AUSA Sustaining Member Profile: IAP World Services, Inc.

Army,  Jul 2005  

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Corporate Structure: IAP World Services, Inc. (formerly Johnson Controls World Services), Cape Canaveral, FIa. A wholly owned subsidiary of IAP Worldwide Services of lrmo, S.C. Founded: 1989. Number of Employees: more than 5,000 worldwide. Chief Executive Officer: Al Neffgen. Web site: www. iapws.com. Telephone: 321-784-7100.

One team, one focus, one mission-this promise is the guiding principle as IAP World Services expands to serve the U.S. Army around the globe with fully integrated solutions for contingency, logistics and procurement support, facility management, program management, base operations support and technical services.

In March 2005, IAP World Services acquired Johnson Controls World Services and its subsidiary Readiness Management Support, representing a team of employees with more than 50 years of service to the federal government, beginning with the construction of America's first space launch complex at Cape Canaveral, FIa. That consolidation of expertise positions IAP as an industry leader.

Contingency, procurement and logistics support are a backbone of IAP. Company teams are leading experts in emergency power generation anywhere in the world. Under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Advanced Contract Initiative, IAP has set up numerous power plants in Afghanistan and Iraq, including the system generating electricity for Camp Victory in Baghdad. IAP teams are playing a critical role in restoring Iraq's internal power systems, including the delivery and installation of a 20-megawatt plant at Iraq's Basra oil refinery, completed in just four days.

Here at home, when natural disasters strike, IAP is the contractor of choice for the Army Corps of Engineers, providing mobile power generators wherever they are needed. Another Corps of Engineers' contract entrusts IAP with coordinating massive shipments of packaged ice to people in need. During the Florida hurricane crisis of fall 2004, that meant directing a sophisticated logistics challenge that enlisted refrigerated trucks and ice plants around the nation.

That ability to handle any challenge, in sometimes hostile territory, is key to IAP's success with another contingency service-the construction and operation of remote base camps, including their life support systems. IAP provides engineering construction services under the Central Iraq IDIQ contract and also full base camp support, operations and maintenance plus food service for the Army facility at Baghdad International Airport. The Army chose IAP to build, operate and maintain what amounts to a small city, housing 10,000 soldiers in modular housing in TaJi, Iraq, complete with an intricate support infrastructure.

Transportation and logistics are another IAP capability, as a heavy lift contract provides truck augmentation support to Army forces stationed in Kuwait and Iraq. IAP trucks and buses haul troops and supplies to Iraq and also throughout Kuwait, and they also support mail delivery in the region.

Experts at procurement support, IAP operates procurement-logistics centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and in South Carolina. lAP's network of experts were able to procure almost $10 million worth of equipment for U.S. Special Forces during the initial deployment into Afghanistan and then move that equipment to forward deployed locations once troops were in place.

IAP employees support Army bases around the United States, including Fort Irwin, Calif., where the company provides facility management and base operations support for the Army's National Training Center. Flexibility in the customer's mission is paramount, as the war in Iraq has shifted the training focus from heavy mechanized fighting to a greater emphasis on military operations on urbanized terrain (MOUT).

IAP is also the food service contractor at the U.S. Army's JFK Special Warfare Center facility in Key West, FIa. IAP was awarded the William J. Connolly award for small dining facilities under this contract.

Responding to the Army's needs in wartime is critical at Fort Gordon, Ga., where IAP employees are in their 25th year as the base support contractor. Responsible for maintaining and repairing 9.6 million square feet of space, including 876 units of military family housing, the team now also supports troop mobilization and demobilization, including the reconstitution of Army equipment and power generators after they are returned from the harsh Middle Eastern environment. The Fort Gordon team also won the Small Business Administration's Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence.

IAP supports the Army's mission at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where employees provide administrative, professional, industrial and technical support on a task order basis through the service program known as FedSource.

Other IAP FedSource projects for the U.S. Army include an $18 million information technology (IT) system upgrade that involves coordinating and managing work at 30 Army installations around the nation, IT support at the Army Southern Command in Miami, FIa., and several highly classified projects.