Rick Antonucci Promoted to Director, USAF and Civilian Programs

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Reston, Va. — June 26, 2020 — Concept Solutions, LLC (CS) is pleased to announce the promotion of John “Rick” Antonucci Jr. to Director of U.S. Air Force (USAF) and Civilian Programs as of May 1, 2020.

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Rick has more than eight years of client-facing experience focused on market research and business development. He joined CS in February 2018 as a Business Development Manager, working with the leadership, proposal and capture teams to bid on contracts and attract talent. Most notably, Rick led CS’s proposal effort to win the Kessel Run contract.

“The new role will allow us to better understand and serve our customers with a single point of contact from sales to delivery. Rick’s extensive background lends a unique perspective to excel at the critical confluence of these duties to our valued customers,” said CS President and CEO Phong Mai.

With Rick’s new title, he will continue in his existing capacity as Business Development Manager. But he will now also serve as Account Manager for CS’s team at the Kessel Run Experimentation Lab in Boston, MA, where civilian software professionals work alongside USAF’s best and brightest to modernize the legacy data support systems of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.

Rick’s new duties will entail overseeing staffing, project tracking and delivery of the Kessel Run team’s exceptional and high-quality work. He will also leverage the team’s successes to explore future defense contract opportunities.

CS looks forward to working with Rick in this new capacity and believes he will continue making significant and positive contributions to the company.

About Concept Solutions, LLC

Founded in 1999, Concept Solutions, LLC, headquartered in Northern Virginia, is a management and technology consulting company committed to providing strategic solutions enabling organizations to operate more efficiently. At Concept Solutions, we create and support Mission-Critical solutions that keep our country safe, in the areas of Aerospace, Defense, Law Enforcement, Finance and Weather. We are experts in delivering innovative solutions through information technology, engineering and management. Our business conforms to Agile, Scrum, SEI-CMMI ML3, ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000-1 quality standards. Learn more at: https://www.concept-solutions.com/

A Message from CS about Racial Injustice

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The recent national events highlighting racial injustice and tension in our society are heartbreaking and traumatic and we are saddened that it continues even today in our country. We at Concept Solutions (CS) are deeply disturbed and our hearts are heavy. We are a nation in anguish. We owe it to the diverse people who make up our company, our customers, and our country to listen, take a stand, support and speak up with positive action. 

To our Black team members and families, we recognize your pain and feelings of fatigue over the injustices you and your family members have to face each and every day. We are proud that our CS family, employees and customers, is diverse and inclusive of our Black community. Our hearts break for the resilience you have required over our country’s history. We vow to ensure CS is a place of inclusion and solace for everyone. 

Systemic racism is deep-rooted in our society which keeps the most disadvantaged and underprivileged people down. A problem of that magnitude requires an equally systematic approach to creating consistent and enduring impact. CS stands united to be part of the solution to change that.  Though CS is proud of the diversity throughout our company, we can always do better.  To make the available pool of candidates in our field better reflect America’s diversity, and being a company steeped in STEM capabilities, CS will provide a donation to National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to increase the proportion of Black young women and men in STEM careers.  Diversity is our strength, and cultivating an environment of inclusion, teamwork, and civility is our duty.  

We hope that this letter opens the line of communication so that we can address the issues and have the difficult conversations, not shy away from them. 

-Concept Solutions

CS to Support FAA Crisis Communications Network

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Reston, Va. — May 15, 2020 — Concept Solutions, LLC (CS) has been awarded the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Command and Control Communications (C3) Support contract, adding crisis management and continuity of operations support to its growing role in safeguarding the flying public.

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The FAA’s Command and Control Communications Division, AXE-400, is tasked with providing secure, redundant and reliable communications between the Agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters and its nationwide aeronautical facilities. Whenever a manmade or natural disaster disrupts the standard local, regional or national telecommunications infrastructures, C3’s products allow FAA leadership to directly manage and – if necessary, restore – the National Airspace System (NAS).

Concept Solutions will, under the terms of the C3 Support contract, provide system engineering, network engineering, communications security (COMSEC), intelligence, financial and other administrative support to AXE-400 for up to a five-year period of performance. It will also support and modernize the FAA’s Washington Operations Center Complex (WOCC) and several Regional Operations Centers (ROCs).

Chief among the computer systems Concept Solutions will maintain is the Emergency Operations Network (EON), which integrates web applications, Microsoft SharePoint and a Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) platform to provide a high-level overview, trend analysis and logging of incidents such as laser attacks, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) violations and disruptive passengers.

The Feb. 26 award strengthens Concept Solutions’ rapidly expanding range of technical support offerings to the U.S. Government. The company’s other recent wins include its mid-February admission into the U.S. General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Small Business (SB) Pool 1 governmentwide acquisition contract, and its October 2019 selection as a prime contractor in the U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run project.

“We are excited to bring the C3 program into our portfolio of mission-critical solutions that keep our country safe,” said Concept Solutions Executive VP & COO John Krahulec.

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About Concept Solutions, LLC

Founded in 1999, Concept Solutions, LLC, headquartered in Northern Virginia, is a management and technology consulting company committed to providing strategic solutions enabling organizations to operate more efficiently. At Concept Solutions, we create and support Mission-Critical solutions that keep our country safe, in the areas of Aerospace, Defense, Law Enforcement, and Commerce. We are experts in delivering innovative solutions through advanced software development, systems engineering and management. Our business conforms to Agile, Scrum, SEI-CMMI ML3, ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000-1 quality standards. Learn more at: https://www.concept-solutions.com/

CS Joins GSA OASIS Pool 1 GWAC

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Reston, Va. — April 21, 2020 — Concept Solutions, LLC (CS) is proud to announce it has been selected by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) for inclusion in “Pool 1” of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC), a Best-in-Class (BIC) vehicle for providing IT-related management, scientific and technical services to Federal agencies spanning the U.S. Government.

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Following the mid-February award, CS has gained membership in one of seven separate multiple award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (MA-IDIQ) task order contracts referred to as OASIS “pools”.

As a member of OASIS Pool 1, CS can bid on task orders for professional management, scientific and technical services including: engineering, mapping, testing, management/business consulting, human resources, marketing/public relations, logistics consulting and environmental.

OASIS is open to all Federal customers, including members of the Department of Defense and the National Security Community. As with other GWACs, it allows a streamlined acquisition method with a pool of vetted vendors with predetermined rates beneficial to the customer. In other words, OASIS provides Federal agencies with an advantage when purchasing IT products and services—they can save time and money by submitting their task orders to a list of pre-approved companies that have already passed one level of the acquisition process.

Selection for OASIS therefore grants an enviable advantage to its members, one which CS is honored to receive. “Concept Solutions is excited to be one of the OASIS vendors and we look forward to submitting our first task order bid,” said CS President and CEO Phong Mai.

For more information on GSA’s OASIS GWAC, click here.

About Concept Solutions, LLC

Founded in 1999, Concept Solutions, LLC, headquartered in Northern Virginia, is a management and technology consulting company committed to providing strategic solutions enabling organizations to operate more efficiently. At Concept Solutions, we create and support Mission-Critical solutions that keep our country safe, in the areas of Aerospace, Defense, Law Enforcement, and Commerce. We are experts in delivering innovative solutions through advanced software development, systems engineering and management.  Our business conforms to Agile, Scrum, SEI-CMMI ML3, ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000-1 quality standards. Learn more at: https://www.concept-solutions.com/

CS Wins USAF Kessel Run Contract

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Reston, Va. — March 3, 2020 — Concept Solutions, LLC (CS) is proud to announce its selection as a prime contractor on the U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run project, an exciting and prestigious effort aimed at revolutionizing how the military branch deploys software in support of America’s warfighters.

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“This is the hottest software engineering contract in the country right now,” said CS Executive VP & COO John Krahulec, referring not just to the platforms Kessel Run will support, but to the culture shift it represents both inside and outside the military.

Following the Oct. 9, 2019 award, CS joins the USAF and other tech companies at the Kessel Run Experimentation Lab in Boston, MA, which is managed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) Battle Management Directorate at Hanscom Air Force Base (AFB). There, civilian contractors will have the honor of working alongside the USAF’s best and brightest to modernize the legacy data support systems of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.

At Kessel Run, the USAF has adopted modern software engineering principles more often ascribed to Silicon Valley, including: Agile, the Twelve-Factor methodology, Extreme Programming (XP) and Test Driven Development (TDD.) Small teams will work on a secure, rapid-prototype-friendly Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) provided by Pivotal Labs, unencumbered by the need to support their own development infrastructures. Kessel Run will deploy a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as cloud-native microservices, application programming interfaces (APIs) and modern user interfaces at rates of three to four releases per day, refactoring legacy Air Force codebases bit by bit rather than forcing users to wait months for quarterly release cycles.

In other words, Kessel Run hopes to overcome the cumbersome U.S. Defense contracting processes that had kept critical military systems effectively stuck in the 1990s. Perhaps its first and most well-known success was in modernizing the USAF’s method for planning aerial tanker refueling operations (then accomplished using whiteboards, magnets, Excel spreadsheets and a VBScript) with a cutting-edge application called JIGSAW that did the job in a fraction of the time and “saved $250,000 in the first week” following its deployment, according to Krahulec.

About Concept Solutions, LLC

Founded in 1999, Concept Solutions, LLC, headquartered in Northern Virginia, is a management and technology consulting company committed to providing strategic solutions enabling organizations to operate more efficiently. At Concept Solutions, we create and support Mission-Critical solutions that keep our country safe, in the areas of Aerospace, Defense, Law Enforcement, Finance and Weather. We are experts in delivering innovative solutions through information technology, engineering and management. Our business conforms to Agile, Scrum, SEI-CMMI ML3, ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000-1 quality standards.

CS Wins DOT Cyber Security BPA

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We are happy to announce that Concept Solutions, LLC is on the winning team to improve the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Cyber Security Programs’ efficiency and effectiveness, as a sub to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). This work includes providing cyber security and policy services through our high-quality, mission-focused information security solutions. The award is a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA), where our team will compete against two other awardees on task orders under this vehicle. Concept Solutions, LLC looks forward to growing our cyber footprint across the federal sector, building on our experience with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Security Operations Center (SOC) and NextGen program, as well as our cross-agency cyber policy support.

CS Wins FAA NAS DI

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Concept Solutions, LLC is pleased to announce is on the winning team for the Federal Aviation Administration NAS Data Integration Services contract, as a sub to Volanno.  The work consists of integration and analysis of NAS data, including the CEDAR, Falcon, OPSNET, and the NAS Data warehouse to support operational and performance analysis for AJR-G, Director of Performance Analysis.

CS Wins DOJ ITSS5

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Concept Solutions is excited to announce that our team has been selected as an awardee on the Department of Justice’s Information Technology Support Services-5 (ITSS-5) IDIQ contract vehicle. We were able to leverage a Joint Venture partnership with Fig Leaf Software to win a spot on this core contract vehicle serving the Department of Justice and its constituent components. ITSS-5 is available to all bureaus within the Department of Justice, including FBI, DEA, ATF, and the Justice Management Division. ITSS-5 provides each component with mission-critical IT services. This strategic vehicle will allow us to expand the base of federal customers that we serve and will be key in assuring Concept Solutions’ continued growth. We look forward to an exciting future supporting DOJ.

CS Wins SE2025 Task Order for FAA IPO

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Concept Solutions, LLC is proud to announce that we have been awarded our first win in 2018 to continue providing the FAA’s NextGen Organization with Systems Engineering, Technical, and Program Management Support. This is our third successful competition supporting the collaboration needs for NextGen, beginning with the Joint Planning and Development Office in 2007. Under this SE2025 Task Order, CS will continue to provide management and advisory support to the Interagency Planning Office (IPO) on a wide range of domains, including: Aviation Cybersecurity; Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS); NextGen Weather, Risk Management; Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS)/ Air Traffic Management (ATM); Systems Engineering, Architecture and NextGen Planning and Implementation; NextGen Research and Development; Commercial Space; and Other Aviation Related initiatives. Additionally, CS will continue providing support to the NextGen Organization’s International Office. This Task Order has a five-year Period-of-Performance, building further on CS’ already ten plus years supporting the FAA’s NextGen program. Congrats to CS and the IPO Team for their win. Veracity Engineering, Inc. is the Prime contractor for this Task Order, which represents a new area of contract opportunities with us.

About NextGen and the IPO

The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is the modernization of our National Airspace System (NAS). It is a comprehensive suite of upgrades, procedures, and technologies that improve every phase of flight and enable aircraft to move more efficiently from departure to arrival. At the direction of the NextGen Executive Board (NEB), the Interagency Planning Office (IPO) for NextGen leads congressionally mandated interagency and international collaboration to resolve complex challenges critical to NextGen planning and implementation. Additionally, the IPO leverages stakeholder expertise to identify, research, coordinate, and prioritize shared issues. In accordance with the IPO mission, it facilitates essential collaboration, as required, to promote NextGen activities. Partner agencies include the Departments of Commerce (DOC), Defense (DoD), Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The FAA also collaborates with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and other critical stakeholders as needed. The IPO expanded collaboration to include other partners, such as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

6 years straight on VA Best Places to Work

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2018 Best Places to Work in Virginia

Concept Solutions, LLC was recently named as one of the 2018 Best Places to Work in Virginia. The annual list of the Best Places to Work in Virginia was created by Virginia Business and Best Companies Group. This is the sixth consecutive year Concept Solutions, LLC has been recognized as a Best Places to Work in Virginia.

To be considered for participation, companies had to fulfill the following eligibility requirements:
– Be a for-profit, not-for-profit business or government entity;
– Be a publicly or privately held business;
– Have a facility in the state of Virginia;
– Have at least 15 employees working in the state of Virginia; and
– Be in business a minimum of 1 year.

Companies from across the state entered the two-part survey process to determine the Best Places to Work in Virginia. The first part consisted of evaluating each nominated company’s workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics. This part of the process was worth approximately 25% of the total evaluation. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. This part of the process was worth approximately 75% of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking. Best Companies Group managed the overall registration and survey process in Virginia and also analyzed the data and used their expertise to determine the final ranking.

For more information on the Best Places to Work in Virginia program, visit www.BestPlacesToWorkVA.com.

For more information on Concept Solutions, LLC, visit www.Concept-Solutions.com.

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