Systems Engineering and Integration
The rules have changed in today’s net-centric environment. Large-scale systems extend beyond traditional program, command or even agency boundaries. The requirements, interfaces, and technologies have become ever more complex in a system of systems environment. Yet the integration of contributing components, the alignment of multiple performers, and the synchronization of activities, budget, and schedules is a necessity to design, develop, and field systems that ultimately achieve mission outcomes.
Consequently, the government needs objective architects with both program management and engineering depth to design and integrate best-value solutions. Turn to the systems engineering and integration professionals of Booz Allen Hamilton to help mitigate risk and improve performance at every phase of the acquisition and systems development life cycle.
Time and time again, our experience with all branches of government reinforces this fact: Engineering a system or integrating a solution is a business problem, not just a technology one. We serve as the ultimate integration agent, providing an objective solution set that’s free from organizational conflicts of interest yet spans technical/engineering, acquisition, program management, and leadership disciplines. Integrating these four areas is crucial to getting systems built within the constraints of time, funding, changing priorities, and stated performance.
When clients partner with Booz Allen, we have one mission in mind: helping you manage risk while delivering the capability and control you must have. Take advantage of our skilled staff, robust tools, disciplined processes and innovative methodologies, such as Total Baseline Integration (TBI), to define, inform, and ultimately manage the program’s performance, cost, schedule and risk baselines to stakeholder satisfaction.
Many government clients face workforce shortfalls with huge short- and long-term competency implications. Some clients grapple with hardware vendors whose solution set is clouded by vested product line interests. Other clients are impeded by support contractors who can provide some functional expertise or domain understanding, but lack the breadth of fully integrated capabilities. Booz Allen can help identify the gaps, and more importantly, fill them.
The Systems Engineering & Integration team at Booz Allen offers a powerful combination of domain knowledge, functional skills, objectivity and decades of practical engineering experience in large-scale systems development for federal clients.
Booz Allen offers Systems Engineering & Integration expertise in the following areas:
- Design through Testing Services — With trained engineers and systems experts on staff, and a robust supporting infrastructure (including in-house Organizational Standard Processes, a Program Management Environment, models, simulations, prototyping and laboratories), Booz Allen can advise, train, supplement, or serve as the government’s systems engineer function.
- Integrated Acquisition Management — We define, generate, and maintain the programmatic and technical plans, analyses, reports, and baseline documentation needed to support concept development, demonstrate technological feasibility, and initiate systems development activities in accordance with milestone information requirements, decision authority criteria, and contracting options and procedures.
- Program & Technical Integration — We employ our Total Baseline Integration™ methodology to develop and integrate the program’s baselines (including performance, cost, schedule, and risk baselines and their component artifacts), and to perform structured trade-offs resulting from exogenous or endogenous changes to one or more of the baselines.
- Program Leadership Services — Leverage objective counsel, best-of-class practices, organizational modeling, and scenario simulations to test strategies and assist leadership in defining decision rights/authorities, providing knowledge capture and dissemination, directing personnel deployment, and coordinating process management.
- Program Assessment and (Re-)Structuring — Let us apply Booz Allen’s Integrated Acquisition Capability™ framework—our exhaustive articulation of the competencies needed to assure systems acquisition and development success—to objectively evaluate and measure strengths and weakness in an organization or program office to implement efficiency improvements or corrective actions.
Integrated Acquisition Capability™: Our Framework for Success
Our commitment to process and performance improvement runs deep. Over the past three years, Booz Allen objectively analyzed 130+ acquisition and systems development programs and companies from multiple perspectives, including our own extensive engineering programs. We leveraged insights from former senior government officials and industry executives, aggregated in-depth research from numerous industrial base studies, benchmarked commercial best practices, and vetted against professional/industry standards. This effort helped us identify the critical capabilities an organization needs to ensure acquisition or systems development success.
Our Integrated Acquisition Capability, a proprietary Booz Allen methodology, incorporates these capabilities into a responsive framework that helps clients eliminate stovepipes of competencies and synchronize and manage diverse disciplines.