• World-Class Audio/Video System Integration
• GPS Time Synchronization and Distribution
• Secure E-Commerce
• Data Management and Archival
• Technology research and insertion
• Information Technology (IT) budget forecasting
• Contingency Operations and Planning
• Disaster Preparedness

ManTech provides day-to-day network support services to one organization that has over 7000 workstations and 200 servers, CONUS and OCONUS. At another organization, ManTech designed, developed, and supports a large-scale distributed WAN connecting CONUS and OCONUS sites using satellite and land communications. ManTech's expertise includes the implementation of secure systems utilizing all methods of transport (including SATCOM, Microwave, etc.) for the movement/sharing of large amounts of data.

ManTech's integration services include implementation, support and installation, training, configuration management, network administration, network contingency operations and recovery, and help desk support.

While maintaining systems security, data availability, and network functionality, ManTech integrates COTS, GOTS, and specially developed software into leading edge network architectures across all existing platforms.

Capacity Planning
The introduction of enterprise e-mail systems, groupware, web technologies and distributed applications force IT departments to continuously face problems caused by inadequate capacity and bandwidth planning. Companies are hard-pressed to optimize the performance potential of their existing investment or integrate and validate new technologies without triggering system failures. The result is an unnecessary escalation in support costs and the reduction in the reliability of service. ManTech’s Capacity Planning Services optimize enterprise performance by looking at your entire environment to document current resource and workload issues, identify areas of under-utilization, and map technology options to accommodate business growth projections. We address such issues as:

• Web Server Analysis: ManTech develops profiles of generic workloads types for the categories of work to be processed on your Web server to support a cost-effective, growth-conscious solution for your web strategy.
• Analyzing Database Platforms: We perform an analysis of the current database resource and workload process environment, and its relationship to business units within a company. We also examine the existing capacity of servers to determine saturation levels and future load handling capabilities. We perform controlled workload simulations (in a lab or your present enterprise environment) to recommend appropriate enhancements to the database hardware or access environment.
• Email Server Capacity Analysis: We evaluate your server, in conjunction with the infrastructure support, to assess maximum load capacities for your email system.
• Integrating New Technologies: ManTech tests and measures the capacity and reliability of the infrastructure to assess the impact of a new component or application on other parts of the system.

ManTech has spent the last decade working with the tools and technologies that help customers turn previously unrelated pieces of data into a mosaic of knowledge that provides additional insight into business related issues. The picture created by the mosaic can be used to discover targets for additional investigation, highlight inconsistencies, point to areas of improvement, or validate business decisions. The process is started by enabling the intelligent user to create a picture or report that enables them to focuses their attention on the most relevant data or discover a relationship that was previously unknown. The algorithms used by the intelligent user are then automated so that they can be used to turn the individual data "tiles" into a mosaic of knowledge that presents a snapshot of key information surrounding a particular business problem or process.

Regardless of your data content or format, ManTech can effectively extract, transform, and load your data into your data warehouse or document management system. This allows for systematic data mining and the development of relationships between previously unrelated data sets. If you don't have a data warehouse or document management system, ManTech has the experience to build you a cost effective one based upon major vendor solutions.

ManTech then integrates and applies best of breed tools to your business practices in order to help you visualize, analyze, correlate, mine, and ultimately uncover the data mosaic from your disparate data sets. Tools include search engines, link analysis tools, geographic information systems (GIS), on-line analytical processing (OLAP) tools, statistical analysis tools, and ad hoc query/report tools.

Aside from the traditional custom desktop solutions, ManTech can also help you develop and integrate tools that take advantage of Internet technologies (browser, e-mail, and collaboration tools) to provide standards based, secure, platform independent methods of visualizing your data. This combined with ManTech’s "rapid prototyping" approach allows for the quick, incremental delivery of capabilities in order to get the tools in the hands of the end user as quickly as possible. Then, the end users can feedback to the development team ideas for additional capabilities, data sets, or relationships without becoming a slave to a long development cycle.

ManTech maximizes the return on investment by leveraging the integration of commercial off-the-shelf tools with development expertise in J2EE, .NET, XML/XSL, C/C++/C#, and various scripting languages. These skills, combined with knowledge of specific business problems and processes, allow ManTech to create a data mosaic that provides new insight into existing data.

Life Cycle Software Engineering

ManTech supports all lifecycle phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, software and interface design, software development, systems integration, certification and accreditation, and software configuration management.

Through the use of best practices such as spiral development, modular design of software applications, software code reutilization and rapid prototyping, ManTech has achieved great success in software engineering.

By utilizing these best practices, ManTech has positioned itself as a proven leader in the development of complex modeling and simulation software. In recognition of ManTech's expertise, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has charged ManTech with developmental responsibility for their Corporate Acquisition and Logistics Management Systems (CALMS) project. This program analyzes and documents asset lifecycle requirements and integrates separate and disparate procurement, asset tracking, and logistics management systems. These systems, integrating COTS, GOTS, and products developed specially for the DIA, resulted in the reduction of information duplication and labor intensiveness of asset lifecycle management, while increasing data accuracy availability and integrity, and achieving system certification and accreditation. User requirements for system functionality, architectural requirements, and interface requirements for data sharing between existing and newly developed applications were identified, analyzed, documented, and implemented.

With a keen eye on requirements analysis, system interface analysis and implementation, and system certification and accreditation, ManTech technologies continues to develop and implement high quality, leading-edge products to meet and exceed the demand of top Government agencies.

Whether the requirement is for Business to Business, Electronic Commerce, Modeling, Logistics software, or Warfighting tools, ManTech has the expertise and experience to complete the job on-time and within budget.

Database Design & Maintenance

Access to your corporate data is critical to business operations in today's environment. But what constitutes a good database? Best practices suggest a database should adhere to the following principles:

Descriptive: The most user-friendly databases will have intuitively obvious naming conventions. These conventions allow more fluid communication between the data provider and data consumer (including application developers)

Flexible: Table and field names can be easily modified allowing convenient reutilization and standardization.

Efficient: Procedures for data access are properly coded and data is indexed to speed queries and reduce recall time.

Normalized: Data must be consistent in format and structure with minimal redundancy.

Secure: Data must be easily accessible to authorized personnel. There can be no room for doubts about data integrity.

ManTech Technologies has developed numerous databases for various Government customers and specializes in the design of customized user-friendly database tools. Many flavors of today's relational databases populate ManTech's repertoire, including Oracle, IBM DB2, as well as Microsoft's SQL Server and Access.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

ManTech currently supports Department of Defense (DoD), Federal agencies, and state clients under a variety of contracts. ManTech provides clients comprehensive GIS services including geospatial database development, spatial analysis, modeling and simulation, map and chart development, 3-D visualizations, and web-based mapping solutions.

For over a decade, ManTech has been providing GIS services in the areas of military test and training range planning, encroachment impact analysis, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental planning, marine resource analysis, airspace and sonic boom studies, modeling and simulation, rocket launch support, hazardous material analysis, and risk assessment.

Modeling, Simluation & Analysis

ManTech is an industry leader in providing innovative solutions through developing and using modeling, simulation and analysis tools in support of a wide range of Defense, Service and Joint customers. ManTech possesses both the infrastructure and expertise to respond to the full spectrum of Defense analysis needs, from physics and engineering based models supporting the technology base, through engagement simulations supporting weapons effects analysis and acquisition decision making, to force-on-force and campaign models supporting force integration, military value assessment, provisioning and budgeting decisions,. Our modeling and simulation experts are engaged in managing development of new Army standard force-on-force models to analyze manned and unmanned rotary aircraft, modernizing a campaign level model for the Air Force, modeling joint logistics process enhancements for the Joint Test and Evaluation program, and developing and implementing a new vulnerability analysis methodology for the Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effects. Our analysts are responsible for military utility analysis, analysis of alternatives, cost effectiveness evaluations, vulnerability and weapons effects analyses, system reliability assessments, logistics process improvements and targeting alternatives development for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Community, the Air Force, the Army and industry partners.

ManTech's Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) center is unique in its ability to design and field revolutionary decision support systems that dramatically improve decision making performance of the human-computer team. Cognitive systems engineering is a principle-driven approach to designing high-performance decision making teams. The ManTech SMA CSE team applies cognitive systems engineering in three critical areas:

A) The modeling of critical relationships and decisions in the context of domain complexities and demands.
B) The design and implementation of computerized support to improve users' ability to visualize the problem, evaluate courses of action, and execute the best possible solution.
C) The evaluation of the impact of new technology on users' decision making and problem solving performance.

Enterprise Messaging/Groupware

ManTech has been implementing messaging solutions since the early days of email. Today, our Enterprise Messaging / Groupware Services specialize in applying Internet and collaborative technologies to unify users, applications, and information sources into an integrated enterprise-wide system. Our solutions are designed to funnel multiple lines of businesses, spread among multiple locations, using multiple messaging systems into a single application that can be monitored and managed from a central location.

Design and Migration Strategies

Migrating to a single messaging system is a challenging task. The proper strategy must address the complexities of multiple messaging systems and differing data types across those systems. ManTech engineers can assist in the complex design and planning process needed as you move to a robust client/server messaging system based on either Microsoft Exchange Server or Lotus Notes.

Many organizations have a complex and diverse network that includes many locations, multiple points of administration, and strict security requirements. ManTech’s messaging specialists can analyze your requirements from both a technical and business perspective to produce a winning strategy. These specialists have backgrounds that include almost every major messaging product and platform that has ever been deployed. Whether it's cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange or SMTP, our team has the experience to provide a smooth migration path.

Microsoft Exchange / Lotus Notes Development

As a Microsoft and Lotus business partner, ManTech has proven expertise in developing custom Exchange and Notes solutions. As a contractor to Microsoft, ManTech has developed ActiveX controls that are part of the Exchange, Outlook and Office product lines. This demonstrates the breath and depth of our Microsoft Outlook / Exchange development capabilities. Another example of our capabilities is our Security Enhanced Mail product we have developed for both Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.

Enterprise Security Management

ManTech’s Security Enhanced Mail product extends the capabilities of Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes to comply with government security requirements. These features include:

• Compartmented email
• Classification markings
• Dirty word searches
• Document control
• Automated paragraph markings
• Header/footer markings
• Compartmentalization extended to calendar functions and to-do list

A Complete Solution

All of our Enterprise Messaging / Groupware professionals have advanced level of training and proficiency in an array of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes products. Whatever your requirements dictate, we can assist you with the design, planning and implementation of your migration.

Web Technologies

ManTech can show you how to put the power of web technology to work for your enterprise to share internal information, create new links with business partners, increase productivity, reduce costs, enhance communication and unleash employee creativity -- all in a safe, secure environment. Business solutions developed with internet technologies involve dramatically lower infrastructure costs, while delivering secured business-critical data to thousands of workstations from a centralized location. As older information technology solutions continue to suffer from incompatibilities and endless upgrade costs, companies are adopting web-based systems that unite multiple computer platforms and technologies across geographic boundaries, functional areas, and business processes.

ManTech’s Internet Technologies Services extend to:

• Technology Consulting: ManTech consultants specializes in planning and designing internet architectures to help companies migrate from outmoded, problematic, or inadequate infrastructures to new standards and processes, fully aligned with present and future business objectives. Our Web Technologies Services cover every aspect of the enterprise, including desktop Internet services, systems management, e-commerce and messaging applications, directory and naming services, data encryption, certificate servers, DBMS integration, workflow, proxy and fire wall services, security procedures, back-up systems, and Microsoft Internet Information Server procedures and policies.
• Web-Based Application Development: ManTech’s application developers can leverage the power of internet technologies and Windows NT to rapidly develop and deploy mission-critical enterprise solutions. The tight integration of IIS with Windows NT Server helps users leverage other aspects of the Microsoft Windows NT environment, including enhanced security measures, built-in Web authoring and Internet protocol features, and seamless links with Microsoft applications such as SQL Server and Site Server. Our areas of web-based application development expertise include: Java, ActiveX, VBScript, COM, DCOM, DHTML, HTML, XML, Active Server Pages (ASP), Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Site Server, Netscape Enterprise Server, Lotus Domino, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, Microsoft BackOffice and Microsoft Office integration.
• Legacy System Consulting: ManTech can extend the capabilities of your UNIX/NeXT legacy system by Web-enabling your existing database applications. A Web-based legacy system increases its value to your organization by permitting new functionality, improving information access and system responsiveness and reducing costs throughout your enterprise. We have successfully converted "fat" client/server applications developed in Microsoft Access, FoxPro, Visual Basic, Lotus Notes and DataPhile to a "thin" web-based client/server applications.
• Security: Using the latest in firewall, digital certificates, password protection and encryption technologies, ManTech ensures that your intranet or extranet remains secure from unauthorized users making it safe for you to communicate and conduct transactions online. Our security expertise includes Firewalls (Gauntlet, Raptor, V-One, WatchGuard), Network Encryption System (NES), Crypto (KG, KY, KIV, STU, TACLANE, FASTLANE)
• Creative Design: Our staff of creative professionals will create a compelling design for your Web site that communicates your messages and makes them memorable. They’ll ensure that navigation of your site is intuitive and implement creative techniques that increase the transfer of knowledge to your target users. Once your site is launched, we provide ongoing support for both technical and creative refreshment to keep your site up-to-date and at peak performance.
• A Complete Solution: All of our web specialists have advanced level of training and proficiency in an array of internet products and technologies including Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Index Server, Site Server, AltaVista Search Engine, DBMS integration (Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server), FrontPage, Lotus Domino, Netscape SuiteSpot, Java, ActiveX, XML, and DHTML technologies. Whatever your requirements dictate, we can assist you with the design, planning and implementation of your web-based solution.

Software Development

ManTech provides custom Windows NT-based application development services for both new development and maintenance of legacy applications. Our professionals provide the expertise to plan, design, build, test and implement applications fully integrated into your business process. This includes developing customized software for our clients using proven software engineering methodologies or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products tailored to fit your business needs. In this way, we develop software with reduced risk and decreased costs while increasing system functionality, reliability, and capability. We are successful because we understand how business processes need to be redesigned for enterprise solutions. At ManTech, our enterprise approach to Windows NT-based application development ensures that our clients implement a comprehensive business solution - not just successful technology integration.

Development Framework

ManTech utilizes state-of-the-art tools, best practices and methodologies to create highly effective applications. We apply leading software delivery framework’s including the Carnegie Mellon Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) in the development of Windows NT applications. Our framework extends from user requirements, systems design, software development, configuration management, quality assurance and the deployment processes. Our application development approach is focused on helping businesses rapidly re-engineer business processes and systems through prioritization of activities and extensive use of solutions prototyping. We make extensive use of Unified Modeling Language (UML) for expressing software design decisions, automated configuration management, database modeling tools, and tools for automated testing.

ManTech uses leading tools from Rational Software, Microsoft, and PLATINUM Technology. These tools provide a powerful infrastructure solution to automate, manage, and continuously improve the process of developing and delivering applications. Our suite of tools include Source Control (Visual Source Safe), Software Engineering (Rational Rose), Database Design (ER/Win), Automated Testing (SQA Team Test), Defect Tracking (SQA Team Test), Software Installation (WISE)

Software Development Tools

ManTech utilizes state-of-the-art software development tools to create highly effective user-centered applications. Our application development approach is focused on helping businesses rapidly re-engineer business processes through prioritization of activities, extensive use of solutions prototyping, and time-boxed project management. This approach significantly reduces the risk and cost of systems development and enables more rapid response to the changing business environment. ManTech annually invests resources to continually build our corporate knowledge base and to ensure that ManTech has access to the latest software development tools, information, training and vendor relationships. Our clients value the special insight we gain through our vendor relationships and our ability to anticipate and plan for market trends based on our first-hand knowledge of product changes and developments. The following is a list of ManTech’s core Windows NT development technologies:

• Operating Systems: - Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 95/98
• DBMS Platforms: - Oracle 7.x /8.x, Microsoft SQL Server 6.x/7.x, Sybase
• Development Tools: - Visual C++, MFC, Stingray, Visual Basic, VB Script, Active Server Pages (ASP), Java, Visual J++, Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Netscape SuiteSpot, FrontPage, Visual Studio, Visual Interdev, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), XML, DHTML, ActiveX, COM, DCOM, ATL, ADO, OLE DB, ODBC, Adobe Acrobat, JavaScript, DHTML, HTML
• Workflow: - KeyFile, FileNet

Service Parts Ordering Tool (SPOT)

ManTech’s Service Parts Ordering Tool (SPOT), is an integrated parts ordering and maintenance management tool that allows users on the shop floor to place orders for parts directly from a weapon’s systems technical manual. Developed for the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency, the tool uses innovative portal technology, knowledge management and e-Commerce. SPOT is currently used by the Air Force and being considered by the Navy.

Vital Records

ManTech has implemented Vital Records solutions for a number of state and local governments and fully understands the unique requirements of Vital Records applications. ManTech has developed an internet-based, integrated Vital Records product that provides the state, its local registrars, and data providers the ability to participate in the business needs of the Vital Records Office. Our VRVweb product integrates into one system the registration, modification, issuance, and reporting of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, and divorce records, together with inventory control and fee/accounting capabilities. The VRVweb product was designed to allow a state to use a common baseline to employ a fully tested, operational, and reliable application. This common baseline approach allows each state to benefit from upgrades to the product. Additional functionality or unique, state-specific components not included in the baseline product can be easily incorporated using our component-based design concept.

The VRVweb product provides secure and encrypted methods for users accessing the application via the Internet, Intranet, local area network, or wide area network. In addition, the VRVweb application employs a password protection mechanism that requires a unique user ID and password as well as a unique application user ID and password. Authorized user access can be achieved from any appropriately configured user workstation.

ACQCenter

ManTech AcqCenter is a fully integrated, web-based source selection support center providing acquisition support and Section 508 compliant acquisition tools such as the DecisionPoint Source Selection Tool and the Bids BAA Management Application to government program/procurement organizations.

AcqCenter successfully blends ManTech’s technical core competencies of software development, information assurance, and systems integration/networking, and combines them with in-house government acquisition expertise and contractor proposal development experience.

The result is a suite of software solutions, consulting and training services that are assisting our government and commercial clients in revolutionizing their acquisition and proposal programs and processes.