With over 20 years of experience in the Federal Contracting industry, METI has developed significant relationships with a number of government customers. METI’s focus on quality and a customer-centric approach is why we have been successful for many years. METI’s commitment to customer satisfaction and providing high-quality services has also earned the company recognition from a variety of sources. Highlights from the contracts listed below illustrate some of the successes we have achieved.
Ecosystem Management Programs (EMP)
Ecosystem Management Programs (EMP)
Customer: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS)
Services Provided: Our primary support areas include providing business process, technical and management expertise; advising and assisting with facilitating and coordinating virtual geographically dispersed meetings; production of presentation graphics and materials; providing IT expertise to include 508 compliance, web site development and support, knowledge management, GIS systems, image capture and analysis via remote sensing, data management, records management, collaboration, social networking, and technical support; providing natural resource economics and social assessment expertise; providing management of resources under the stewardship of National Forest Systems expertise; providing knowledge acquisition for resource inventory, monitoring, and planning activities; designing, developing, and evaluating data collection methods; and providing biophysical, social, and economic condition assessments.
SUCCESSES:
“The corporate capability of the contractor is solid. The personnel assigned to each of the tasks are technically competent and dedicated subject matter experts.”
USDA
“The Forest Service National Groundwater Program has been fortunate to be working with METI for the last five years as the program has worked through the development and publication of key technical resources. The Groundwater Program in the Forest Service is one of the newest resource management initiatives in the agency and as such has had to develop new technical resources to support field implementation of the program. Through contracting with METI, we have gained access to superior project management, sound guidance, and numerous technical resources that we would not have been able to access on our own. In no small part due to METI’s assistance, the Groundwater Program has completed and published two field guides, is progressing through final reviews on a new technical guide, and is starting the revision of the original technical guide developed in the early stages of the program about a decade ago. The high performance of our development team has been noticed by Forest Service management and has resulted in continued funding for now six straight years.”
National Groundwater Program Leader, USFS
“On behalf of the Western Region’s Committee for the national Cohesive Wildfire Strategy, I want to thank you and your team for your contributions and efforts in the development of Phase II, Phase III, and the Regional Action Plan. In Phase II, your team served as our communications effort from a facilitation standpoint as well as developing stakeholder content analysis and products to assist partners and communities including the development of monthly regional updates. The Phase II products would not have been as accurate or reflective of stakeholder engagement without your team’s hard work, expertise, and commitment to the effort. In Phase III and the subsequent Regional Action Plan your team provided depth and experience to the regional communications Working Group. Your team helped develop and manage the success stories, a template on how success stories could translate in to a utility for the Strategy’s implementation, continued development of the monthly updates, facilitated stakeholder outreach, and essentially designed the process timeline and key engagement points for the directed timeline. Through both phases your team has consolidated, evaluated, and assimilated stakeholder feedback for the use of the WRSC. Again, without your team’s involvement, we would not have the products to the accuracy and meaning that they have today. Thank you. What follows are some key thoughts on our minds with specific acknowledgements to individuals on the METI/Western Regional Team.”
International Association of Fire Chiefs Co-Chair, Western Region Strategy Committee, USFS
Technical Support Services for the Office of International Programs (IP)
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Technical Support Services for the Office of International Programs (IP)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS)
Services Provided: Since 2008, METI has performed the following work in support of the USFS Office of International Programs: Program management, disaster mitigation and response, recreation services; working with domestic and foreign government entities in executing complex, multi-year programs in the following geographic regions Africa, Asia, Russia and Eurasia, Latin and Central America, and the Middle East; and Establishing and managing multiple overseas offices. The programs typically utilize U.S. and in-country full time employees in capital cities and rural locations and include efforts such as developing and managing databases both domestically and internationally for financial management and program monitoring and evaluation; organizing and managing multi-day trainings for participants both internationally and domestically across a number of topics related to natural resource management; as well as providing short- and long-term natural resource research, development and management expertise.
SUCCESSES:
“I would like to take this opportunity to note the outstanding performance of METI and its employees assigned to support the International Programs Office (IP) during the last year. I am very pleased to be able to recognize all of the federal employees assigned to IP with spot awards for their work over the last 12 months. Such excellent work could not have been possible without the superior support we have received from METI and its international workforce.
As you know, we administer programs overseas to enhance technical cooperation on areas of domestic interest, to advance environmental diplomacy, to train personnel, and to help conserve the world’s natural resources.
In support of our mission, METI has accepted and performed admirably on hundreds of delivery orders, including many in support of critical projects requiring coordination with other U.S. Agencies such as the U.S. State Department, The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), The Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Foreign Governments and numerous Non- Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) worldwide.
For these important accomplishments and for all of the other projects undertaken by METI during this period, please accept and pass on to your employees our sincere appreciation for the outstanding support services provided to the International Programs Office of the U.S. Forest Service.”
Director, USFS
USFS International Programs for the STEWARD WASH Program in West Africa
USFS International Programs for the STEWARD WASH Program in West Africa
Customer: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS)
Services Provided: We provided construction services with supporting architectural, engineering, and technical design services for the STEWARD WASH Program. This project involves the renovation of existing WASH infrastructure and systems, as well as the installation of new infrastructure and systems in STEWARD communities in West Africa. The program area is located in the Upper Guinean Tropical Forest region and along the transboundary zones of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast. The WASH infrastructure and systems are to be built in 43 communities and 12 schools. The program area is divided into 2 priority zones – PZ1 and PZ2.
SUCCESSES:
In May 2016, METI received “The United States Forest Service International Programs Award” in appreciation of our management support and successful implementation of the WASH infrastructure delivery of the STEWARD Program from Director of International Programs, and Thomas L. Tidwell, Chief of US Forest Service.
Program/Project Administration for NAVAIR PMA205 Aviation Training Systems Program (HT01)
Program/Project Administration for NAVAIR PMA205 Aviation Training Systems Program (HT01)
U.S. Navy, NAVAIR PMA205
Services Provided: METI provided support services to the Aviation Training Systems Program Office, PMA205, through all phases of Naval Aviation training systems acquisition, including Materiel Solutions Analysis; Technology Development; Engineering and Manufacturing Development; Production and Deployment; Operations and Support; training facilities and equipment; in-service engineering; and full life-cycle acquisition sustaining support. We have expertise in Live-Virtual Constructive training capabilities, Air Warfare Training Development, and Common Anti-Submarine Warfare Products with Acoustics requirements.
SUCCESSES:
“Contract support personnel were instrumental in enabling the Air Warfare Training Development (AWTD) IPT to obligate funding for five different training systems Research and Development (R&D) projects in less than six months. This enabled PMA205 to meet FY15 EOY obligation benchmarks while providing for critical R&D in support of LVC training, aviation survival training, and maritime post mission assessment capability. To facilitate management of this additional funding, the contract support personnel developed and implemented an innovative system for tracking obligation and expenditure performance against OSD benchmarks. Based on the method’s success for AWTD, ITTR IPTL directed other ITTR teams to adopt elements of it. Additionally, contract support personnel provided subject matter expertise (SME) and management support that was instrumental to the roll-out of the Post Mission Assessment for Tactical Training and Trends Analysis (PMATT-TA) to CPW-2 and CPW-10. Timely inputs from contract support personnel enabled the government team to quickly identify and resolve technical issues in a cost-effective manner. The success of the PMATT-TA project has led to calls from other platform communities for a similar capability.
The contractor’s SME provided very good quality support while providing technical support in the area of acoustic model expertise in developing the Common Acoustic Simulation Environment Fidelity Improvement Specifications. The contractor identified dozens of needed edits and inputs in the specifications and provided useful information in creation of the specification, especially in the areas of acoustic models. The contractor reviewed over 1400 specification requirements and volunteered corrective/clarifying changes to them. The contractor also took a major role in working with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in the development of the Acoustic Compendium, a major artifact describing the acoustic phenomena and utility of acoustic models. Contractor inputs were well received by the government and JHU, which led to a high quality development of the compendium.”
COR, PMA 205 Ops
Weapons Survivability Laboratory (WSL) at China Lake
Weapons Survivability Laboratory (WSL) at China Lake
U.S. Navy, WSL
Services Provided: METI conducted survivability testing for all three major services and industry to provide empirical data on the vulnerability of aircraft to actual threats. Testing was performed under rigidly controlled and highly realistic conditions. METI performed RDT&E, maintenance and operations, and in-service support for guided missiles, free-fall weapons, targets, support equipment, crew systems, and electronic warfare systems. Our support included the integration of weapons and avionics on tactical aircraft and the development and application of new technology to ensure battle space dominance. The types of tests conducted include full-scale aircraft, propulsion systems, ballistic impacts, hydraulic ram effects on fuel systems, fire detection and extinguishing, fuel ingestion, engines under simulated full-operating conditions, warhead detonations, thermal and structural tests, infrared (IR) signature tests, static and simulated in-flight crew ejections, pool fire, communication link payout studies, and aerodynamic studies.
SUCCESSES:
“We completed the High Speed Wind Evaluation … with amazing 128+ test iterations in 2 1/2 days. Thank you all for making the test week trouble-free and doing an excellent job. A special thank you to our “Pit Crew” for the quick turn-around in between tests. The Army was very impressed with our test methodology and said they will probably be back for more testing in the future.”
Project Lead, Egress and Deceleration Branch Aerospace Engineering and support Division, NAWCWD, China Lake December 20, 2017
Cyber Network Operations and Security Support (CNOSS) IDIQ
Cyber Network Operations and Security Support (CNOSS) IDIQ
U.S. Army, Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM)
Services Provided: U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) G-3/5/7 Program required operational and technical engineering support for the implementation, testing, integration, interoperability, and sustainment of information technologies comprising NETCOM Enterprise capabilities in the Continental United States (CONUS) Theater and the following Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) theaters: Pacific, Europe, Southwest Asia, African Theater, and Korea. METI provided Systems Design and Deployment and Service Catalog Management Support.
SUCCESSES:
Automated Information Systems (AIS) Support
Automated Information Systems (AIS) Support
U.S. Air Force, Air Force Material Command Headquarters
Services Provided: METI designed, developed, and now supports the Education and Training Management System (ETMS) for Headquarters, Air Force Material Command. The ETMS is the official tool for the AFMC-wide use in the management of training requirements and activities. We design, create, maintain, and test database structures utilized; provide system administration, information assurance, and support for IT and C&A compliance requirements; and draft and maintain policies, directives, and instructions for the ETMS course catalog and system interfaces. The ETMS has become the trusted cross-flow entity for several high-level Systems of Record, to include the Military Personnel Data System (MILPDS), and the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) for the Air Force. METI has been supporting the HQ AFMC customer on this project for over 18 years, starting with the development of the ETMS and now providing growth and sustainment support. The repeated contract awards over the years validate our excellent performance and the confidence our customer has in our work.
SUCCESSES:
“ETMS is critical to AFMC Force Development and is the AF solution to ensure various data systems successfully cross-flow to Mil-PDS1 and DCPDS2 which has enabled AF to avoid thousands of man-hours in otherwise manual data updates.”
Government Quality Assurance Representative, AFMC/A1DS
“Our organization has enjoyed great success working in close partnership with METI to achieve division goals under reasonable schedules and demonstrated cost efficiencies. METI has a high visibility standing with AFMC with excellent credentials and reputation.”
COTR, HQ AFMC/A1D