Attain

The U.S. Army

Improving Mobilization, Preparing the Warfighter

The Reserve Component Automation Systems (RCAS) Project Directorate (PD) is a world class information technology project devoted to providing the citizen soldiers of our nation with information technology solutions that support the training, administration, and mobilization of the Army's Reserve. At a cumulative cost of more than $2 billion, the automated information systems within RCAS link more than 10,500 Guard and Reserve units at more than 4,000 sites, automating reporting and information functions for 11 functional areas: mobilization, logistics, facilities, safety, information management, aviation, force authorization, human resources, training, resource management, and internal review.

Key Objectives:

• Provide critical infrastructure and software applications such as mobilization and deployment modules necessary for the Army National Guard (ARNG) and U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) to execute, administer, and manage day-to-day operations and to mobilize ARNG and USAR Forces for active duty missions
• Maintain the ARNG's Distributive Training Technology Project (DTTP), which improves readiness by providing greater access to military training and education. It also enhances command, control, communications, and computing (C4) within the National Guard; fosters economic development; and provides information access through shared use with the communities in which the Guard is based

Solution:

The RCAS PD selected Attain to provide solutions in five key functional areas:

• Quality assurance – Attain uses industry best practices, risk management, lessons learned, continuous process improvement, metrics, and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to ensure RCAS and DTTP products are base-lined, controlled, tested, verified, evaluated, validated, and approved in order to satisfy customer requirements
• Lifecycle management – Attain provides sustainment services and support to include training and documentation, enterprise customer services, requirements management, asset management, DTTP services, and any other special project support
• Systems engineering – Attain reviews regulations and policies to perform impact analyses on PD related architectural artifacts, technical authority (TA) memorandums, technical requests for information, and compliance inputs
• Acquisition and contract management – Attain focuses acquisition management support on developing and maintaining affordable acquisition strategies and core DoD acquisition documentation
• Project management – Attain established an Integrated Project Management Model encompassing principles, tools, and techniques associated with the use of Project and Contract Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Earned Value Management (EVM), and comprehensive Risk Management

Results:

• Attain was instrumental in transforming an over-budget, behind schedule project facing a $381 million unfunded requirement into one of the Department of Defense models for IT project management
• As a result of Attain's long standing relationship with the RCAS PD, the PD successfully achieved all scheduled milestones on time and under budget. To date, the project has had six favorable milestone decisions and completed fielding of the system's infrastructure 18 months ahead of the original deployment schedule
• Attain supported a complicated transition between prime contractors to ensure continuity of service for the customer
• Attain's project management support armed the client with an integrated strategy for planning, controlling, and measuring project performance
• Attain's systems engineering services helped the PD successfully obtain multiple security certifications and its lifecycle services supported multiple releases that met the requirements identified by the PD's Requirements Control Board

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