WBB Technical Capability Experience

Whitney, Bradley and Brown, Inc. (WBB), is a Large Business, technical and management consulting firm providing the Navy with engineering, technical, and programmatic support services. WBB is headquartered in Zone 2, Reston, Virginia, with additional Zone 2 offices located in Patuxent River and Columbia, MD, Zone 3, Hampton and Virginia Beach, VA and Fayetteville, NC, Zone 4, Huntsville, AL,  Zone 5, Dayton, OH and Zone 6, San Diego, CA.

Research and Development Support

WBB has provided various types of support for program managers and project leaders for systems and subsystems in research and development phases of acquisition to include concept development, requirements generation and documentation, and product development and improvement.

Systems Engineering Support

WBB has provided engineering support – including systems engineering and process engineering for a range of government activities. WBB has a cadre of consultants with extensive experience in System Command positions, including engineering and the application of that engineering to the development of effective weapons for the armed services.

Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Support

WBB is a preeminent supplier of analytical products to the armed services. WBB has a core of over twenty trained personnel with advanced degrees in Operations Analysis (OA) and related disciplines, including over ten who earned an OA degree at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. WBB has been a leader in this field, taking on some of the most challenging projects that DoD has faced in recent years.

System Design Documentation and Technical Data Support

WBB has developed the capability to provide system design documentation and technical data support to government agencies. This effort is executed by a dedicated group of experienced engineering professionals.

Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A) Support

WBB has been providing support in RM&A for a number of service customers including the Naval Sea Systems Command and the Air Force Air Combat Command. One of the particular areas that WBB provides for these customers is a logical, structured methodology to choose investments to improve RM&A. One methodology WBB has used is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) implemented with Team Expert Choice™ group decision support software.

Information System (IS) Development, Information Assurance (IA), and Information Technology (IT) Support

WBB has provided support to the Navy in a variety of applications in the area of Information System Development and Information Technology support. In these areas, WBB has devised unique solutions providing the Navy with systems and tools that have proven their value through their routine and continuous use.

Ship Inactivation and Disposal Support

WBB has produced a "Shutdown Template" for NAVAIRSYSCOM, Patuxent River that enables Program Office personnel to logically plan out the decommissioning of a Type/Model/Series of aircraft. First produced for PMA-241 as the F-14 Shutdown Plan, it was generalized into a re-usable planning tool that could be used by any Program Manager faced with decommissioning an entire type of aircraft. Since first created, it has also been used for the S-3.

Interoperability, Test and Evaluation, Trials Support

WBB has been providing support to achieving interoperability for a number of activities in the Department of the Navy. WBB has extensive knowledge of the underpinnings of interoperability including the joint context in which systems must operate. WBB also has extensive experience in the test and evaluation community including consultants with multiple tours in testing activities and operational test and evaluation (T&E) squadrons.

Measurement Facilities, Range, and Instrumentation Support

WBB has detailed experience in the operations of test and training ranges and the associated measurement and instrumentation systems. This has enable WBB to provide various elements of the DoN with analysis, planning, and engineering support for ranges and their required systems.

Acquisition Logistics Support

WBB has an experienced cadre of logisticians and support experts who have provided products and support to the services. These efforts include concepts, analysis, decision support, and logistics handbooks.

Supply and Provisioning Support

WBB has provided support similar to our Acquisition Logistics to the Navy in the areas of supply/provisioning. Our evaluation of the logistics planning for LCS included an analysis of supply/provisioning.

Training Support

WBB has a ten-year track record of providing support to the Navy and other services in the area of training. This support has two aspects: conducting training courses that WBB internally developed and providing support in the area of training including development of training requirements, training concepts, and training courseware.

WBB continues to develop and deliver training courses designed to bring new arrivals to the Washington arena up to speed quickly. Our first offering "How Washington Works" is a hands-on, two day course designed for requirements officers on the OPNAV staff, then broadened for other acquisition professionals in SYSCOMS, OSD and other services. This course has been taught to a wide spectrum of students. We have developed and offered similar courses with the same philosophy – a hands-on, practical guide to being successful in the processes being taught.

Program Support

WBB provides program support to a wide variety of government customers. This includes support in business/financial planning (including PPBES), requirements generation and validation (including JCIDS documentation), strategic planning and DoD 5000 series acquisition documentation production. WBB has individuals on-site in government program offices and with government requirements generation organizations. WBB has a unique, overarching perspective that includes a comprehensive view of the relationships between PPBES, JCIDS and DOD 5000 series.

Administrative Support

WBB supports the Air Force Directorate of Security Forces & Force Protection, HAF/XOS-F with a broad range of office management and administrative support. WBB performs direct support to the Director, Deputy Director, and staff personnel to ensure effective and efficient use of resources by tracking suspense items, reviewing correspondence and other tasking from the directorate, maintaining and coordinating schedules, and providing staff support to meetings. Additionally, WBB has established office procedures, processes, and time management guidelines for the Director and Deputy Director's office to increase operations efficiency and ensure compliance with higher authority.