DHS S&T under the office of Science and Engineering (OSE), Systems Engineering and Standards Division (SESD) awards A4SAFE Inc a 2-year contract to provide Data Management, Data Engineering and Data Standardization support services based on NIEM.GOV.

The DHS S&T SESD leads a comprehensive standard program to contribute to a more secure, safe, and resilient homeland through coordination with national and international standard bodies in developing standards for DHS mission needs.

A4SAFE will provide DHS S&T SESD through management and facilitation of NIEM Emergency Management (EM) domain technical support services. This includes increase adoption of approved data standardization within DHS and externally within the wider State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) communities and international resiliency and disaster response data and information exchange initiatives.

Founded in 2018, A4SAFE Inc. is headquartered in Virginia.  A4SAFE Inc. is a fast-growing Small Business company providing professional IT and Data Standards Services to the public and private sector.  A4SAFE Inc. has been recognized by its DHS and DoD and other clients as Data Standards Subject Matter Expert Company. These recognitions are due to the internal rigor and agility established by A4SAFE Inc.  Commitment, integrity, and excellence are values that all A4SAFE team members live by.  

The A4SAFE team brings a wealth of experience and insight into this project based on its current and past engagements performing similar work for organizations such as DoD J6 Data Standards Engineering PMO support, where we provide Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in the areas of data Architecture, Exchange Development, Data Reengineering, Mission Critical Data Management Solution Modernization, Enterprise Architecture Alignment, Liaison and Outreach support to other DHS Components.

A4SAFE Inc. has significant hands-on experience with multi enterprise architecture solutions, internationally accepted data standards such as ANSI NIST, NIEM (National Information Exchange Model), Microservices (to decrease development and execution time), Blockchain engineering (for uniform sharing of data in-transit) and private/public/hybrid cloud security and elastic architecture.