Compass Services Provided

Programmatic and contracting efforts that contribute to weapon systems, automated information systems, and services acquisition.

• Program Analysis and Assessment
• Organizational goals, Work Breakdown Structure, and Integrated Master Schedules
• Risk/Issue Opportunity Management
• Schedule, Cost, and Quality Management
• Policy and Governance
• Documentation and Reporting
• Risk Management
• Acquisition Planning
• Acquisition Development and Budget Planning
• Source Selection Planning and Facilitation
• Pre- & Post-Award Contracting
• Records Management
• Strategic Planning, Business Planning, and Operations Support
• Contract Management Services
• Configuration Management

Interdisciplinary technical efforts focused on conceptual modeling, designing, testing, and managing complex engineering and IT systems over their life cycles.

• Requirements Analysis & Management
• Data Analysis
• Data Management
• Trade Studies and Analysis of Alternatives
• Standards (IEEE, ISO, DoD)
• Network Analysis and Design, Test and Evaluation (IV&V)
• Transition Planning (System, Enterprise, Cloud)
• Analytics
• Deployment (System, Site Surveys), and System Integration
• Enterprise Architecture

We apply an enterprise approach to assessing and planning for cloud migration; implementing organizational change management for cloud adoption; deploying secure cloud environment and network connectivity; migrating infrastructure, data and applications to the cloud as a stand-alone service or as part of an application project or managed cloud service; and achieving accelerated Authority to Operate (ATO) security authorization.

Planning, coordinating, and executing efforts across a wide scope of functional areas on customer organizational staffs that directly contribute to customer mission operations.

• Situational Awareness, information sharing, analysis, and liaison support
• Operational and crisis prevention and response planning and coordination of real-world events
• Direction/facilitation/coordination of manpower, equipment, and resources during crisis operations
• Review magnitude of potential loss and probability loss may occur
• Analysis of alternatives in dynamic environments

We support our customer’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and disasters. We provide planning, training, and exercises supporting a wide range of stakeholder and customers.

• Plan, develop, execute, and analyze joint exercises and wargames.
• Draft, coordinate, and finalize key exercise documents (training objectives, event scenarios, Exercise Directives and Plans).
• Develop exercise architecture, concept of operations, Master Scenario Event List, equipment requirements and operation, and personnel training requirements.
• Provide lesson plan development, analysis, improvement, and assessment
• Define and implement employee engagement processes and workforce team development programs.

Our Executive and Administrative Assistants integrate seamlessly into government front office staff performing traditional administrative support such as scheduling meetings, maintaining calendars, coordinating VTCs/conference rooms, and using DCPS to process time/attendance forms.

They also assist, with travel orders/vouchers using the Defense Travel System, perform office tasks, coordinate and route staff summary sheets and support the office's training coordinator/manager.

Credentialing & Access Management (ICAM) - ICAM management services help enterprises utilize secure, efficient, easy-to-use and interoperable identity solutions to access online services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice and innovation—all while adhering to mandated ICAM policies. Includes services to select, install and operate privilege access management (PAM) software.

• ICAM Assessments
• ICAM Systems Engineering
• ICAM Services & Solutions

Assessment and Authorization (A&A)

• A&A Process Support
• A&A Analysis Support
• A&A Coordination Support
• A&A Security Documentation Support
• Plan of Action and Milestone (POA&M) Development
• Information Assurance Control Validation
• DoD Information Assurance Certification/Accreditation Process (DIACAP)
• Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• DIACAP to RMF Transition Support
• Systems and network security engineering and security management
• Cyberwarfare/cyberspace doctrine, training, and exercises

• ServiceNow – We help organizations deploy customized ServiceNow solutions that facilitate baseline technical management (e.g. Request for Change processes) and asset management
• Tableau – We implement dashboard solutions to consume program data and present real-time schedule, risk, and release information to support customer decision-making
• DOORS Next Generation – We maintain the application to support the requirements managers with updates and reports
• MS Project Server – We implement solutions to enable dynamic schedule updates and collaboration with customer mission partners

• Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) We facilitate establishing Agile Community of Practices, including the transition of traditional development and delivery to Agile and DevOps implementations for iterative and rapid releases. We conduct ongoing SAFe, Value Stream, and Agile Release Train (ART) Identification Workshops. We teach, coach, advise, mentor and guide leaders across the enterprise in the adoption of Agile principles and practices, and provide Executive-level SAFe briefings.
• Guidance Compliance We evaluate and recommend guidance revisions to keep pace with evolving agile processes, industry technology and approaches, as well as government directives, including industry, SAFe, and DoDI 5000.87. We defined an Epic Development Pathway to clarify customer process adaptations needed to support agile development.
• Tool Adoption and Integration We evaluate, adopt, and configure tools to support Agile at Scale processes that drive business-IT alignment. This includes Jira and the Jira Enterprise Agile Planning Tool configurations to improve agile artifacts traceability at scale, from the requirements to the Epics, down to the Stories. We develop Jira agile development templates that conform to and support governance processes. We adopt and integrate advanced, innovative, and intelligent applications, including piplanning.io.