Army Success Story AGEISS Inc Mentor IDEALS Inc

Army Success Story AGEISS Inc. (Mentor) IDEALS, Inc. (Protégé) Description Problem Statement • Name of Program: Installations serve as the platforms from which Soldiers train, fight, and win. The health of installation facilities, infrastructure, and environment directly affects operational readiness. Strategic planning is the key to sustainable installations and future operational success. Encroachment is the incursion of incompatible land uses and resource protections that limit Do. D’s ability to test and train effectively – caused by growing communities outside the fence whose neighborhoods and businesses can be affected by training exercises that generate noise, dust, or hazards; and conservation responsibilities inside the fence that limit training exercises that could disturb natural or cultural resources. Advancements in warfighter technology, doctrine, and tactics increases installation resource needs. • Agreement Complete: Agreement began on September 30, 2015; completed on September 29, 2017. • 2016 Nunn Perry Award Recipient. Return on Investment CLEAR improves warfighter training capabilities by helping installations overcome current and future constraints caused by encroachment; and operational capabilities of installations as the platforms from which warfighters train, fight, and win. • 2, 550% ROI within 2 -year agreement term. • 75% growth in employees within 2 -year agreement term. • Focus is technology transfer, business operations development provided to protégé under SBA program. • Active HBCU/MI support with STEM intern as project team member. • Built next-gen encroachment planner through STEM intern virtual/classroom training and OJT. • Workforce development – STEM intern hired by protégé. Mentor: AGEISS Inc. Protégé: IDEALS, Inc. HBCU/MI: New Mexico State University Program Overview: Transfer of the Comprehensive Long-range Encroachment Analysis Resource (CLEAR) improves Do. D warfighter training capabilities by helping Army IMCOM and its installations overcome constraints caused by encroachment. • CLEAR assesses short- and long-term encroachment conditions that affect mission sustainment, operational readiness, and warfighter training. • CLEAR supports SECDEF’s Adequate Facilities priority ensuring strength and health of warfighters, equipment, testing, and training, by protecting and sustaining installation readiness. • CLEAR increases efficiency through a standard framework of decision criteria that can be applied to installations worldwide, despite financial and staffing constraints. • • Capability Impact • Products/Components/Platform: CLEAR helps identify, rank, and evaluate critical decision factors to support decision making between installations and community partners. CLEAR integrates on- and offpost data to deliver confidence in solutions at both the installation and IMCOM levels, nationwide. • Customer Programs: US Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) receives mission sustainment / encroachment management research and development support. Encroachment management is one of IMCOM’s top 5 priorities and supports the SECDEF adequate facilities priority. • Protégé: Increased competitive capability; increased future revenue from ongoing business development activities; increased personnel 1 resources.