Effective and efficient management and control of personnel resources is ensured through CTO’s
program organization. Contract and schedule management, as well as day-to-day technical and
operational oversight of a project, is ensured by CTO’s assigned Project Manager. This individual
will always be a senior staff member, who is an experienced manager, exceptionally highly qualified
in the specific project area. The Project Manager is fully responsible for task performance in terms of
products provided within the schedule and budget constraints established for each individual task.

Successful project completion is a result of effective cost, schedule, and technical task planning,
control, and evaluation. Tools utilized include management reviews, audits, status briefings, and
written status reports. CTO’s approach in the information gathering process allows all levels of the
program organization direct input to the reporting process. This method of internal reporting provides
an early warning system for potential project concerns. Close liaison with client project personnel
ensures that all efforts are in concert with end objectives.

Integrated Management System (IMS) is CTO’s system for monitoring and controlling the
performance of each task. IMS provides reports on individual tasks, which describe checkpoints
and milestones, schedules, resource plans, deliverables, and other control features. This task
management tool is used to identify any schedule or cost deviations at the earliest possible stage.

We take pride in our reputation for providing quality and timely products and services to all of our
clients. A principal reason for this reputation is CTO’s philosophy that personnel at all levels of the
corporation have a responsibility for the quality of deliverable data and services. Predicated upon
this philosophy, quality is the responsibility of all personnel from technical, through management,
to administrative staffs. At CTO, Quality Management is at the foundation of every project and
program.

CTO has an established system of cost accounting that is utilized on all contracts. Our established
expenditure control system addresses the work authorization process, the planning process,
establishment of the baseline budget, the scheduling system and process, accounting data
collection, planning of indirect costs, material/subcontract management costs, and analysis of all
cost and schedule data. This system was developed to provide an effective, efficient, yet responsive
cost and schedule control system which is based on; 1) technical performance, 2) providing data to
all levels of management, and 3) being flexible enough to tailor its use to specific contracts.