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SAMS has a comprehensive approach to
developing organizational strategies, implementing
those strategies and initiatives, and managing them
based on the industry's best practice standards. We
can minimize your risk by leveraging domain
knowledge, cross-functional skills, and our program
management discipline that will maximize your
organization's performance and ensure your projects
are delivered on budget and on time. Our services
include:
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Test and Evaluation
Support
SAMS provides Test and Evaluation services for the
entire system life-cycle, from establishing
acceptance criteria and test planning, through data
collection and reduction, through data analysis and
results documentation. Our Test and Evaluation
capabilities include:
- Performing Evaluation Planning and Support
- Actively participating in system level
hardware and software testing
- Participating in preliminary and Critical
Design Reviews
- Evaluating and analyzing Engineering Change
Proposals
- Writing, reviewing and evaluating Test
Plans, Procedures and Reports
SAMS utilizes proven methodologies in test and
evaluation support that can be tailored to meet our
clients’ project requirements.
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Systems Engineering and Integration Services SAMS
provides Systems Engineering and Integration
services for the entire system life-cycle, from
establishing and documenting initial concepts,
evaluating alternatives, to providing acquisition,
program management, and systems engineering
expertise to help programs meet and navigate
pertinent acquisition processes, policies,
procedures, and milestone requirements. Our Systems
Engineering and Integration capabilities include
executing the following:
- Systems Integration and Program Management
- Operations Research And Operations Analysis
- Tradeoff Analysis
- Effectiveness Briefings
- Configuration Management
- Risk Assessment
- Acquisition Documentation Preparation IAW
DoD 5000
- Cost Estimating
- Scheduling
- Test Planning
- Technical Publications And Distribution
- Writing And Editorial Services
- Education And Training
- Integrated Logistics Support
SAMS utilizes proven methodologies in Systems
Engineering and Integration support that can be
tailored to meet our clients’ project requirements.
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Independent Verification and Validation Services In
almost every industry today the client’s are looking
for candid feedback. At SAMS, we operate with the
utmost integrity and are well-positioned to be your
honest broker. We offer IV&V services in the
following areas:
- Advisory Services
- Life Cycle Quality Management
- Business Technology Validation
- Compliance and Statutory Validation Services
- Security Testing
- Test Automation
- Performance Testing
- Test Process Consulting
- Integrated Functional Testing
With highly disciplined processes, SAMS combines
extensive domain knowledge with the objectivity and
rigor associated with an independent validation
partner to deliver exceptional results.
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Contract
Management & Acquisition Support With a diminishing
Contract Management workforce, government agencies
are turning to industry for staff augmentation to
execute contract management functions. SAMS has
highly-skilled personnel who can provide independent
and free from OCI Contract Management and
Acquisition Support.
SAMS provides contract management support and
services designed to assist clients in achieving
desired results from their initiatives through:
- Participating in development of acquisition
strategies and conducting reviews of
solicitations and proposed awards
- Evaluating reports of inspections,
inquiries, investigations, audits, etc.
- Performing staff surveillance support and
assistance to improve performance and
effectiveness
- Providing technical advice and operational
support on procurement programs, contract
placement and acquisition reform techniques
- Participating in source selection activities
for selected procurements
- Providing acquisition, program management,
and systems engineering expertise to help
programs meet and navigate pertinent acquisition
processes, policies, procedures, and milestone
requirements
SAMS utilizes proven methodologies and can
deliver highly-experienced professionals to meet our
clients’ project requirements.
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Strategic Planning & Execution Services
Simply put, strategic planning determines where an
organization is going over the next year or more,
how it's going to get there and how it'll know if it
got there or not. The focus of a strategic plan is
usually on the entire organization, while the focus
of a business plan is usually on a particular
product, service or program.SAMS provides
strategic planning services designed to assist
clients in achieving desired results from their
initiatives through:
- Preparing for Strategic Planning
- Conducting Strategic Analysis
- Environmental scans
- SWOT
- Organizational Assessments
- Developing Strategic Directions
- Purpose, values, vision, top-level goals
and methods
- Strategizing
- Designing strategic goals and
methods/strategies to achieve the goals
- Developing/Updating Mission Statement
- Developing/Updating Vision Statement
- Developing/Updating Values Statement
- Action Planning
- Writing and Communicating the Plan
- Monitoring, Evaluating and Deviating from
the Plan
SAMS utilizes proven methodologies in providing
strategic planning services that can be tailored to
meet our clients’ project requirements.
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Risk
Assessment & Mitigation Services Success demands
excellent risk management as a core competency.
Active and deliberate risk management enables an
organization to respond to rapidly changing
circumstances with greater agility and resilience.
Risk handled well becomes a source of competitive
advantage; handled poorly, it can severely hamper an
organization’s ability to function.
SAMS provides strategic planning services
designed to assist clients in achieving desired
results from their initiatives through:
- Identifying assets and determining which are
most critical
- Identifying, characterizing, and assessing
threats
- Assess the vulnerability of critical assets
to specific threats
- Determining the risk (i.e. the expected
consequences of specific types of attacks on
specific assets)
- Identifying ways to reduce those risks
- Prioritizing risk reduction measures based
on a strategy
The strategies include transferring the risk to
another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the
negative effect of the risk, and accepting some or
all of the consequences of a particular risk.
SAMS utilizes proven methodologies in providing
risk assessment and mitigation services that can be
tailored to meet our clients’ project requirements.
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Business Process Design, Re-engineering & Management
Improving business processes is paramount for
businesses to stay competitive and for organizations
to function in today's market. Over the last 10 to
15 years companies and organizations have been
forced to improve their business processes because
customers are demanding better and better products
and services.
SAMS provides business process improvement
support and services designed to assist clients in
achieving desired results from their initiatives
through:
- Collecting the Voice of the Customer
- Identifying the Stakeholders
- Documenting the current process
- Establishing measures of how the process
should be executed
- Identifying and implementing improvements
- Implementing and measuring the changes
SAMS utilizes proven methodologies such as Six
Sigma, Lean, ITIL, BPR, CMMi, and can deliver
business process improvement support that can be
tailored to meet our clients’ project requirements.
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Enterprise
Architecture Services SAMS provides strategic value
to organizations in a number of consulting areas by
applying best practice Enterprise Architecture
principles, methods and frameworks. We offer a full
range of enterprise architecture services, from
strategy consulting through final implementation.
Our architecture services include:
- Performing strategy consulting
- Executing Architecture design and
integration
- Conducting operational assessments
- Carrying out Implementation planning
We are structured to provide expertise at
Enterprise, domain and solution architecture levels,
taking an organizational, program or project focus
as required. SAMS utilizes proven methodologies and
can deliver enterprise architecture support and
services that can be tailored to meet our clients’
project requirements.
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Program
and Project Management Support Robust project
management is an essential component in successfully
delivering outcomes from investments. Organizations
which integrate project and Program management
methodologies, tools and skill sets into their
normal work, which assess and address their project
management maturity, and which use project
management offices, have been found to achieve
better project outcomes.
SAMS provides project management services
designed to assist clients in achieving desired
results from their initiatives through:
- Defining project scope and objectives
- Defining project requirements, tasks, and
outcomes (deliverables) required to stay within
scope and to achieve objectives
- Determining resources, both financial and
human, required to complete the project
- Setting timelines and milestones for
accomplishing tasks and producing deliverables
- Creating issues-tracking and change
management processes
- Managing projects within the defined budget
- Assessing project risk and monitoring the
quality of project outcomes
- Determining and identifying needs and
mechanisms for communicating information to the
project team and associated stakeholders
SAMS utilizes proven methodologies in providing
project management and quality assurance/risk
monitoring that can be tailored to meet our clients’
project requirements.
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Technology Transition Planning Services
SAMS is highly experienced in Technology Transition
Planning and Implementation. Our Technology
Transition Planning services help our clients to
better prepare for the complexities of facility
moves. The goal is to ensure that our clients
accomplish their technology relocation with maximum
efficiency and minimum risk. Implementation
planning and coordination comprise the initial
component of the Technology Transition Planning
process. This includes meeting facilitation,
budgeting, vendor coordination, transition
scheduling, contingency plans, and a myriad of other
tasks. The next step after the intensive
coordination is the actual relocation execution.
This is the physical transition of the computer and
technology systems for a facility. This generally
occurs over a weekend or multiple weekends, and SAMS
supplies the on-site staff to coordinate and manage
the activities of all parties involved in the
transition. All of the coordination and relocation
is typically managed by the SAMS Project Manager, as
well as, any follow-on work after the initial
relocation effort. SAMS also offers other IT
Relocation Management activities, including:
- Vendor management
- Inventory accounting
- De/Reinstall of all network/office hardware
and software
- Packing and moving of equipment
- Reinstallation, reconfiguration, and testing
if equipment
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Capture
Planning and Execution Capture planning is
more than the strategy of creating or writing
business proposals, it's the technique of managing
an opportunity from the very beginning to the very
end of the business development lifecycle. SAMS
offers seasoned professionals with deep customer
relationships in many agencies. We can help you
with:
- Customer identification and market analysis
- Customer analysis that includes key buyer
and buying influences identification
- Customer "hot buttons" and "care-abouts"
research and analysis
- Capture Plan preparation
- Customer Contact Plan development
- Opportunity validation
- Solution architecture and development
- Technical White Paper preparation
- Market positioning and opportunity
assessment
- Competitive analysis
- Assistance in partnerships/subcontractor
identification and teaming plan development
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