About Us

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Accelerating the "Speed of Knowledge" to Support
National Security

Our Story

After more than 60 years of combined military and professional experience supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC), the AForge founders pivoted to innovate new ways to advance national security missions with maximum efficiency.

Each of AForge’s dynamic founders has decades of mission experience in senior-level military and national security roles with both operational and acquisition responsibilities. They understand the agencies and the systems that drive them.

AForge holds the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned certification, SDVOSB, and uses its systems engineering, national security operations, and IT strategic knowledge to accelerate mission success throughout the United States government agencies focused on national security.
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Our Purpose

At AForge, we devote ourselves and our resources to advancing national security operations to run smarter, faster, and leaner.

We choose to serve because we have the capabilities, experience, and infrastructure to enable the Department of Defense (DoD), State Department, and Intelligence Community to function at the highest level — ensuring our nation's security remains intact.

Our Core Values include Efficiency, Integrity, Innovation, and Collaboration.

Our Team

AForge is a premier player in the intelligence community. We pride ourselves on serving various missions across the country, featuring an incredibly talented staff comprised of 27% veterans.

Join us and be a part of a dynamic team dedicated to making a difference in the intelligence community.
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Our Capabilities

We offer end-to-end capabilities designed for national security operations to run smarter, faster, and leaner. The primary outcomes we can provide your agency include:
Accelerated Mission Success for National Security Operations
Rapid Data and Information Dissemination, Access, and Accuracy
Software-Defined Warfare Enablement

Our comprehensive solutions arsenal is ultimately here to solve your program challenges.

We help you define your mission problem

As engineers, we can identify and present the specific problem(s) preventing you from achieving program objectives.

We help you develop mission-focused strategies

We take our in-field experience and technical knowledge to "get to yes" through creative solutions to your pre-defined challenges.

We help you innovate solutions

Using our love for problem-solving and desire to innovate, we can combine creativity with emerging technologies to evolve national security capabilities and leapfrog past our adversaries.

We help you remove bureaucratic inefficiencies

We help accelerate your program to get mission results faster by using our military and federal government experience to break through the red tape.

We help you to continuously improve

The AForge Way is to prioritize continuous innovation & continuous development (CI/CD). Even after deploying an initial solution, we also look to help our nation's security improve through monitoring, maintenance, and ongoing improvements.
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Our Process
The AForge Way

From Start to Finish our Approach Makes Us Different
Whether it's strategic advising, IT systems engineering, staff augmentation, research & development (R&D), or equipment & software procurement, our ultimate goal is to keep your information moving forward and improve the dissemination, access, and accuracy of your national security data.

To yield the best possible program results, we apply a proven 7-point process that enables mission success and fosters continuous improvement:

1. Define the Problem
2. Build an Effective Strategy
3. Apply Technology (current and emerging)
4. Implementation Solutions
5. Break through Red Tape with Efficient Process(es)
6. Measure Effectiveness
7. Implementation Continuous Improvement

The VUCA Framework

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In addition to The AForge Way process, we also utilize the VUCA framework to assess unique challenges and swiftly apply the most effective response.

VUCA is short for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. It is commonly used within military operations and is more recently being applied in business and organizational contexts to navigate fast-changing environments.

Here are some ways we apply the VUCA framework at AForge:
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Volatility

  • Expect and embrace change: anticipate and be prepared to adapt quickly.
  • Foster agility: maintain the ability to respond rapidly to changes in the environment.
  • Encourage innovation: value experimentation and encourage new ideas.
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Uncertainty

  • Scenario planning: consider multiple scenarios and prepare for any outcome.
  • Build resilience: develop systems and processes to withstand the unexpected.
  • Foster learning and flexibility: embrace uncertainty as an opportunity for growth.
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Complexity

  • Simplify: Break down complex problems into smaller, manageable components.
  • Develop systems thinking: encourage interconnectedness within the organization.
  • Foster collaboration: leverage diverse skills/perspectives to tackle complex challenges.
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Ambiguity

  • Clarify expectations: provide clear direction, even in ambiguous situations.
  • Experiment: empower the team to try new approaches and learn from failure.
  • Adaptive leadership: Equip leaders with the skills to navigate uncertainty.
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At AForge, we apply the VUCA principles by embracing change, building resilience, fostering agility, simplifying complexity, and cultivating a culture of learning and adaptation across the organization. By doing so, we are uniquely able to help you navigate unpredictable environments and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

Check out our Services Overview page to see all the ways we can accelerate your "speed of knowledge" and better execute your missions.
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Our Partners

Under our leadership, some of the value we offer the Department of Defense (DoD), the State Department, and the Intelligence Community comes from working with reliable channel partners. We provide a simplified vendor engagement process to get you the equipment you need for your program using our expansive line card of providers. From big names like Microsoft, Red Hat, and Salesforce to lesser-known vendors, we can get you any software or hardware, no matter the budget or infrastructure requirements.
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