Haverstick and ASRC Awarded Contract to Manage NASA's Integrated Learning and Development Program

CINCINNATI and DAYTON, Ohio – October 20 2005 – Haverstick, Inc. and its business partner, ASRC Management Services (ARCMS), have been awarded a $50 million contract to manage NASA’s Integrated Learning and Development Program (ILDP). The contract, which runs through 2010, is the largest learning solutions contract ever awarded to Haverstick. Under terms of the agreement, Haverstick and ASRCMS will provide NASA’s staff with career development services, including formal classroom instruction, performance enhancement, online tools development and knowledge sharing forums and publications. ASRCMS, an SBA Certified 8(a) Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) is headquartered in Anchorage, AK with its primary business office in Greenbelt, MD.

The objective of the ILDP is to help develop NASA’s world-class program and project managers and engineering practitioners. ILDP focuses on addressing the learning needs of individual engineers, project practitioners, as well as leveraging relations with the "best-of-breed" practitioners, and creating measurable efficiencies, which will significantly contribute to workforce’s effectiveness and directly impact NASA’s mission success. The organizations will also benchmark and promulgate best and emerging engineering and project management practices across the government, industry, academia and the private sector.

"We are honored that NASA has chosen Haverstick’s team to support the ILDP, and we look forward to working with ASRC on enhancing NASA’s greatest asset, its human capital," said Howard Bates, president of Haverstick. "We have a great opportunity to demonstrate our qualifications to the research-based organizations that serve ILDP, as well as NASA’s project management and internal engineering practitioner communities. This award is a validation of our abilities, and will help to raise the visibility of our learning solutions within the Department of Defense, NASA and the government learning community."

Haverstick’s Government Learning Solutions provides enterprise-wide education and training experiences for the Department of Defense and other government organizations. The company adopts a unique perspective to the areas, vision, people, process and technology related to building strategic learning organizations. Haverstick’s core learning solutions include:

• Strategic plan or roadmap for independent learning activities or an overall outsourced solution;
• Development of a learning portal where all activities are managed;
• Selection, implementation and hosting of learning management system;
• Live collaboration;
• Development of custom courseware; and
• Education and training analysis, including assessment and evaluation for maximizing individual, team and organizational performance.

Bates added, "Haverstick’s goal for its learning practice is to demonstrate to the DOD and NASA that we have the capabilities to build strategic, enterprise-wide learning solutions that will allow them to do a variety of learning initiatives, from outsourcing an entire education and training solution, to contracting a single customer course delivered in a live environment or via the Web. We have developed some of the original e-learning courseware for the Air Force Institute of Technology, and look forward to continuing to support Wright-Patterson Air Force Base out of our Dayton office."

Haverstick Consulting, Inc. offers a variety of professional business and technology consulting services Haverstick helps its clients build their organizations by delivering measurable improvements to the public and private sector. For more information, visit www.haverstickinc.com. Haverstick – Listen. Understand. Solve.

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