FSI News

On Friday, December 13, 2019, FSI’s Operations & Contracts Manager, Ms. Rebecca de Gruchy, delivered piles of overstuffed bags of gifts to five Emerald Middle School children in the spirit of FSI’s annual Giving Tree Program.

Over the weekend of November 8, 2019, the elite FSI Running Team attended the rugged Nationally Syndicated Ragnar So Cal Trail, 24 hour mountain relay race. This annual race is held at the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation near Warner Springs, CA and was the 4th Ragnar Relay run by an FSI Team. The FSI Team finished 4th in the Corporate Open Division and finished a very strong 18th overall out of nearly 300 entered teams. Running in all four past FSI Ragnar events were FSI CEO, Mr. Carlos Persichetti and VP, Mr. Robert Clark.

On October 19, 2019, team members of Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI) attended the 2019 Eastlake Technology & Innovation Fair and Cycle & 5K Run hosted by the Eastlake Educational Foundation (EEF). This yearly event provides an opportunity for kids in the community to meet with STEM/STEAM professionals to explore future career options. Booths are set up by professional companies from all over the county to engage with the kids and educate them on the different career paths that are available.

On September 19, 2019, Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI) was recognized as a finalist for San Diego Business Journal’s 2019 Best Places to Work in San Diego for the 7th year. Members of our FSI team attended the annual formal ceremony held at the Sony Corporation headquarters in Rancho Bernardo to accept this honorable award. In the four Corporate Awardee Categories (Small, Medium, Large and Mega), FSI finished 17th of over 40 selected Finalists in the Medium Category, the first year FSI was eligible to compete at this level.

On May 9, 2019, the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, announced that Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI) was awarded the C2 Technology and Experimentation contract to provide command and control (C2) Technologies, Capabilities, and C2 related capabilities in the areas of research, systems engineering, architecture, design, development, integration, test, experimentation, implementation and support of C2 net-centric operations, information management and decision support efforts in support of military operations.

On April 22, 2019, the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), San Diego, announced that Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI) was awarded the METOC ISEA Task (TORFP) 17 Contract to provide engineering activities for the Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Capability Based – In-Service Engineering Activity (CB-ISEA) Sustainment Engineering (SE) services.

On August 15, 2018 Program Executive Office (PEO) Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I), International Integration Program Office (PMW 740) announced that Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI) was awarded the Maritime Surveillance System (MSS) and Coastal Surveillance System (CSS) contract to provide technical services and procurement of material to the Country of Cameroon in support of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) efforts.

On August 10, 2018 Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) announced that Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI) was awarded the IDIQ contract to provide engineering services to include software development, testing, integration and documentation of Information Operations (IO) and Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) systems in support of Program Executive Office (PEO) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence (C4I) programs and SSCPacific Projects.

On August 9, 2018 Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (NIWC) Logistics and Fleet Support Directorate (4.0) announced that Forward Slope, Inc.

On February 22, 2018, Forward Slope, Inc. announced that it has been re-appraised at maturity level 3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)®.  The appraisal was performed by Process Improvement Company, LLC. CMMI is a capability improvement framework that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance. An appraisal at maturity level 3 indicates Forward Slope, Inc. is performing at a “defined” level.