CTC is a trusted partner that works with you to solve your most pressing needs.  No matter what the technology, no matter where the need, CTC is there for you anywhere, anytime, anyplace.  Your mission is our mission, and your vision, our vision.  CTC personnel are experts at bringing the right technologies, products, resources, and services to bear to solve your most urgent problems without delay.

Whether you’re an industry leader or Department of Defense (DoD) organization, both military and civilian leaders know that a highly skilled, distributed, trained, and informed workforce makes the difference between success and failure.  CTC’s Force Readiness Teams are highly trained, skilled, and ready to do business where you are with world class experts in:

• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High Yield Explosives (CBRNE)
• Logistics Optimization
• Supply Chain Integration
• Systems Integration
• Sustainability
• Advanced Distributed Learning, SCORM® and Training Transformation Technologies
• Technology Management and Enterprise Business Solutions
• Workplace Safety Management
• System of Systems Engineering solutions
• Management Technologies
• Communications Outreach

CBRNE

The CTC CBRNE-MEC Team includes many former DoD personnel who represent every facet of the CBRNE arena.  Our team of highly motivated professionals has served in every branch of the military; many have Special Operations and other specialty backgrounds, including DoD Acquisition Professionals and former DoD unit commanders.  Our occupational specialties include explosive ordnance disposal, military police, combat engineers, chemical operations specialists, and others.  CTC also employs former DoD Intelligence and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) experts.

The CTC CBRNE-MEC Team can provide support in the following disciplines.

• CBRNE
• Counterterrorism, Force Protection
• Combat Engineering
• Explosive Ordnance Disposal
• Improvised Explosive Devices
• Law Enforcement
• Emergency Management
• Military Working Dogs
• Munitions and Explosives of Concern
• Surety Programs
• RFCIED Technology
• Biometrics
• Ballistic Self-Protection and Construction Material Technologies

Logistics Optimization

CTC assists clients by evaluating and managing the quality of logistics data, by applying appropriate data visualization technologies, and by integrating legacy data to enable enterprise views of critical logistics data.  CTC also provides assistance with legacy data, process transformation, and much more.  The following specific capabilities and services are available.

• Data and Decision Support
• Legacy Data Integration
• Process Transformation
• Business Process Modeling and Analysis
• Readiness Management
• Strategic and Tactical Analysis
• Geographic Information Systems
• Legacy Data Transformation
• Statistical Forecasting
• Leveraging Synchronized Data
• Validation and Verification of Wireless Communications

Supply Chain Integration

Any business knows that supply chain management can mean the difference between success and failure.  Supply chain integration takes on a whole new importance in modern warfare.  Therefore, CTC, a key integrator for the U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Command and the Defense Logistics Agency, is working to optimize legacy business processes and develop and test innovative logistics solutions.  CTC offers the following specific capabilities and services with regard to supply chain integration.

• Strategic Supply Chain Planning
• System Life-Cycle Analysis and Planning
• Business Systems Modernization
• Process Analysis and Transformation
• Diminishing Manufacturing Sources
• Catalog Standardization
• e-business Application to Supply Chain Management
• Cycle Time Reduction
• Supply Chain and Distribution Modeling
• Total Ownership Cost Modeling
• Supply Chain Management Course Development
• Leveraging Synchronized Data
• Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model Application

Systems Integration

CTC personnel are experts at integrating data from multiple systems into a unified, consistent, and accurate representation conducive to manipulation of the data.  Data is aggregated, restructured, and relabeled (if necessary) and presented to the user.  Data integration is the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of data from disparate systems into a single data store for the purposes of manipulation and evaluation (reporting).  CTC can perform a thorough analysis of participating systems and data to determine the relevant data to be extracted, the transformation steps necessary in order to "cleanse" the data, and the destination structures in which to load the data.  Reporting is conducted via analytical reporting tools that can find new ways of viewing the gathered data in order to create useful decision-supporting information, including the following.

• Enterprise Application Integration
• Data Warehouse and Data Mining

• Knowledge Transfer Services
• Technology Investigation and Feasibility Analysis
• Legacy Systems Management and Internet Enabling Development and Implementation
• Planning, Designing, and Implementing Custom Application Systems and Information Infrastructures
• Enabling Complex Computer Networking Environments
• Integrating Software and Hardware Components
• Ongoing Systems and Applications Management and Maintenance

Sustainability

CTC supports sustainability concepts and practices by providing services, solutions, and technologies focused on reducing the impact of the military and industry on the environment.  CTC uses sound scientific principles to encourage technology development in a way that is conscious and responsive to emerging global trends.  CTC’s specific services related to sustainability include the following.

• Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
• Energy Management Analysis
• Green Processes
• Land Management Analysis
• Range Management
• Sustainability of Weapon Systems

Advanced Distributed Learning and Training Transformation (t2)

Using state-of-the-art technology, CTC develops education and training products that focus on getting the right information to the right people at the right time to enable those people to perform more productively.  A spiral development approach is applied to determine education and training requirements and to build programs that meet those requirements.  CTC offers the following specific capabilities with regard to advanced distributed learning.

• Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM®) – CTC develops and maintains the global standards for SCORM
• Design Analysis
• Blended Learning Solutions
• Collaborative Environments & Multiplayer Gaming Technologies
• Decision Support Technologies
• Assessment and Integration of Learning Management Systems
• Design and Integration of Learning Content Repositories
• Case Study and Scenario Development
• Legacy Content Conversion
• Videography
• Multimedia/Animation
• Technology Assessment

Technology Management and Enterprise Business Solutions

Technology management is a broad category in a day of sweeping technological advancements.  CTC has significant experience and demonstrated processes to successfully transition maturing technologies from the lab to actual use . . . solving problems with innovative technologies.  As R&D resources become harder to capture, it is vital that research programs demonstrate an ability to produce tangible results that solve problems.  That translates into the need for successful technology transfer programs, and CTC is a leader in this growing field.  The following specific technology-management capabilities and services are available to CTC clients.

• Commercial and Industrial Secure Network Design and Department of Defense Network Centric Design for the Global Information Grid
• Network Management, Operations and Trouble Shooting
• Wireless Networks and PDA Integration
• Biometrics and Self-Contained Biometric Authentication Cards
• Information Assurance and Security
• Java, .Net and SAP integration expertise
• Knowledge-Based Technologies
• File-Based Management Systems
• Management of Demonstration and Validation of Emerging Technologies to Confirm Performance, Reliability, and Life-Cycle Costs
• Technology Road Mapping to Define Future Anticipated Needs, Scout for Both Existing, and Emerging Technologies and also Identify Technology Gaps Where R&D Resources Should be Targeted
• Database Mining to Assess Market Opportunity, Competitive Profiles, Potential Partnering Targets, Quantification of Potential Volume, and Potential Paths and Threats to Successful Commercialization
• Technology Scouting, Maturation, and Commercialization Planning, including Market Research and Intelligence Gathering
• Technology, Market, and Competitive Assessments
• Strategic and Business Plan Development
• Intellectual Property Assessment, Prioritization Planning, Management and Education/Training
• Worldwide Intelligence Gathering, Including Open Source Database Mining on Technical Capabilities Within Areas, Locales, or Industries
• Access to over 500 Databases and an Open Source Information Search Capability Approximately 50-times Greater than Public Search Engines such as Google®

Workplace Safety Management

Making the workplace a safer environment is the benchmark of safety management.  CTC is working to transfer the successes achieved in private industry in reducing workplace injuries into the Department of Defense (DoD), helping to develop and sustain cultures that support world-class safety performance.  As the manager of the DoD Voluntary Protection Programs Center of Excellence, CTC provides safety expertise to civil and military service personnel.  CTC’s comprehensive expertise ranges from consulting on various safety-related topics through implementation of Safety Management Systems.  The following is a list of safety-related services provided.

• Voluntary Protection Programs Expertise
• Safety Management Systems
• Hazard Prevention Assessments
• OSHA Compliance
• Behavior-Based Safety
• Safety Leadership Training
• Comprehensive Worksite Analysis
• Active Hazard Prevention and Control
• Ongoing Safety and Health Training
• Mishap and Near-miss Investigations
• Contractor Safety
• Military Safety data systems

System of Systems (SoS) Capabilities & Services

CTC’s diverse capabilities have made the company a perfect fit to operate the new System of Systems Engineering Center of Excellence (SoSECE) for the DoD.  System of Systems Engineering is an emerging discipline for the design, development, deployment, operation, and modification of broadly bounded System of Systems.  CTC offers the following specific System of Systems capabilities and services.

• Advising in SoS affairs from interagency and international acquisition
• Consulting in initiation or execution of SoS solutions through application-specific tailored practices
• Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Architecture Development & Analysis
• Developing SoS engineering, management, and supporting practices
• Education & Training of leaders and practitioners in use of SoS practices
• Facilitating interagency and international cooperative processes and acquisition
• Net-Centric Operations and Warfare (NCOW) Reference Model application
• Roadmap development and management
• SoS planning and analysis for acquisition and operations
• Supporting government with SoS subject expertise embedded in organizations

Management Systems

CTC offers a wide array of training, customized consulting, and numerous implementation tools and techniques designed to assist our clients in the design, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of an effective management system.  A unique combination of quality, cost, and environment, health, and safety services are available.

• Program Management Institute certifications
• Overall Program Management expertise
• Integrated Project Team management
• ISO 14001 (Environmental Management)
• ISO 9001 (Quality Management)
• AS9100 (Aerospace Quality Management)
• Process improvement
• Cost Benefit/Economic/Life-cycle Analysis Environment, Health, and Safety

Communications and Outreach

CTC identifies clients’ diverse communications and outreach needs and provides high-quality products and services that effectively convey information to target audiences.  We are adept at producing annual reports, brochures, catalogs, newsletters, presentations, logos, outreach campaigns, technical manuals, posters and signage, exhibit booths, and more.  CTC has both the technical resources and managerial expertise to ensure on-time delivery in the fast-paced communications industry.  CTC offers the following specific capabilities with regard to communications and outreach.

• Graphic and layout design
• Video and animation production

• Writing and technical editing services
• Web development
• Public Relations (PR)
• Event and small- to large-scale conference planning, management, and recording services