STC Wins NASA LaRC Electronic, Mechanical, Composite, Hardware Fabrication Support Services Contract

STC Wins U.S. Army, Program Executive Office – Integration, Modeling and Simulation Office, Independent Validation and Verification Contract at Edgewood, Maryland Office

Once again the STC Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) team has won the supporting contract for modeling and simulation planning and assessments in the development of advanced U.S. Army weapons systems integration. For almost four years, the STC team had supported the Program Manager for what was the Future Combat Systems (PM FCS) Modeling and Simulation Office (MSO) in its planning and preparation for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) utilization.  As part of a major reorganization, ordered by the Secretary of the Army, a new leaner organization emerged designated the Program Executive Office for Integration (PEO-I), which selected a new omnibus-type contracting tool to elicit competitive bidding for further support work among multiple corporate teams headed by well known large corporations.  With only ten days allowed for the proposal under the new contracting process, our Team Lead, Mark Warren and Department Manager Bob Lackey wrote the proposal which has been recognized as the superior provider of MSO IV&V support. STC was awarded the new contract November 30, 2009 for the base year and two additional option years with an overall value of approximately $3M.

Becky Hill

The STC IV&V team consists of Mark Warren, Systems Analyst and Team Lead, and Cornell Morrison, Program Analyst, both working at the STC Defense Sector Office in Edgewood, Maryland. The team also includes Systems Analysts Francis Cline and Becky Hill, both working from the Huntsville, Alabama, area.  The primary work of  the IV&V Team is to provide planning and assessments for M&S utilization plans, test plans, validation and verification plans, and accreditation plans, that supporting system federations for use in evaluation of Systems of Systems (SoS) versus a single system as has been the more traditional method. These SoS represent the integrated “cross talk” between multiple weapon platforms on the ground or in the air, either manned or unmanned. System integration will allow the army units to share situational awareness as well as access to a variety of weapons support in a rapidly changing war fighter environment.  The system developers are required to utilize M&S to prove out the operational concepts of their systems. The government needs independent professional assessments separate from the development organization to validate those system assumptions and approaches. The IV&V team provides those independent assessments, and answers only to the government, while interacting with the developers during their M&S phases of the weapon projects. The STC IV&V team remains committed to the continuing work supporting the U.S. Army for the next phases of weapon systems development.

STC Wins Contract to Support GEWEX Project for Another 5 Years

NASA has selected STC to operate the International Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Project Office (IGPO) for five more years. For nearly 20 years after initially establishing the IGPO, STC has been operating and growing the IGPO and the GEWEX climate research project as part of the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) group of four major global climate projects. Through four Project Directors and Five WCRP Directors, STC has successfully run the IGPO, coordinating the research of over 2000 contributing scientists around the world.

The tasks of the IGPO staff include publishing a quarterly newsletter with distribution of nearly 2500 per issue; developing and managing several web sites; coordinating the meetings and publications of over 20 components of the GEWEX Project; and, organizing and facilitating scientific conferences with attendance ranging from 50 to over 400 participants at various locations throughout the world. For more than half of this time, Ms. Dawn Erlich has served as the primary manager of the office providing the web, newsletter, and conference support capabilities while supporting all four Directors.

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GSA IT Schedule Extended 5 More Years

On 30 June 2009, GSA extended STC's Information Technology (IT)Contract for Option Period 2 through 31 May 2014.  Our updated Catalog and Pricelist for Years 11 through 15 is available on GSA Advantage at www.gsaadvantage.gov.   Just type in our contract number, GS-35F-0484J, in the search box.  STC's SIN number for this contract is 132-51, Information Technology Professional Services (Code S).

STC Nominated for George M. Low Award by NASA LaRC

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