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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
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Left to right: Cornell Morrison and Mark Warren |
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.
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Becky
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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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