Information Technology

The Office of Automated Benefits Delivery is a vital part of the VBA’s digital transformation strategy, which leverages automation to enhance efficiency and provide digital services that improve business capabilities and processes. Within this framework, the Office of Benefits Automation (OBA) aims to create innovative solutions that automate and streamline the processing of VA Benefits, thereby enabling VBA decision-makers to deliver quality, equitable, and timely benefits to Veterans and their families. OBA staff collaborate on a diverse portfolio of projects, varying in size and complexity, focused on automating labor-intensive processes through the use of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and rules-based processing.

Trilogy provides comprehensive project and program management services, adhering to PMI’s PMBOK Guide and SEI CMMI standards. Trilogy provides professional support in program management, business analysis, strategic planning, project lifecycle and budget analysis, SharePoint configuration, stakeholder management, Microsoft Power App development, and document management. Additionally, Trilogy offers expert recommendations and implementation services to enhance program management practices, processes, and standards, supporting the delivery of automation projects.

Trilogy’s comprehensive project and program management services enhance efficiency and streamline operations. Our expertise in strategic planning, business analysis, and budget management optimizes resource allocation and financial oversight, leading to improved project delivery. Rigorous risk management and insightful reporting ensure projects stay on track, reducing delays and mitigating potential issues.

Overview
Trilogy has supported the Data Governance Council (DGC) as part of the EDMSS project in two essential task areas: Authoritative Data Source (ADS) Analysis and Data Quality Analysis. These analyses have addressed four key questions: where the data is coming from, what the data means, what the Authoritative Data Source (ADS) is, and how well the data in the ADS can be trusted. Trilogy resources developed the adopted methodology to answer these questions, played a vital role in DCG’s communication workstream, and also provided subject matter expertise in the pilot of the ADS Data Management Implementation Plan.

Approach
Trilogy’s experienced team of data analysts developed methodologies to be applied to DGC-approved subject areas which involved identification of systems and underlying data stores, verification and remediation of any gaps in the metadata of identified systems in the VA Enterprise Architecture Repository (VEAR), scoring for component completeness, data stewardship and monitoring, developing dashboards to communicate ADS Data Quality metrics to all Data Governance and ADS Stakeholders, and developing conceptual, logical, system interface, and physical data models for identified systems.

Results
The methodologies developed by Trilogy, combined with its expertise and data metrics communication support, have made a lasting impact on the ongoing quality of data analysis by DGC and already seen use on several high-priority VA initiatives including FMBT and Vet360.

Overview
Trilogy supported the implementation of SAP, Federal Financial Management Initiative (FMMI), at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by providing multiple subject matter experts for the data migration from multiple instances of CGI Federal’s Federal Financial System (FFS) and multiple subsidiary systems. Trilogy’s expertise was essential to the design and development of end-to-end conversion processes, the execution of those processes in numerous testing, QA, and production environments, supporting system and user acceptance testing, and coordinating production cutover activities. Trilogy team members were called on to provide its data migration expertise to drive the critical path data conversion task to completion through each of its four deployments to 28 USDA agencies.

Approach
Trilogy Federal was integral in refining the overall data migration strategy to ensure accuracy and completeness of migrated data. This included identifying innovative alternatives to planned conversions that proved to be roadblocks to successful migration and on-time delivery, designing and developing end-to-end conversion processes extracting and transforming data from CGI Federal’s Federal Financial System (FFS) and other subsidiary systems and loading selected data to FMMI, developing and maintaining the master data crosswalk utility. Trilogy Federal was frequently relied upon to brief USDA leadership on data migration status and issues and played a key role in successful high-volume cutovers.

Results
Trilogy played a lead role in executing this large-scale data conversion initiative in a multiple-deployment/multiple-agency environment and achieved on-time go-lives for each deployment and 100 percent of FFS balances by Fund, Budget Year, and GL Account reconciled to FMMI to the penny for all 28 agencies migrated to FMMI.

Overview
Trilogy Federal has lead efforts for OEI to implement a Business Architecture (BA) with the short-term goal of supporting VA’s Modernization Effort, as well as the long-term goal of maturing VA’s Strategic Operating Model (SOM), which includes developing Business Architecture framework, content, and supporting analytics that will inform planning, programming, budgeting, and execution decision making processes. The architecture content areas developed and integrated into the BA include Strategic, Business, Programs/Budgets, IT Portfolio Investments and Systems, Risk, Performance, Statutory and Regulatory Requirements, Organizational, Process, and Resources.

Approach
Trilogy’s development of this Business Architecture has included developing a VA-wide Concept of Operations for Business Architecture and associated governance, developing logical, conceptual and physical data models for the Business Architecture, implementing the Business Architecture physical model, and developing analytics for SOM decision making processes that pull from the Business Architecture physical model. Trilogy has facilitated workshops with stakeholders from across VA to develop and refine an enterprise Business Reference Model that reflects the activities performed by all Administrations and staff offices. We also worked with stakeholders across the department to integrate enterprise content into the VA BA, including performance, risk, audit findings, organizations, budget programs, strategic priorities, billets, IT systems, and IT investments. Trilogy created architectural views and related data analytics that directly support resource prioritizations for OEI’s Mission Requirement and Mission Gap development during VA’s annual planning prioritization process, PA&E’s annual programming process, OI&Ts IT Enterprise Roadmap, and ITRM’s IT budget formulation and Multi-Year Planning processes for IT investments.

Results
The Business Architecture developed by Trilogy successfully provides analytics that enable VA to fully achieve the strategic goals and objectives defined in VA’s current and future strategic plans, including analytics associated with planning priorities, material and non-material programming requirements, and IT material requirements for Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) that lead to streamlined technical solutions and elimination of redundant functions and processes that lead to more efficient and effective delivery of benefits and services to Veterans.

Overview
The Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA) Chief Strategy Office (CSO) Survey of Veteran Enrollees’ Health and Use of Health Care (Survey of Enrollees) collects data annually on enrolled Veterans’ health status, insurance coverage, use of VA and non-VA health services, and current and planned future use of health care to support annual VHA projections of enrollment, utilization, and expenditures, as well as a variety of high level VHA budget and policy-related analyses.

Approach
Trilogy applied the highest research standards to develop, design, implement, and summarize the multi-modal, representative Survey of Enrollees. This included sample design and allocation; preparing, printing, and mailing survey correspondences to identified sample; staffing, training, and managing the Survey of Enrollee Help Center; data collection and statistical analysis, including weighting adjustments; and producing reports, dashboards, and analyses.

Results
Amidst declining survey response rates in recent years, Trilogy successfully administered the Survey of Enrollees in 2022, surpassing the overarching goal of collecting 42,000 responses, appropriately stratified by 95 VA health care markets and eight enrollee priority groupings. Over the next two years, we will continue to ensure that the Survey of Enrollees results in unbiased estimates representative of the target population so VHA CSO can better anticipate the health care needs of all enrolled Veterans.

Overview
Trilogy has provided business support services to assist VEO’s Customer Information Services (CIS) Division enhance enterprise customer data management capabilities and customer-facing solution management. This includes enterprise data quality practices, business rules, data governance, and data steward practices. Trilogy also provides data architecture support, enterprise contact center and digital experience data management support (mapping/ETL/testing) as well as analytics, reporting, and insights from contact center and digital data sources (CRM, Telephony, KM, Chat, VA.gov, Vsignals).

Approach
Trilogy’s experienced data quality team used Data Governance Council (DGC) guidance to perform data quality analyses across various systems within the VA (VADIR, ADR. CorpDB, VA Profile, VA MPI) and reported on the origins of and solutions to data anomalies. Trilogy has provided ongoing data quality monitoring reports and metrics to provide accurate data, data audit reports, exception queue reports, Data Quality Process training support, and recommendations for automated or intelligent tools to eliminate manual reviews/disposition of records.

Results
Trilogy’s analysis and business integration services have assisted CIS with the design, configuration, and OI&T delivery of a future state architecture, enabling CIS capabilities and coordination with various offices both within and outside the VA.

Overview
The federal government allocates over $10 billion a year to provide education benefits for service members and Veterans. This project studies the outcome measures of the VBA Education Service (EDU), which invests annually to support these benefit programs. Our team assists EDU in selecting the required data, assessing the data quality, merging, analyzing, curating, and loading the data into a ‘clean’ repository to generate metrics that help EDU assess VA return on investment (ROI).

Approach
In order to meet the challenges of this complex and impactful project, Trilogy has deployed a full spectrum of analytic services and tools. This includes conducting institutional research, analyzing existing data sources to identify target ROI data and any related data quality issues, developing methods to ensure these issues are remediated prior to loading, loading curated data into the ROI repository, creating analytic algorithms to analyze the ROI data, and providing detailed reporting of our findings. This has led to our deployment of DataOps for data integration and analytical output velocity without sacrificing quality, automating existing pipelines (API/RPA) for data calls/retrievals (using VS Code/Microsoft SQL Management Studio/Oracle SQL Developer) and utilizing GitHub for code configuration management, and performing offline development in open-source environments (such as Python and R Studio) for analytical scripts and advanced modeling (ML) for tasks such as parsing manually entered data that has been incorrectly entered to synthesize and align the data points for analytical reporting. Our team has also created procedures for the operation of the ETL and database, published an Operations Manual, and created a Configuration Tool Manual.

Outcomes
The tools and procedures Trilogy has developed give VA EDU complete transparency into the operational details of GI Bill Outcome Measures program while also providing clear and comprehensive decision-making support to advance the program. This support enables data-driven improvements to policies and claims procedures surrounding GI Bill benefits as well as develop targeted federal approaches for Veterans, service members, and their families to see the greatest value of their GI Bill benefits.

Overview
Trilogy has supported both VBA’s Strategic Program Management Office (SPMO) and Office of Strategic Support Initiatives (OSSI) since their inception to develop the strategy, infrastructure, employee engagement, knowledge, and operational framework to effectively deliver project management and customer experience solutions throughout VBA.

Approach
Trilogy has worked alongside SPMO and OSSI to define their strategic outlook and implement priority initiatives, including developing communities of practice, data models, reporting frameworks, and training strategy and design for project management and customer experience. Trilogy also designed and developed comprehensive SharePoint-driven knowledge management solutions and organizational processes to standardize operations across both organizations.

Results
As a result of Trilogy’s support, SPMO and OSSI have seen increased effectiveness and efficiency in their support of several VBA priority initiatives. Employees now have more effective tools and training to help VA staff deliver essential, earned benefits to the Veterans they serve.

Overview
Trilogy operates as a system integrator for VA’s Financial Management and Business Transformation (FMBT) initiative, which is an effort to modernize VA’s financial and acquisition management systems with transformative business processes and capabilities that enable VA to meet financial management legislation objectives and directives.

Approach
Trilogy is supporting the VA migration to the Momentum cloud solution, configured for VA as Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (iFAMS). In this migration, Trilogy is supporting VA in leveraging the SAFe Agile model to deploy the new solution. As a result, VA has gained increased operational efficiency, productivity, agility, and flexibility from the new modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) cloud solution. The new solution has also provided additional security, storage, and scalability for VA users.

Results
As a result of Trilogy’s support in the transition to a modern ERP cloud solution, VA administrations have already begun to see an increase in transparency, accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of financial information across several departments. Trilogy’s support has been acknowledged and greatly appreciated by VA in support of their transition from the legacy Financial Management System (FMS).

Overview
Both the SSVF and GPD offer communities and VA medical facilities ways to assist homeless Veterans with housing and services. Program designs are diverse, ranging from transitional housing projects and apartment-style transitional housing to service centers offering outreach and supportive services. Trilogy Federal provides critical support for both initiatives by performing financial and operational fitness audit (FOFA) reviews in coordination with the Office of Business Oversight (OBO) for over 75 grantee locations, ensuring that they’re run responsibly and sustainably for the program duration. Trilogy also identifies inconsistencies, develops robust risk assessment tools, and identifies areas of improvement to allow for more efficient financial management of each site.

Approach
Using proven and comprehensive project management procedures, Trilogy works through each FOFA methodically, from kickoff and trainings to onsite evaluations to follow-through on recommended action plans. Each step of the process is conducted with a goal of exceptional service and measurable results.

Results
To date, Trilogy has performed over 200 financial and operational fitness audits across the continental United States and assisted grantee locations in understanding and implementing report information to best serve Veterans, their families, and their communities.