Systems Integration and Project Management
BKA has several members on staff who are PMP and ITIL certified. Our team members support projects of all sizes and assist our clients with integrating enterprise wide systems, applications, dedicated storage, network attached storage, and server storage into new or existing architectures, as well as relocating entire networks, systems and storage. Our staff performs technical planning, system integration, verification, and validation, cost and risk analysis, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for small, standalone to enterprise wide systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system lifespan to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, systems engineering, operation, maintenance, and disposal. We ensure that logical and systematic conversion of Customer or product requirements are transformed into total system solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints while meeting mission needs. We perform functional analyses, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definiton studies to translate requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Systems Engineering and Systems Administration
BKA supports several government customers in system engineering and system administration. Our staff supports multiple environments within the federal customer space by providing installation, configuration, and maintenance for UNIX, WINDOWS, SOLARIS, and LINUX workstations and servers, including Web servers in support of business processing requirements. Our staff works tirelessly to perform software installations and upgrades to numerous operating systems and complex software packages, while simultaneously maintaining them in accordance with established policies, procedures and service-level agreements. We monitor and tune the system to archive optimum hardware and software solutions, ensure data/media recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations. The BKA staff supports media management through internal methods and procedures or through offsite storage and retrieval services. Our employees also conduct routine hardware and software audits of all workstations and servers for compliance with established standards, policies, procedures, and configuration guidelines.
