Strategy and modernization for complex, mission-driven organizations.

Wallis Consulting advises federal program offices, state and local agencies, and prime contractors on strategy, systems modernization, AI governance, and workforce training.

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  • SDVOSB (SBA VetCert)
  • SAM.gov Registered
  • NIST AI RMF & ISO/IEC 42001–aligned advisory

Four practice areas

Strategy work sets priorities and the order of investment. Modernization and AI governance work puts those priorities into systems and into written rules for AI use, and workforce training prepares the people who run what changes. Any one of the four can be engaged on its own.

Strategic Management & Advisory

We write organizational and program strategy that leadership can fund and carry out, along with a roadmap that sets the order of investments and names an owner for each step.

Service areas

  • Organizational strategy and strategic planning for public-sector and commercial organizations
  • Program strategy, governance structure, and execution planning
  • Modernization planning, roadmaps, and investment sequencing
  • Operating-model design, including roles and reporting lines
Strategic management practice

Technology Modernization & Integration

The work runs from integration and validation testing through user acceptance and deployment, and continues into the configuration management and documentation that keep a system supportable after go-live.

Service areas

  • Systems integration and validation for operational platforms
  • Software validation, user-acceptance testing, and pre-deployment checks
  • Sustainment, configuration management, and technical documentation
  • Vendor-agnostic modernization assessments and roadmaps
Technology modernization practice

AI Governance & Responsible Adoption

The core deliverable is a written AI governance framework mapped to the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. It assigns each AI system a risk tier, names who oversees it, and sets the review procedure that applies once the system is in use.

Service areas

  • AI governance frameworks aligned to the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001
  • AI readiness assessments and adoption roadmaps for agency and commercial leadership
  • Decision rights, risk tiering, and oversight procedures for AI systems in use
  • AI literacy curriculum for the teams that will use AI systems
AI governance practice

Workforce Enablement & Training

Courses are built around the specific systems and policies people are expected to use, with materials the client’s own instructors can keep teaching after handoff.

Service areas

  • AI literacy curriculum for technical and operational teams
  • Curriculum development for technical programs and new systems
  • Instructor-led courses and train-the-trainer sessions
  • Knowledge management and sustainment documentation
Workforce enablement practice

Who does the work

Austin scopes each engagement and writes each deliverable himself, drawing on over a decade in public-sector operations and program work. Scope and deliverables are agreed in a first conversation and confirmed in writing before work begins.

About Austin and the firm

Recent writing

All perspectives

An AI governance framework has to say who decides

Austin Wallis · Updated

The NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 define what AI governance covers, and each organization still has to write down who can approve a model and who can roll it back.

Operator trust in AI is a design requirement

Austin Wallis · Updated

Human factors research on automation misuse and disuse shows why operator trust should be specified and tested with the rest of an AI system before it is deployed.

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Summerville, SC 29486

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