About Us
DSCI is a woman-owned small business with offices in Mays Landing, New Jersey, and Arlington, Virginia, incorporated in October 1995 by Susan K. Hopkins.
Sue’s extensive career in information technology includes personal success as an administrator, engineer, systems manager, and information analyst. Her professional efforts are supported by an elite management team with extensive security and operations experience.
DSCI currently employs approximately 50 full-time management, technical, and administrative professionals, offering the highest level of professional services in the areas of systems engineering, test and evaluation, human factors engineering, information security, process improvement, and data management, for government systems in all aspects of the systems engineering life cycle. Ninety percent of our employees are cleared to the level of DoD Secret.
- DSCI’s broad range of engineering professionals includes Systems Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Chemical Engineers, and Human Factors Engineers. We generate and manage the operational and technical procurement requirements for new explosive and weapon screening systems for the TSA.
- DSCI played a significant part in the TSA’s establishing the TSA Systems Integration Facility (TSIF) at Ronald Reagan National Airport. We currently are a key member of the TSA team charged with managing and maintaining this facility and the equipment housed there, as well as the TSIF T&E team, helping to define the methods and practices that are used to verify the functional and operational capabilities of TSA explosive and weapon detection systems.
- DSCI boasts an in-house staff with extensive experience in the full life cycle of information security, to include Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN), risk assessment, penetration testing, security tool evaluation, and network intrusion detection support.
- DSCI’s program management staff is Project Management Institute (PMI) trained, and currently provides support to requirements definition, development, deployment, assessment, and decommissioning efforts for national critical infrastructure protection systems.
- DSCI personnel were involved in the development and implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration integrated Capability Maturity Model (FAA-iCMM®) process engineering effort since its inception in 1997. DSCI was the contractor support that brought the first FAA-iCMM® Level 3 achievement to a major program at the FAA. Most recently, DSCI has developed an expertise in ISO and Six Sigma quality management.
Our clients have repeatedly commended DSCI’s staff, calling our personnel “dedicated and hard working,” “pleasant and professional,” and “efficient and quick.” We have been lauded for our “team spirit, cooperative attitude, and customer focus,” as well as our “above and beyond” support.