The US-VISIT program supports the Department of Homeland Security’s mission to protect our nation by providing biometric identification services to federal, state and local governments to help them accurately identify people and determine whether those people pose a risk to the United States.

ISI provided Independent Validation & Verification (IV&V ) services across a broad range of programmatic, management and technical aspects for the US-VISIT Program.

The scope of the IV&V activity encompassed reviews of all aspects of the program from business execution through deployment and operations.

Specific emphasis included:

Program Planning and Execution Functionality

• Acquisition Planning

Program Management

• Risk Management
• Budget and Finance
• Configuration Management

Technical Planning and Solution Implementation

• Requirements Traceability (business and technical requirements)
• System Acceptance Test Planning and Results Analysis
• Architecture Compliance
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process compliance