Robbins-Gioia Awarded $3.6 Million Subcontract for NASA MRDOC Initiative; Company to Provide Business Processes and Overall Program Control.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2000 Robbins-Gioia, Inc., a leading provider of management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects services, today announced that it has been awarded a firm fixed price (FFP FFP - Formal FP. A language similar to FP, but with regular sugarless syntax, for machine execution. See also FL. ["Can Programming be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs", John Backus, 1977 Turing Award Lecture, CACM ) subcontract for NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Glenn Research Center's Microgravity mi·cro·grav·i·ty n. 1. An environment in which there is very little net gravitational force, as of a free-falling object, an orbit, or interstellar space. 2. Research, Development, and Operations Contract (MRDOC MRDOC Microgravity Research, Development and Operations Contract (NASA) ) in Cleveland, OH. As a subcontractor, Robbins-Gioia will support prime contractor Federal Data Corporation (FDC FDC - Floppy Disk Controller ) in overall contract program control and risk management including project management, project planning, and performance measurement. "By selecting Robbins-Gioia as a subcontractor, FDC has demonstrated its commitment to ensuring the successful execution of the MRDOC initiative," said Mike Sledge, Vice President, Robbins-Gioia. "Our 20 years of management consulting experience will help FDC deliver the MRDOC effort on time and within budget." Under the contract, which is estimated at $3.6 million over eight years, work will be issued to Robbins-Gioia on a task order basis. The first task order began March 27, 2000 and will run through November 30, 2000. The scope of the effort includes providing business and control processes and procedures, maintaining project baseline control, developing an issue management tracking system, delivering performance measurement plans, earned value management Earned Value Management (commonly abbreviated and referred to just as EVM) is a project management technique that seeks to measure forward progress in an objective manner. EVM is touted as having a unique ability to combine measurements of technical performance (i.e. and more. Robbins-Gioia will also provide the MRDOC Information Management System (MIMS MIMS Music Is My Savior (music album) MIMS Medical Information Management System MIMS Multimedia Integrated Modeling System (US EPA) MIMS Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry ), which integrates FDC's automated systems. This web-based performance management system will provide FDC and NASA the requisite visibility to proactively address risk and keep the program on track. The NASA MRDOC project is designed to help build some of the hardware for the International Space Station (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ). The MRDOC project will design, build, and operate ISS infrastructure, experiments, and ground-based operations and training facilities to examine some of the physics of fluids and combustion in the microgravity of near space. "Robbins-Gioia's expertise is essential to the MRDOC effort to deliver ISS hardware, software, and infrastructure to NASA," said Dr. Guy Bluford, Vice President of Major Program Sector and Program Manager of MRDOC. "Performance within aggressive cost and schedule goals were critical in FDC's decision to select Robbins-Gioia as part of our best value solution for MRDOC." About Robbins-Gioia Robbins-Gioia has been dedicated to delivering management consulting solutions to government agencies and Fortune 500 companies for 20 years. Robbins-Gioia combines thought leadership, disciplined processes, industry-based knowledge, and integrated tools to help global customers optimize their business processes, accelerate change, and establish time, cost, and quality improvements to transform their businesses. For more information, please call Robbins-Gioia, Inc. at 800/663-7138, or visit the web site at www.robbinsgioia.com. |
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