USAF Office of Scientific Research
Outsourcing
financial management
USAF
Office of Scientific Research
GOAL:
Clear NULOs/ULOs from 1992-1997, and provide tacking and processing
to avert future unmatched disbursement problems.
SOLUTION: Supplied seven
fully trained employees in Arlington, Virginia, and two in
Denver, Colorado.
RESULTS: Cleared $40+M
in NULOS/ULOs, prevented any errors from 1998 onward, and
provided timely financial performance data and reports.
Freeing
Marines to be war fighters
U.S. Marine
Corps
GOAL:
Benchmark and business-process-reengineer motor pool functions
to use fewer resources.
SOLUTION: Supplied experienced
consultants to study the existing processes and develop an
improved prototype model in Cherry Point, North Carolina.
RESULTS: The ability to
deliver motor pool functions with fewer resources, and implement
changes throughout the Marine Corps.
Enabling
39 independent information systems to meet a single set of
standards
Defense Finance
and Accounting Service
GOAL:
Share information with hundreds of IT professionals regarding
the reengineering of automated functions in the largest accounting
system in the world in order to communicate consistent standards.
SOLUTION: Design and host
a Web site as the data repository for all system reports,
including as-is studies, system requirements, and system documentation.
RESULTS: System architects
can avert problems in the architecture and design states before
development begins.
Determining
how to best migrate an employee information system
HQ U.S.
Army Civilian Personnel Command
GOAL:
Determine
through a feasibility study the best way to migrate all records
on current and retired Army civilian employees to a new Oracle-based
client server.
SOLUTION: Studied dozens
of options, focused on three, and recommended the best value
alternative in time to avoid Y2K problems.
RESULTS: Client was able
to accomplish vendor selection within 45 days after start
of the study.
Providing
the horsepower to run a paperless travel voucher system
U.S. State Department
Office of Financial Management Services
GOAL:
Protect mission-critical travel data.
SOLUTION: Supplied the
technical expertise to deploy servers into the Windows-NT
environment to run both the travel voucher system and backup
systems.
RESULTS: Employees now
trust and use a paperless travel voucher system.
Maintaining
secure communications
Information
Warfare Exploitation System Engineering Division,
U.S. Department of the Navy
GOAL:
Track
and provide configuration management for all information systems
regarding cryptologic software and hardware on all surface
ships.
SOLUTION: Supplied experienced
personnel to conceive, test, and use a new database and GUI
database software to track all changes and ensure that all
changes are approved by six people in a paperless (electronic)
environment.
RESULTS: Client now knows
what cryptologic hardware and software are on every ship and
can easily maintain accurate and accessible documentation.
Finding
out why employees leave
Veterans
Health Administration
GOAL:
Replace baby-boomer employees who are leaving the agency.
SOLUTION:
Surveyed more than 8,000 former VHA employees to find
out why employees leave the agency.
RESULTS: Found that some
people left the agency simply because no one asked them to
stay. VHA has changed its employee communications and has
been able to re-hire a number of experienced, former employees.