United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Client Challenge

Our client, The Department of Agriculture, USDA’s mission is to enhance the quality of life for the American people by supporting production of agriculture: ensuring a safe, affordable, nutritious, and accessible food supply, caring for agricultural, forest, and range lands, supporting sound development of rural communities, providing economic opportunities for farm and rural residents, expanding global markets for agricultural and forest products and services, and working to reduce hunger in America and throughout the world.

UBS’s task at USDA was to perform an Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) of the USDA Telecommunications Enterprise Network Project. The Project is a complex and comprehensive technical analysis and design initiative to implement an integrated USDA telecommunications network across the United States. USDA relied on UBS as an informed, unbiased advocate to assess the status of the USDA Telecommunications Enterprise Network project’s methodologies, schedule, cost and viability.

Our Solution

UBS designed and implemented a review process for the Enterprise Network Project. The review process consisted of:

 > Review exposed and proposed solutions

 > Performed a critical and risk analysis

 > All tasks were analyzed for technical integrity and covered issues such as clarity, testability,   >  traceability, consistency and completeness.

The Result 

UBS’s partnership resulted in the following benefits for our client:

 > The best solution for USDA

 > Corrected any flaws in the project (schedule, risk, better performance & process)

 > Provided on-line real time scheduling capabilities

 > Provided visibility within USDA business  

 > Sequencing issues are highlighted

 > Wide Area Network efficiency improvements

 > Reduced costs

 > Resulted in Phase II project for Data Modeling and Security.

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