Defense Projects
Summary | Team | Federal Role | Current Environment | Process | Case Histories
Private Urban Hospital
Value Achieved
- $4 million from US Army’s Materiel and Medical Command with unprecedented long-term funding opportunities defense wide
Campaign
After years of dwindling funding for healthcare IT advances at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Defense and Healthcare Practices found a strong partner in the Department of Defense. The Agency is leading the way in cutting edge technologies for its 9.3 million beneficiaries, which has far reaching implications for private healthcare as well. The client had created a proprietary data monitoring capability that is now receiving expanded functionality through a demonstration project with DOD that will lead to major long-term contracting opportunities both at home and in the global military theatre.
Institution of Higher Education
Value Achieved
- $1.6 million in first year to create a product that will be the model for all future Military Health Facilities
Campaign
Due to congressional concerns over the lack of interoperable health information exchange between the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, DOD looked for best practices to improve the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA), the DOD’s electronic medical record. One of the specific improvements was a new front-end user interface to allow easier access to data for military clinicians. The Defense Practice leveraged the Client’s strong history in advanced data visualization to secure funding to model the template for the future interface of AHLTA at the first ever DOD/VA joint facility. This demonstration project will create the standards by which all future military health facilities – both DOD and VA – will be constructed. This creates substantial new opportunities for the Client to work in both the defense and healthcare arenas.
Night Vision Goggles
Value Achieved
- More than $7 million over three-year period; secure funding in out years.
Campaign
The Navy SEALs approached a research, development, and manufacturing client of ours with an operational need for night vision goggles for robust special operations. Our client was developing special technology for light-weight, low-profile goggles that would meet the Navy's need. Through our relations with Special Operations Command, we created a specific funding line within their budget for the procurement of the goggles, and funds were added during the appropriation process to start meeting the described operational requirement. These goggles have been operationally tested and are currently being funded by Special Operations Command through traditional planning, programming and budgeting lines. Additionally, we were able to help our client initiate foreign military sales (FMS) through diplomatic and military channels.
Air Force and Navy Flight Training
Value Achieved
- $24 million for FYs 02-05; out year funding through normal budgeting processes.
Campaign
The Defense Practice introduced a small, start-up company providing tactical flight training as aggressors for the Navy to Air Force operations decision-makers at a major command. The capabilities of the company matched the needs of the Air Force and resulted in the award of a sole source, multi-year contract to our client. Additionally, through the legislative process, we secured out-of-cycle funding for both the Navy and the Air Force and are working to get both services to provide out year funding through their normal planning, programming, budgeting and execution processes.
Hi-Technology Firm
Value Achieved
- $5 million from the Pentagon's Joint Robotics Program for research and development.
Campaign
The hi-tech firm developed a kit that converts military vehicles into land mine detectors. Carmen Group worked with them to secure additional development funding for this important program to remove land mines, which threaten innocent civilians in more than 70 countries.
Digital Air Defense Systems (DIADS)
Value Achieved
- More than $47 million in FY '03; fully funded from FYs '04-'07.
Campaign
A client had a modeling and simulation program for air defense and communication threat networks that was marked for termination through Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) legislation. Our first priority for the client was to maintain the capability of this program, then find a place for it in the defense budget. We successfully found a customer within the Department of Defense that allowed us to tie DIADS into other test and evaluation capabilities. Legislatively, we identified key Members interested in readiness simulation and modeling to find an end-use for this important national defense capability. The program is now fully funded through the current Five-Year Defense Plan (FYDP).
Defense Contractor
Value Achieved
- $1 million in targeted funds to deploy a newly developed decontamination system, which has recently been adopted as the military standard.
Campaign
Carmen Group worked with the state's Congressional delegation members and defense appropriators to gain the inclusion of targeted funding to deploy military personnel decontamination equipment.
Survival, Inc.
The U.S. Air Force establishes a superior standard for protection against new and emerging biohazards.
Montefiore Medical Center
A long-term Department of Defense partnership develops health information technology that will improve core quality and reduce costs within the armed forces and a medically underserved region in New York.
Parsons Institute for Information Mapping
A long-term Department of Defense partnership yields development of innovative geo-spatial tools for strategic planning and tactical deployment.
General Contractors Association of New York
A federally funded captive insurance fund indemnifies the City of New York and the private contractors who rushed to assist at Ground Zero and worked for over a year without coverage for related health claims.
