Past Performance

Enterprise Data Protection Services

As the Prime Contractor for an Intelligence Community customer, Dowless & Associates provided over 10 years of security engineering and support services.

Our support included:

Engineering Activities
  • Public Key and Key Management Infrastructures
    • User key management
    • Key management for Data Center Encryption Appliances
    • Encryption Key Repository (GOTS development & implementation)
  • Implementation of software file and media encryption technologies
  • Evaluation and implementation of multiple encryption technologies to satisfy specific requirements
  • Integration of encryption technologies into COTS application
Supporting Activities
  • Planning, Implementation, and Management
  • Risk Assessments and Analysis
  • Security Policy Development
  • Certification and Accreditation
  • Product migration
  • Documentation and training
  • User support
Commercial Encryption Product Market Research, Evaluation, and Reporting
  • Data Center encryption appliances with rich policy management capabilities
  • Provided suggestions for vendors for product enhancement 

Enterprise Operational Security Support

Dowless was subcontracted to provide Project Security Consulting Support to detect, analyze, and mitigate hostile attacks against the customer’s Enterprise networks.  In this role, our security engineers performed the following activities:
  • Conducted systems security test and evaluation of candidate Enterprise Core Products and Data Protection Products
  • Developed implementation guidance and standards for implementation of Enterprise Security Policy
  • Developed and maintained Special Access Required (SAR) security applications used to detect vulnerabilities within the Enterprise Infrastructure
  • Developed and delivered mandatory Security Training Programs for all customer Systems Administrators
  • Developed a new program for Customer Security Waiver Approvals and Access Requests

Software Engineering & Data Management

Dowless & Associates is the Prime Contractor to conduct operations and maintenance (O&M) for a collection of three automated declassifications systems.  Our team of small and large businesses is managed in “single badge” environment and is consistently recognized for outstanding performance through award fees in excess of 96%.
 
Our team supports:
 
Software/Systems Operations & Maintenance
  • Software design, development and maintenance support
  • Systems and Application Integration
  • Systems Data Ingest Management
  • System, Application, and Data Performance Tuning
  • Integration and deployment of new system and application services
Customer Support Services
  • Tier 1 & Tier 3 Help Desk support
  • Development and delivery of user training
Program Management
  • Managed four subcontractor large companies
  • Developed management processes and procedures specifically for this effort to ensure communication and coordination with a host of corporate support organizations
  • Validated requests, assigned module releases, updated programs, and deployed changes