Capture Services

Guidestar Associates has experience providing each of the capture services listed below. As needed, Dr. Messing will function in a leadership role as capture manager, solution director, or volume manager. Alternatively, he will support proposal efforts as an individual contributor (author), reviewer, or consultant.

Leadership

● Market analysis

● Opportunity analysis and qualification

● Competitor Analysis

● Client mission need analysis

● Solution strategy

● Win strategy

● Team formation and negotiation

● Positioning

● Volume management

● Capture management

Program Management

● Management plan

● Organization structure

● Work breakdown structure

● Scheduling

● Staffing profile

● Earned value management

● Performance monitoring

● Status monitoring

● Budget vs. cost analysis

● Technical performance measurement

● Quality management plan

● Continuous improvement plan

● Configuration management plan

● Variance analysis and corrective action

● Risk management

● Client relationship management

● Transition plan

Cyber security and privacy

● Security architecture

● Certification and accreditation

● Incident detection and response

● Mobile computing security

● Privacy Act

System operations

● Service desk ITIL processes

● Erlang service desk staffing model

● Field support

● Network operations management ITIL processes

● Event management

● Incident management

● Request fulfillment

● Problem resolution

● Root cause analysis

● Service level agreements

● Logistics

● Data center management

● Power utilization efficiency

System engineering and integration

● Strategic goals and objectives

● Business process analysis and reengineering

● Productivity improvement

● Business case

● Metrics specification, collection and analysis

● Operations concept development

● Requirements analysis and specification

● Data modeling

● Performance analysis

● Availabililty analysis and design

● System and enterprise architecture

● System design

● Trade studies

● Technology strategy

● Cloud computing

● Legacy system transformation

● Commercial-off-the-shelf product selection and integration

● Prototyping

● Testing

● System deployment

● Transition to operations

● Continuity of operations and disaster recovery

● System engineering and integration methodology

● Life-cycle reviews

Satellite navigation and communications

● Trajectory propagation

● Maneuver planning

● Orbit determination

● Orbit analysis

● Force modeling

● Link analysis

● View period analysis

● Communications architecture

● Monitor and control

● Communications scheduling