Our team of certified professionals offer great depth of experience and provide our DoD and Global customers with the capability to protect and defend their use of cyberspace and data from attacks. DAWSON provides our friendly ‘people first’ technical and engineering services; placing highly skilled professional expertise and consultation services; integrating people, processes, and technologies to create and provide dynamic IT solutions. We deliver custom and comprehensive Compliance & Cyber Security offerings to assist organizations in effectively managing their Cyber risk by choosing some of DAWSON’s core Compliance and Cyber Security offerings below:

• Cyber Assurance Planning
• Vulnerability Assessment & Security Compliance
• Risk Management Framework & Cyber Security Operations
• Identity, Credential, & Access Management
• IT Systems & Security Control Engineering
• Security Testing & Hardening
• Management (Governance/Policy & Procedures)
• Cyber Defense & Operations Training

Technical & Systems Administrative subject matter experts provide our Federal Clients with expertise and processes directly supporting IT and Cyber operations, infrastructure, applications, analysis, monitoring, etc. within Datacenters and Cloud Computing Services and Environments. DAWSON provides our friendly ‘people first’ technical and engineering services; placing highly skilled professional expertise and consultation services integrating people, processes, and technologies to create and provide top-tier technical, engineering and expertise to Federal, State, and Local clients and their IT/Cyber Operations and Maintenance, including:

• Off-premise/Commercial Cloud Infrastructure Support
• Cloud Services
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) Support
• Cloud Expertise with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
• Cloud Security & Security Compliance
• Cloud Engineering & Architecture
• Datacenter Infrastructure Management
• Virtual Infrastructure Management
• Support for Network Operations Center (NOC)
• Up to Tier 3 Service (Help) Desk
• Network Operations, Monitoring, & Management
• Data & Learning Analytics
• Application & Technical Management
• System/Server/Network Administration
• Database Administration

With our breadth and depth of resources and geographically dispersed operating locations, DAWSON is strategically positioned to deliver intelligent solutions providing Network and Systems Engineering services for our clients’ missions across the globe. DAWSON’s expertise offers our clients the design and implementation of systems & network configurations, optimization of performance, and assessment of other network/system issues. DAWSON provides our clients with consultation of resilient architectures/infrastructure; secure configurations, delivering high-availability, next generation, and secure computing with assured network infrastructures, supporting their most critical computing applications and operations through:

• Enterprise Network & Systems Design and Solution Architecture Development
• Network & Infrastructure Engineering
• Hyperconverged/Virtual Infrastructure Engineering
• Design & Requirements Review
• Enterprise Security Systems (Network Intrusion Detection & Intrusion Protection, Boundary Protection, Content-Aware Data Loss Protection, etc.)
• Network Mapping & Traffic Fabric Visibility Solution
• Continuity of Operations & Disaster Recovery Consultation

DAWSON’s Solution Architects and System and Network Engineers provide our Federal and Global customers with critical expertise and consultation in the modernization and Integration of their diverse systems and applications into comprehensive operational/business/intelligence capability.

• Requirements Gathering & Analysis
• Modernize Legacy to Advanced System Applications & Infrastructure
• Lead Integrator for Enterprise IT/Cyber Deployments
• Next Generation H/W & Appliance Capabilities
• Cyber Security Operations Center Applications & Tool Sets
• Data Migration
• Integration & Acceptance Testing

DAWSON’s Software Engineers and Test Evaluators are highly skilled at various forms of Agile and Just In Time (JIT) provisioning services.  Our team will implement, configure, and deliver security control capabilities defined by application owners and approval of government Cyber\RMF teams. Our Test and Evaluation Engineers work with our Federal and Global customers to develop verification and validation testing methodologies of requirements, acceptability, and suitability for compliance, integration, performance, authentication, workflow, authorization, certification, and recertification.

• Integration & Acceptance Testing
• Regulatory & Standards Inspection
• Test Strategy, Planning, Execution, & Reporting
• Requirements Traceability Compliance Testing
• Agile & Secure Software Architecture & Engineering
• Web & Mobile Application Development
• Quality Assurance

DAWSON provides Subject Matter Experts (SME) for expeditionary engineer support around the globe. Our support includes deployed engineering, general engineering, geospatial engineering, Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (Prime BEEF), and Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer (RED HORSE) total force management.

We provide contingency training and deliver capability enhancements through research, development, testing, and evaluation. DAWSON SMEs support engineering modernization and help customers develop innovative technologies that expedite repair of runways and facilities after attack. We also provide formal global reach-back with 24/7 technical support to respond to requests for information from deployed or in-garrison forces.

Our core competencies include the following:

• Doctrine, Equipment Modernization, and Lifecycle Support Plan Development
  – Acquisition
  – Sustainment
  – Replacement
• Contingency Training and Curriculum Development
• Strategic Planning
  – War Mobilization Plans
  – Austere Base Planning
  – Concept of Operations (CONOPS) Development
  – Base Recovery After Attack (BRAAT) Planning
  – All Hazards Threat Assessments
• Airfield Damage Repair (ADR)
  – Rapid Airfield Damage Assessment System
  – GeoExPT Software Architecture
  – Design Reviews and First Article Testing
• Manage Repository for Engineering Research and Technical Data
  – Perform Trend Analysis for Wartime and Peacetime Operations
  – Organize, Store, Analyze, and Disseminate Technical Data
  – Record and Manage Professional Engineering Certifications
  – Project Tracking and Reporting on Classified Networks

The Fuels Construction Management Support Team provides DLA Energy and the Air Force Petroleum Agency with design and construction services for fuels infrastructure sustainment, restoration, and modernization in the United States, Europe, and the Pacific. We assist customers in supporting Air Force, Army, and Navy requirements at 109 locations with a construction value over a quarter of a billion dollars.

Our core competencies include the following:

• Managing Fuel Tank Centrally Managed Programs (CMP) Tank Inspections and Repairs
• Managing Fuel Pipeline Integrity Management Program Planning Studies
• Ensuring Aviation and Ground Fuel Systems are Maintained, Repaired, and in Compliance with Environmental Requirements
• Fuels Design/Construction and Project Management

From project initiation to project close-out, our Fuels Team ensures end products meet current standards, criteria, and expectations.

Our two largest SETA contract, Staff Technical Assistance and Functional (STAF) and Office of Naval Research (ONR), combines many unique skills to support the U.S. Army’s Intelligence Center of Excellence Training, Training Management, and Training Support requirements. Our focus is to ensure that USAICoE and Fort Huachuca remain the world’s premier center for implementing military intelligence doctrine through training, educating, and developing the Intelligence forces to meet the vision of the Army/Intelligence 2021 and the nation’s preferred Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) development, testing, training and operations Center of Excellence.

• Program/Project Management
• Administrative Services
• Security Services
• Registrar Services
• Instructional Solutions
• Resource Management
• Financial Analysis
• Library and Museum Services
• Doctrine Management
• IT Management Operations
• Travel Management
• Quality Assurance
• Logistics & Warehouse Management
• Knowledge Management
• Data Analytics
• Technical Writing
• PKI Support
• Writing Program and Tutoring
• Configuration Management
• Database Design and Management

Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) for Air Force Safety Center Space Safety (AFSEC/SES)
DAWSON provides a high level of augmentation to the activities of the Air Force Safety Center: Space Safety Division. DAWSON professionals provide expertise in all aspects of a Space System lifecycle (research, development, design, manufacturing, transport, pre-launch, launch, orbital operations, disposal, reentry, and ground-based systems and activities). DAWSON generates innovative approaches to efficiently and effectively accomplish the Space Safety mission, functions, and requirements and facilitates inter-agency working groups to coordinate efforts between U.S. Space Force, NASA, DOE, academic and international partners. Our team is tasked with generating innovative approaches to efficiently and effectively accomplish the tasks, functions, and requirements for Space Safety to support the following:

• Innovation and Development Sustainment Support
• Mission Support
• Mission Assurance Support
• Operations Support

Air Force Occupational Safety & Health (AFOSH) and Traffic Support
DAWSON provides expertise in all aspects of the Air Force Occupational Safety mission and initiative to provide education and training to prevent or reduce the frequency and severity of mishaps. DAWSON generates lesson plans to be used by safety professionals/supervisors to train Air Force personnel and is a major contributor to the Air Force Safety Center, Occupational Safety (AFSEC/SEG) SharePoint migration review and development. DAWSON provides a high level of quality control to all functions, effectively monitoring changes in other federal organizations, analyzing their impact on AFSEC regulations, and providing innovative solutions in response. Specifically, DAWSON provides support in the following areas:

• Safety Investigations and Analysis
• Aircraft Maintenance Safety
• Occupational Safety
• Industrial Safety
• Marketing and Communications

Our team of Counterintelligence (CI) and Law Enforcement (LE) professionals coordinate, and deconflict CI, LE, and HUMINT issues across the Department of Defense. Our technical expertise enables collaboration and facilitates effective relationships with the LE community, Defense Agencies, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Military Departments, Combatant Commands, and other Government agencies.

Basic credentialing and advance training of Human Intelligence,
Counterintelligence, and Federal Law Enforcement:

• Investigation Planning, Analysis and Support
• Planning, Targeting and Intelligence Analysis Support to Operations
• Foreign Intelligence and HUMINT Support
• Threat and Vulnerability Analysis and Assessment

DAWSON provides mission-essential support services to the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM), an element of the Defense Health Agency’s J9 Research and Development division. NMHM focuses on the impact of military medicine through innovative exhibits, educational outreach programs, and world-class collections management and exhibit design. DAWSON supports our strategic clients through the cataloguing, preservation and curation, research, interpretation, exhibition, and communication of the history and impact of military medicine through 25 million objects, documents, and specimens. Projects include educational program development, management of community outreach programs, volunteer management, exhibit design and installation, photography, social media management, website content development, library services, photography, historical research and publications, and collections care, preservation, inventory and research.

• Project Management
• Occupation and Industrial Safety
• Public Affairs Office
• Logistics
• Research
• Training

Located in the University of Missouri Technology Park in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri (the home of the U.S. Army CBRN School), DAWSON’s team of Subject Matter Experts are supporting CBRN and Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs worldwide.

Our primary areas of expertise include:

• Joint Capabilities Integration System – Acquisition and Requirements Document Development
• Joint Doctrine and Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Review and Development
• Joint Professional Military Education Program Support
• Program Management and Technical Support
• DOD Exercise Planning, Development, Execution, and Anaylsis

Our customers include:

• Joint Program Executive Office for CB Defense
• Joint Requirements Office for CBRN Defense
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Energy
• Air Force District Washington
• National Guard Bureau
• Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence

One of DAWSON’s core competencies include providing Emergency Management and Exercise Support, CBRN Defense, and Readiness & Response to the DoD. This includes traditional and nontraditional classrooms, computer-based, online, and mobile team training, as well as new equipment, tabletop and through full-scale exercises. DAWSON has a full staff of training developers, exercise specialists, and instructors. We have supported training programs worldwide.

Our primary areas of expertise include:

• CBRNE Response Training
• Exercise Development, Planning, Execution, and Analysis
• Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program Support
• Emergency Management and CBRN Defense Training

Our staff supported the following training programs:

• CBRNE Senior Leadership and Advanced Leadership Course
• CBRNE Basic Officer and Captain’s Career Course
• USMC — CBRNE Defense Basic Course and CBRN Defense Warrant Officer Basic Course
• Joint Senior Leaders Course

DAWSON provides Contractor Logistics Support (operations, maintenance and supply, and training support) across a wide range of functional areas and disciplines. Our team of Subject Matter Experts provide logistics program management and asset management, total package fielding, new equipment training, logistics/maintenance, and live agent facility operations and maintenance support.

Our core competencies include the following:

• Total Package Fielding and New Equipment Training
• Chemical and Biological Agent Training Facility Operations and Maintenance Support
• CBRNE Equipment Fielding and Contractor Logistics Support

Our innovative solutions enable our Federal clients to operate more efficiency and with greater transparency to senior leaders. DAWSON supports three Defense Health Agency (DHA) directorates and Military Treatment Facilities across the country. Our teams provide strategic consulting services to DHA executives, project managers, and engineers to ensure effective program management.

DAWSON teams provide strategic consulting services to DHA executives, project managers, and engineers to ensure that programs are effectively managed through:

• Change Management
• Strategy Development
• Financial Management
• Schedule Management
• Governance & Policy Management
• Business Process Reengineering
• Risk Management
• Org Change Management (OCM)
• Training & Education Support
• Knowledge Management (KM)
• Performance Management
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Executive Reporting
• Data Analytics & Visualization

By leveraging DAWSON’s efficient and proven organizational and operational approach to health services management solutions, our clients throughout the Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency (DHA), Florida Army National Guard (FLARNG), and Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC-PAC) are realizing considerable economic and value-added benefits.

DAWSON teams provide operational health services in the following areas:

• Medical Case Management
• Dental Case Management
• Medical & Dental Readiness Events​
• Behavioral Health Case Management
• Behavioral Health Assessments & Critical Incident Event Support
• Behavioral Health Yellow Ribbon Events
• Medical Modeling & Simulation (MMS) Subject Matter Expertise​
• Requirements Analysis​
• Facilitating Medical Modeling & Simulation (MMS) Working Groups
• Health IT and Cybersecurity
• Information System Security, System Admin, & Global Help Desk Support
• Virtual Health IT Management​
• Operations Center Design & Development​
• Facility Operations

We provide operational, developmental, and quick reaction test and evaluation planning, execution, data collection, analysis, and reporting of new and emerging technologies in support of our clients and warfighters. Our test team has conducted acquisition testing for Congressional Test and Evaluation Agencies and testified to Congressional Oversight Committees in support of critical fielding decisions.
Teaming with our strategic test partners, we can rapidly expand needed capabilities to meet urgent needs. As technologies change, we continually evolve our test tools, processes, and procedures to keep pace with requirements. This enables us to provide rapid quality and refined methodologies that can be adapted to our clients’ changing needs. It also allows us to accomplish program tasks within client-identified budget and time constraints. DAWSON’s test and evaluation personnel have nearly 100 years of combined defense testing experience and represent a proven and value-added small business capability.

Our processes encompass all aspects of test and evaluation, including the following:

• Mission Task-Based Determination of Technical Performance
• Operations Research, Modeling and Simulation, Functional Performance and Operational Utility Testing
• Analysis of Alternatives and Cyber Testing
  -Integrating Off-the-Shelf Capabilities for Immediate Employment
  -Integrated Testing Within Each Developmental/Operational Step of Formal System Acquisition Requirements
• Iterative Tests and Reports From Program Inception to Fielding
• Segmented Testing to Enable Component, System, and System-of-System Level Performance and Functional Validation

Our knowledge of Real and Accountable Property across DoD Agencies and the MILDEPs enables us to thoroughly understand the data and how it is input and stored in the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system along with its extraction through various reporting capabilities. DAWSON utilizes our extensive knowledge of Real Property policies as well as EAM software to provide an integrated software support solution for our Federal clients. 

Our EAM software support functions include:

• Systems Support and Analysis
• Software Testing and Troubleshooting
  • Functional
  • Integration
  • User Acceptance
  • Regression
• Training Development and Delivery
• Customer Support
• Enterprise Resource Planning Business Processes Support
  • Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP)
  • Enterprise Business System (EBS)
  • General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS)
  • Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS)
  • Headquarters Installation Information System (HQIIS)
• Technical Writing and Documentation

We support our Federal clients’ data calls and reporting requirements through programming SQL server databases. We create and maintain SQL procedures to generate associated tables for reporting use. Additionally, DAWSON generates Real Property data reconciliation reports, drawing data from Defense Agencies, DoD Field Activities, and MILDEPs to ensure consistency and auditability of records.

Our programming and SQL reporting service support functions include:

• Software Development and Integration
• SQL Server Integrated Services (SSIS) Import Processes
• SAP Quick Viewer (SQVI) Data Pulls
• SQL Load Processes, Stored Procedures, and Reports
• SQL Server

We support our Federal clients in their pursuit of achieving and maintaining Real Property audit readiness by complying with mandates established in the Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Guidance. Our teams of Subject Matter Experts provide direct audit readiness support for Real Property at any stage from acquisition to retirement or disposition. Additionally, DAWSON provides audit guidance and support for the creation, execution, monitoring, and closure of Sustainment, Restoration, Modernization program projects.

Our Real Property audit readiness support functions include:

• Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Guidance
• Chief Financial Officers Act (CFOA) Compliance
• Financial Reporting and Accounting Services
• Internal Controls and Processes
• Real Property Management and Reconciliation
• Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization (SRM) Support

DAWSON supports Real Property accountability efforts for Defense Agencies, DoD Field Activities, and Military Departments (MILDEP) by performing inventories of Real Property along with their supporting infrastructure and integrating captured data into Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software. DAWSON facilitates Real Property data reconciliation efforts between Defense Agencies or DoD Field Activities and MILDEPs, ensuring consistency and auditability of records. Additionally, DAWSON performs standardized Facility Condition Assessments (FCA), resulting in calculated Facility Condition Indexes (FCI) that can be utilized to support the asset management initiatives of our Federal clients.

Our inventories, assessments, and reconciliations support functions include:

• OSD Reconciliation
• Maintenance Task Lists and Plans
• Real Property Portfolio Inventory and Forecasting
• Facility Condition Assessment
• Equipment Survey and Barcoding
• Office of the Secretary of Defense Real Property Accountability
• Capital Improvement Program and Facility Budgeting Support
• Real Property Information Modeling (RPIM) and Reconciliation