These are our current
Press Releases. To your left, we have also provided links
to Press Releases from a few years past.
25
Apr
08 – AOCE Provides Additional Support to OuterLink's
Automatic
Flight Following System (AFFS) Pilot Program
As a follow-on to AOCE's
past support, we have completed additional support activities for OuterLink's
AFFS program. This segment
included J-staff AFFS integration support, development and display of a continuously
updated common operating picture (COP), and training system operators and
managers during the 2008 Vigilant Guard Exercise in South Carolina. Support
activities included GPS tracking of air and surface assets and also included
maintaining satellite and terrestrial data communications between command
elements and moving assets. Principal locations for our support team's
activities were at the exercise location supporting the National
Guard Joint Operations Center (JOC) Forward and at the JOC-Rear located within
the combined State Emergence Management Center (SEOC) and and National Guard
facility in Pine Ridge.
15
Apr
08 – Alpha-Omega Releases the Advanced Eagle Vision Data Acquisition
Segment Training Courseware
AOCE's
Training Development Team has released Advanced Eagle Vision Data Acquisition Segment
(AEVDAS) courseware. The AEVDAS
is the updated version of the original EV DAS equipment suite. The
AEVDAS is a
mobile, satellite imagery downlink system that provides military units with
access to the capabilities of commercial satellites.
AEVDAS Systems consist of an antenna and self-contained computer and imagery
collection equipment. This suite of equipment provides the warfighters and
homeland security personnel with deployable high-resolution commercial imagery
capabilities.
The AEVDAS course provides Eagle Vision personnel with systems knowledge
about the following concepts and procedures:
Module
1: AEVDAS Site Selection and Set-up
Module
2: AEVDAS Planning
Module
3: Acquisition Scheduling
Module
4: Spot 2, 4, and 5 Satellite
Imagery Acquisition
Module
5: IRS Satellite
Imagery Acquisition
Module
6: Radarsat
Satellite Imagery Acquisition
Module
7: Shutdown and Support
7
April
2008 – Training
Aids, Devices & Instructor Led Training
All pending administrative actions
have been completed to finalize our GSA Schedule 69 for
Training
Aids, Devices & Instructor Led Training
Services.
This GSA Schedule provides Federal and eligible state and local agencies with
access to our training courses, courseware, and and our training development
staff. Government personnel can view this contract schedule from our
contracts page or through GSA Advantage.
29
March
2008 – MEECN Support for HQ Air Combat command Begins
AOCE has been awarded a CAAS III
Task Order to provide Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)
Systems and associated systems support. This
effort directly supports Headquarters Air Combat Command, Directorate of
Communications Operations Division Strategic and Support Systems Branch (HQ
ACC/A6OS). AOCE will assist
in supporting the development, testing, fielding, and sustainment of various
strategic command and control systems. We
will provide planning, controlling, analyzing, and documenting assistance and
provide assistance in developing metrics, schedules, and baselines.
AOCE will also assist in establishing, defining, maintaining and
monitoring milestones.
11
February 2008 –
AOCE
Approved for GSA Training
Aids, Devices & Instructor Led Training
Alpha-Omega Change
Engineering has been awarded a GSA Multiple Award Schedule
69 for Training
Aids, Devices & Instructor Led Training
Services. This GSA Schedule
is intended to provides Federal and eligible state and local agencies with
access to our training courses, courseware, and training development
staff. Administrative actions are still underway to finalize
documents. As soon as these actions are completed, we will post this
schedule on our web site.
16
January 2008 – Alpha-Omega
Approved for GSA Temporary Support
Services Schedule
Alpha-Omega Change
Engineering has been awarded a GSA Multiple Award Schedule 736 for Temporary
Support Services. This GSA Schedule
is intended to provide Federal agencies with a temporary solution (i.e. staff
augmentation), which would allow agencies to quickly respond to temporary or
contingency staffing requirements that arise when critical projects temporarily
warrant more assistance or when key staff members are unavailable for work due
to emergency, accident, illness, family responsibilities, jury services, etc.
Examples of positions that may be filled using this schedule include, but
are not limited to the following: clerical
secretary, legal/medical secretary, receptionist, general clerk, accounting
clerk, audit support, environmental technician, paralegal, researcher,
procurement clerk, technical writer, etc.
31
December 2007 – AOCE
Awarded Technical Data Conversion Support
Contract
AOCE has been selected by EADS to provide technical data conversion support for
selected maintenance and operational tasks. AOCE development personnel
will develop a menu-driven system to access and review a title screen and
supporting technical information for the performance of each of the selected procedures.
AOCE technical experts and graphics personnel will ensure the content for each procedure
is fully supported by customer-provided photographs and other visual
information.
11
December 2007 – Alpha-Omega
Awarded the SPAWAR SDN-M Courseware
Development Effort
The
AOCE Training Development Team has been selected by the Navy's Space and Naval
Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Command to convert existing classroom
materials for mobile communications systems equipment into a robust Special
Operations Forces Deployable Node – Medium (SDN-M) courseware package.
Initial technology-based training (TBT) courseware will include training
that encompasses SDN-M security, safety, system and component overviews, theory
of operations, and general systems operations. Emphasis will be placed on
general system operating procedures in a real-world, deployed environment.
25
September 2007 – Task
Order Awarded to AOCE Team for BCS Services Supporting GTACS Modernization
The
AOCE CAAS III Team has been awarded a Task Order to provide program management
support to HQ Air Combat Command (ACC/A8C) for the modernization of the ground
based command and control (C2) node known as the Control and Reporting Center (CRC),
leading up to Battle Control System-Mobile (BCS-M) being fielded.
Our Team's highly qualified Ground Theater Air Control System (GTACS)
expert will support Air Staff, MAJCOM, and National Guard Bureau across a wide
range of CRC issues and modernization efforts to facilitate the development,
acquisition and fielding of GTACS command and control systems.
Tasks include analyzing costs, schedules and technical performance of
GTACS, advising during development of future force structure, providing
long-term continuity on all programming and force structure issues related to
gaining Air Force, Joint Forces and ANG units, as well as implementing program
acquisition strategy.
14
September 2007 – HQ ACC Selects the AOCE CAAS III Team to Provide USAF
Security Forces Training
Team AOCE has been selected
to provide support for AF Security Forces. AOCE
personnel will support activities at multiple locations observing and analyzing
force-on-force iteration using available facility breaching tools to determine
effectiveness. We will inspect and
analyze the complement of breaching tools. In
addition, we will review blueprints and structural integrity of facilities
capable of housing assets to determine breach tool effectiveness.
Our consultants will analyze storage/staged configurations to determine
the best locations. And, we will
provide recommendations concerning improved tools, staging configurations,
tactics, techniques and procedures, and training regiment for new or existing
tools.
13
September 2007 – AOCE CAAS III Team Selected for the HQ ACC Surgeon General
Support
The
AOCE CAAS III Team has been awarded a task order to provide the ACC/SG Financial
Management Branch with Uniform Business Office (UBO) support.
The UBO Manager coordinates the efforts of the UBO managers located at
ACC’s 16 Military Treatment Facilities (MTF).
We will continue to provide contractor inputs to policy and business
practices for the Medical Services Account (MSA), Third Party Collections (TPC),
and Medical Affirmative Claims (MAC), to include all reimbursement sales codes.
Program goals also include maximizing command medical reimbursement (1)
providing effective management of the UBO programs across the command; (2)
conducting staff assistance visits to train MTF staff and evaluate the
effectiveness of UBO programs and practices; and (3) troubleshooting barriers to
effective operations.
12
September 2007 – AOCE Awarded Contract to Support US State Department Resource
Management Office
AOCE
has been selected to provide support to the US State Department. Our
consultants will be heavily involved in the overall Mission/Bureau Performance
Planning process, reviewing both embassy and bureau plans for the coming fiscal
years as well as analyzing the planning process itself seeking ways to improve
or streamline it. Our consultants will also review Bureau Performance Plans (BPP)
and coordinate the development of planning assessments for State Department
programs required by the Office of Management and Budget. They will assist in
the preparations for the OMB’s Program Analysis Review Tool (PART) evaluation
exercise. And, our consultants will support RM/SPP’s Interagency Outreach
Project coordinating foreign policy initiatives with other agencies.
AOCE consultants will support the Joint Strategic Planning (JSP) process
serving as planning coordinators, meeting facilitators, editors and reviewers.
Our personnel will also coordinate support for the Joint Policy Council,
assisting both State and the Agency for International Development (USAID)
offices in addressing issues and preparing for meetings. They will organize
staff participation in the process by preparing various memoranda requesting
short-tour assignments to work on the plan. They will identify and track all
State and USAID bureau contacts for Strategic Goal and Regional Priorities
sections of new JSP and draft the text of Strategic Goal (SG) 7 introductory
section.
2
August 2007 – AOCE Team Selected for the HQ ACC CAAS III Contract
The Alpha-Omega Change
Engineering Team has been selected by the Headquarters Air Combat Command (HQ
ACC) Acquisition Management and Integration
Center (AMIC)
as one of the eight contract teams that will provide services to Air Combat
Command under contract number FA4890-07-D-0001, Air
Combat Command (ACC) Contracted Advisory and Assistance Services (CAAS) III.
Of the eight teams
selected, the AOCE Team was selected as
one of the small business-led teams that will provide Advisory and Assistance
support under the tasks orders associated with this Multiple Award Indefinite
Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract Award.
The
CAAS III contract will serve as a vehicle to provide broad technical and
analytical tools, to support and improve policy development, management and
administration and to improve the operation of systems.
CAAS shall be used to complement the Government’s technical expertise
in accomplishing its mission. Outputs
may take the form of information, advice, opinions, alternatives, analyses,
evaluations, recommendations, training and services to complement the
Government’s technical expertise. All
organizations within the HQ ACC, ACC bases and ACC geographically separated
units are authorized primary using activities of this contract.
In addition, tenant activities located on any ACC base may utilize this
contract vehicle when base contracting services are authorized as part of an
approved host/tenant agreement. The
nature of this work will, at times, demand the contractor be capable of quick
response to deadlines. The required
contractor support shall fall into one of the following categories:
a. Management and Professional Services
b. Studies, Analyses and Evaluations
c.
Engineering and Technical Services
Congratulations to
our teammates. We look forward to working together to support HQ Air
Combat Command's critical homeland security and combat support missions. The
AOCE Team consists of: Odyssey Systems; Camber Corporation; CACI; Tybrin
Corporation; Eiden Systems Corporation (ESC); SSB, Inc.; Advanced Concepts Enterprises
Inc. (ACEs); Lawrence-Battelle; and Innovative Management Concepts, Inc. (IMC).
27 Jul 2007 – AOCE Releases the Eagle Vision Grounding Course
AOCE also released another
courseware package concentrating on Eagle Vision equipment and personnel
protection. This course concentrates upon proper equipment grounding for
safe systems operations. Topics covered include: Grounding Systems Requirements;
Connections; Grounding Grids; Maintenance Policy; Grounding Resistance, Tests, & Inspections,;
and Grounding & Lightning Protection Requirements.
27 Jul 2007 – AOCE Development Team Releases the Eagle Vision Workarea/Equipment
Safety Course
Today, AOCE released the
next courseware package in its series of Eagle Vision support courses.
This course concentrates upon on personnel safety during Eagle Vision
operational and support activities. Topics discussed in this course
include: Office Safety; Proper Lifting Procedures; Electrical
Safety; Hazardous Materials; and Electromagnetic Radiation coverage.
20 Jul 2007 – Alpha-Omega Releases the Eagle Vision Pallet Build-up Course
In addition to the release
of the Aircraft Load course, AOCE has released the Pallet Build-up course.
This course is designed to provide EV personnel with Eagle Vision-specific
information about cargo preparation and pallet-build-up. Data covered
includes: General
information on how to prepare for pallet build-up, load and secure items on a
pallet, and inspect a completed pallet; How to properly weigh and mark cargo for
air or surface transportation; and an Overview of cargo manifesting and the
responsibilities and duties of the cargo custodians.
20
Jul 2007 – AOCE Releases the Eagle Vision Aircraft Load Course
Alpha-Omega's
Training Development
Section completed development and has released the Aircraft loading course for
Eagle Vision Systems. This course was designed to incorporate Air Force
and unit-specific data into a single training familiarization course that
outlines how to prepare and load EV-related equipment on three major aircraft
types: the C-17 Globemaster III, C-130 Hercules, and the C-5 Galaxy.
Training Topics covered include: Cargo-related
characteristics of each aircraft used for loading and planning purposes; Safety
methods and procedures when working around aircraft; Materials handling
equipment used during aircraft loading procedures; and Methods and procedures
concerning cargo shoring and restraining.
2
Jul 07 – AOCE
Completes the First Level of Support to OuterLink's
Automatic
Flight Following System (AFFS) Pilot Program
Alpha-Omega
has completed
the initial portion of its support to the OuterLink effort. This segment
included support to integrate, test, train operators and managers, and provide other support for the
Automatic Flight Following System (AFFS) Pilot Program. Initial work primarily supported
both
satellite and terrestrial data communications for National
Guard Joint Operations Center training exercise operations.
30
May 07 – AOCE
Awarded the JTIDS Support Contract
AOCE
has been awarded a contract to provide Tactical Data Networks Planning and
Management Support (JTIDS/Crypto) to the ACC Command and Control, Intelligence
and Reconnaissance Division (ACC/A3Y). HQ ACC/A3YJ supports information
technology and the Global Information Grid (GIG) by providing Link 16 Network
Design and management service support to the MAJCOMs and warfighting commands.
The primary responsibility of A3YJ as the Air Force Link 16 Network Design
Facility is to design, deliver and maintain Link 16 operational networks used by
AF organizations worldwide and the combat Air Forces during training, exercises,
testing and contingency operations. As part of the responsibility to support
timely net-centric operations, A3YJ provides oversight in key support areas
critical to network operations that include crypto net key management (Link 16
and F-22A/F-35), spectrum operational requirements and training recommendations
to AF and Joint courses.
11
May 07 – AOCE Teams with SDS International to Support HQ USAF
SDS
International and AOCE have been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)
to provide air, space, intelligence and information operations support services
for Air Force Operations Deputy (Ops Dep) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), HQ
USAF/A3/A5 branches. Our team will
provide an optimal mix of GSA-Schedule Contractor team members from: (1)
Professional Engineering Services (PES); (2) Information Technology (IT);
Financial & Business Solutions (FABS); Advertising & Integrated
Marketing Solutions (AIMS) and Logistics Worldwide (LOGWORLD).
Support services are anticipated in areas such as program management,
training and consulting services. This
effort is will provide HQ USAF/A3/A5 with repeatable, defined, accurate, timely,
well-documented and managed processes that produce quality end results that are
affordable and meets customer’s needs.
22
Mar 07 – OUSD(P) Blanket Purchase Agreement Awards Announced
AOCE
is pleased to announce that Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) has awarded a
Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to the Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC) Team. The BPA our
team supports will provide a broad range of professional and executive-level
mission support services, primarily for the Office of Under Secretary of
Defense, Policy (USD(P)). The USD(P) provides advice and assistance to the
Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on
national security policy, military strategy and plans, defense capability
policy, and emerging global issues to include responsibility for the core
management functions of the Policy organization.
25
Jan 07 – AOCE Supports
the
Automatic
Flight Following System (AFFS) Pilot Program
Alpha-Omega
has been chosen to assist OuterLink Corporation
in integrating, testing, training operators, and providing other support for the
Automatic Flight Following System (AFFS) Pilot Program. This Pilot Program is a
Congressionally mandated program to test standard commercial Satcom systems to
address National Guard operational needs and anticipated Department of Homeland
Security mission requirements. The system includes the aircraft Satcom
equipment, the Network Communications Center for two-way routing of both
satellite and terrestrial data communications, and the software for the National
Guard operations centers, together with the on-going use of capacity on
commercial Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) geostationary communication satellites
and Fixed Earth Stations (FES).
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