Capabilities:

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KBC combines the capabilities of a large firm with the agility of a small business. Each firm has over 30 years of proven experience managing federal contracts, understands the contracting process, and knows how to support evolving client needs. We bring a flexible, solution-oriented approach to tasking, staffing, and managing projects that focuses on helping federal clients achieve their goals effectively.

On each assignment, we strive to deliver:

• A Client-Focused Approach,

• Creative Solutions,

• Subject-Matter Experts Tailored to Meet Client Requirements,

• Flexible / Surge Support Capabilities, and

• Proven Management Processes.

 

Learn more about KBC Energy Solutions capabilities:

• General Capability Statement

• KBC Mission Execution Services

• KBC supporting the Energy Transition

• KBC Science and Technology Capabilities

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Additional KBC Capabilities include:

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• Program Management Support: KBC provides life-cycle programmatic support to help federal clients successfully execute their missions. KBC is ready to apply our proven processes throughout the cycle of strategic planning, program execution, business management and administrative support services, communications and outreach, and program evaluation and continuous improvement.

• Technical Analysis: The pace of innovation is accelerating, requiring that enterprises implement planning tools and processes to support their R&D aspirations. KBC develops research agendas and collaboration strategies based on emerging topics and research trends to maximize impact and achieve organizational performance goals. KBC designs and develops digital solutions to improve oversight of research investments and programmatic activities. We design Cloud-based solutions for data management and visualization; manager-friendly dashboards which integrate and summarize data feeds from multiple data sources.  KBC’s performance and economic assessments of traditional and future energy systems identify promising technologies and guide program plans. 

• Communications and Outreach: KBC provides a wide range of communications, outreach, and stakeholder engagement services including communications strategies and development of digital, social media, and print materials. These activities help decision makers understand the importance of investing in energy technology and communicate the results of those investments to stakeholders and the public.

• Professional Support Services: Successful execution of government programs requires expert services in business operations, financial management, and administrative support, freeing clients to focus on mission execution and management. KBC provides the full range of business management services including help in budget planning, monitoring and execution, financial controls, human capital support, and executive assistant services.

• Analytics: KBC supports S&T innovations by using analytics at all stages of the R&D life cycle. This includes performing life cycle analysis, techno-economic analysis and R&D planning at the front end of the life cycle, and benefits analysis and independent peer reviews at the back-end. KBC designs and develops digital solutions to support federal clients in their oversight of planning and investments throughout this life cycle. For example, we design Cloud-based solutions for data management and visualization; we create manager-friendly dashboards that integrate and summarize data feeds from multiple data sources; and we manage the full modernization and operation of IT systems to share and protect transition information.  KBC’s performance and economic assessments of traditional and future energy systems identify promising technologies, guide the R&D program, and shape the future energy economy.  Our analysis helps raise the profile of new and existing technologies, providing unbiased feedback on issues and risks of specific technologies and programs. Our expertise in advanced modeling, optimization, and uncertainty quantification can greatly reduce the design lifecycle time when developing advanced processes and systems, and optimize existing processes and control schemes

 

APPLICATIONS

 

Mission Management:  KBC delivers the full range of management support services needed to manage large, complex organizations with missions of critical national importance, specializing in programs focused on energy technology R&D and cybersecurity. KBC staffs these efforts with subject matter experts in highly technical fields as well as full-time permanent staff dedicated to day-to-day program management services. We augment these personnel with temporary surge support periodically needed for White House initiatives, natural or man-made disasters impacting the energy sector, or other situations requiring quick ramp-up of skilled staff.

 

KBC excels in:

• Strategy development, roadmaps, planning and execution of applied R&D programs involved in all aspects of the transition

• Data Analysis

• Budget and Business Operations Support

• Communications and Outreach

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Performance Management

• Administrative Support

 

Energy Transition: Navigating the transition to a low-carbon economy requires the diverse insight and expertise that KBC was created to provide. We bring decades of experience in virtually all energy technology areas. We understand supply, delivery, and end-use technologies whether it is fossil or renewable energy production, distributed generation, pipeline infrastructure or power grid management, or end-use technologies for transportation, buildings, and industry. We understand the increasingly complex and integrated nature of our energy system and the interdependencies between energy and virtually every other sector of the economy. We work with stakeholders in all areas of energy infrastructure including private, state, local, and federal. KBC excels in:

• Data-driven technical, market and policy analysis, including technology life cycle analysis and measuring the effectiveness of sustainability measures

• Data analysis of federal progress in achieving sustainability targets

• Applying National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) expertise to assess the economic implications of the changing energy sector and to inform policy

• Developing tools and resources to enable an effective and equitable transition for fossil energy communities

• Analyzing and optimizing the techno economics of transition systems

 

Digital Solutions: KBC designs and develops digital solutions to improve oversight of federal investments and programmatic activities. We design Cloud-based solutions for data management and visualization; manager-friendly dashboards that integrate and summarize data feeds from multiple data sources; and manage the full modernization and operation of IT systems to share and protect transition information. KBC excels in:

• Data collection, analysis, and visualization through tools such as Tableau

• Virtual meeting facilitation through web-based interactive software such as XLeap, GroupMap, and ThinkTank

• Designing user intuitive data dashboards

• Providing training, help desk, maintenance, and optimization support to webtools