Case Studies
Scott Air Force Base
For over 19 years, CWS has designed, implemented and managed complex networks in both the traditional and wireless environments. CWS is a seasoned Network Operations (NetOps) and Network Engineering organization with extensive experience with DISA in centralized support and management of complex, global networks. We currently support DISA in its global management of network operation centers, including DISA Europe and DISA Continental United States (CONUS) and the Global NetOps Support Center (GNSC) at Scott AFB, IL. From these Global NetOps Centers, CWS supports the centralized management of DoD infrastructure networks including the Internet Protocol (IP-NIPR/SIPR), the DISN Core (formerly the Global Information Grid – Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE)) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and over 20 other networks that provide the critical connectivity to DoD’s bases, camps, posts, and stations for the Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO). CWS engineers at the GNSC supported the initial implementation and deployment of the GIG-BE (now DISN Core), an optical network now consisting of over 647 Juniper and Cisco optical nodes and devices positioned around the continental United States and connecting Europe, Pacific, and Southwest Asia. Our engineers played a key role in design, system acceptance testing, operationalization, provisioning and cutover of legacy networks onto the GIG-BE in DoD’s largest network deployment ever. Those same engineers and operators now assist DISA in operating and maintaining the DoD’s largest network.
DHS First Source
As a small business, and in spite of its small size, CWS has demonstrated its ability to perform equally amongst large competitors as a as premier integrated supply chain company. CWS developed our strategic supply chain capability prior to being awarded DHS' FirstSource contract through state and local contracts. Because of this capability CWS has been able to translate this capability into its support of DHS by closely monitoring OEM production schedules on highly constrained equipment due to production bottlenecks stemming from market demand.
CWS is also closely involved in customer project schedules. By carefully monitoring customer’s project schedules, CWS’s distinguished product experts can predict the level of demand for strategically identified product groups. This enables CWS to be well informed on product availability and pass this key information to the customers for planning timelines. We maintain this information flow through the acquisition cycle through constant feedback. This allows them to optimize and adjust their project schedules based on OEM's production constraints and revise their timelines so there is minimal interruption or delay in the completion of those projects.
As an example of this capability, in fiscal year 2009, the United States Coast Guard planned a significant network upgrade project. CWS was instrumental in accurately predicting certain production delays within Cisco due to our close partnership with the manufacturer. CWS conveyed these delays to the USCG so they could plan allowing them to rearrange their sequence of project modules so the project would continue without delay while waiting for OEM’s production to catch up with the demand.
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