System Development: Is your agency facing accelerated due dates? Requirements for improved tracking and reporting? Demands from the public? Reductions in staff? A laundry list of audit citations?

C&C understands the problems that many agencies face and has developed automated client and web-server applications to address these concerns. Our solutions are user-friendly, and we provide online help and full customer support.

Internal Control Reviews: Internal controls are the backbone that supports an agency's ability to properly account for assets, accurately record financial transactions, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. C&C offers you over 20 years of internal control review experience.

Security Reviews: Today's information super-highway has allowed agencies to provide more efficient and reliable services to the public and broaden the capabilities of their internal infrastructures. Along with these new benefits, agencies face new risks and challenges. Our clients meet the high standards of complying with GISRA, FISMA, NIST special publications, and OMB Circular A-130. Our services include assessing a wide range of operating systems, database management systems, and applications.

Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V): Today's robust financial statements are comprised of mountains of specifications and requirements. Cotton & Company consistently meets the challenges of performing IV&V. We use industry's best practices as our benchmark, verifying that requirements are met for each initiative and validating completion of all deliverables.

Certification and Accreditation: OMB and NIST have established guidelines related to critical and major applications. As a result, agencies must not only accurately identify those systems, but also provide certifications and accreditations on selected systems. C&C has provided these services to many federal agencies across multiple platforms and operating systems. We have leveraged our valuable audit experience to provide exceptional service in the constantly changing IT arena.

Policies and Procedures: The federal government has a potential crisis in its IT area. It already faces high turnover rates that accompany the IT industry and soon will face critical staff reductions. With these problems looming, well-documented policies and procedures are a must. We are experienced, and we understand the importance of clear, concise policies and procedures covering all aspects of IT operations.