and Information Sharing approach to homeland security IT systems development & integration is based on over ten years supporting anti-terrorism, protection and law enforcement agencies. From program conception through deployment, our standardized program management oversight and quality assurance programs calibrate software development activities in alignment with your schedule and budget. Our experts analyze and automate custom workflow solutions. We design web architectures that provide real-time access to mission-critical data while ensuring data integration and systems interoperability.

Recognizing that data is only meaningful when it results in the discovery of key relationships, we perform link analysis and apply our unique VISTA methodology to present important information in one concise view for efficient, appropriate decisions. Our layered approach encompasses:

• Layer 1: Standardized program management oversight
  
• Layer 2: Workflow systems analysis and implementation
  
• Layer 3: Web architecture design
  
• Layer 4: Data integration and systems interoperability
  
• Layer 5: Link analysis and visualization

Our past results are a predictor of future performance.

McDonald Bradley technologists successfully design, develop and implement enterprise systems that aid enforcement agents and intelligence analysts to integrate data from multiple sources and to perform data analysis, visualization, reporting and dissemination. Our employees are experts in relevant infrastructure, application and analysis technologies and provide subject matter expertise with the required security clearances. Using our domain experience, McDonald Bradley provides responsive solutions that improve the quality of information gathered and the speed at which it can be analyzed, accelerating agency decisions and responses.

We provide project management support, a critical component of IV&V, to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Information System (SI) group in project execution and Capability Maturity Model (CMM) standards and processes implementation. We also provide mentoring to DEA project managers on project execution, status, metrics and the establishment of the Rational Suite® and processMax® development frameworks.

McDonald Bradley was selected by the Department of Homeland Security as one of 5 large businesses to provide IV&V for many of the Department’s most critical programs and systems. Using our proven QV² methodology, McDonald Bradley provides full life IV&V services to ensure the on-schedule delivery of systems within budgeted costs and fully compliant with requirements.

Our training experts employed McDonald Bradley’s comprehensive Training Program Design Methodology to facilitate both end-user applications training and technical system administrator training for more than 3,500 personnel at the US Department of Justice. In addition, we constructed essential competency-based courseware, tailored to the specific office automation environments of the US Trustee Program and the Civil, Civil Rights and Environment and Natural Resources divisions.

Our current satisfied Homeland Security and Law Enforcement customers include:

• Department of Homeland Security
  
• Department of Justice
  
• Drug Enforcement Administration
  
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
  

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Most federal agencies are still unable to obtain data from their financial systems to make daily management decisions. Financial managers need to be able to provide more timely and useful data to decision-makers. Agencies also need to implement and enhance certified financial management systems within budget and schedule constraints.

McDonald Bradley support:

• Develop mainframe and web-based applications
  
• Independently verify and validate software system implementation
  
• Operate and maintain systems and networks
  
• Manage and provide help desk support for multiple organizations
  
• Coordinate and manage training programs

In today’s dynamic environment, it is necessary for financial managers to measure and understand results. They need timely data to accurately track the flow of money through their organization on an ongoing basis and link spending to meaningful performance measures. With financial management being one of the five critical areas measured by OMB, it’s no wonder so much attention is placed on improving the state of civil systems.

Meanwhile, financial IT systems, like all software programs, face the traditional challenges that include balancing:

• Acquisition strategies
  
• Technology refresh
  
• System incompatibility
  
• Legacy system issues
  
• Data overload
  
• Cost and schedule control
  
• Quality assurance

Timely financial information means reliable IT systems.

McDonald Bradley has been supporting a broad range of financial system modernization projects for over fifteen years. Repeatable and defined processes are the cornerstone of our approach to software development, and reflect our commitment to the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) approach to managing successful software projects. We apply sound software engineering practices through structured methodologies and we bring substantial experience in the following practices:

• Full lifecycle software development, implementation, and maintenance
  
• Enterprise application integration
  
• Financial systems verification and validation
  
• GOTS and COTS product evaluation, customization, and integration
  
• Web-based architecture, services, and technologies
  
• Requirements traceability
  
• Data architecture, mining, sharing, and tagging
  
• Metrics, process improvement, and risk management
  
• Training, help desk, and networking support services

Our Associates bring numerous technical and management certifications including Certified Software Quality Analysts, Certified Software Test Engineers and Project Management Professionals, as well as certifications in Microsoft®, Novell®, ORACLE® and a wide range of other disciplines and specific development environments.

At McDonald Bradley, our software experts employ our Quality through Verification and Validation (QV²™) program to review and evaluate all program lifecycle elements, with a focus on testing the product to ensure that it fulfills all of the defined requirements, and performs as expected.

Demonstrated commitment to IT system success

McDonald Bradley has taken a leadership role in emerging web technologies, as demonstrated by our work for Fannie Mae’s e-Business development division. We utilized our expertise in web architecture to develop XML standards for the storage, security, packaging, and transmission of electronic mortgages. McDonald Bradley was the primary developer of the e-mortgage file format specification recently adopted by the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), as the standard for the industry.

With assistance from McDonald Bradley, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s financial and property management systems have been successfully migrated from a proprietary, custom-developed system to an open architecture that uses industry standard languages, databases, and development/maintenance tools. McDonald Bradley provided the needed structure to the development cycle – from requirements generation to user acceptance testing – to ensure a successful migration of the re-engineered systems.

McDonald Bradley designed and developed the Security, Funds Control and Budget Executive modules of the Assets Information Management System (AIMS) for the United States Customs Service. We achieved full development and implementation within budget and on schedule.

Our software experts evaluated and implemented COTS products to support the National Health Service Corps business base and Internet requirements. We developed the standards and procedures that are employed throughout the agency.

• Environmental Protection Agency
  
• Patent and Trademark Office
  
• Smithsonian Institute
  
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  
• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
  
• Library of Congress
  
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
  
• Department of Education
  
• Department of Interior
  
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  
• Federal Election Commission
  
• Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service
  
• Food and Drug Administration
  
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
  
• District of Columbia
  
• Fairfax County
  
• Prince William County

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