WFS, LLC

CLIENTS & PROJECTS Experience

Washington Federal Strategies, LLC has had the privilege of working with some extraordinary companies that maintain high standards of quality, results and ethics. When WFS meets with a new client, we discuss the business of the client to determine what outside help is needed and why. Before we accept an engagement, we try to ensure that our client's business goals will be advanced by the objectives set out for the consulting arrangement. Whether our client is trying to sell more devices or to position itself to gain more market share for its services, we want to focus with our clients to accomplish their goals to avoid expending energy and resources that are unproductive. While we offer competitive hourly rates for our services, most of the work we perform for our clients is done on a project basis. This structure best aligns our interests with those of our clients, creating mutual goals. Each project is worked on by a team, which allows us to walk around opportunities and problems to find the best ways to solve problems or capitalize on those opportunities. By using a team with broader experiences, we help our clients avoid the problems of choosing a strategy that is good for marketing but not acceptable to lawyers, or that is great technologically, but impossible to market.

We continue to work within a wide range of industries that are using and developing the latest technologies. Our practice extends from our base in the telecommunications world to medical technologies, health information privacy, security and beyond. Some of our most recent activity has been with companies whose businesses focus on the following:

PARTIAL CLIENT LIST

• Stanford University - Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
• IntegriNautics - a GPS technology company
• Ventel Telecommunications, Inc. - an international telecommunications company
• Traxsis, Inc. - a location-based services company
• GPS Networking - a GPS technology firm
• SportVision
• Phelps Dodge Morenci
• Caterpillar
• CBay Systems, Ltd. - an international, technology driven transcription company
• The Newman Group - a national marketing firm
• Prospect Technologies - a DC-based Internet solutions company
• McElroy Electronics - a cellular telecommunications carrier
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Regiomontana University - Monterrey, Mexico
• Benchmarks, Inc., a Washington, DC consulting firm

PROJECTS

Current Select Projects

• Negotiated donation of six months of satellite services for a mobile telemedicine project designed to allow early detection of breast cancer.
• Telecommunications guidance for an Internet-based provider of offshore medical transcription services
• Representation of a GPS technology companies before the FCC and FAA and other agencies.
• Developing telemedicine services for remote areas in collaboration Johns Hopkins University Hospital and several other medical schools.
• Working with Johns Hopkins in the design, development, and policymaking regarding the Regional Medical Archive (REMEDI).
• Advised an architecture firm designing a technology incubator and several high-tech companies seeking an IT strategy.
• Regulatory support for a startup company delivering international satellite communications services to developing countries

Representative Projects Specifics

More information about some specific projects:

GPS technology representation:
Retained to represent an emerging GPS technology firm before the FCC and the Department of Transportation. The work included making technical presentations as well as formulating public policy arguments as to why the company should be granted the licenses that would allow it to continue to develop and sell its products.

In time, we secured multiple licenses for the company and for a range of its customers. The company now has a collegial relationship with government agencies that control its fate, giving it access to key information about new business opportunities and streamlining the process of securing additional licenses for its customers.

Indian Health Service Mobile Tele-Mammography :
Retained as a telecom consultant to provide information about the telecom services available to support a cutting-edge telemedicine project. As a result of working as the telecom consultant, the role was expanded to include government relations work for the mobile digital telemammography project as well as acting as the deputy to the principal investigator on a founder's grant from the Komen Foundation. Not only did we secure letters of endorsement from multiple agencies of the federal government, but we parlayed that support into a donation of six months worth of satellite communications moving digital medical images over a 4 mbps link for real-time readings from radiologists. Currently, WFS serves as the assistant project manager for this project - known as mobile digital telemammography. We also handle a wide range of government and industry relations for the project.

Ventel Inc. International Telecommunications :
Retained to formulate a governmental strategy for an international telecommunications firm. The project involves identifying key sources of strategic information within the US and foreign governments and developing good relationships with individuals within the governmental agencies to provide access to the information. This has resulted in support for the customer from the FCC, introductions to strategic alliance partners who we came to know through governmental contacts, and vital market research that would not have been available without the support of the government. Working with this client, we gave the company the credibility it needed to raise capital, we provided the technical insights into a range of telecom technologies to allow the company to make better strategic decisions about market entry and provision of services. We have helped the company to plan for success and to position itself for profitability.

Johns Hopkins - Remedi Network:
Retained to be the telecom and business consultants to a novel approach to the storage and sharing of medical information. Through this project, we developed an expertise in HIPAA, the new regulations governing health information privacy and security. We have been engaged to counsel Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in matters related to securing health information traveling over the next generation internet as well as to protecting the privacy of patient records being used for shared research.

FEMA Business Process Analysis:
Retained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to undertake business process analysis and training to streamline the flow of work and information within the General Counsel's office.