Founded in 1999 by William D. Horton, Horton Technical Associates, Inc., (HTA) has, for the past seven years, supported the U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. In our support efforts, we leveraged the talents of our senior staff to help our client achieve Army-wide recognition for their products. Some of the highlights of our support were:

·    Development of a system-level configuration management document that was adopted by the Army as a primary reference for the Future Combat System (FCS) program;

·    Independent studies and operational analyses of high energy laser technology applications that our client published as their own technical notes;

·    Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) of a third-party software development effort;

·    Design and development of innovative system and process analysis tools that significantly reduced the time to conduct internal studies; and,

·    Design, development, deployment, training and support of integrated system performance analysis software that was accredited by the Army to support test and evaluation of manned ground vehicles in the FCS unit of action.

 

HTA was selected as one of the top forty fastest-growing high technology companies in the state of New Mexico in 2005 and 2006, and our software was a finalist in two different categories for the 2005 New Mexico Information Technology Software Excellence Award competition in 2005.

We have also received commendations from the Deputy Under-Secretary of the Army for Operations and the commander of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Analysis Command (TRAC) for the quality of support provided to the Future Combat Systems (FCS) Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) study effort.

In 2005 HTA was selected as a protégé company in the highly competitive Sandia National Laboratory Mentor/Protégé Program.

In 2006, we received our Dunn and Bradstreet Past Performance Evaluation. This independently developed appraisal was based on a survey given to key managers within our customer’s organization. Our score of 96 reflects a strong sense of customer satisfaction with our products and services.

  

Highly Qualified Personnel

HTA offers the technical expertise of individuals whose credentials exceed those of most companies. Within our team, 33% of our employees have Ph.D. degrees and 50% have MS/MA degrees. We are constantly looking for high-quality engineers, analysts, and scientists to join our team as employees, consultants, or contract employees.

HTA’s technical staff averages 32 years of experience in research development, technical and operational analyses and evaluations, operations research, software engineering and development, and modeling and simulation.

 

A Commitment to Quality

HTA has clearly demonstrated its ability to provide high-quality products and has made a corporate commitment to quality processes. The company is currently enrolled in the State of New Mexico’s ISO 9000:2000 program and has developed a Quality Management System (QMS) that is compliant with the ISO 9001 international quality standard; we expect QMS certification in 2007.

HTA is also compliant with the Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level-3 process model for systems engineering and software engineering.

HTA is a Six Sigma company, and we demonstrated Six Sigma quality in our software development processes in May 2006. The company’s president is a Six Sigma Green Belt and is completing his Black Belt program; he expects to receive certification as a Six Sigma Black Belt in March 2007.

 

Strategic Partnerships

To complement the skills of our team, HTA maintains technology agreements with New Mexico State University (NMSU) and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Both universities are minority institutions (Hispanic-serving), and ranked by the Carnegie Foundation in the “High Research Activity” category.