FSOne is specialized in government contracts across the services sector and information systems. Its stated goal is to hire talented individuals across America to fill government contract positions within information systems, spanning software development, network engineering, database administration, and technical writing.
The firm holds service-disabled veteran-owned small business status, which lets it work closely with government agencies while contributing to the success of small, veteran-owned enterprises.
Mission
FSOne makes the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through information technology, engineering, and science.
Vision
To become the global leader in the integration and application of information technology, engineering, and science to solve customers' most demanding challenges.
Integrity
Having the courage to make tough ethical decisions, taking pride in the work, being transparent with the team, and being respectful of everyone.
Practice areas
- Software development — delivering result-driven digital change with custom software.
- Network engineering — proactive delivery of network engineering services.
- Database administration — ensuring a stable environment and peak performance.
- Technical writing — professionals for express handling and delivery of contract projects at small and large scale.
Market intelligence
A team of researchers gathers government contract intelligence from tens of thousands of sources using current technology, so bid information can be reviewed, narrowed, and turned into focused responses.
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K2 Firm is a professional services company that has served the aerospace and defense vertical since January 2009. It is a small business based in Georgia with a singular focus on customer satisfaction, and product data engineering is its domain expertise.
Product data engineering means the life cycle management of digital product data. The currency, sufficiency, and accuracy of that data must be maintained for as long as the weapon system remains in service.
Approach
The firm starts with deep domain knowledge and works toward a strategic partnership with customers through consistent delivery of value. Staff bring, on average, a decade or more of functional as well as industry expertise.
Team composition
Employees range from engineers and computer scientists who understand the creation and use of digital product data, to software developers, software architects, and project managers, to product data sustainers who tend to be functional specialists. It is common for employees to be co-located with customer personnel to maximize value.
Past work
Since founding, K2 Firm has successfully completed multiple product data engineering projects for the USAF as well as some original equipment manufacturers, and has assembled a team with domain expertise relevant to past and present PLM and configuration management modernization efforts within the USAF.
Siemens PLM alliance
On April 11, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia, K2 Firm announced it had joined the Siemens PLM Software system integration partner community as an alliance partner for the aerospace and defense sector in the USA. The alliance lets K2 Firm offer customers the same technology companies around the world depend on to develop their products. Siemens PLM Software is a leading global provider of PLM software and services with 7 million licensed seats and more than 71,000 customers worldwide.
Software development
K2 Firm has in-house expertise creating custom software applications with J2EE and .NET technology stacks, and since 2009 has completed numerous custom software application development contracts covering functional requirements development, design specifications development, application development and testing, and application deployment and operation. Personnel bring proven experience leading multiple, geographically distributed software development teams.
Since January 2009Small businessSmyrna, GAT&M / FFP / CPFFSiemens alliance partner
Acceptance is the verification and validation of digital product data. It involves an assessment of the digital product data delivered to the government to ensure completeness and compliance with contractually mandated digital data standards.
K2 Firm performs this service using a collection of rules-driven intelligent software tools rather than manual review alone.
Why it matters
Digital product data is generated by various original equipment manufacturers and delivered to the government. Acceptance is the gate that determines whether what arrived is what the contract required.
Conversion is the one-time re-representation of the structure and syntax of digital product data.
Typical conversions
- Technical manuals from native publishing formats into standards-compliant SGML, or from SGML into S1000D.
- One native CAD format into another native CAD format, or into 3D PDF, JT, IGES, or other standards-compliant formats.
Forms of product data
Digital product data takes different representations depending on the function it fulfills — fully annotated engineering drawings and three-dimensional geometric models carrying the as-designed and as-fielded configuration of weapon systems, and technical manuals that guide and govern maintenance and repair work.
Cleansing is the one-time improvement of the currency and accuracy of legacy product data.
K2 Firm has successfully undertaken multiple data cleansing efforts on USAF legacy product data over the last decade, covering both lite cleanup and heavy cleanup scopes.
Sustainment is the application of ongoing, continuous changes to digital product data so it reflects the realities of operation, maintenance, and repair in the field.
K2 Firm has competed for, won, and performed on multiple data sustainment tasks since its founding.
The standing requirement
The currency, sufficiency, and accuracy of digital product data has to be maintained for as long as the weapon system remains in service — which is what makes sustainment a continuous discipline rather than a project.
Normalization is the application of referential integrity as well as taxonomy to digital product data, when and where applicable.
Performing this task requires subject matter expertise in how digital data is created, organized, and used across multiple functions — which is why it sits with domain specialists rather than general data engineers.
K2 Firm is often tasked with migrating large volumes of digital product data from one Product Lifecycle Management platform to another. Data is extracted from the old PLM platform, necessary transformations are applied, and it is then loaded into the new platform.
The firm has successfully undertaken multiple data migration tasks over the last ten years, including leading the effort to migrate a set of USAF legacy PLM applications and associated product sustainment data into the Siemens Teamcenter Unified Architecture PLM platform.
Implementation covers custom and commercial off-the-shelf software applications deployed across a large enterprise.
As part of executing product data engineering tasks, K2 Firm has developed the institutional competency to install, configure, customize, and use Product Lifecycle Management and Configuration Management solutions, including proven competency with the Teamcenter portfolio.
Custom application delivery
- Functional requirements development
- Design specifications development
- Software application development and testing
- Software application deployment and operation
FSOne specializes in defining, designing, testing, and implementing newly developed software applications, with developers who are proven experts holding the requisite technical abilities.
Security posture
Complying with strict cybersecurity standards is treated as essential. Security is integrated into the risk management process and includes comprehensive QA services, software testing, and pre-certification and compliance testing.
How the work runs
Successful software delivery depends on clear and fluent communication with no margin for errors, so engagements are structured around seamless feedback cycles.
FSOne's network experience ranges from basic to advanced network design and implementation.
Voice and endpoint
VoIP PBX installation, troubleshooting, and management; VoIP endpoint configuration and administration covering phones, IP security cameras, paging services, routers, switches, session border controllers, and VoIP PSTN gateways; SIP trunking and VoIP provider work; and Linux server administration for hosted VoIP service.
Cybersecurity
Network security, firewall configuration, IDS configuration, log management, and security incident analysis.
Database administrators use specialized software to store and organize data. The role can include capacity planning, installation, configuration, database design, migration, performance monitoring, security, troubleshooting, backup, and data recovery.
Services offered
- Installation of database software
- Setup and configuration
- Database security
- Performance analysis
- Patching and troubleshooting
What FSOne looks for in a DBA
Meticulous attention to detail, a logical approach to work, the ability to prioritize tasks, problem-solving skills, patience, good organizational skills, and strong communication and interpersonal skills.
FSOne provides technical writing services through a team of writing professionals for express handling and delivery of contract projects on small and large scales.
Technical writing requires communicating very specific information in equally exacting formats — manuals, specification sheets, and other technical documentation produced to the conventions of a particular industry.
A-TEAM is one of the Department of the Air Force PLM, CAD, and MRO implementations that K2 Firm leadership has led or managed as engineering and IT projects.
Across this portfolio of DAF implementations, more than 8,000 users are active worldwide today.
The JEDMICS to A-TEAM Migration is one of the DAF programs K2 Firm leadership has led or managed.
K2 Firm leadership achieved DAF leadership consensus to fund and support JAM, PCMS, and TOAP as DAF enterprise capabilities.
The Parts Configuration Management System is one of the DAF programs K2 Firm leadership has led or managed, and one of three capabilities for which DAF leadership consensus to fund and support was achieved.
Earlier in his career, K2 Firm's software solutions architect received two corporate awards for developing a semi-automated data capture process for PCMS that resulted in a multi-year contract award.
The Centralized Technical Order Repository is one of the DAF PLM, CAD, and MRO implementations K2 Firm leadership has led or managed as engineering and IT projects.
The Electronic Technical Order Library is one of the DAF PLM, CAD, and MRO implementations K2 Firm leadership has led or managed as engineering and IT projects.
The Technical Order Authoring and Publishing system is one of the DAF programs K2 Firm leadership has led or managed, and one of three capabilities for which DAF leadership consensus to fund and support was achieved.
The Facilities and Equipment Maintenance system is one of the DAF PLM, CAD, and MRO implementations K2 Firm leadership has led or managed as engineering and IT projects.
Maintenance Process Orders is one of the DAF PLM, CAD, and MRO implementations K2 Firm leadership has led or managed as engineering and IT projects.
The CAD/CAM Repository is one of the DAF PLM, CAD, and MRO implementations K2 Firm leadership has led or managed as engineering and IT projects.
The Integrated Data Information Manager is one of the DAF PLM, CAD, and MRO implementations K2 Firm leadership has led or managed as engineering and IT projects.
The Product Data Management Gateway is one of the DAF PLM, CAD, and MRO implementations K2 Firm leadership has led or managed as engineering and IT projects.
K2 Firm's software solutions architect is leading the effort to migrate a set of USAF legacy PLM applications and associated product sustainment data into the Siemens Teamcenter Unified Architecture PLM platform.
K2 Firm has proven competencies related to the configuration and customization of the Teamcenter portfolio, the most widely used digital lifecycle management software.
A digital product data analyst on the Robins Air Force Base Teamcenter development team worked with the JT Visualization Toolkit team, a precursor component of what is now the Teamcenter Unified Architecture platform.
Mr. Gourisankar has 25 years of experience serving the federal, aerospace, and defense sector in positions of increasing responsibility. He graduated with a master's degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in CAE, PLM, and CM.
He spent the first half of his career on the research faculty at Georgia Tech, building a professional services organization that served the DOD, FAA, and major defense contractors including Lockheed, Northrop, and Intergraph.
In the second half of his career he held senior leadership positions at several large corporations as Director, CTO, and Vice President — including VP of Federal, Aerospace & Defense at IHS Global and CTO of NAPAOnline.com, a division of Genuine Parts Company.
He has hands-on experience leading both a professional services organization and a product development organization, and has led the development, deployment, and continued operation of several mission-critical software applications used by thousands of end users. He has managed large teams of functional consultants across multiple locations to meet contract deliverables, and has over two decades of experience bidding, winning, and delivering on T&M, FFP, CPFF, and other variants of professional services contracts with the federal government.
Derek Peters oversees the work of a team of 12 software engineers engaged in the creation and enhancement of multiple PLM enterprise applications for the USAF.
He provides thought leadership for the software development group, establishing processes and standards for the development function as well as architectural and design guidelines. In his current role he leads the effort to migrate a set of USAF legacy PLM applications and associated product sustainment data into the Siemens Teamcenter Unified Architecture PLM platform.
Mr. Peters has spent 8 years within the federal aerospace and defense sector. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Valdosta State University and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certificate from Villanova University.
He has managed his own software consulting practice specializing in real-time data transmission between SCADA systems integrated into Outage Management Systems. Earlier in his career he received two corporate awards from IHS Global for developing a semi-automated data capture process for PCMS that resulted in a multi-year contract award.
As a digital product data engineer, Mr. Rogers provides engineering consulting services for the digital transformation of organizations across the public and private aerospace and defense sector.
He brings more than 40 years of federal civil service experience as an engineer, including over 20 years as an engineering and information technology manager, with a demonstrated history of working in the aerospace and defense public sector for the U.S. Department of the Air Force. He is skilled in digital transformation, Product Lifecycle Management, Computer Aided Design, Maintenance Repair & Overhaul, and government operations management.
He holds a Master of Public Administration focused in public policy analysis from Georgia College and State University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. He holds CM2-Comprehensive Certification from the Institute for Process Excellence and has been a CM2 practitioner for over 17 years.
Mr. Rogers has over 25 years of experience leading and managing engineering and IT projects that fielded successful implementations of PLM, CAD, and MRO with more than 8,000 active worldwide users today, including A-TEAM, JAM, PCMS, CTOR, ETOL, FEM, MxPO, CCR, IDIM, TOAP, and the PDM Gateway.
He was the lead functional subject matter expert supporting the AF-PLM Capability Support Office, achieved DAF leadership consensus to fund and support JAM, PCMS, and TOAP as enterprise capabilities, and has been sought out for his expertise by Air Staff, DoD Staff, senior leaders, and program offices. He was a major contributor to the revision of MIL-STD-31000B and authored the Air Force Model Based Definition requirements for Technical Data Packages.
Shelley Otero joined K2 Firm in 2019 as a digital product data analyst for the Teamcenter development team at Robins Air Force Base.
She has well over 20 years of experience in software development, systems implementation, and customization across aerospace, energy, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and commercial retail.
She graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in aerospace engineering, a certificate in materials engineering, and a Master of Science focused in engineering computer graphics. She also earned a Juris Doctor, is a PMI certified Project Manager, and is a Certified Scrum Master, and has continued to extend her PLM background through coursework in data migration, software architecture, and customization.
Ms. Otero's PLM experience began with her graduate studies and continued through five years with UGS PLM as a pre-sales engineer, developer, and project manager for custom integrations with third-party CAE and CAD systems. She worked with the JT Visualization Toolkit team, a precursor component of what is now the Siemens Teamcenter Unified Architecture PLM platform.
Darrell Lenkner brings 25+ years of experience across aerospace, manufacturing, oil, power, and defense.
He graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree in computer science while employed by Texas Instruments Defense Group as a senior programmer. After Texas Instruments he took positions of increasing seniority with General Electric Defense and Boeing Aerospace, then joined the Intergraph CAD/PLM group.
At Intergraph he worked on the initial deployments of Metaphase and SDRC PLM systems and added functionality with customer input to the developers. Reassigned to the Power, Process and Marine Division, he led Teamcenter projects at Procter & Gamble including virtual reality simulations, real-time data acquisition and analysis, and migration of CAD/CAM data into Teamcenter. He later led requirements definition and design analysis for PLM systems implementation at oil and power companies across the United States and Canada.
He joined the firm in 2016 as an application engineer for the Teamcenter development team, bringing expertise in data migration, CAD integration, and process improvement.