Because our background has been as a subcontractor with prime contractors requiring us to operate within a prime contractor's facility, we have gained the knowledge and experience of effectively integrating with your program personnel. Our objective is affective transparency to your customer between our personnel and your personnel. Additionally, we have gained the knowledge and experience of handling the exchange of electronic data through magnetic media from a satellite operation to a central operation. As a result, we have the ability and capability to establish a satellite operation anywhere in the continental United States. We can establish and operate a satellite operation either in your facility, or locate it within the local area of your facility if necessary. Establishment of a satellite operation will consist of providing all of the necessary automated data processing (ADP) equipment and software programs that we will utilize to successfully accomplish any assigned program task effort. Our quotes do not include the cost of any special software programs that your customer may wish to utilize in a program. Prior to undertaking an effort, we will review with you the standard modeling and analysis software we use, and will work with you to identify, and evaluate the use and acquisition of any special software that your program or efforts may require. When advantageous to both parties, and mutually agreed to, we will negotiate with you for the possible acquisition of any special software necessary to meet your objectives.
From a satellite operation, we will utilize a PC electronic communications link to our home office operations in order to utilize and share automated equipment and/or software programs not feasible to bring to a satellite operation. When required, our satellite operations equipment can be inner-connected via a PC Local Area Network (LAN) which can then be networked with our customer's network system to share data electronically. At a satellite operation, we will utilize a single central electronic repository for all assigned program related data, and retain a backup of this repository at our home office. This is accomplished by periodically down loading the satellite operations single central repository to our home office repository via electronic data transfers. At the conclusion of the program effort we will turnover all program data in our repository, or as mutually agreed to, retain a backup copy of the program data in a secure facility, and make this backup program data available to you for future efforts at no charge. All program data held in our repository will be held and secured to the same standards as data within your own facility.
For your safety and ours, we have a standard basic contractual agreement that includes proprietary data acknowledgements and non-disclosure clauses. We provide this agreement at our first meeting and work with your contractual personnel to ensure the protection of your data and competitive information.
