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MSI has provided planning and analysis support to produce strategic business plans, assessment strategies, and projection tools as part of an integrated business process improvement methodology, including:

• Survivability of Mariners – MISLE Analysis.  The U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center desired to obtain victim exposure and survival information to develop Coast Guard decision tools. An OASIS task was issued to extract and provide information suitable for development of the decision tools to the CG from SAR cases in the CG Marine Information for the Safety and Law Enforcement (MISLE) database. MSI developed the logic to mine data from the MISLE database and analyze the results.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Resource Planning and Integration Team (RPAIT) Integration Subteam Report.  The U.S. Coast Guard Resource Planning and Integration Team (RPAIT) Integration Subteam Report summarizes the subteam’s approach, documents their results, and recommends a plan for an enterprise-wide resource organization to support mission execution in a modernized Coast Guard.  It specifically provides a notional “To Be” organization construct for CG-2, CG-8, DCO, DCMS, FORCECOM, and OPCOM.  This report also provides a recommended approach for management of Allowance Fund Codes (AFCs), a proposed reduction in the number of and structure of Administrative Target Units (ATUs), and the composition, roles and responsibilities of the Resource Group (RG).  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Risk Based Decision Making (RBDM) Budget Build for FY08.  The Risk Based Decision Making (RBDM) process uses the 2004 National Maritime Strategic Risk Assessment (NMSRA) as a starting point for the FY08 budget build.  By utilizing this required Risk Based Decision Making Process, the Resource Group, Resource Working Group and Cross Programmatic Teams are better able to evaluate the risk impact on those mission areas where activities are reduced and funding is reinvested and estimate the risk reduction that can be achieved by investing in Ports, Waterways and Coastal Security (PWCS).  The resulting FY08 Budget is an integrated package of reinvestment and investment options that will enable the Coast Guard to better achieve mission goals in a more cost effective manner.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Comprehensive Measurement Policy Manual.  The Comprehensive Measurement System Reference describes the measurement system in the Coast Guard and is designed to serve as the authoritative source of all information related to Coast Guard measurement policy that may be contained in other publications such as guides, handbooks, briefings, and instructions.  It has been developed through research of measurement plans from federal, state, international, and private industry and incorporates the best practices provided in the plans.  The phrase “measurement system” is used to describe the overall management practice of performance measurement in the Coast Guard.  This document is not intended to prescribe actual performance measures or targets, but rather to prescribe the framework, authoritative tools, lexicon, and establish a foundation for performance measurement policy in the Coast Guard.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• CONOPS - Term 2007 Deepwater System.  This document describes the Modeled Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for deepwater assets and capabilities to be used for assessment of operational effectiveness in models and simulations.  The term “assets” refers to the surface and air platforms deployed to prosecute missions.  “Capabilities” include the C4ISR equipment and systems deployed on assets and at shore-based facilities.  This Modeled CONOPS applies to the Integrated Deepwater System in effect in 2007 (the end of the first 5-year term of phase 2 of the Deepwater acquisition program).   The Modeled CONOPS includes a description of the employment, scheduling, and utilization of these assets and capabilities.  CONOPS is the collection of doctrine, policy, and plans that provide guidance for the execution of operations.  Modeled CONOPS is the translation of the operational requirements to be used as the specification for implementation in the Deepwater Maritime Operational Effectiveness Simulation (DMOES).  The Modeled CONOPS describes how, where, when, and under what conditions these assets and capabilities are employed to address demands for Coast Guard services. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Deepwater Operations Analysis, Update to the MSMP.   The Coast Guard and Deepwater partners use modeling and simulation for acquisition support and force structure planning for the Integrated Deepwater System (IDS), and for trade studies on system-wide level analyses.  The Modeling and Simulation Master Plan (MSMP) is the specification for the assets and demands used to model and characterize the IDS.  The MSMP is the means to provide the analytical framework to assess operational effectiveness of proposed IDS concepts and the Legacy System.  It provides the data definitions as well as legacy asset characteristics and capabilities.  In addition the MSMP presents the demand characteristics for use in modeling Deepwater Systems and documents logically consistent operational effectiveness performance targets and measures.  MSMP Version 2.1 updates system and demand information up to the year 2005.  This update of the MSMP is the latest in a series of updates to maintain current descriptions of the asset characteristics, demand characteristics, and performance measures.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Technical and Administrative Support Services for Operations Policy and Port Security Directorates.  The scope of this effort was to provide strategic planning, operations analysis, and workshop facilitation support to the Office of Policy and Planning Integration (CG-513).  This Task Order covered a wide variety of technical and planning support tasks, including implementing the course of action developed in Maritime Sentinel, Coast Guard Strategic Plan for CMT; identifying and acting on major initiatives that look across the CMT strategic objectives consistent with the Coast Guard’s military, multi-mission, maritime character; and sustaining the linkages between Maritime Sentinel, Coast Guard Strategic Plan for CMT, operational guidance, and the resource acquisition process.  This support included, but was not limited to participation in planning and development workshops; refinement of the CMT Risk Map/Profile; refinement of the CMT Operational Activity Suite; and development of CMT Resource Requirements with supporting Implementation Plan and Measurement Plan. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Standard Operational Planning Process (SOPP) Prototype and Service-Wide Implementation.  The Coast Guard SOPP Prototype Implementation effort leads to the institutionalization of a standard operational planning process that will enhance vertical alignment by implementing the operational planning system envisioned in Chapters 2 and 3 of the Coast Guard Strategic Blueprint and aligning operational planning at all levels of the Coast Guard.  The Coast Guard SOPP is based on the Coast Guard Planning and Decision-Making Framework and serves as a bridge between Coast Guard strategic long-range planning and budgetary processes and Operational Commanders’ needs.  MicroSystems Integration, Inc. is also supporting the service-wide implementation of the SOPP during the Initial Implementation Stage in FY08.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Contractor Metrics Review Support Services.  MSI provided continuing support to the Office of Performance Management and Decision Support to advance their performance measurement efforts for the U.S. Coast Guard.  This support included analyzing existing populated measure definitions, development of business rules for measures definition, review of newly proposed measures, and the development of a measures review process for future measures development efforts.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard

• Search and Rescue (SAR) Process Performance Gap Analysis and Technology Roadmap.  The goal of this project involved using a modified methodology to identify and categorize performance gaps in the Coast Guard’s Search and Rescue (SAR) process to support planning a roadmap for future technological initiatives.  The modified methodology was applied to historical data collected in the 17th Coast Guard district and then to historical data extracted from the MISLE database for the entire Coast Guard.  A performance gap analysis was performed to identify causative factors for SAR performance gaps.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Deepwater Maritime Operational Effectiveness Simulation (DMOES) Modeling and Assessment.  The Deepwater Maritime Operational Effectiveness Simulation (DMOES) model was used to evaluate system-wide operational effectiveness (OpEff) achieved by the Integrated Deepwater System and to provide the necessary OpEff measures for conducting a comparative analysis.  The OpEff measures of an Adjusted Proposed System (defined by proposed capabilities and schedule) and an Attained System (defined by delivered capabilities and schedule) were projected and compared to create a Modeled OpEff Comparison Assessment Report in support of the first Award Term decision.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Deepwater Operations Analysis, Update to the Modeling and Simulation Master Plan.  The Modeling and Simulation Master Plan Version 2.0 (MSMP V2.0) was updated to V2.1 to incorporate changes in Deepwater asset capabilities and characteristics, missions, mission demands, and Deepwater modeled measures through 2005.  The demands were executed in the Deepwater Maritime Operational Effectiveness Simulation (DMOES) in order to demonstrate the correct implementation of the revised assets, demands, and measures.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard.

• Modeled Concept of Operations (CONOPS) [Term 2007 Deepwater System]  The Modeled CONOPS (Term 2007 Deepwater System) is an update to the 13 December 2002 version of the Modeled CONOPS for the Legacy Deepwater System and characterizes operational and logistical practices and policies used in current Coast Guard operations with designated Deepwater assets prior to award of the 2007 term IDS contract.  The Modeled CONOPS aligns with the characterization of threats and demand profiles as described in the MSMP V2.1 and provides the specification for implementation of operational logic in a modeling application.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Operations Analysis Simulation Information Support (OASIS) Program Analysis and Modeling Support Services.  Activities supported by the OASIS Program are focused on operations analysis and modeling and simulation. The contract covers every Coast Guard mission area, a variety of sponsoring organizations, and a wide variety of functional areas within the broad category of Coast Guard research and development and or Coast Guard operations. The contract addresses the analysis and assessment of Coast Guard systems and issues from a variety of perspectives. These perspectives include system performance and effectiveness, supply and demand forecasts, user needs/wants analyses, impact analysis, socio-economic analysis, policy and regulatory development, strategic planning, operations and maintenance assessment, risk assessments, capital investment needs, infrastructure and equipment management, metrics development, and critical technologies planning and evaluation. Projects generally address issues of national and international maritime issues and trends, and an appreciation for the various public and private interests at work within these areas. Functional areas of operations analysis support include:
  -Analysis of Specific Systems or Technologies
  -Analysis of Human Factors
  -Mission/Engagement Level Analysis
  -Campaign, Resource Allocation, and Force Planning Analysis
  -Operations Analysis Support Tool Development.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Global Concept of Operations (CONOPS) - The Concept of Operations (CONOPS) provides the overarching guidance for the employment of present and future capabilities.  It describes in broad terms how the Coast Guard will plan, allocate resources to, and execute operations across the full range of maritime missions through 2020.  The CONOPS links Coast Guard visions and concepts with emerging Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DoD), joint and interagency operational concepts, and describes the capabilities that an integrated Coast Guard will contribute.  The CONOPS operationalizes Coast Guard 2020 and the Integrated Deepwater System (IDS) concept and the logistics required to support effective operations. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Institutional Research (INRE) Support - A Guidance Team and Working Group to investigate ongoing Institutional Research (INRE) initiatives within the Coast Guard was chartered by the Chief of Staff.  Investigation included making recommendations on multiple INRE initiatives value, contribution, and “implementability.”  The Working Group identified and considered more than 50 candidate initiatives within the Coast Guard.  The Working Group output was a “road map” that clearly identified executable segments, sequencing, and priorities. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Coast Guard Maritime Security Strategy - Provides the Commandant advice and guidance on Coast Guard policy and concepts for attaining and maintaining security.  Guides the transformation of the Coast Guard to more proactively meet the strategic intent of reducing security risk in the maritime domain. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Coast Guard Integrated Deepwater System (IDS) Acquisition Project Technical Support - Multi-year acquisition to recapitalize all major Coast Guard operational assets into an integrated system with improved operational effectiveness and reduced life cycle costs. Directly involved in developing Modeling and Simulation Master Plan, Deepwater Operational Scenarios, Legacy Asset Baselines, Operational Effectiveness Evaluations, Modeling Evaluations and technical support for the Modeling and Simulation Matrix Project Team (MPT). Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Unified Performance Logic Model Development - The Coast Guard's Office of Planning and Performance (CG-81) is guiding the development of tools the Coast Guard can use to manage all of its activities, both logistics and mission-specific, to optimize performance as defined by the Coast Guard’s Strategic Goals.  The Unified Performance Logic Model (UPLM) is one of these tools.  The UPLM is a “cognitive” mapping tool that captures the relationships between implementing capabilities, functional requirements, activities, outputs and goals/outcomes achieved.  The model clarifies the relationship between operational performance (risk management) and support (readiness management).  It has both descriptive and prescriptive applications to facilitate and support causal analysis and organizational and performance metrics alignment and features a standardized, disciplined planning and management lexicon.   Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Commandant's Strategy for Boat Forces - Synthesizes the results of previous studies into a coherent, executable plan that establishes a comprehensive strategic framework, an implementation sequence for improvements, and a measurement plan to evaluate both force readiness and plan progress.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Intelligence Program Implementation and Management Plan - The structured approach to implement improvements in the collection, analysis, production, and dissemination of intelligence.  The plan includes assessment and feedback of Intelligence Program contributions to operational effectiveness and informs Coast Guard policymakers of Intelligence Program impact on national security and Coast Guard goals.  Establishes a framework and comprehensive process to be used to address intelligence requirements and capabilities within the Coast Guard in support of the Coast Guard Intelligence Capstone Document.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Coast Guard Maritime Homeland Security Strategy Deployment Plan - Provides the Coast Guard’s strategy deployment framework for Maritime Homeland Security (MHLS).  It includes supporting objectives and performance standards – what is required to be accomplished and to what level – and provides for major initiatives with associated milestones – how the Coast Guard will progress toward the objectives.  The components are intended to be guidance and planning factors upon which additional planning, validation and resourcing efforts will be performed.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Coast Guard Maritime Domain Awareness Concept Deployment Plan - Provides the Coast Guard’s deployment framework for Maritime domain Awareness (MDA).  It amplifies the characterization set forth in Maritime Domain Awareness:  A National Maritime Information and Knowledge Capability for Securing the Homeland and presents performance standards and initiatives for its deployment.  The key elements included in the plan to accomplish this deployment are strategic and supporting objectives and performance standards – what is required to be accomplished and to what level, and major initiatives with associated milestones – and how the Coast Guard will progress toward the objectives.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Commandant's Strategy for Alien Migration Interdiction Operations (AMIO) - Identified strategic goals, objectives and organizational foundations of AMIO that formed the basis of a 10-year AMIO Strategic Plan.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Coast Guard Marine Protected Species Program Description - Describes overall Coast Guard Marine Protected Species mission, including goals, objectives, performance targets, initiatives and measures of effectiveness (MOEs).  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Law Enforcement Planning & Assessment System - Comprehensive analysis, development and support of ongoing planning and assessment system efforts for overall Coast Guard Law Enforcement Mission, including goals, objectives, performance targets, initiatives and measures of effectiveness (MOEs).  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Law Enforcement Asset Needs (LEAN) Projection – Development, validation and refinement of computer implementation of methodology to project law enforcement asset needs based on threats, enforcement requirements and program standards.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Coast Guard Coastal Zone Mission Analysis (CZMA) Technical Support - Comprehensive analysis of Coast Guard mission requirements, assessment of statutory mandates, development of Waterways User Profiles, identification of capability shortfalls, assessment of future technologies to address the shortfalls. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Aids to Navigation - Development of a Program Plans document for the Short Range Aids to Navigation, Radio Aids to Navigation and Ice Operations Programs in support of the C.G. Office to Aids to Navigation. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard.

• Operations Research & Analysis and Decision Support Systems - Multi-year support effort to provide operations research, modeling, analysis and decision support services for RDT&E, mission analysis and planning problems. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Commandant's Strategy for Fisheries Law Enforcement (FISHPLAN) - Analyzed the Fisheries Law Enforcement mission for 10 years, including development of an enforcement asset projection model. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Coast Guard Yard Business Analysis - Analyzed strategic business mission & goals, business process, object-oriented analysis, development of overall information system architecture. Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard

• Global Market Assessment for Marine Environmental Monitoring Systems  Developed market assessment to provide insights into market potentials for New England marine environmental companies to use in strategic business planning. Customer: Rhode Island Port Authority 

• Oil Pollution Research & Technology Plan - Developed a 15-year outlook and plan to coordinate R&D activities by federal agencies to be submitted to Congress. Customer: Soza/Interagency on Oil Pollution Research

• Law Enforcement Asset Needs (LEAN)  Computer implementation of methodology to project asset needs based on threats, enforcement requirements and program standards. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

• Coast Guard Fisheries Law Enforcement Asset Projection Model (FISHMODL) - Implementation of Coast Guard Fisheries Enforcement Asset Projection model for field use. Customer: U.S. Coast Guard
  

       

Updated 24 March 2008