ASD employs a full spectrum of Federal
and Department of Defense (DoD) best practices in order to ensure that our contract
performance meets the highest standards and always strives to help achieve the
various government’s reform agendas.

A partial
list of Federal/DoD best practices include:
- Use of Balanced Scorecard to help our customers
establish a performance management system that aligns their IT balanced scorecard,
including IT plans and goals, with business objectives and to establish of measures
of IT effectiveness for improving performance of technology and the achievement
of balanced results across stakeholder groups.
- Active participation in expanding e-Government initiatives
to improve service delivery for the American people using Information Technology.
- Deployment of the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)/DoD Architecture
Framework (FEA/DoDAF) reference modes to help our customers implement
the US Office
of Management and Budget’s requirements to comply with the Clinger-Cohen
Act and provide a common methodology for IT acquisition in the United
States federal government.
- Capital Investment Planning/IT Portfolio Management to
assist our customers in developing IT Portfolio business cases (OMB Exhibits
300) and in using project management tools as necessary to provide project work
breakdown structure, schedule, and resource development and management; project
and program performance measures development and tracking, including Earned Value
reporting and Integrated Baseline Reviews on an as needed basis. Our support
includes preparation of all documentation required by OMB for the Exhibits 300.
- Service Level Agreements developed in full cooperation with
our customers to ensure that there service performance objectives are continuously
met.
- Interactive Management Dashboards to provide our customers
with real-time contract and task order status related to schedule, cost, and
performance.
- Centers of Excellence – ASD uses a revolving council of industry
experts to support our centers of excellence. The current categories supported
include Information Assurance, IT Management Services, Net-centric Solutions,
Federal Enterprise Architecture/Department of Defense Architecture Framework
(FEA)/(DoDAF), Business Process Reengineering, Knowledge Management, Government-wide
Acquisition Contract (GWAC) Business Development, and Lean Six Sigma.
ASD offers a Conference Center Support facility located
at our Herndon, VA office. We are accustomed to facilitating customer
focus meetings (one to three days) for sessions of up to 100 people. Our approach
uses a “total service” customer reference model built around extraordinary business
relationships and a well orchestrated customer outreach program all aimed at
achieving customer excellence. |