Clients
Healthcare
Department of Defense Tricare
National Security Education Program (NSEP)
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) is a major Federal initiative designed to build a broader and more qualified pool of U.S. citizens with foreign language and international skills. It consists of five initiatives that represent broad strategic partnerships with the U.S. education community designed to serve the needs of U.S. national security and national competitiveness. These initiatives integrate the best components of language learning and international education developed in conjunction with progressively minded partners throughout the U.S. education community.
NSEP focuses on the critical languages and cultures of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Participants are involved in innovative, intensive, and long-term programs designed to provide meaningful opportunities to gain significant competencies in these languages and cultures.
The Telophase Team is highly professional. They are actively engaging in obtaining a greater understanding of the complexities of the project. The team has been quick to absorb the overall goals of the project and organize the tasks needed to achieve our goal. — Ed McDermott, DOD NSEP, Senior Program Manager
The Work Performed
Project/Program Management
The Telophase Project Manager (PM) manages the full life cycle software development activities through Telophase' custom PM framework which is characterized by intensive customer communication and iterative releases. Telophase PM develops project plan, define measurable deliverables, and coordinate with Telophase' development team to ensure meeting timelines. Telophase PM provides various levels of documentations to assist in efficient meeting planning, and formally document program activities in a monthly status report.
Business and Functional Analysis
Business and Functional Analysis has played a key role to present to the NSEP customer Telophase' vision and understanding of the application system to be developed. Telophase' business analyst and leadership team interacts with the customer intensively to define, refine, clarify business requirement while providing customer prompt updates through requirement document and various supporting artifacts. Through the analysis, customer's existing business process is streamlined into a unified application workflow that adopts a hierarchical security model and allows the student to register online and enables the language flagship staff to collect, keep track of and perform data analysis online.
Application Design and Development
Based on the business and functional analysis, Telophase development team designs and architects the system, and creates prototype artifacts for customer to evaluate new and modified views while Telophase development team is making development progress in well defined areas. Application development follows an iterative approach and targets to present the customer progress frequently and allows critical customer inputs to be considered and reflected.
Database Integration and Data Importing Services
The newly developed online student system establishes a new database that accommodates the perspectives of the many existing databases operated separately through NSEP's participating institutions. Telophase is tasked to import the existing data into the new system and make the existing data available along with new data collected.
Reporting Services
The new system provides the capabilities for NSEP language flagship staff to perform data analysis through reporting services.
Security Compliance
Telophase is tasked to implement the new system in accordance with DOD's DIACAP C&A process.
The Results
- Streamline the existing business process into an online application workflow that allows program staff to take corresponding tracking actions and automates program certification process
- Centralize program registration for students across the nation
- Allow the program participants to use the unified interface to collect student data and keep track of student’s program activities
- centralize the program reporting functions
- Provide the ability to collect Alumni data and analyze the performance of the language flagship program
- Consolidates the existing student data maintained by individual institution into one repository
- Reduce the overhead of program participants to maintain their individual student tracking software