In July 2022, Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI), Headquartered in Mission Valley, San Diego, CA, will celebrate its 20th year as a Corporation. Founded in 2002, Forward Slope is led by President and CEO, Mr. Carlos A. Persichetti. FSI opened its first office in Old Town, SD in 2002, providing support to the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare System Command (SPAWAR).
On 21 March 2022, Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI), Headquartered in Mission Valley, San Diego, CA, opened its first office in the Territory of Guam. Centrally located in Tamuning, the FSI office is conveniently located to support the US Department of Defense Command Structure on the Island.
On 13 September 2021 Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI) was awarded the Peregrine Phase II SBIR Task as the supporting corporate Team Member to the SoarTech Prime. This SBIR Phase II work will support NAVAIR’s interest in improving air and strike situation awareness, tactical planning, and plan assessment by providing 4D spatial temporal geographically referenced overlays that are compatible with the Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) and other related planning, assessment, and situation awareness tools.
On 30 June 2021 Forward Slope Inc, (FSI) was awarded the Enhanced Situational Awareness Through Smart Geospatial Comparative Analysis Award otherwise known as The Jericho Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Award.
On September 30, 2021, Forward Slope, Inc. was notified that it was an awardee of the Enterprise Personnel Systems Engineering MAC IDIQ by the Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific), with a lifetime value of up to $60M. This contract effort targets obtaining (through issuing Tasks), systems engineering, software engineering, and life-cycle support for developing and sustaining business systems and enterprise information systems for Navy, DoD, Foreign Military Sales, and Federal agencies.
On August 26, 2021, Forward Slope, Inc. (FSI) was recognized as a finalist for the San Diego Business Journal’s 2021 Best Places to Work in San Diego for the 11th year. Members of the FSI Operations Leadership Team virtually attended the annual award ceremony. Of the four Corporate Awardee Categories (Small, Medium, Large and Mega), FSI finished 14th of the 43 selected Finalists in the Medium Category, in only the second year FSI was eligible to compete at this level.
On 16 August 2021, FSI President and CEO, Mr. Carlos A. Persichetti announced the hiring of a new Mission Solutions Portfolio Manager, Ms. Maryann Canepa. Ms. Canepa has extensive experience in all phases of acquisition as well as project and program management in both the DoD and Federal agencies.
On 17 August 2021, FSI President and CEO, Mr. Carlos A. Persichetti announced the hiring of a new Contracts Manager, Mr. Arman Vosough. Mr. Vosough has extensive experience in all phases of Commercial and Government Contracting including Contract Agreements, Procurements, Solicitations, Bidding, Modifications, Subcontracting, Mediation, Assessing Risk and Legal aspects. He is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a BA in English as well as the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego with a Juris Doctor. Mr.
SAN DIEGO, CA. 20 May 2021 - FSI-OLP Robotics Mentoring Program Update from the FSI Team Lead, Mrs. Shruti Ghate. In an ongoing Annual Program, FSI Team Lead, Mrs. Shruti Ghate summarized the FSI-OLP Robotics Program 2021 as a successful Season. Under Mrs. Ghate mentorship, and supported by four FSI Engineers Clay Rivetti, Betty Lin, Darren Tung, and Jake Eklund who were the Technical Mentors, an OLP High School student engineering team competed for two Robotics Program awards in 2021.
On 10 March 2021 , NIWC Pacific, San Diego, CA awarded FSI a Task under the previously awarded NIWC Pacific METOC ISEA MAC Contract, to provide Engineering Support Activities for the Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Capability Based – In-Service Engineering Activity (CB-ISEA) Sustainment Engineering (SE) Services. This is a one-year funded level of effort (LOE) Task Order with two Option Years.