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Some Recent Clients, and What People Are Saying

Learn about what we do. Take a look at some of our clients and descriptions of our work, and what people are saying about it - you may be surprised! For more information, and to discover how we can add value to your organization and work with you to achieve your goals, please contact us.

Strategic Planning and Value Discovery

Dittmar Associates is currently supporting the NASA Johnson Space Center Advanced Planning Office, providing input to strategic planning and communications approaches, and leading a Value Discovery process. In addition, we are providing specialized consulting on the challenges and potential of engaging and mentoring "Gen Y", preparing them to be future leaders at JSC and in the nation's space program

Strategic Planning, Research, and Communications

Beginning in 2004, Dittmar Associates carried out a number of self-funded studies to assess public perception of NASA and its missions, as well as space exploration in general. The Market Study for Space Exploration and subsequent work describing the attitudes of young Americans toward space identified relevance of the space program to our daily lives as the single most important attribute affecting public perception of the U.S. Space Program. In 2007, NASA reached out to Dittmar Associates in collaboration with the business and public affairs strategy firm ViaNovo, to conduct follow up research. We found that informing respondents about the contributions of NASA to their daily lives resulted in a complete re-evaluation of the relevance of the agency and high ratings of public support (see below.) Our contributions to the public discussion about the U.S. Space Program are continuing to support the development of space policy at the highest levels of government.

"The American people like NASA. We recently had a polling exercise where after we did the basic poll, we told the respondents what some of the benefits of this program have been. You re-ask the questions, our approval ratings get up into the 90-percent range, which is beyond extraordinary. Different people like different parts of the space program—that’s why we have them. But, broadly speaking, when we do exciting, challenging manned space flight missions, people love it."

--- NASA Administrator Mike Griffin, June, 2007, Popular Mechanics Magazine, citing polling research conducted by Dittmar Associates

In 2007, Dittmar Associates teamed with Fleishman-Hillard, the global communications and public relations firm, to support Space Florida in development of the organization's strategic communication framework. Fleishman-Hillard focuses on designing communications and delivering results for their clients at the point of impact.

Dittmar Associates provided space industry and public policy expertise to Fleishman-Hillard and the team at Space Florida. Their in-depth knowledge of current space policy issues, industry and agency goals, and private/public markets in Florida, the United States, and in the international arena provided the team with a fact-based conceptual framework from which to develop an effective, initial approach to communications and public affairs.

--- Ann Elise Davison, Senior Vice President & Partner

Throughout much of 2005 into 2006, Dittmar Associates worked with Strategic Planning and development teams at Raytheon to characterize market variables and support understanding of public policy and government agencies. In collaboration with our client, we provided industry and agency intelligence, identified key personnel, supported engineering analyses, and developed in-depth analysis of market forecast and programmatic factors used by decision-makers at the company during consideration of new strategic business initiatives.

Dittmar Associates was a key source of customer understanding and strategy development as we pursued a major space systems capture. Always right on the mark in sorting out programmatic nuances and making well conceived predictions on program stability, emerging opportunities, and competitive standing, Dittmar Associates was a very trusted advisor.

---John Kohut, Senior Program Manager, Commercial Space Exploitation

Technology Assessment, Trade Studies, and Human Factors

Beginning in 2005 through the present in 2009, Dittmar Associates has provided engineering/operations interface support services to the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Engineering Directorate through our contract with the Texas A&M University's Engineering Experiment Station. Dittmar Associates provides technology assessment, risk assessment, mission analysis, operations planning, and human factors requirements analysis and validation for trade studies on the next-generation ExtraVehicular Activity (EVA) suit system.

Dittmar Associates provided an independent technical assessment of an advanced technology tool that utilized augmented reality to support real time troubleshooting and maintenance of aeronautical systems. Completed in 2006, the analysis and report were key factors in decisions pertaining to future development of the the operations support tool.

In a two-year research project designed by Dittmar Associates in collaboration with the UTMB Correctional Managed Care telemedicine program, our researchers conducted a first-of-its-kind assessment of physician satisfaction, mental workload, training, and ergonomic factors associated with the practice of telemedicine. Completed in late 2006, the research report was published in the Journal of Telemedicine and E-Health, an online, peer-reviewed publication tracking the latest developments in the field.

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