Sections in Detail
It is simple to contract with us. For contracts with the USFS, we have a standard contract form that can be processed within 1 day! All that is needed is an agreed upon set of tasks, products, rates and a signature from a line officer or director. For other agencies, we utilize various agreement and contract procedures that are already in place (such as collection agreements, task orders, or participating agreements).
Administrative & Business Services
We deliver outstanding, efficient and expedient Administrative services. We believe in customer service.
- We provide:
- OWCP support
- Staffing support
- Classification support
- Payroll support
- Contracting
- Grants & agreements
- Telephone/utility Maintenance
- NEPA ID team lead and/or support
- Air quality analysis
- Analytical Reporting
- ASC Enterprise Database Entry Support
- Meeting facilitation & notetaking
Area's of Expertise:
- We provide:
- OWCP
- Timekeeping
- Awards
- SF-52 Tracker
- Temporary hiring
- Terminations (for temps)
- Classification
- Pre-staffing Work
- Training
- Contracting Officer Representative service
- IAS Aquisitioning
- Expense tracking
- State billing preparation
- Audit package preparation
- TUMS coordinator service
- WPTR
- Accounting adjustments
- Grant administration
- Various key administrative knowledge and expertise
We work at varied levels within the agency and with other government agencies, from the district to the Regional Office and multi-agency levels.
Science Section
We support ecosystem management with current science and informed solutions to resource managers ranging from simple tasks to complex, controversial and seemingly intractable problems.
- We provide:
- Fire ecology/forestry/fuels monitoring plan design and implementation
- Analysis of fuels, ecological and fire behavior data
- Predictive fire behavior modeling
- Historical fire regime assessment
- Fire behavior data (flame length, rate of spread, temperature) collection & analysis (on prescribed or wildland fires)
- Fuels characterization
- Fuel treatment effects and effectiveness
- Literature reviews
- GIS support to inform decision making
- GIS map production for visualization and reporting
- ArcPad customization to facilitate field data collection
- Database design, review, and maintenance
- Technology transfer through presentations, workshops, reports, articles and manuscripts
- Training in fire ecology, fire effects and monitoring
- Hazardous waste investigation & remediation support
- CERCLA compliance technical assistance
- Smoke modeling and impacts
- Remote Area Weather Station (RAWS) training, maitenance, and upgrades
We work at varied levels within the agency and with other government agencies, from the district to the Regional Office and multi-agency levels.
Planning Section
We offer wildland fire managers a wide variety of technical skills and operational qualifications to support your suppression, prescribed fire and all-risk programs. We provide:
- Project lay-out and mapping
- Fire management plan development
- Fire behavior assessments
- Fuel treatment interaction evaluation and reporting
- Fuels analysis and specialist reporting
- NEPA specialist support including fire, fuels, geology, soils, hydrology, groundwater,
botany, invasive species, wildlife, fuels, smoke, writer/editor - Burn plan development and technical review
- NEPA ID team lead and/or support
- Air quality analysis
- Roads/transportation inventory and analysis
- Wildland fire hazard and risk assessment
- Business administration support including expense tracking and analytical reporting.
- Fire behavior modeling, training and technical support
- Prescribed fire operational support
Our staff qualifications include:
- Incident Commander, Type II
- Fire Use Manager
- Burn Boss, Type I
- Fire Behavior Analysts
Our expertise includes:
- Prescribed fire planning and implementation
- Fire hazard assessment and mitigation
- Fuels treatment implementation and effects analysis
- Strategic fire planning
- Tech transfer, training and employee development support (mentoring/coaching)
- IDT leadership and participation
- Project record management
We work at varied levels within the agency and with other government agencies, from the district to the Regional Office and multi-agency levels.
GIS & Technology
AMSET offers a wide range of technology support including all aspects of web and GIS functions, and, alternative solutions for technology issues and dispersed work groups. We provide:
- WWW/fsweb site maintenance & content management
- Web programming
- Web-based surveys & and summary of information collected
- Small application development
- GIS analysis and complete map products
- Improving corporate data in GIS (SDE) and I-Web, specifically Heritage and NRIS data
- Using the Geospatial Interface tools to analyze and summarize data
- ArcPad development to create field data collection protocols that meet clients' needs
Our areas of expertise include:
- Knowledge of FS web templates
- PHP Programming
- Communicating with teams to meet GIS needs
- FS networking
- Hardware modification & support
- ArcStudio to create custom ArcPad forms
- Database design, support and management to meet clients' needs
We work at varied levels within the agency and with other government agencies, from the district to the Regional Office and multi-agency levels.