| Acquisition Management
Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, LLC (ACT I) is a diversified professional services firm founded in 1998 to meet client challenges in major systems acquisition management, cost estimating, engineering and systems analysis, technology insertion, logistics, prototyping, test and evaluation, and enterprise modeling and simulation. We also provide enterprise information systems architecture, outsourcing, portfolio management, program management, and strategic and capital planning consulting. ACT I only solicits and performs engineering services in support to federal agencies. ACT I has been performing cost estimating, affordability alternative analysis, and economic analysis modeling and manufacturing planning and assessments for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) since 1999 and the F/A-22 program since 2002. For NAVAIR PMA 225, ACT I developed a Business Case Analysis and Total Cost of Ownership (TOC) of the F-16A/B “TOP GUN” Aggressor Aircraft. ACT I has also been providing cost estimating, cost reduction engineering, and other system technical support services to the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) and the TACOM Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) since 1999. (for details of ACT I’s Acquisition Management success stories click here) For the Joint Strike Fighter acquisition program, ACT I gathers, normalizes, and analyzes cost estimating data, develops cost estimating relationships, and supports JSF Cost alternative affordability modeling (e.g., the Joint Common Cost Model). We operate and maintain JSF Cost Models as directed by the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office (JSFPO) Cost IPT. ACT I collects, normalizes, and analyzes data used to update JSF Cost Models. ACT I has built corporate level business base and indirect rate models for the major JSF primes and subcontractors. We develop cost/benefit models for alternative JSF aircraft variants. ACT I also supports JSF Manufacturing Planning and Assessments, Process Action Teams (PATs), Initial Baseline Reviews (IBRs), Cost Reconciliations, EVMS analysis, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) pricing activities as directed by the JSF Cost IPT. Over the past five years, ACT I has provided a broad spectrum of analysis of alternatives, systems engineering, technology insertion, scientific analyses, logistics, prototyping, test and evaluation, cost analysis, manufacturing, and modeling and simulation services to multiple DoD clients. Over 90 different work directives have been accomplished on ACT I’s System Technical Support Services contract with the Army covering the following types of efforts:
For additional details of ACT I’s acquisition management related services, see Enterprise Modeling, Logistics Services and Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance.
Virgil F. McCaleb Michael A. Niggel Harold E. Rafuse, Ph.D.
U. S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command Department of Defense Joint Strike Fighter Program Office United States Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center U.S. Naval Air Systems Command Sagem SA, Defense & Security Division, Paris, France United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center
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