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AFERM’s newest sponsor

MIL is pleased to announce that we are now a corporate sponsor for the
Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM). AFERM is
the only professional association dedicated to the advancement of the practice
of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in the federal government through
thought leadership, education, and collaboration. AFERM is a leader in ERM, a
concept that has been maturing in the private sector for the past two decades.
So, what is ERM and how does it apply to MIL? Essentially, ERM is a
strategically aligned enterprise-wide portfolio view of the organization’s full
range of risks, challenges, and opportunities. MIL helps clients make decisions
every day supporting strategy, budgeting, performance management, and
operations.
MIL staff members have already been actively engaged with AFERM prior to our corporate sponsorship. MIL VP Paul Marshall
hosts a weekly podcast for AFERM, called “Risk Chats,” where he speaks with government Chief Risk Officers and risk management
professionals to provide insights into how to run effective ERM programs and to share best practices with the community. The podcast
is available for free on AFERM’s website: www.aferm.org/aferm-risk-chats.
AFERM serves its members by providing a forum for discussion of issues relevant risk management professionals. The organization
also sponsors educational programs and encourages professional development for its members. AFERM impacts the governmental risk
profession by influencing governmental risk management policies and practices, as well as by serving as an advocate for the practice.

contract wins

Latest NIST contract award NAVAIR executes option “V”

continues support through 2024 The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded
a fifth option to MIL’s SATCOM contract, extending project
MIL is pleased to announce the successful re-compete contract performance thru September 2020. MIL supports the rapid
win with the National Institute of Standards and Technology design, development, integration, testing, evaluation, installation,
(NIST). This win extends an existing partnership with NIST fielding, certification, maintenance, logistics, and operational
to provide technical and functional support services for the support of satellite communications, radio frequency, video,
Business Systems Division (BSD) until 2024. During this new and networking technologies on the SATCOM contract through
five-year contract, MIL will provide production support of a myriad of tasks conducted for the Special Communications
BSD applications, for example the Commerce Business Systems Mission Solutions Division and NAVAIR customers like the U.S.
(CBS)/Core Financial System (CFS), which is the Department Special Operations Command.
of Commerce-wide financial information system, grants, travel, MIL Sr. VP Tom Clark attributes this latest award to the team’s
relocation, facilities, property, and associated reporting systems. significant accomplishments over the past five years as well as
The team provides support that includes but is not limited to to consistently high customer satisfaction levels. In a note of
program management, project management, Tier 2 customer appreciation to the SATCOM project leads, Tom points to the
support, training and user documentation, application support management team’s “dedication to our success.” Success that can
and development, software testing, application interface support, be measured by an increase in contract value (over $22M from
technical support (software, data, instance management) change its original value), due in large part to the team’s efforts to expand
management, and Oracle database administration services. the customer base by growing both the work scope and the team’s
MIL has been supporting NIST since 2008 and has been technical capabilities. In fact, the SATCOM group already has
$20M in planned work scheduled for the coming year with room
responsible for handling critical and complex financial issues. to add even more tasking.
This contract win is due in no small part to the hard work and
dedication of the exceptional employees led by Jeff Suhanick who Please join us in congratulating the entire REPS group for all of
provide high quality support daily for NIST. We look forward to their individual contributions that collectively resulted in this
working with NIST and achieving great things over the next five latest contract extension.
years.

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