Services

Intelligence Analysis Services

Technological advances in geospatial imagery, full-motion video, and other raw data have increased the volume of information available to the warfighter, intelligence officers, law enforcement, and policy makers. But one of the biggest challenges facing the intelligence community (IC) is the ability to synthesize raw intelligence to make it actionable in real time.

Solutions

MorganFranklin provides CONUS and OCONUS services to military and intelligence community customers that require skilled, tested, and motivated intelligence analysts and program managers. We help support overseas contingency operations and the pursuit of our nation's most pressing national defense and homeland security threats.

Our intelligence services are backed by robust administration, human resources, onboarding, deployment, and contract management support that eases the burden on our employees and helps them stay focused on the mission.

• We pride ourselves on our ability to provide fast access to qualified intelligence analysts.
• Our intelligence professionals deploy globally to provide the highest level of support for customers.
• Our analysts have the proven ability to adapt to rapidly changing requirements.
• Our analysts bring a mix of intelligence domain knowledge and are best equipped to gather and analyze today's wide range of intelligence sources including HUMINT, MASINT, GEOINT, IMINT, all-source, and full-motion video.
• We team with partners who share our expectation to create and maintain a culture that allows our workforce to be successful.

Our capabilities

• Counterintelligence (CI) support
• Intelligence operations subject matter expertise
• Operations Research Systems Analyst (ORSA) integration
• Imagery analysis
• Geospatial analysis
• All-source analysis
• Military capabilities (MilCap) analysis
• Political-military (Pol-Mil) analysis
• Counterterrorism (CT) analysis
• Counter narcoterrorism services

Looking for career opportunities in the intelligence community? Explore MorganFranklin's current job openings.

What to expect as an analyst with MorganFranklin

• Tailored benefits and retention programs. Our HR team coordinates with stateside family members during deployments to facilitate easy access to company benefits.
• Flexible interview and performance evaluation processes that consider the remote nature of work for many of our candidates and employees.
• Newsletters and other communications that keep our teams connected and informed.
• Flexible leave and holiday policies that cater to the schedules of deployed staff.
• Education assistance to earn academic degrees and opportunities for career advancement through management and technical training.
• Online international staff portal with information targeted to our traveling and deployed staff.
• Access to copies of important documents to assist in quick replacement if originals are lost.
• One-on-one conference calls between HR and deployed staff to help assimilate new hires, answer questions, and offer support throughout engagements.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

With ongoing corporate scandals and market volatility, there is an ever-increasing focus on accountability, transparency, and results. Good decision making and effective performance measurement results rest upon the reliability and availability of good information. But timely and technically accurate information is useless if it is not meaningful to the end user. Now is the time to find innovative ways to drive performance and accountability while at the same time reducing overall compliance costs.

Solutions

To achieve integrated compliance, organizations put various efforts in place. MorganFranklin’s Performance-Aligned GRC Model^TM uses a blended approach to reduce duplication of efforts, repetitive activities, and information issues while aligning overall risk and compliance management efforts to corporate goals and objectives.

As a central theme, our model begins with an enterprise view of risk, governance, and goals, or Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Our approach integrates the people, process, and technology components of ERM with operational, strategic, compliance, and financial activities to achieve the most cost-effective compliance efforts and eliminate wasted time and dollars. Taking cost out of your risk and compliance activities enables you to focus more on performance-enhancing activities relating to governance.

Our GRC diagnostic accomplishes the following

• Evaluate the maturity of existing GRC efforts against appropriate practices and standards.
• Assess the level of alignment between compliance and performance management efforts and make recommendations.
• Identify gaps and make recommendations on how to prioritize future GRC efforts and budgets.
• Assess the use of existing tools and evaluate the potential benefits of new GRC tools.
• Identify organization-specific success factors that are critical to long-term GRC sustainability.

Value

• Keep rampant "over-auditing" in check
• Cut compliance costs by linking controls across multiple requirements
• Free up resources to focus on performance enhancement
• Prevent detachment of mission, goals, and compliance
• Make more informed decisions about challenges and risks
• Redeploy savings and efficiencies toward driving performance and results
• Quickly assess effectiveness of multifunction processes

Legal Entity Management

Fraud Investigation and Litigation Support

M&A and Transaction Services

IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture

IT strategic planning is a continual process that considers current and expected ways an agency will operate and the types of technology investments needed to accomplish goals. Agencies today are seeking to incorporate IT strategic planning into a broader enterprise architecture (EA).  It's about translating business strategy into a knowledge repository of useful and understandable models, information, and analysis to support coordinated and smart technology and management decisions. A well-designed enterprise architecture, driven by technology, will serve as a business and technical blueprint for ongoing assessment of organizational performance and success.

Solutions

Our IT strategists help clients analyze business plans from tactical and strategic perspectives to define clear IT objectives and portfolio management approaches. Our technology and process professionals develop road maps for enterprise architecture, fixed and mobile communication networks, service oriented architectures, data dictionaries and business intelligence, custom applications and Web services, and other core processes. MorganFranklin also brings functional expertise in areas like project and program management, finance and accounting, and process improvement to ensure that IT strategies are appropriately aligned with functional requirements.

Our capabilities

• Architecture Strategy and Transformation
• Application Architecture and Software Selection
• Continuity of Operations Planning
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V)
• Systems Consolidation and Virtualization Support
• Performance Metrics and Benchmarks
• Investment Portfolio Optimization
• Organizational Reviews
• Project and Selection Process Management
• Business Case and ROI Assessment and Validation

IT Capital Planning

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is placing increasing importance on the planning, selection, and control of IT investments. To achieve your agency’s strategic goals, thorough understanding of IT governance and project oversight definition is required. Capital Planning Investment Control (CPIC) relies on a systematic selection, control, and ongoing evaluation process to ensure that each investment's objectives support the needs of your agency and align with the established enterprise architecture.

Solutions

MorganFranklin provides IT Capital Planning solutions from policy and portfolio analysis to training and investment evaluation. Our goal is to position our clients to receive the funding support they deserve. We also help ensure that investments are aligned with agency strategy, risks are minimized, and plans exist to capture and report on performance. We offer project-level implementation of policies, supporting documentation, analysis, and practices outlined within the CPIC framework. We also help establish standards to ensure that IT initiatives are subject to the same levels of oversight, quality control, and executive review.

Our capabilities

• Business case analysis and preparation (OMB Exhibit 300)
• IT and project governance frameworks
• Project oversight definition
• Oversight and quality control reporting
• Project management support
• Continuous IT portfolio analysis
• Earned-value reporting
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Establishment and implementation of key controls
• Identify and monitor metrics under the Performance Reference Model
• IT strategy and Enterprise Architecture
• IT risk assessments and audit support

Program Management Services

The federal government invests billions of dollars each year in new and existing programs. One thing is common: leadership, management, and control is required drive performance and obtain results on time and within budget. Program management discipline makes it easier to track resources, maintain work schedules, and respond quickly when budget overruns threaten a project.

Solutions

MorganFranklin helps you keep programs and projects on track. By leveraging portfolio and project management techniques, we establish organizational standards and align limited resources to projects with the highest returns. At each project milestone, we verify that strategic objectives have been met. We work with you to establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards that help you see the entire picture of program execution and the linkage between budgets, spending, performance and strategic objectives.  

Our capabilities

• Program Management Office (PMO) design and build
• Project turnaround leadership and support
• Rationalized program analysis
• Program governance, policies and procedures
• Third-party oversight to provide additional quality assurance and controls

Enterprise Performance Management

Better connection of enterprise strategy to processes and activities can reduce the risk of wasting valuable government resources. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) leverages proven management practices and technology to clearly show the link between performance objectives, planning, budgeting, execution and reporting. EPM enables agencies to optimize the use of four critical components - people, process, controls, and technology - to drive results.

Solutions

MorganFranklin combines business process, business intelligence and change management expertise to deliver tailored EPM solutions. Our professionals use proven performance management frameworks including Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma and others to lead your agency from assessment to implementation of performance management systems. EPM represents an opportunity to streamline financial, operational and IT processes to quickly deliver enhanced services while reducing costs.

Our capabilities

Operational Assessment: Assess components of EPM at the process, functional, or enterprise level and linkage to corporate goals and objectives.

Process Re-engineering: Improve corporate performance through the design, refinement and implementation of new financial, operations and IT processes.

Requirements Analysis and Tool Selection: Assistance in requirements gathering, independent selection and implementation of EPM and Business Intelligence tools.

Organization Alignment: Assess the readiness of your organization to embrace and maintain business transformation initiatives.

Roadmap: Provide a common vision for building the ideal operating model that is aligned with management expectations for how fast maturity can be reached.

Performance Measurement and Metrics: Identify and align performance metrics with business strategy and mission.

Value

• Streamline inefficient processes
• Reduce cost of operations
• Reduce errors based on analyzing inaccurate data
• Better focus of risk management activities
• Clear vision to support management
• Better prioritization of investment opportunities
• Take action on indicators not signs of things already gone wrong
• More reliable forecasting and budgeting
• Lower costs by focusing management time on what's most important
• Foster culture of continuous improvement and sustainability

Financial and Regulatory Reporting

CFO Act Audit Support

Emphasis on performance, accountability and transparency has led to many requirements for CFOs and their staffs. Delivering reliable, accurate and timely information to support program management and financial reporting requirements remains a top priority. This includes improving financial management practices and establishing reporting processes to obtain and sustain a clean audit opinion.

Solutions

MorganFranklin financial management and CFO Act auditors aid in the resolution of agency deficiencies and improve audit readiness. Our teams are comprised of former CFOs, controllers, auditors, and financial managers with experience in federal financial systems assessments, internal control assessments, and government accounting standards. 

We provide accounting and audit preparation, support and remediation, and liaison assistance with various stakeholders such as the Office of Inspectors General (OIG), agency external auditors, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO). We also work with our clients to implement project and performance management metrics related to audit execution that promote collaboration, accountability and results.

Our capabilities

• Quality control and assurance over audit preparation efforts
• Audit reliability assessment project management plans
• Audit reliability review and assessments
• Process, systems and internal controls reviews
• Financial Management Systems (FMS) assessments
• Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 reviews
• Financial statement audit staffing support including audit and test plan development and execution
• Technical consultation on accounting matters in accordance with FASAB, FAM, FFMIA, GAGAS as well as OMB and GAO regulations
• Reporting and communications assistance
• Project management including implementation and monitoring of performance metrics
• Formation of Audit Committee and Advisory Councils
• Training: CFO Act, A-123, FISCAM, Change Management, Documentation and re-performance
• Development of pilot audit readiness projects to attack most significant deficiencies
• IT audit and technology risk support

Technical Consulting Services

Well designed and managed infrastructure, skilled personnel, continuous training, and effective maintenance and repair capabilities are critical for operational readiness. For government, military and intelligence communities being prepared in these areas is key to mission success. Investment in these areas also extends the life and sustainability of systems, processes and technical know-how.

Solutions

MorganFranklin provides technical resources to support day-to-day and special project needs in the areas of systems engineering, technology evaluation, maintenance and support, and training. Our teams help ensure that your operations continue to run smoothly and that you get maximize the value from investments in technology over a longer period of time. We seek long-term partnerships in order to develop an intimate understanding of our client's requirements. We combine this information with a collaborative client-service approach to develop tailored solutions to your unique technical and operations support needs.

Systems Engineering & Technical Assistance (SETA): SETA is a comprehensive technical management process that includes translating operational requirements into configured systems, integrating the technical inputs of the entire design team, managing interfaces, characterizing and managing technical risk, transitioning technology from the technology base into program specific efforts, and verifying that designs meet operational needs.

Technical Assessments, Evaluation, and Support: Support in this area focuses on assisting our clients with making decisions about technology as it relates to their specific mission. It provides for the assessment of technologies for suitability, analyses of alternatives, and test and evaluation.

Training Management and Support: These services focus on providing our clients with comprehensive training programs to enhance the operational readiness. The services provided center on technical systems and include curriculum development, training instruction, and alternative training delivery methods (e.g. CBT and eLearning).

Operations and Maintenance Support: O&M provides for the management and or outsourcing and execution of enterprise C4I-related operations and system sustainment. Operational support focuses on supporting operations, command and control, and communication centers as well as related deployed missions. Maintenance related solutions focus on the development, implementation and execution of preventive and corrective maintenance policies, procedures and tools as well as depot-level equipment repair services.

Virtualization and Green IT

Advances in technology, management practices and business culture have created an environment where the business case for going green is strong. With the goal of reducing energy costs as a big driver, CIOs and CFOs are rightfully looking at data centers and IT infrastructure as a greenfield of opportunity. But changes that deliver expected ROI can not compromise productivity, reliability and flexibilty of IT.

Solutions

MorganFranklin helps IT organizations adopt leading practices for infrastructure design, system configuration and management. We work with you to ensure that IT remains an enabler of business objectives in the most efficient and sustainable manner possible through green IT solutions.

Our team of experts in systems, infrastructure design, process improvement, security and controls identify opportunities to lower costs, ease management and compliance obligations, and improve service delivery through sustainable IT practices. Through consolidation and virtualization we can improve service delivery through shared IT/business capabilities that yield greater flexibility and effectiveness.

Virtualization

• Server
• Storage
• Network
• Desktop

Green Data Center

• Data center migration
• Energy tracking and monitoring
• Cooling optimization
• Power-efficient servers
• Infrastructure consolidation
• Server virtualization

Green Desktop

• Virtual desktop computing
• Desktop disposal/recycling
• Paperless office
• Video conferencing
• Power management
• Procurement policy

Green Office

• Intelligent buildings
• Technology waste
• Employee buy-in
• Telecommuting policy
• Alternative energy

Value of "Going Green"

• Develop a Green IT strategy for the wise use of resources
• Align green initiatives with business objectives to tell a clear story
• Quickly identify risks and opportunities in architecture and standards
• Expedite server and application provisioning
• Enable faster response from IT when the business shifts
• Lower costs by improving capacity planning
• Simplify management of operations
• Build sustainability champions through training
• Report progress through annual sustainability milestones

Mobile and Transportable Communications

Surging network demands and the remote nature of many emergencies can render primary communications infrastructure useless. The ability to quickly stand up or augment critical communications network links for voice, video, and data is essential when it comes to the preservation of life, protection of critical infrastructure, and continuity of operations.

Solutions

Mobile and transportable communications can provide essential communications when traditional networks are unavailable or unsuitable, such as in situations that call for backup emergency operations, disaster recovery, search and rescue, maritime tracking, remote broadcast news gathering, and recovering from large-scale events.

Through design, development, and retrofitting of man-portable satellite systems, shipboard communications suites, and vehicle-based command and control platforms (C3), our teams help organizations extend critical network points of presence and essential voice, data, and video capacity.

Our expertise covers systems and network engineering, satellite communications, emergency planning, business continuity, and COTS integration to design and build customized, mobile, and transportable communication systems that are independent of public infrastructure and engineered for optimal security and reliability.

We have designed and integrated more than 100 mobile communications platforms and complex satellite IP networks. The majority of our solutions are also non-proprietary, allowing for ease of management, maintenance, and future upgrades.

Our capabilities

• Advanced network engineering and design
• Requirements analysis
• Technology evaluation and assessment
• Continuity of operations planning
• Mobile command and control (C3) platforms (SUV, trailers, UAV, etc.)
• Small form factor solutions (transit cases, inflatable antennas, etc.)
• Independent communications restoration systems
• Backup PSAP and Distributed Computer-Aided Dispatch
• Emergency vehicle systems integration
• Retrofitting existing platforms and technology insertion
• Satellite engineering and service provisioning
• Integrated sensor payloads

Value

• Rapid restoration and augmentation
• Extension of critical applications
• High-quality situational awareness
• Independence from commercial infrastructure
• Faster response and recovery
• Redundancy and continuity
• Seamless command and coordination
• Lower cost of operations
• Compliance with NCSD 3-10

M&A Planning and Integration

Infrastructure Design and Installation

Your structured cabling system and data center must be designed to allow for easy integration of future technologies and requirements for greater capacity and scale. But data center design requirements can be challenging. Considerations for energy conservation, scalability, flexibility, security, and ease of management are a must.

Developing and following a data center design checklist is just the beginning. Infrastructure solutions must provide investment protection and deliver proven technologies that allow maximum growth while minimizing costs.

Solutions

We help the government, military, and intelligence communities design, build, and maintain efficient and secure infrastructure. Our approach focuses on developing solutions that are scalable and sustainable over longer periods of time. Adhering to a comprehensive data center design checklist, our work is led by a team of Registered Communications Distribution Designers (RCDD), Project Management Professionals (PMP), System Engineers, Computer-Aided Drafters (CAD), and Certified BICSI Installers and Technicians.

Our solutions are based on industry and engineering best practices and all of our projects meet and exceed industry standards (ANSI EIA/TIA, IEEE, NEC, NITTISSAM, etc.). We also offer a vendor-neutral design approach that allows us to first and foremost focus on defining your data center design requirements and mission needs.

Our capabilities

• Communications and power distribution design
• Data center design checklist development
• Copper, fiber, and coax cabling IAW ANSI/TIA/EIA standards
• Classified installations IAW NSTISSAM, NSTISSI, and DCID specifications
• In-building distributed antenna systems
• Data center assessment performance
• Green data centers designed to LEEDS standards
• Installation and test documentation
• Inside and outside plant cabling
• PDS design and install
• Cable management

Value

• Requirements generation and scope design
• Adherence to data center design requirements
• Data center engineering, design, and wellness inspections
• Information security analysis and implementation
• Wireless technologies
• Requirements and facility surveys
• Disaster recovery consulting and design
• Remodels, new construction, and technology enhancements
• Performance of "hot" cutovers that eliminate data center downtime
• Extending the life cycle of existing data centers
• Voice/data, audio/video cable

IT Strategy and Planning

 

 

 

 

 

Innovation and Supply Chain Management

Enterprise Resource Planning

Business Process Management

Business Continuity Planning

Management Transition Services

Internal Audit Services

Advanced and Converged Networks

The vision of a fully converged IP network is now a reality. The benefits include cost savings, simplified management, high quality of service, and communications resiliency. However, seamlessly handling multiple business services over IP can tax the capacity of even the most robust network.

In addition to voice (VoIP), fax (FoIP), video streaming, and video teleconferencing (VTC), mobility requirements introduce further challenges for access and bandwidth. Despite these challenges, satellite communications (SATCOM) provide a wealth of mobile and wireless communication options, ranging from routine mobile connectivity and global communications to emergency response and disaster recovery.

Discover satellite solutions. Download SATCOM 101: An Introduction to Satellite Networks.

Solutions

MorganFranklin brings knowledge of IP networks, wireless networks, satellite technology, security standards, and controls to agencies seeking to tap the power of converged IP networks. We work with clients to design and build high-performance Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), and Wireless Local Access Network (WLAN) infrastructures. Our teams also design and implement WiFi networks, secure and non-secure radio frequency (RF) communication systems, distributed antenna systems, advanced satellite communications, and many other network solutions.

Our solutions meet and exceed all industry standards including ANSI EIA/TIA, IEEE, NEC, IETF, APCO, NIST, etc. We use a vendor-neutral design approach to ensure that the best and most affordable technology is considered. We also look for opportunities to leverage previous investments and existing assets to keep the cost of transition low. Our professionals and satellite communication specialists also bring the project management discipline required to ensure a smooth transition and to deliver projects on time and on budget.

Our capabilities

Advanced Networks

• Satellite systems engineering
• Advanced satellite communications
• Land mobile vehicle satellite systems
• IP networks integrated with satellite, ground, and terrestrial networks
• Integration of advanced satellite IP networks with legacy systems
• Technology upgrades and retrofits for existing facilities
• Life cycle support and maintenance of operational systems

Converged Network Solutions

• Net-centric IP-based services
• IP network engineering
• Support for integration of heterogeneous devices
• Information assurance and network security
• Network monitoring and management

Program Management

Data Management and Business Intelligence

Data management and business intelligence (BI) is more than an investment in IT. By identifying key performance indicators for project management, agencies can focus on improving data gathering processes, adopting data quality standards and controls, and driving the adoption of user-friendly analytics. A fresh look at the linkage between agency strategy and the processes that generate data is almost always revealing.

Are processes and systems truly generating the data that you need to make better decisions? Is there data from other places that can be consolidated to yield more useful intelligence? Do those responsible for the analysis and interpretation of data have the right training and understanding of business goals? Do you have the early warning systems to know when your data is bad?

Solutions

Our business intelligence solutions allow you to manage agency operations with greater clarity and certainty. Working together with our clients, we leverage BI to improve customer service satisfaction, improve financial reporting and transparency, align budgets with performance measures, and manage risk across the enterprise.

Our teams bring knowledge of process improvement, performance management, key performance indicators for project management, and multiple BI and data management products. We combine this knowledge with detailed understanding of the processes, systems, and data associated with financial reporting and accounting, procurement and contracting, HR, supply chain, and other areas. Enterprise risk and control specialists also work to establish the internal governance structures, policies, and standard operating procedures required to leverage data as a strategic asset and enable better performance management.

Our solutions address the biggest challenges to utilizing data, including:

• Availability and accuracy
• Access and usability
• Integration and extraction
• Security, controls and compliance
• Governance and ownership
• Usability and reporting
• Standardization and rationalization

Unnecessary complexity affects agencies that have purchased multiple BI tools across the enterprise. Lack of data interoperability, high cost of ownership, and missed opportunities to unify the enterprise with a common reporting language are a few of the inefficiencies. New technology is not always the answer. To help agencies get the most out of their past investments, we provide strategies to simplify and standardize existing business intelligence efforts.

Our capabilities

• Data strategy and architecture
• Data governance and standards
• Data quality and cleansing
• Master data management
• BI strategy and architecture
• Corporate performance management
• Business process improvement
• Dashboard reporting and predictive analytics
• Multi-systems data integration and synchronization
• Customer and operational information management

Value

• Improve speed and accuracy of compliance reporting
• Measure success with key performance indicators for project management
• Identify early warning signals sooner
• Improve customer satisfaction
• Better track and report on agency performance
• Identify drivers of inefficiencies
• Integrate core and non-core functions for a complete view
• Reduce load on IT and increase productivity

Continuity of Operations Planning

Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans are needed to recover the processes, operations, and technology needed to sustain essential functions in the event of natural disasters, technical hazards, terrorism, and other significant disruptions. When the stakes are high, downtime is not an option.

Have you implemented plans and capabilities to contend with the changing threat environment? Do your continuity solutions deliver compliance with regulatory requirements? COOP plans must be clearly linked to essential business processes, compliance requirements, people, and technology. When designed and managed well, COOP plans can protect critical functions and ensure resiliency of daily operations.

Solutions

MorganFranklin employs a holistic approach to continuity planning that is based on federal guidance and industry best practices in the areas of disaster recovery (DR), crisis communications, IT contingency planning (ITCP), occupant emergency plans (OEP), cyber security, and regulatory compliance. MorganFranklin’s solutions deliver compliance with regulatory requirements and our Framework for Operational Resiliency provides prescriptive measures in response to sudden disruptions, as well as preventative measures against operational vulnerabilities and threats to mission objectives.

Our contingency planners, industry experts, and military and agency leaders have the experience and training required to develop effective COOP plans based on your unique threats and requirements. We also complement our core COOP expertise with experience in regulatory compliance, business process improvement, governance, and enterprise risk management. With this team, we are able to identify threats and weaknesses, remediate gaps, and implement the right COOP solution for your agency.

Our capabilities

• Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning, implementation, and exercising
• Business impact analysis (BIA) and risk assessments
• Disaster recovery (DR) planning for data centers, EOC, and related infrastructure
• Selection of secure alternate sites and facilities
• IT contingency plans (ITCP) for support systems
• Development of emergency response plans and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Crisis and incident management solutions and compliance
• Independent assessment of existing continuity plans
• Vendor selection for BCP/COOP software

Value

• Clearly understand and mitigate risks
• Protect most valuable assets and employees
• Ensure that solutions deliver compliance with regulatory requirements (privacy, confidentiality, etc.)
• Minimize monetary losses from decreased productivity, destroyed infrastructure, etc.
• Maintain uptime of critical processes and functions that others depend on
• Maintain integrity of key data sources
• Maintain communication and reduce anxiety of citizens and other stakeholders

Business Process Re-engineering

Budget shortfalls, workforce attrition, aging systems, and a host of other factors will make it difficult for government programs to perform as they have in the past. Sustaining existing programs while meeting customer service expectations will take innovation and significant effort to deliver services in the most cost effective and efficient manner possible. Processes will inevitably need to change.

Solutions

MorganFranklin's Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) solutions help government clients streamline and adapt key processes to shifting requirements. We use industry best practices and tools such as Six Sigma to design new processes and to identify opportunities to reduce costs, speed up delivery, limit risk, and otherwise improve performance. 

MorganFranklin recognizes the clear link between BPR and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Process re-engineering is as much about retooling to seize opportunities as it is about making the changes needed to mitigate risks. We look for opportunities to embed financial, operational, and IT controls into every BPR engagement as a way to ensure long-term sustainability of key processes.

Our teams also look for ways to utilize technology and software to reduce manual processes and better manage overall BPR efforts. We also help clients uncover key performance indicators (KPIs) and establish associated metrics. This information, along with controls data, can be used as the basis for management dashboards and other reporting tools. 

But change does not happen without buy-in from people, and old habits are hard to break. To address this issue, we use proven change and project management strategies to accelerate adoption and acceptance of process changes.

Our capabilities

• Organizational structure assessment and design
• Business case development
• End-to-end process analysis and visioning
• Process and technology reviews
• Efficiency studies
• Tool selection and implementation
• Project management
• Change management and implementation plans
• Process changes aligned with IT strategy and planning
• Establishment of key performance indicator (KPI's) and metrics
• Implementation of process controls (quality, security, compliance)
• Changes aligned with existing ERP, ERM, and enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks
• Training and best practices

IT Audit and Technology Risk

IT security is critical for agencies dealing with confidential, private, or otherwise sensitive data and communications. Security breaches, fraud, and unintentional misrepresentation of information can have significant consequences and damage reputation. Maintaining a strong IT governance, risk, and compliance posture is more important than ever.

Solutions

MorganFranklin has a 10-year track record providing security services to the highest levels of government.  Today our teams help agencies meet IT governance, audit and cyber security requirements. You can count on our professionals to bring the qualifications and certifications (CPA, CIA, CISA, MBA, and PMP) to meet your IT audit and security needs.

Leveraging government and industry best practices we work with you to clearly define IT risks, establish controls to mitigate them, and provide a framework for demonstrating compliance. Our IT and technology risk solutions also help agencies maintain the integrity of critical data and infrastructure including networks, operating systems, databases, and applications.

We also help ensure the consistent administration of system users, configuration changes, and data center operations. We do this while balancing the costs associated with stronger governance, risk, and control measures with the need to drive performance.

Our capabilities

• IT Audit and Audit Readiness Services
• IT Security Services
• IT Shared Services internal control assessments
• OMB Circular A-123 Compliance
• SAS 70 IT Audit Support
• IT Security Policy development, documentation, and communication
• Entity-Level Controls Support
• Specialized Security Assessments of interfacing systems
• Data Security and Privacy
• Virtualization and Green IT risk analysis and remediation
• Continuity of Operations Planning
• Tool selection and implementation

Internal Control Services

Enterprise Risk Management

Managing risk is as much about seizing opportunity as it is about limiting downsides and uncertainties. It's about exploring the advantages and disadvantages of change management so that you can make swift and informed decisions that deliver competitive advantage, increased value, and other benefits. It's no longer all about compliance. The future of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is more clearly aligned to performance and meeting agency priorities.

Solutions

MorganFranklin works with internal audit, risk and compliance officers, CFOs, and others to design and implement ERM programs that match the unique risks of your organization. Our primary goals are to make it easier to gather the data needed to form a clear view of agency risk, identify the advantages and disadvantages of change management, and embed ERM into the fabric of your operations and culture.

To accomplish this, our team of risk management, process improvement, IT, and audit professionals leverage best practices from COSO, ISO 31000, FISCAM, and other risk management frameworks.

We work with you to address governance and accountability. Does responsibility for ERM rest with the CFO or Chief Performance Officer? Is ownership at department or agency level? Is there a need for organizational redesign? Could executive communications be improved? MorganFranklin guides agency leaders through the process of answering these questions.

We also help evaluate and implement tools and dashboards for communicating, monitoring, and reporting risk information across the agency.

"Old habits are hard to break. Change management and risk awareness training put everyone on the same page, even leadership, with respect to views on risk and enterprise risk tolerance."  Ed Applegate, Managing Director

Our capabilities

• Risk management policies and procedures, including key roles and responsibilities
• Risk profiles, including articulation of risk appetite
• Risk inventories with associated likelihood and impact assessments
• Risk mitigation strategies and action plans
• ERM and GRC tool selection and deployment, including ongoing monitoring and dashboard configurations

Value

• Optimize allocation of resources
• Reduce unexpected surprises
• Identify performance variability earlier
• Make informed and unified management decisions
• Explore advantages and disadvantages of change management
• Reduce performance variability
• Establish clear governance
• Instill accountability
• Protect value assets

Budget and Performance Integration

When it comes to budget and program performance, the federal financial management community faces high expectations for accountability, transparency and results.

Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) requirements were expanded by the Budget and Performance Integration (BPI) initiative in the summer of 2001.  The goal remains to show a clearer connection between resource allocation and program performance. Suffice to say that this will continue as a priority under the current administration.

Solutions

MorganFranklin helps agencies improve budget and performance integration efforts. Working with your team we will develop results-oriented budgets that are performance-based and defendable from headquarters through OMB to Congress. To improve performance and budget integration efforts we help you establish performance metrics, adopt effective financial and performance controls, and streamline data analysis and reporting through the use of business intelligence and other reporting tools.  Our goal is to help you generate the high-quality outcomes needed for program continuance.

Our qualified teams come from backgrounds in government, military, consulting and other sectors. Many of them carry certifications and degrees such as CPA, CIA, CISA, MBA, and PMP.

Unique to MorganFranklin is our ability to combine expertise in finance and accounting, auditing, risk management, data management and business intelligence, technology and performance improvement on a single team to meet your budget and performance integration needs.

Our capabilities

• Analysis of budget and performance integration readiness
• Design and implement BPI frameworks
• Underperforming program identification and analysis
• OMB Reporting
• Skills gap assessment and alignment
• Real time reporting and analysis through analytics

• Activity-based costing

Value

• Easier evaluation of competing funding demands
• More accurate demonstration of performance
• Better forecasting of expected results and resource needs
• Standardization of reporting across the enterprise
• Greater visibility of potential risks through financial and operational controls
• Build stronger case for continued program funding

Accounting and Audit Support

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