JPRA – IT Support

Ventura provides the full range of IT support and Program Management for JPRA’s mission and supports networks and telecommunication up to the Top Secret/SCI level, technical IT support services to maintain the JPRA IT network, and telephony enterprise support.

Our team’s responsibilities include security, privacy and risk management. Ventura supports over 2,000 network devices, servers, printers and other peripherals in the infrastructure. Some of the tasks we perform on this contract include, but are not limited to:

Cybersecurity

• Support the Agency directly in ensuring that the cybersecurity (formerly known as IA and C&A) postures are compliant.
• Provide the artifacts for all accreditations, and upload them to eMASS; ensure that as configurations change, they are recorded and accreditation is kept up to date.
• Coordinate with USCYBERCOM, DISA, and vendors to ensure compliance with all TASKORDs, FRAGOs and IAVUM.
• Implement antivirus and malware applications on the network, perform remediation, security testing, and intrusion detection
• Coordinate with DISA and Security on incidents and threats.
• Manage the network in compliance to NIST controls per SP 800-53 and maintain a proactive patch management system.

IT Support

• Maintain all network, system and application documentations, including all configuration documentation, as-built drawings, manuals, and other system documents.
• Maintain the formal configuration repositories and developed a knowledge base system to improve efficiency and speed issue resolution.
• Manage the Agency’s help desk and provide Tier I, II and III support.
• Ensure that thousands of units of JPRA property are strictly controlled, particularly in a multi-classification environment.
• Support for the JPRA Continuity of Operations Plan program including maintenance and testing of a failover COOP site.
• Maintain documentation, exercise support, and input on improvements to the COOP and other emergency response procedures.
• Testing failover and recovery of all key systems including both, mission critical systems and business items such as voice mail applications and shared drives.
• Manage all aspects of the infrastructure for the Hot Backup Site, including security, patch management, storage management, and capacity planning.

Program and Process Management

• Provide detailed project plans, schedules, resource requirements, detailed BOMs, and cost estimates for all projects assigned and assists JPRA in obtaining and maintaining authority to operate for all current and new systems.
• Maintain the integrated master schedule and report on it weekly to the J6. The schedule includes all ongoing projects and priority work items for a 3 geographic location organization. We proactively report any shift and or impact of additional work items requested and perform impact analysis weekly
• Conducted market research and feasibility study to determine the various courses of action for replacing the existing Issue and Problem Management solution.
• Assisted JPRA in negotiating credit for an upgrade to the current version as part of the addition of licenses for this technology.

Within a very short time frame, Ventura has established a very effective partnership with JPRA, significantly improving operations, reducing the number and impact of issues, improving performance, and reducing costs all through assisting the Agency in advancing the maturity of their processes and IT Service Management.

To date, Ventura has assisted JPRA in a number of improvements and in advancing the maturity of the IT Service Management by:

• Developing a more functional knowledge base
• Implementing rigorous Configuration Management which has reduced incidents and lowered response time.
• Leveraged DoD available assets to upgrade the toolset and IP-based video and teleconferencing at little to no cost to the Agency while saving over $300K per year in sustainment costs.
• Mapped the IT decision process to JPRA’s mission and business needs.
• Established an ITIL based continuous process improvement environment.