Team

Team AKG understands the scope and complexity of integrating professional support services within and across NAVSEA and the Virtual SYSCOM. Our Team lives these challenges on a daily basis. We are currently providing professional support services to clients ranging from Naval Sea Systems Command to the Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC). Team AKG will leverage our proven virtual collaboration toolset to facilitate interaction throughout the SYSCOM community. As a result of using this technology, our current customers have achieved significant cost savings based on reduced travel, improved decision making, and more effective time management as the right resources do the right jobs more efficiently.

AKG, as the prime contractor, understands the scope and complexity of managing multiple task orders simultaneously. Our senior executives have deep experience and expertise managing multiple task orders under similar arrangements, such as the NAVSEA Multi-Award Contract (MAC), Marine Corps CEOss, Broad Information Technology Services (BITS), GSA IT-70, GSA MOBIS, NIH CIOSP2, and Millennia Lite. We understand the differences and similarities of contract (program) management and task order (project) management.

The Applied Knowledge Group team (TeamAKG), which includes VSE Corporation and SRA, has deep capabilities in most of the SeaPort-e functional areas and across all seven geographic zones.

• Research and Development Support
• Engineering Support
• Modeling
• Prototyping
• System Design Documentation and Technical Data Support
• Software Engineering, Development, Programming and Network
• Support
• Reliability, Maintainability and Availability (RM&A)
• Human Factors Engineering Support
• System Safety
• Configuration Management (CM) Support
• Quality Assurance (QA) Support
• Information System (IS) Development, Information Assurance (IA), and Information Technology (IT) Support
• Ship Inactivation/Disposal
• Interoperability/Test and Evaluation/Trials
• Measurement Facilities/Range
• Acquisition Logistics
• Supply and Provisioning
• Training
• In-Service Engineering
• Program Support
• Administrative Support
• Public Affairs
  

Team Members

Applied Knowledge Group

AKG is a business and technology consulting firm that provides custom collaboration solutions. We support the vision of a Virtual Work Environment (VWE) that overcomes the restrictions of the physical work world to facilitate collaboration, knowledge transfer, and more informed business decisions. Our services fall into four categories: People, Process, Learning, and Technology, each of which is essential to a successful engagement. AKG is a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in SharePoint (Windows SharePoint Services v.2 and v.3, SharePoint Portal Server, and MOSS 2007) and related technologies.

Founded in 1996, AKG helps government and commercial organizations centralize employee knowledge, using collaboration strategies, tools, and best-practice user adoption methods. Our services include:

• collaboration strategy
• change management and training services
• technology services
• COTS and GOTS integration
• custom application development
• user adoption services

We are a prime contractor providing professional support services to such clients as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Learning Tree International, Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC), and the Intelligence Community. AKG understands the scope and complexity of integrating professional support services within and across the Virtual Systems Command (SYSCOM).

Our team uses our proven toolset to support and enhance interaction in the SYSCOM community, resulting in reduced travel costs, improved decision making, and more effective time management, and saving our clients significant time and money.

For the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AKG supports the Knowledge Services Network, a communication and collaboration platform that includes thousands of facilitated community sites that serve 32,000 users within FAA and throughout the airline industry. AKG support services for KSN include:

• technical support
• MOSS 2007 migration strategy and planning
• user adoption strategy
• process improvement
• change management
• training, including regional outreach user conferences and expos
• a help desk, kept small by customized training of site facilitators

KSN has won awards for excellence. It was a 2007 "Top 5" Winner of the Industry Advisory Council's Excellence.gov awards, and a finalist for the eGov Institute KM Awards. In addition, in 2006, the Aircraft Evaluation Group (AEG) team site within the KSN was awarded a Gartner Group High Performance Workplace Initiative Award for its innovative approach to improving the process for aircraft standards and regulations.

SRA

SRA is a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to clients in national security, civil government, healthcare, and public health. They provide full lifecycle information technology solutions and professional services, business solutions for contingency and disaster response planning, business intelligence, information assurance, environmental strategies, enterprise architecture, infrastructure management, and wireless integration.

SRA has a long history of applying advanced technology and management science to support national security, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies and organizations. The broad range of services they provide for clients in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) include:

• program management
• research, systems analysis, and engineering 
• intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)
• counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and law enforcement

SRA provides leading-edge concept development, design, systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and long-range acquisition planning of tactical command, control, and communications systems for DoD, as well as for allied and coalition nations.

Extensive experience designing and engineering integrated information systems and facilities, or "command centers," helps SRA ensure secure, redundant, and survivable communications to monitor status, assess alternatives, and execute plans. Their 5,200 employees serve more than 275 U.S. government clients on more than 900 active engagements from Fairfax, Virginia, and offices in all seven Seaport-e zones. SRA demonstrates capability in as many as 19 functional areas per zone.

The programs SRA supports include the Joint Tactical Radio System, Link 16, Link 22, Joint Range Extension, Weapons Data Link Networking Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration, and the Flexible Access Secure Transfer Link 16 networking enhancements initiative.

VSE

VSE focuses on creating, sustaining, and improving the systems, equipment, and processes of government through core competencies in the following:

• legacy system
• obsolescence management
• prototyping
• reverse engineering
• technology insertion
• supply chain management
• foreign military sales
• management consulting
• process improvement

For more than 40 years, VSE has been on the leading edge of technology and equipment for land, sea, and air operations for all branches of the U.S. military, both domestic and international. With offices in six Seaport-e zones, VSE demonstrates capability in 17 of the functional areas. Their large, talented, and experienced resource base and established procurement system can deliver a diverse range of products and services to the defense and commercial marketplace. VSE core competencies include:

• foreign military sales reactivation and lifecycle support services for various classes of ships
• fleet maintenance
• logistic, engineering, production, and lifecycle services to government agencies
• commercial activities in support of munitions and ordnance systems
  modernization, overhaul, and upgrade of ships and watercraft and related industry systems
• engineering and technical logistics support to the aviation and weapons community
• senior-level consulting organization specializing in product and process optimization, quality engineering, integrated product and process development, reliability engineering, and training and certification of personnel and organizations in Six Sigma quality programs
• the only nationally recognized and EPA/OSFIA-compliant process at a West Coast facility to dismantle and dispose of inactive ships
• energy and environment technology programs