Capabilities
Promoting and Supporting the Safety and Security of People, Information and Critical Infrastructure.
Federal agencies have depended on Macfadden's technical expertise to solve mission-critical challenges since 1986. The common thread of our work is promoting and supporting the safety and security of people, information and critical infrastructure assets around the world. Whether protecting our nation's food supply, delivering aid to developing democracies and countries in crisis, improving access to critical information, developing secure IT systems, or improving financial oversight, Macfadden never forgets its commitment to apply innovation and technology to provide quality solutions that deliver results and exceed expectations.
As an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, Macfadden is committed to continual process improvement. We have developed a proven approach to project management that provides our customers the outstanding customer service they have come to expect. Our proven performance record is why Macfadden has served many of our clients for 15 to 20 years.
Learn more about our core business competencies and how we are making a difference in many corners of the world.
International Development & Humanitarian Assistance
Delivering Results in Challenging Environments.
At Macfadden, we are working diligently to support developing nations around the world. We help bring stability and humanitarian assistance to areas affected by natural and man-made disasters and civil strife. We help the U.S. government ensure that humanitarian relief efforts operate smoothly and efficiently, beginning the lengthy transition from relief to recovery. Our proven performance record assisting developing democracies and countries in transition includes efforts to improve governance, sustainable economic growth and global health initiatives, as well as assisting with various stabilization and assistance programs in incredibly challenging post-disaster, post-conflict environments. We play a vital role in the development and implementation of performance monitoring strategies that provide pertinent and timely information to policy makers, enabling them to make more efficient and effective performance-based budgetary and strategic program planning decisions.
Areas of Expertise
- International Disaster Response Management
- Program Management Operations Support
- Democracy & Governance
- Rapid Recruitment, Training & Deployment
Compliance & Monitoring Support
Delivering Results that Reduce Risk and Improve Transparency.
At Macfadden, we understand the vast, complex regulatory requirements that protect and promote the safety and security of the public. Our IT solutions enable federal agencies and regulators to apply information technology to develop modern, efficient and secure systems that better protect our environment, our food supply and our nation. We help agencies and organizations develop sound compliance practices that translate into efficient, cost-effective and transparent operations. As a result, our compliance and monitoring expertise enables clients to collect and analyze information and provide reporting mechanisms and metrics that allow agencies and organizations to assess and evaluate ongoing compliance efforts and improve organizational effectiveness.
Areas of Expertise
- Electronic Records and Document Management Systems and Services
- Financial Systems and Accounting Support Services
- IT Security Compliance
- Management Consulting/Business Process Re-Engineering
Information Management
Delivering Results that Put the Right Information in the Right Hands.
At Macfadden, our team of highly-skilled experts provides a wide range of mission-critical information management services to both federal government and commercial customers. Our reliable solutions infuse information technology into our clients' business processes for increased effectiveness and efficiency to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget parameters. By effectively utilizing technology to maximize client resources, we have maintained an enviable history of meeting the quantitative demands of metrics-driven, performance-based contracting. Using a properly executed methodology, our projects deliver results and exceed expectations.
Macfadden offers a full suite of information management services. Whether your organization is tasked with addressing the heightened information security (INFOSEC) needs of counter terrorism, developing custom system development life-cycle (SDLC) support, or seeking expert telecommunications systems administration, network management or call center operations, we will ensure that your information management needs are addressed.
Our teams of experienced IT experts never develop applications in an isolated environment. We embrace a forward-thinking philosophy of flexible, adaptable solutions that enhance transparency, improve efficiency and reduce redundancies. Encouraging a collaborative IT environment, Macfadden helps government agencies and organizations develop and adopt tools and technologies that help solve complex problems and protect one of any organization's greatest assets - its information.
Areas of Expertise
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Knowledge Management
- Information Assurance
Systems Engineering and Systems Integration
Delivering Results Throughout the Entire Systems Lifecycle.
Federal agencies rely on Macfadden’s system engineering expertise to develop critical IT systems that protect the safety and security of people, information and infrastructure. Macfadden supports a wide variety of IT systems ranging from the systems used by scientists at the FDA to monitor adverse effects or providing computing support to ensure scientific data acquisition proceeds uninterrupted to the financial IT systems utilized at the USCG to support national security objectives. Macfadden’s systems engineering professionals strive to ensure customer’s needs are met throughout a system’s entire life cycle. Macfadden follows a structured development process from concept through production, operation and maintenance to ensure that all systems meet program needs and can be fully integrated with existing key systems.
Areas of Expertise
- Application Development
- Software Development Life Cycle Support
- Software Testing
- Requirements Analysis
- Systems Integration/Systems Analysis
- User Documentation
- System Testing
- Help Desk Support


Macfadden continues to support emergency preparedness efforts as a part of USAID's Stamping Out Pandemic and Avian Influenza (STOP AI) team. 





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