CIO Support Services
Our CIO advisory and support services involve assistance in planning and executing programs to improve the overall business performance through IT capabilities
Enterprise Architecture – We work with the CIO and CTO to help them achieve current and future objectives by analyzing, planning, designing and implementing technology solutions, and through digital transformation, while ensuring both legacy applications and processes work seamlessly
IT Modernization – We support the move from aging SW and HW by consolidating systems and workflows to more automated, innovative solutions
Technology Business Mgmt (TBM) – Our TMB approach helps CIOs gain deeper insight into IT spending, budgets and resources, and helps clients integrate IT into the organization, with the goal of running the IT department like a business and aligning IT priorities with business goals
Cybersecurity – CAS cyber professionals deploy people, policies, processes and technologies to protect organizations, their critical systems and sensitive information from digital attacks
Cloud Assessments and Roadmaps – we provide a comprehensive path to cloud migration, collecting application data, prioritizing applications, defining cloud deployments for each application and an end-state roadmap
Digital Transformation
Our digital transformation services enable clients to deliver a customer centric model with cloud enabled secure services. We bring deep expertise network infrastructure, application development, and business operations, so we can quickly support our customers and agencies in their digital transformation pursuits. Successful digital transformation requires investments in People, Processes, and Technologies, and our approach view each transformative initiative through these dimensions. CAS has deep expertise in technology strategy, enterprise technical architectures, systems engineering lifecycle management, operational reviews, information technology modernization, public cloud architecture, and migrations. Our staff have worked with designed Leads and other teams in the development SecDevOps operations and implementation to provide integrated security in application development, testing, build, integration, and release. We are knowledgeable on the IT Governance requirements and can support the development of architecture and governance standards.
- IT infrastructure operations and maintenance
- Help Desk, Servers/Storage/Data Center, Remote Access, Security and Network Ops
- Application development and support
- Manage SDLC development including analysis, writing technical documentation, design, coding, testing. Maintain applications to ensure operational processes and tools remain available
- Cloud migration and implementation
- Assess applications that are well suited for cloud migration, and the new design and cloud architecture are effective
- Leverage automated root-cause analysis, prioritized on end user impact to reduce problems
- Ensure that proposed cloud-based environment meets expectations for service delivery
- Information Assurance and CyberSecurity
- CAS supports all activities needed to conduct information policy compliance, obtain certification and accreditation on all the networks, equipment and systems for DoD and federal clients. Critical elements of our services includes assessment of security requirements and deficiencies, compliant Risk Management Framework for A&A processes with qualified, trained and certified staff.
- Enterprise architecture
- We have worked with CTO/CIOs to enhance Enterprise Technical Architecture to support the emerging technology trends in mobile computing, applications development, implementation of modern message-oriented services, and architecture guidelines for public cloud technologies. These include architecture guidelines for developing applications using Open Source Software technologies, design and development of applications using microservices architectures that can be deployed using modern Container Technologies for high scalability, availability, and fault tolerant to operate in public cloud environments. We also developed public cloud implementation architecture guidelines for containerized deployment of enterprise applications.
- Data Analysis and AI
- Our Data Analytics approach identifes, interprets and communicates meaningful patterns of data. We use our business analytics process to answer business questions, make predictions, discover new relationships and ultimately make better decisions, by taking raw data and applying some form of analytical technique in order to find meaningful patterns in the data. We can apply our data analytics to networks and customer facing applications such as Service Desk to drive better decision making and enhance customer experience. We provide our customers with innovative and industry leading AI solutions that help automate various IT functions based on the available data and systems.
Acquisition Support & Grants Management
Sourcing and Acquisition Support, and fully understand the unique circumstances of supporting federal agencies, while deploying industry best-in-class approaches and methodologies.
CAS has a complete Acquisition and Procurement Support approach and methodology that has been tried, tested, and fine-tuned from years of experience. We have the experience in supporting Federal agencies and commercial clients in the areas of Strategic CAS will work with the federal guideline like the FAR and agency specific directives for acquisition, and enhance it with our focused sourcing methodology which is based on decades of collective experience providing advice to a diverse set of clients and industries. This enables us to navigate sourcing engagements with deep expertise gained through real client experiences. We customize our standard methodology in a collaborative environment that promotes understanding and consensus among the client stakeholders regarding the opportunity and the risks involved.
Our activities include multiple projects for evaluating the current operations, developing a Roadmap, and developing detailed requirements for the RFI/RFP, vendor proposal evaluation support, selection justification support and post award contract documentation.
Grants Management is a complex and diverse field requiring close management by agencies administering federal awards. We support the full grants lifecycle from pre-award to closeout. We help grant managers develop, implement and maintain grant programs in compliance with federal regulations including 2 CFR Part 200.
Program Management and IT Governance
CAS understands the importance of applying PMO principles at the program level to efficiently manage all programs and projects by having a repeatable foundation that is flexible while aligning to industry best practices. Our comprehensive Program Management framework involves all stakeholders to ensure effective program management and transition of services. This keeps processes standardized, allows for easy governance of the overall contract, and enables seamless implementation of core functions at the program level. CAS establishes Governance to provide a platform for our clients to conduct formal business review meetings to manage priorities, resource needs, manage risks, and funding obligations.
Our services include:
- Program / Project Management of complex initiatives
- Developing detailed Transition plans, knowledge transfer sessions, ensuring milestone-based execution of transition against plan
- Managing on-time and on-Budget transitions
- Managing change brought about by new requirements or business conditions, create business improvement plans, cost analysis, and support decision making processes
- Maintaining partnerships between client and vendors via Governance to client’s operations, and provide performance measures
- Bringing tools such as our Business Process maps, as well as a gap assessment methodology to create business processes
- Utilizing Technology Business Management (TBM) to effectively manage IT expenditures
Our transition management services utilize our PMO practices to ensure vendor and service transitions happen on a timely and cost-effective manner. From developing detailed transition plans, to developing and supporting knowledge transfer session, to ensuring milestone based execution of transition against the plan, CAS ensuring on-time and on-budget transitions.
