Research & Development

Research and development is an investment in a company's future - companies that do not spend sufficiently in R&D are often said to be 'eating the seed corn'; that is, when their current product or service lines become outdated and overtaken by their competitors, they will not have viable successors in the pipeline.

 So how much is reasonable to spend on research and development? That is highly dependent both on the technology area and how fast the market is moving. Two percent of company revenue, not profit, might be enough in a fairly sedate market, but to keep up in rapidly changing markets, companies should expect to spend fifteen percent or more in research and development just to keep up with the rest of the pack. NSA can help you develop the R&D programs your company needs while balancing  the costs associated with the process.

Information technology system development, operations and maintenance in a research and development environment presents unique challenges relative to your average business environment .

 Research IT Collaborative support requires great flexibility, creative problem solving, first-class integration skills, and requires expertise on aging legacy technologies to a wide range of state-of-the-art end storage, computational and networking technologies to meet your business needs.

Given the nature of current and anticipated Information Technology needs, your business may often collaborate and share data with agencies outside your protected networks.  The design, implementation and monitoring of collaborative environments that can connect clients, contractors, vendors, and in some cases remote locations is become essential to the efficient execution of your business needs. 

 Such requirements place significant challenges on the need to provide information assurance and data security.  NSA personnel have over 20 years of developing, managing, maintaining and securing information technology and collaborative systems in research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) environments.

NSA has proven experience meeting functional research and development requirements while demonstrating the flexibility and adaptability necessary to support the ever changing needs of your business.