IT Acquisitions (excluding Weapon Systems imbedded IT), drive very different architecture and acquisition approaches, cultures and processes, requiring an adaptation to drive change and managing risk. This digital transformational technology creates more distracters than advocates; and requires much greater leadership engagement, accountability, and authority to be effective. Often FAI, DAU and NDU must build out their current programs to not only train, but mentor Acquisition PMs to make sure they are vested in the success of the program.
Actionable/measurable Solution Architectures must freeze requirements and measurable outcomes. With so many participants involved in an IT program, agency acquisition strategy must clarify roles and responsibilities of all participants, seeking to optimize contributions and buy in from the entire value chain. This includes “contracts” with users, overseers, CIOs, CMOs, CPOs, Congress, standards bodies, FFRDCs, non-profits, COTS/Open Source developers and Systems Integrators. Entry/Exit criteria must be established up front to set expectations and time lines.
The IT-AAC and its membership offer the decision makers within White house, Congressional and Agency leadership, a conflict free structure, body of knowledge, expertise and analytical mechanisms needed to enable sound decisions on these critical issues, ensuring the improved effectiveness, timeliness and transparency of their estimated $177B investments in support of their critical missions. Partnered with 23 NGO/SDOs, IT-AAC offers Agency CxOs with direct access to our invaluable and already proven knowledge base, a key transformational resource for guiding digital transformations across the Federal landscape.
Leveraging our virtual Innovation Lab comprising of hundreds of independent labs, NGO/SDOs, and over 108,000 high tech organizations representing Aerospace, Finance, Telecom, Silicon Valley, Health IT, and Manufacturing, Our Public Private Partnership (P3) affiliates share deep insights from their respective IT communities of practice and repurpose advanced IT Acquisition and Management frameworks already proven effective.
As the Agency CXOs plans and advance efforts to transform their technology portfolio, IT-AAC specializes in simultaneously mapping their mission requirements to strategic as well as tactical roadmaps that ensure success and seek to eliminate rework. This includes establishing (1) feasible and proven recipes after rigorous AoA and EA, with (2) prescriptive paths for acquisition. We serve as the force multiplier and ensure these endeavors a smashing success.
IT-AAC’s unique, honest and conflict free ‘Acquisition Assurance Method’ empowers you in taking evidenced based decisions throughout this journey in balancing Business Value, Mission Risk and Lifecycle Cost, while meeting your strategic and business objectives.
Our extensive Cyber Security Advisory Services across eighteen principal enterprise security domains assure progressive capability assessments on your operating practices as well as the security processes towards Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).
Our knowledge exchange, continuing to constantly evolve synthesizing the research and innovation from our communities of practice, lessons learned from the commercial industrial environments, and proven prescriptions in our engagements, is publicly available to our customers.
IT-AAC is THE authoritative source for emerging Digital Transformation enablers.
- Agile Acquisition Method (AAM), now part of FITARA, NDAA Sec804 and PMA.
- Technology Business Management (TBM) Framework, mandated in EO13800 and PMA – Replaces Old style CPIC processes.
- Data Management/Quality Methods/Strategies – Enhance Security & Eliminate Stove Pipes and Bad Data.
- Agile Development Methods & COTS/Tech Assessment Framework (Formally endorsed by multiple agencies, standards bodies and FFRDCs.)
- Reusable Dashboards, Metrics, and Decision Analytics for enhanced governance.
IT-AAC provides all agencies with a Suite of low cost, high impact, and firm fixed price (FFP) Transformation Roadmaps from our GSA schedule, targeting both legacy IT & management processes and/or legacy IT systems.