State Department

Chief Information Officer Support

Since 2004, Quasars has provided support to federal CIO offices to implement new laws, regulations, and policies in multiple agencies including the State Department. We have provided lifecycle support to CIOs to assess, plan, and implement new strategies and approaches to IT deployments. Quasars has provided long-term and continuous assessment and support to improve organizational effectiveness. Quasars methodologies and approaches address both internal infrastructure and external IT legislative mandates, implementation of FISMA requirements, Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) alignment, and inputs to OMB Exhibit 300s.

At the State Department, Quasars provided enterprise architecture support for migrating existing discrete systems to a streamlined consolidated architecture. Quasars also prepared business case analyses supporting "keep/remove" recommendations for "as-is" IT systems.

Quasars has also provided CIO support in the following areas:

• • Market Research
• • IT Governance Process Development and Management
• • IT Portfolio Analysis
• • IT Architecture Support
• • FEA alignment support

Human Capital Management

Quasars has provided a full range of human capital management support to the State Department. This experience includes:

• • PWS development training facilitated by the Quasars staff, development of data collection methodologies and tools for the analysis of data, the design of communication plans among stakeholders in the competition, and site visits for interviews with key personnel.


• • Competitive sourcing program support in the areas of planning, communications, advisory and assistance services, training, contests and competition management. FAIR Act Inventory and Competitive Sourcing Strategic plan development and implementation.


• • Competitive sourcing program support including: program management, supporting development of a Department-wide soft-landing strategy for employee transitions, preliminary planning for competitions (current operations baseline, market research, cost estimates, communications planning, etc.), and streamlined competition support.