Advantages
These are key advantages that FOUR STAR ASSOCIATES CORP offers.
Tangible Benefits [Top]
- Identification of new business opportunities in the Government sector with minimal risk to the client.
- Competitive advantage from early opportunity matching
- Technology assessment and validation
- Administrative services: contract administration, accounting services
- Assistance locating and accessing government R&D funding
- Increased revenue
Cost Controls [Top]
- Committed to consistent, proven program management practices. These practices ensure that our personnel keep tasks on schedule, within budget, and in compliance with Government-negotiated cost requirements.
- Extensive experience having managed numerous multi-million dollar projects effectively and without cost overruns.
- Using a variety of management and productivity tools that enable our personnel to maintain accurate accrued project costs. By utilizing these tools, our staff can remotely collaborate on many project tasks, thus reducing travel costs.
- Consistently provided deliverables that meet or exceed client expectations.
- Staying within budget for the program and tasks. We attribute this to our management systems, cost control systems, and management practices. Also, because of the material content of our delivered systems, cost control is achieved through excellence in material control processes.
Timeliness of Service [Top]
- Directly involved in the management and design of the Army-Navy Joint Unified Maritime Protection Systems (JUMPS) and other Army projects. This involvement started in 2005 and is ongoing. In every instance, Four Star is on time and budget.
- Expertise in radar, wireless infrastructure and systems design has been instrumental in ensuring a cost effective approach to Maritime surveillance.
- Experienced staff designed and composed a format for the AMDA AoA documentation. This format ensures a consistent and effective approach to system documentation and report creation in adherence with Government compliance standards.
Customer Service [Top]
- Ensuring that all deliverables, including all required monthly reports and invoices, are submitted as scheduled in accordance with task order requirements.
- Leadership proactively addresses and resolves issues.
- Our team has received recognition from project teams for its diligence to standards, superior level of achievement and adherence to project deadlines.
Best Practices [Top]
- The Four Star team has not encountered any problems that have hindered its ability to perform on any contract, or that has impacted the quality of its deliverables, or required additional funding to correct.
- External standards include those defined by other entities such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WC3), Web 2.0 Guidelines, American Disabilities Act (ADA), Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), and International Standards Organization (ISO) 9000.
- Internal standards are those defined by the Four Star team for internal controls – these are all based on CMMI and ISO 9000 standards. They include our company Quality Process Plan for quality assurance, standardized design and development processes for all teams, programming code library, test plans and tracking tools, and other related processes.
