Managing director Bernard Markowicz made a presentation to the World Mail & Express Americas conference in Mexico City on the subject of Address Systems and the Future of the Mail on February 8, 2011. The presentation shows how direct mail offers significant potential to postal operators in emerging economies, provided that address systems are developed and maintained. The potential of direct mail, on the other hand, brings enough value to develop these systems. [See and download the presentation here] [See Postal Blog Post]

In the last 10 years, decision/analysis partners has delivered 54 projects to the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. Examples include technical assistance in Guatemala, and in the West Bank.

Today, USTDA announced that these 54 decision/analysis partners projects generated over $170 Millions in U.S. exports, based on extensive project evaluations conducted by the Agency. d/ap is grateful to USTDA and the overseas grantees who selected us for their confidence in our ability. The $170M export results demonstrate the effectiveness of the USTDA programs and their importance in developing U.S. exports and creating U.S. jobs.

DLA/DLIS looks to improve its ability to contract for technical data packages under MBE environments to increase product life cycle value.

Fairfax, VA, January 12 – The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has awarded a project to decision/analysis partners LLC to help further its transition into the Model Base Enterprise (MBE) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environments. MBE/PLM uses 3D modeling techniques to define products for their full life cycle.

Through digital extraction of technical data (TD) and logistics product data (LPD), savings can accrue and accuracy can increase in the information used by DLA and the Services to sustain and support military equipment. Use of the digital MBE data promotes concurrent development, better collaboration, and advanced provisioning, cataloging, and packaging of the product. The MBE environment eliminates the need to create 2D drawings and input data manually which streamlines the process and cuts down on the time, errors, and overall cost of logistics data production.

The DLA project, entitled “Contracting for Technical Data within Model Base Enterprise, Charter 2” will focus on assessing the success of the Department of Defense acquisition community in its processes forward into the MBE/PLM environment, specifically in the area of contracting for technical data packages (TDPs). decision/analysis partners will survey current evolving methods for contracting TDPs to:

- Baseline current TDP acquisition practices for DoD programs that are required to use MBE/PLM environments through a multi-service survey

- Assess the specification of logistics product data to be generated in MBE/PLM environments, correlated to the success of the resultant delivery of LPD

- Assess the qualifications and training of the contracting personnel responsible for the specification of LPD from MBE/PLM environments

- Recommend training for contracting personnel to achieve greater clarity and success in specifying LPD support from MBE/PLM environments

- Provide source information to support a Cost Benefit Analysis for DoD use of digital data extracted from MBE/PLM environments to support DLA and Service logistics

d/ap was awarded a position on a DLA Technical Council, along with four major defense contractors, as a result of its proposal to support a Defense Logistics Agency Logistics Information Service broad agency announcement (BAA) for research and development. This award is for the second task issued under that BAA.

The decision/analysis partners team will be led by Richard De Santis, senior enterprise architect. Mr. De Santis is currently heading d/ap’s Charter 1 MBE project, the first task awarded under the BAA, focusing on a proof-of-concept for the extraction and use of logistics and technical data from an MBE/PLM environment, subcontracting to Northrop-Grumman. The trial effort supports the Air Force A10 Wing Replacement program, where Boeing is the prime contractor.

decision/analysis partners is pleased to announce that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has renewed our Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS) contract for an additional five years, starting March 5, 2011.Our GSA MOBIS contract #GS-10F-0191L includes SINs 874-1: Consulting Services, 874-2: Facilitation Services, 874-3 Survey Services, and 874-6: Acquisition Management Support. decision/analysis partners has relied on MOBIS to deliver consulting services to GSA, the United States Coast Guard, and a number of other partnering federal agencies, and we look forward to the many opportunities to come through the renewed contract.

d/ap has been awarded by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General a project to conduct a strategic analysis of how the Postal Service can traverse the divide between its traditional hard copy business and the new digital universe. The study will address the proper structure and the recommended process that will maximize chances of success for its digital ventures.[Postal Service]

Northrop Grumman (prime) and d/ap (subcontractor) have been awarded a project for the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) to pilot the use of digital data exploitation from Model Base Enterprise (MBE). MBE reduces total lifecycle costs and increase system performance through end-to-end automation. d/ap will provide logistics domain and ontology expertise to the team. [mission critical logistics]

As part of Canada Post’s transformation, decision/analysis partners will perform qualitative and quantitative testing of multiple bundle packaging through Canada Post’s sorting infrastructure to develop recommendations and guidelines. d/ap’s team includes Valassis of Toronto, Canada which will prepare sample bundles for testing. The project will ultimately develop a broader foundation for policy recommendations using subject matter experts and CPC workshops.  [Postal Service]