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© 2010 Paragon Technology Group, Inc.

Corporate Overview

Woman-owned Business8(a) and SDB Certified

SmartCEO Future 50 Company 2006, 2007, 2009

National Best of NIEM Award Winner 2009

Washington Technology Fast 50 Company 2008

GSA Schedule IT-70: GS-35F-0484NGSA MOBIS: GS-10F-0172U

8229 Boone Blvd, Suite 800, Vienna, VA 22182www.paragontech.net

a CMMI™ Level 2 Certified Company

© 2011 Paragon Technology Group, Inc.

Phone: 703.734.1102, Fax: 703.734.1106

© 2010 Paragon Technology Group, Inc.© 2011 Paragon Technology Group, Inc.

PARAGON OVERVIEW

Selected ClientsGeneral Information:

Contract Vehicles: Seaport-E (Prime) IRS TIPPS III DHS Eagle 3 & 5 DHS PPMS DISA ENCORE II GSA Alliant

Established 1997; Offices in VA (HQ), MD, and IL Woman-owned Small business , SBA 8(a) and SDB

Certifications Established core competencies and practice areas in IT

Professional Services supported by experienced /certified staff

CMMI™ Level 2 Certified Company (Level 3 planned 4Q 2011)

GSA IT-70: # GS-35F-0484N

GSA MOBIS: # GS10F0172U

FDA ELMS (Prime) NIH BPA (Prime) CMS BPA (Prime) Milennium

Department of Justice•CIO•ATF

Health and Human Services•NIH NCRR & NHLBI

•BEP•E-Gov

Department of the Treasury• IRS•MINT

•OCC•OCIO

•CBPDepartment of Homeland

Security•US Visit •Science & Tech.

Department of Labor: PBCG

Department of Transportation: MARAD

•EPAOthers

•GSA •NARA •NASA

US Transportation CommandUS Air Force US MarinesUS ArmyDefense Finance & Accounting

(DFAS)Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)

Federal

Defense

•CMS•FDA

BNASprint-NextelState of VirginiaDuPont-Merck Pharmaceuticals

Comm

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al & Other

Federal

Civilian

NAICS Codes


WHO IS PARAGON?

Dun and Bradstreet performed an Open Ratings

assessment of Paragon across15 different

projects/customers.

Paragon scored an average of 94 across nine performance areas on a scale of 100 and was rated 97 in the areas of

Reliability, Business Relations, and Personnel.

Paragon is a CMMI™ Level 2 Certified

Company(Level 3 Certification expected: 4Q

2011)

TOP 1 Percentile of all Contractors

Dun & Bradstreet Open Ratings Assessment


PARAGON SERVICES YOUR SOLUTION

Strategic Planning IT Investment ManagementPortfolio Management, CPICBusiness Case Development (E300)Program and Project Management; Enterprise PMO Establishment and Operation

Enterprise Risk ManagementEnterprise Performance Management (BSC)Enterprise Architecture (EA) Planning, Development, & Management

Governance Processes, Policies & Procedures

FISMA Compliance

Mission AnalysisBusiness Process ReengineeringBusiness Requirements Elicitation & Management

COTS Integration and Application Development

Performance Management & monitoring

Data GovernanceData Architecture Data Standards (NIEM, IEPD)Data Quality, Data ManagementData Modeling (CDM. LDM PDM)

ETL design and developmentBI Application Development Information Sharing

Risk AssessmentsFinancial Mgmt Assessment & Systems Development

Internal Control ReviewsA-123 / Appendix A / Sarbanes Oxley Reviews

Readiness AuditsPolicies and Procedures Accounting Operations

Program & Project EvaluationsQuality AssuranceTesting & EvaluationsProcess ImprovementSoftware Verification and Validation – IEEE 1012 Std.

Systems Design & DevelopmentSystems Operations & Maintenance (O&M)System Interoperability and Information Sharing (NIEM)

Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E)

Database System modeling, design and development

COTS Integration Application Development


PARAGON – SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Project Client Tasks / Accomplishments

CPIC, EA, and EGOV Program Support

Treasury OCIO Strategic Planning, CPIC, EA, and EGOV Program Support PMO Support; Enterprise Systems; E300; FSAM; Portfolio Analysis

IT Enterprise Program Management Support

US Transportation

Command

Program and Project Management, Financial and Cost Management, Requirements Elicitation and Management, Systems Engineering, Security (C&A), Testing, Configuration Management (CM), Process Improvement.

IT PMO Support Center for Medicare and

Medicaid

IT Project Management Lifecycle Support IT Strategic Planning and CTO SupportEA Program Support: Data Strategy and Roadmap (NIEM)

Application Development and O&M Support; IT Pfm, EA, and PMO Support

NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute

(NHLBI)

Portfolio Mgmt / CPIC PMO Support EA PMO Support (Support development of Segment Arch.) IT PMO Support Software Development and O&M Support; C&A

CPIC and PMO Support OCC CPIC Program Support (Select, Control, Evaluate) SDLC Support; IV&V; PMO Support Business Process Reengineering, Requirements Management

Strategic Planning and Portfolio Mgmt

Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)

Develop DFAS of the Future Report Implement Balanced Scorecard Rhythm for Strategic Planning Develop and Maintain Strategic Plan

US Visit Program DHS Enterprise Architecture; Data Architecture, NIEM, IEPD IT Security and C&A Database and Software Development (IDENT, ADIS);

Regional Technology Initiative – RDT&E

DHS Systems Architecture; Software Development; Requirements, NIEM, IEPD; Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E)


US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) – J6Program Management Office Support (PMO)

Paragon provides integrated enterprise acquisition Program Management for multiple USTRANSCOM IT programs in various stages of the SDLC, all in a Performance-based environment. Services include: Program and Project Management, Financial & Cost Management, Systems Requirements Elicitation and Management, Systems Engineering, Security (C&A), Testing, Validation Configuration Management, & Continuous Process Improvement (CPI).

US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM)- J4/5Distribution Process Owner (DPO) - Theater Concepts and Analysis

The Paragon Team’s Theater Concepts and Analysis Support to DPO mission demonstrates extensive working knowledge of the DOD distribution-related activities supporting force projection, sustainment, and redeployment/retrograde of military forces and materiel as they apply to the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise (JDDE). We co-authored many key distribution related documents to include the Joint Logistics (Distribution) Joint Integrating Concept [JL (D) JIC].

US Marine Corps (USMC) – HQ, Logistics Policy Distribution (LPD) BranchProgram Management Support

The primary objective of this contract is to provide the necessary labor, equipment, materials and facilities to perform program management in support of the USMC mission and programs to include, but not be limited to data collection, information analyses, document preparation and management support. Paragon conducts data collection, obtains data, generates and develops data through field inquiries, researches publications and performs reviews of and updates information in databases; assimilates data and compiles data in new computer-based information databases.

PARAGON – PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Selected Department of Defense (DoD) Contracts


Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)Independent Strategic Plan Consultant Services

As part of this effort Paragon provides independent consulting services to support the continual improvement of DFAS's Strategic Plan incorporating Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) and portfolio management processes. We are providing support to fully align the strategic processes with the agency's portfolio Management planning, budgeting, and Strategic council focus areas with the major initiatives, enterprise architecture, security program, information resources management (IRM), and workforce development programs. These services are repeatable on an annual schedule.

US Army Center for Army Analysis (CAA)Estimate of Wartime Attrition and Replacement for Materiel (EWARM) Support

Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) requires an estimate of Class VII replacement requirements based on potential future scenarios. HQDA uses this estimate to assist in developing total Army Class VII procurement objectives. This estimate encompasses approximately 2,000 individual items of equipment and is based on historical equipment loss data and associated loss rates, applied to illustrative DOD scenarios and vignettes which involve Army forces. As part of this effort, Paragon collects US Army OIF, OEF, and if applicable any new conflicts official Class VII force structure and equipment loss data. We then populate new data into an automated database tool; compute resultant loss rates, and validate results, re-normalize campaign intensity scalars across all conflicts; and document the study in briefings, the database, and a final report.

PARAGON – PROJECT EXPERIENCE (CON’T)

Selected Department of Defense (DoD) Contracts



DHS Science and Technology (S&T)RTI Program - Resource Management System

Paragon is the lead developer of a Resource Typing Data Model that is to become the standard for FEMA’s resource typing efforts. DHS S&T requested that Paragon develop and deploy an integrated set of prototypes, analyze, investigate, and architect a reusable data model blueprint and validate and verify (through incident response scenario enactment) requirements Paragon works daily with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to help build a National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) conformant data exchange message Information Exchange Package Documentation .

DHS US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ACE Program Technical and Application Support

Paragon is charged with modernizing the existing IT Infrastructure. Including Installing, configuring and managing the required middleware (IBM Websphere App Server and MQSeries) and application software. As part of this effort Paragon has also designed and developed custom software (Java, Servlets, JSP, XML, Java Beans, UNIX Shell Scripts) to customize and integrate middleware applications with other applications in the environment. Paragon also provided Oracle DBA support and supported the migration of Oracle to DB2 across the ACE program.

Selected Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Contracts

DHS US-VISIT Program Enterprise Architecture and Technical Support

As part of this effort Paragon has performed (and currently performing) the following tasks: Enterprise level Architecture and Governance Support, Federal Agency Level Data Sharing, Standardization, Harmonization, and Compliance support, US-VISIT Mission Operations Support, Maintenance and Engineering Support of USA Primary Biometric System (IDENT) and Secondary Biographic System (ADIS), Developing, managing and monitoring of US-VISIT Security C&A .


DHS Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology, Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency (HSARPA)

Paragon provided program and SME support for the Preparedness & Response Portfolio under the Unified Incident Command & Decision Support (UICDS) Program. Developed a set of alternative architectures using Department of Defense Architectural Framework (DoDAF); approaches are based on the operational requirements and protocols as defined by NIMS and the NRP with focus currently on DODAF OVs. Develop and test a set of system prototypes based on these architectures.

DHS Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology, Homeland SecurityInterconnected Emergency Operations Center (iEOC)

Paragon successfully elicited requirements and identified the pilot prototype system and interface requirements for iEOC. We were able to apply our expertise in the area of Service Oriented Architecture and successfully develop a reusable prototype for the EOCs in Seattle. The DHS sponsor and stakeholders are extremely satisfied with our performance and end result (prototype). Our DHS iEOC phase I project was completed on time and within budget.


Selected Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Contracts

DHS Science and Technology (S&T) / NASA RTI Program - Secure Credential Validation and Attribute Management (SCVAM)

Paragon built an application that provided for The Secure Validation of first responders credentials. Paragon developed a data model in accordance with existing NIMS and NIEM standards and validated the model through web-based applications that provide First Responder registration, search and cross check functionality. Paragon implemented mobile devices and scanning workstations in the overall prototype solution, and installed and demonstrated a pilot system in King County, WA for potential replication at other sites.


National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)- Center for Bio Informatics (CBI)Application Development

NHLBI contracted Paragon to provide Software Maintenance, support and technical operations support for the entire NHLBI Center for Bio Informatics with a portfolio of 130 applications. Support includes four distinct areas: Project management of all system development projects and establishment of a PMO serving software development, Software Development and O&M; Establishment of a CPIC and Portfolio Management Program; Support for NHLBI’s EA Program; Developed and maintain 130 software applications: Client server, web-based ASP.net/C# & Java, SharePoint.

Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Electronic Health Records Management

Paragon is establishing a Project Management Office (PMO) to support the implementation of the Electronic Health Records Incentive Program for CMS. Our services include support for the definition of interim and final regulations, coordination and integration of schedules for systems development and enhancements, both within CMS and with external parties and tracking and resolving issues arising during the implementation.

Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) – Office of Information Technology (OIT)Project Management Lifecycle Support Services BPA

Paragon provides Project and Program Management Support for the systems in the Medicare Advantage & Part D portfolio, as well as the Agency’s migration to the 5010 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standard. Paragon provides project management support to the CMS Enterprise Data Group for the transition of legacy data into the Integrated Data Repository. Paragon is developing best-practice based project and program management processes. Paragon performed a thorough assessment of the IT processes and methodologies used by CMS for the Medicare Advantage and Part D (MAPD) program.


Selected Health and Human Services (HHS) Contracts


WHY PARAGON?

We Utilize our Paragon Solution Delivery Framework™ (SDF), which is based on CMMI and PMI frameworks and standards, to deliver quality services to our clients across all our contracts. Our internal Corporate Quality Assurance organization operates independently and ensures adherence to the Paragon SDF.

We combine our business expertise, technical know-how and experience to address the needs of our clients, to optimize their business and technology investments and maximize their ROI.

As a small and quality firm, we are agile and hands-on. Our lower cost structure and internal and external flexibility allow us to provide our services to our marketplace at a greater value without facing the same political and financial challenges that often hinder larger firms.

Our clients gain the benefit of direct involvement of our highly experienced executive management team, vs. other firms where senior managers are often called in during marketing meetings, but are not engaged after a project kicks-off.

Our philosophy and approach are simple and lead to solid results


CONTRACT VEHICLES

Seaport-E (Prime)GSA IT-70: # GS-35F-0484NGSA MOBIS: # GS10F0172UDISA ENCORE IIGSA AlliantMilenniaIRS TIPPS IIIDHS EagleDHS PPMS


Bruce CardVP DoD Operations [email protected]

Tel: 618-310-7970 ~ www.paragontech.net ~ Fax: 703-734-1106

CONTACTS

Susan SablanSenior Program [email protected], ext 304


Mike CarrierSVP Corporate [email protected]


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