Architected, designed and developed a security portal with the main purpose of unifying the overarching security policy that governs access to bureau-wide business applications. BASS uses industry standard JEE technologies to deliver an application that allows BLM to be compliant with federal security standards. Our solution enabled integration of several heterogeneous business applications for unified, secure access through the BASS.

Developed and supported a proven Security Assessment process providing assurance that the security controls in place are working as designed and in compliance with NIST-800 series, OMB standards. Successfully conducted over 200 security assessments throughout the CONUS for the bureau.

Supports IT governance, internal control compliance and audit processes for office of CIO.

Providing records management, financial analysis, and program support. Support services include maintaining program budget and fiscal project files for the initiative.

The APHIS Cost Management System (ACMS) is an agency-wide unified and accurate Status of Funds (SOF) reporting application for normal and emergency management operations. ACMS replaced multiple legacy SOF systems, becoming the unified agency-wide standard. It brought economies of scale associated with a unified enterprise-wide financial reporting application. The availability and use of a single SOF system throughout the agency also minimized the transition effort for establishment of an Incident Command System in the event of an outbreak or emergency. NexGen provides application life cycle management support services, including design and development of over 300 function/feature enhancements, as well as operations and maintenance support.

Graphics design/visual media support services ranging from educational outreach presentations and materials to interactive media and web content.

Developing project timelines and budgets for natural resource, cultural and topographic survey projects; produce signs, maps and literature for visitors, helping to ensure the safety of hikers and backpackers. Also coordinates activities and liaison between the USFS and the native tribes in southern Nevada.

Designed and developed hiking trails; trail condition surveys (TCS), using state-of-the-art Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) devices and available Geographic Information System (GIS) data; and planning and supervision of field work.

Developed an informational bridge across agency lines for spatial data, tabular data, images and documents.

Producing a 16-minute documentary demonstrating the return of life to Mount St. Helens since the 1980 eruption.

Provided a wide range of management elements, including development of project and grant proposals, timelines, task lists, facilitation of strategic planning and other processes.

Application Life Cycle Management (ALCM) support to the BLM NOC National Applications Office involves managing operational stability and readiness of over 30 major and non-major National Applications that directly support the BLM’s mission business. The BLM, NOC National Applications ALCM support encompasses a varying degree of size and scale complexity and presents unique service challenges. The service delivery requires expertise and proven experience in a combination of over 40 different software technologies that include multiple operating systems and database platforms; languages and programming paradigms; open-source and proprietary frameworks; development environments; Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) products and tools or toolkits.

Requirements collection and analysis for new software module in support of the national aquatic animal health plan.

The ePlanning national application provides the BLM with the ability to create Land Use Plan (LUP) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents through a web interface; to publish these documents to a public BLM web site for comments; and to consolidate those comments with the documentation at the plan approval phase.
Prior to NexGen's involvement a major upgrade to the ePlanning system was unsuccessful. NexGen's team re-configured a new application platform and performed a successful deployment of the system upgrade. As part of our O&M support services, NexGen's team of developers made series of performance and functionality enhancements that resulted in substantial improvement of the system performance, with some operations completing in one-tenth the time required by the original system.

FAMS is an IBM/Maximo based asset management application. As part of NexGen's O&M support services, our team successfully completed the upgrade of FAMS from Maximo v5.2 to Maximo v6.2. The upgrade involved migration of legacy data and the recreation of custom applications developed for the BLM FAMS. NexGen's team developed a custom migration toolset using novel data processing techniques. During the migration millions of assets were analyzed, processed and reorganized into logical hierarchical trees. A custom metadata library was used to individually analyze, map, and transform almost one billion data elements with nearly 100% accuracy. The final result was a system with excellent user acceptance, clean and secure data.

Developed a database system to provide park staff with a central source for managing and maintaining all park interpretive assets (bulletin boards and waysides).