Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 2 Innovations

Task Areas

Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT) has built a team with exceptional qualifications to perform in all CIO-SP2i task areas.

Contract and Task Order Management (mandatory for each task order)
Contract and task order management is a mandatory element for all task orders placed under the CIO-SP2i contract. The objective of contract and task order management is to provide the program management, project control and contract administration necessary to manage a high volume, multiple contract type task order process for a large, diversified team. Effective TO management will ensure the cost, schedule and quality requirements of each order are tracked, communicated to the government, and ultimately attained.

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Task Area 1 - Chief Information Officer (CIO) Support
Numerous laws, regulations, and policies have been enacted in the last several years to include the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Computer Security Act, Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) #63, Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and the Clinger-Cohen Act. In particular, the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-106, Division E-Information Technology Management Reform, Title LI-Responsibility For Acquisitions Of Information Technology) established the Chief Information Officer (CIO) position in federal agencies. The objective of CIO Support is to provide support to CIO's in the implementation of these laws, regulations, and polices.

New CIO practices have evolved as they work to implement these laws, regulations, and policies. Examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area include:

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Task Area 2 - Outsourcing
The outsourcing task provides the information technology (IT) infrastructure and IT services required to assume management of government IT resources and IT business functions. Examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area include:

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Task Area 3 - IT Operations and Maintenance
The IT Operations and Maintenance task area provides IT operations support and maintenance procedures for government systems. Examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area include:

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Task Area 4 - Integration Services
The objective of Integration Services is to improve business practices through process analysis and application of information technology components. System integration encompasses all activities necessary to develop and deploy an information system. It includes the integration of technical components, organizational components and documentation. The information technology components are engineered and integrated into the business function. The area of system integration may make use of program management, technical laboratories, prototypes, pilot systems and tools/methodologies germane to business analysis and business processing reengineering. Examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area include:

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Task Area 5 - Critical Infrastructure Protection and Information Assurance
The protection of critical infrastructure and assurance of agency information is evolving as the next great CIO focus area. Information assurance is defined as those operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, restoration, authentication, non-repudiation, protection, detection, monitoring, and event react capabilities. Examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area include:

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Task Area 6 - Digital Government
Digital Government is the provision of government services through digital, electronic means. Examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area include:

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Task Area 7 - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
ERP is an integrated set of software applications used to control, monitor, and coordinate key business activities across an enterprise. ERP applications generally fall into the following categories: Financials, Human Resources, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Projects, and Front Office. Examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area include:

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Task Area 8 - Clinical Support, Research, and Studies
This task area addresses the operations and maintenance for IT systems, IT equipment, hardware, software, IT processes, and IT procedures that support Government clinical and research activities. The objective is to directly support researchers and clinicians by performing health care systems studies, and providing operational, technical, and maintenance services for the systems, subsystems, and equipment that interface with and are extensions to information systems. This task area provides support to intramural researchers (computational bio-science, etc.)

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Task Area 9 - Software Development
The Software Development task area addresses customized software applications, database applications, and other solutions not available in off-the-shelf modular software applications. Examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area include:

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