COCO
Contractor owned, contractor operated
Alpha Federal owns and operates the asset. You buy the effect, not the equipment.
Capability 06
Mission Support& Staffing.
Alpha Federal places cleared, credentialed, mission-experienced personnel into U.S. government programs, international programs and prime contractor teams. Program managers, intelligence analysts, ISR operators, logistics specialists and operations coordinators with experience in the exact environments they are supporting.
The difference between a program that executes and one that stalls is almost always people.
Cleared personnel with operational experience in mission-specific environments are not commodities. They are the product of years of service, training and real-world execution that cannot be replicated from a staffing database.
Alpha Federal provides program managers, intelligence analysts, ISR operators, logistics specialists and operations coordinators with demonstrated experience in the exact program types and operational environments our clients work in.
What we put on the ground
A flying program is a whole operation, and we staff all of it. Fuel delivered to the aircraft and tested to specification. Technicians who return the airframe and the mission system to service. Power that stays up. A network that gets the product off the airfield and to the people who act on it. Movement and inventory control for the parts and materiel behind it. A medical plan with qualified people attached to it.
Take one trade or take the whole operation. We have stood up all of it before and we will tell you at the outset exactly which seats we are filling and to what standard.
The trades we staff
Aircrew and instructors. Pilots current on mission and transport types, and instructors qualified to build a partner nation’s own pipeline rather than fly its sorties indefinitely.
Maintenance and airworthiness. Airframe and powerplant technicians, avionics specialists, and the quality and airworthiness staff who make a release-to-service decision mean something.
Fuel and ground handling. Refueler operators, quality surveillance, and the ramp and hangar trades that keep an aircraft turning between sorties.
Power and utilities. Generator technicians and the electrical trades behind them, keeping the watch floor, the cold chain and the communications running at sites with no grid to fall back on.
Communications and networks. Tactical communications, satellite terminals, network engineering and the server-room work that turns a collection asset into a product somebody can act on.
Logistics and movement. Supply chain, movement control, warehousing and inventory accountability for programs operating a long way from home station.
Medical and personnel recovery. Flight paramedics, tactical medicine instructors and personnel-recovery planners, so a program operating far from definitive care has a real answer in place.
Intelligence and exploitation. Analysts, sensor operators and mission coordinators current on the systems actually in use.
How we deliver it
Embedded. Individual specialists placed into your program, your watch floor or your maintenance organization, working to your standards and your chain of command.
As a managed function. We take a whole line of work, staff it, supervise it and answer for the result. Fuel operations, a maintenance department or a ground segment, delivered against a performance standard rather than a headcount.
Built to hand over. The same team, scoped from the start to train your people and transfer the function to them on a defined milestone with competency criteria attached.
Any of the three can be taken on its own, and programs routinely move between them as a capability matures.
Fuel, logistics and FBO services
Nothing flies without fuel, and fuel does not move itself. Alpha Federal delivers that end of the operation as a line of business in its own right, for flying programs we run and for customers who operate their own.
The work covers bulk fuel storage and distribution, into-plane fueling and ground fuel handling, supply chain and movement control, warehousing and inventory accountability, and fixed base operations at the airfields a program works from: ramp and hangar management, ground support equipment, flight planning and crew support.
It is taken on the same three terms as everything else here, and judged the same way. Product and materiel move on schedule, fuel meets specification at the point of issue, the inventory reconciles, and the facility passes an inspection nobody scheduled.
See Defense Fuel Support Point and bulk fuel terminal operations for how this work is structured and what it demands.
Program Structure
The structure serves the mission and your procurement environment.
GOCO
Government owned, contractor operated
You own the platform; we crew, maintain and sustain it.
Program Deliverables
What an Alpha Federal program actually delivers.
Program Managers
Experienced in the program types and operating environments the work actually sits in.
Intelligence Analysts
Cleared analysts with airborne program experience, not staffing-database résumés.
ISR Sensor Operators
Sensor operators and mission coordinators current on the systems in use.
UAS Operators & Maintainers
Crews for tactical and medium-endurance systems, including the maintainers who keep them serviceable.
Executive & Ministerial Advisors
Senior advisors placed alongside chiefs of defense staff, ministry leadership and program executives.
Strategic Planners
Campaign, force-design and capability-development planners who work in the staff process a ministry actually runs on.
Aircrew & Instructor Pilots
Pilots for mission and transport types, and instructors qualified to build a partner nation's own pipeline.
Aviation Maintenance & Quality
Airframe and powerplant technicians, avionics specialists, and the quality and airworthiness staff behind them.
Training & Curriculum Development
Instructors and curriculum designers who leave behind a syllabus an institution can run without us.
Weapons & Marksmanship Instructors
Small arms, crew-served and marksmanship instruction, including range design and safety certification.
EOD & Counter-IED Specialists
Explosive ordnance disposal and counter-IED advisors, from operator training to program-level advice.
Communications & Network Engineers
Tactical communications, satellite links and the network engineering a deployed program depends on.
Medical & Personnel Recovery
Flight paramedics, tactical medicine instructors and personnel-recovery planners for austere operations.
Logistics & Sustainment
Supply chain, movement and sustainment staff for programs operating far from home station.
Fuel, Logistics & FBO Services
Bulk fuel storage and distribution, into-plane fueling and ground handling, supply chain and movement control, and fixed base operations at the airfields a program works from.
Security & Compliance
Facility security officers, export-control and industrial-security staff for cleared and ITAR-controlled work.
Common Questions
What clearance levels can you staff?
It depends entirely on whose contract the work sits on. Most of what we staff is partner-nation work, where no U.S. clearance applies and local nationality, language and regional experience are the qualifications that matter. Where a role does sit on U.S. government tasking we staff U.S. persons at Secret, and TS/SCI where the program requires it. On those roles the binding constraint is rarely the level but the time to process one, so a short timeline means planning around already-cleared candidates.
How fast can you fill a deployed position?
A role that matches a known, available, already-cleared candidate can be filled in weeks. A role needing a specific sensor qualification, a language, and a clearance that has to be processed takes months, and any recruiter who tells you otherwise is planning to send you somebody who does not meet the requirement. We would rather tell you the honest timeline and let you decide whether to relax a criterion.
Are personnel W-2 employees or contractors?
Operational and program roles are W-2 employees. Advisory and specialist short-duration roles are typically 1099 independent contractors. Each requisition states which, because it changes the individual's tax position, benefits and insurance cover, and because it changes your liability picture too.
How do you handle continuity when someone rotates out?
Overlap, and written turnover. Rotations are planned so the incoming person is on site with the outgoing one rather than arriving after they have gone, and every position maintains a continuity file that belongs to the program rather than to the individual. Continuity failures on these programs are almost always the result of a gapped rotation, not of an individual being weak.
Can you staff inside a prime contractor's program?
Yes. Alpha Federal teams on prime-led pursuits where the requirement is people who have run the specific mission in the specific environment rather than additional headcount. We also prime our own programs, and which of the two applies is a question about the contract vehicle and the customer, not about where we would rather sit.
What happens if a placement is not working out?
Tell us early and we replace the person, at our cost, without a contractual argument about it. A placement that is not working is our problem to fix. That is the entire basis on which staffing support is worth buying. The failure mode we care about is a customer who tolerates a poor fit for six months rather than raising it.
Related capabilities
ISR & Airborne Intelligence
Persistent, wide-area airborne intelligence, from tasking through dissemination, managed as a complete program.
Sovereign Capability Development
Genuine capability development means your people continue to own and operate every aspect of the mission solution after we leave.
C2 & Intel Fusion
Collection generates value only when it reaches the people who can act on it, in the right format, at the right time, through systems they understand.