Our country faces complex, ever-evolving challenges that demand strategic vision and innovative, data-driven solutions. We provide clients deep public sector expertise to build strong and vibrant economies, increase efficient services to ensure opportunity for all Americans, and secure against and respond to emerging threats.

What We Do

Safal helps clients:

Increase our National, State, and Local Cybersecurity
– Ensuring we have enough skilled workers to protect public and private sector assets and American taxpayers.

Efficiently Manage Federal Funding
– Helping states and local agencies transparently and effectively manage federal funds to meet strategic priorities and disaster response needs.

Provide Veterans and Military Families Support and Opportunity
– Ending Veteran homelessness, supporting academic excellence for students in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) K-12 schools, and getting transitioning service members and their spouses into high-growth civilian jobs.  

Reduce and Prevent Youth Crime
– Planning and implementation of common-sense programs that get students back into the classroom and onto a career, college, or military service pathway for long-term opportunity.

Build Strong State and Local Economies
– Creating data-validated state and regional sector strategies, public-private partnerships, workforce development and skills training programs, and digital transformation plans for improved service delivery.

Mitigate Workforce Shortages and Create Crisis Response
– We provide data-driven targeted policy recommendations and accelerate workforce development responses to keep residents working and meet talent needs for key industries.

Demonstrated Success

We have executed innovative, efficient solutions for state, local, and federal clients including:  

Harris County, TX ARPA funds management
Safal’s program management, data collection, reporting, and capacity building enabled Harris County, TX to effectively and transparently deploy $915M in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding across 5 county priorities: health, housing, workforce and education, county operations, and justice and safety. Projects within these priority areas included initiatives to support apprenticeship programming, early childhood education, public health, housing stability, and the reduction of violent crime.

Result – County met 100% of U.S. Treasury reporting requirements.
Result – Ensured that 90 county projects were successfully funded with 151 subawards.

National Veterans' Technical Assistance Center (NVTAC)
Safal leads the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) NVTAC, helping Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP) grantees to help reduce veteran homelessness by providing employment opportunities.  

Result – Equipped grantees to help more than 20,000 veterans enter and maintain employment.
Result – Designed, executed first national grant performance trend analysis to inform program improvements, scale knowledge across grantees.

Expansion of registered apprenticeship programs in cybersecurity
As the sole DOL national Industry Intermediary for Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Expansion, Safal has launched, expanded, and sustained more than 100 programs in cybersecurity and tech occupations nationwide to address the critical shortage of skilled professionals.  

Result – Included in the White House National Cybersecurity Workforce and Education Strategy.
Result – Helped nearly 3,000 Americans get into paid cybersecurity apprenticeship roles for public and private sector clients in less than four years.

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