Hettinger Strategy Group and Cyrrus Analytics

Hettinger Strategy Group LLC &

Cyrrus Analytics LLC

Firm’s Focus and Capabilities

The Hettinger Strategy Group LLC and Cyrrus Analytics LLC joint venture forms one of Washington’s premier boutique government market strategy and legislative advisory firms.

We are combined to deliver unique insight and bottom-line results across the entire federal IT marketplace, with a strong focus on creating

business value and increasing our clients’ bottom line.

The Joint Venture brings to bear deep domain expertise allowing us to design and implement effective policy, regulatoryand standards-based initiatives, working with senior thought leaders in Congress and within Federal agencies.

We are poised to offer our clients a range of cost-effective

paths to address business critical issues.

We offer clients access to critical federal marketing and strategic advisory services as well as traditional lobbying, government

relations and crisis communications services.

About the Firms

HSG is led by Mike Hettinger

Mike Hettinger is the former head of public sector and government affairs at the trade group, TechAmerica.

A veteran Capitol Hill staff member with more than 20 years of experience including as Chief of Staff to former Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia and Staff Director of a House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee.

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Hettinger led the establishment of the Public Sector Innovation Group at the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)

He was a senior lobbyist at Patton Boggs LLP, and led government affairs and strategic market development for Grant Thornton’s Global Public Sector Practice.

Cyrrus Analytics is led by Richard Beutel

Rich Beutel was former lead acquisition and procurement policy counsel for Chairman Darrell Issa of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Beutel has bicameral Congressional experience, previously serving as lead oversight and acquisition policy counsel for Senator Susan Collins, the former ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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He is a nationally recognized expert in IT acquisition management and cloud policy, Rich Beutel has 25 years of private sector experience.

He was the founder and co-managing director of the Dell Government Relations Team.

Scope of Our Work

Strategic Market Intelligence

Liaison with Executive Branch

Liaison with Legislative Branch

Federal Marketing

Strategic Market Intelligence

As your eyes and ears in Washington, we provide advanced warning on policy developmentsthat have a direct impact on your business, giving you a distinct advantage over your competition.

Federal Marketing

An extension of your marketing, sales and business development functions, we help you better position your company for success in the federal market.

Liaison with Legislative Branch

On Capitol Hill we are shaping the development of broad-reaching policies that impact your business and working with key members and committees to set the oversight and policy

development agenda around federal IT management.

We provide line-of-sight interaction with the right CXOs to open lines of communication and business opportunities.

Liaison with Executive Branch

No federal market strategy is complete without a Capitol Hill outreach plan and our experience and access sets us apart.

Congress, the regulatory agencies of the federal government and

individual agency CIOs all make decisions that impact your success

in the federal market.

Our approach is to pull the right lever-

working with the right entity, at the right time to move the needle for our clients.

Congress

Individual Federal CIOs

Regulatory Agencies

By using Congress to put pressure on the regulatory agencies, or the regulatory agencies to push down on individual agency leadership, or some combination of all

of the above, we achieve unprecedented results.

“As a Silicon Valley-based company and a new entrant to the federal market, we faced issues that traditional government contractors don’t. We hired the Cyrrus / Hettinger Strategy Group team to help us better position our growing federal business in Washington through a combination of Capitol Hill advocacy and federal marketing and the results have been outstanding. Our work with them has clearly given us a distinct advantage over our competition.”

-Cyrrus/HSG Client Testimonial

Experience and Qualifications

Representative engagements

• Fortune 500 IT Systems Company – Executing full scale Congressional lobbying (authorization and appropriations), as well as regulatory agency and federal marketing engagement focused on cybersecurity.

• Fortune 50 Web Services Company – Designing and leading a targeted Congressional and federal regulatory and standards engagement that is focused on critical government web adoption policies.

• Leading Technology Non-Profit – Provide strategic counsel to non-profit entity focused on promoting government’s understanding of emerging technology issues as well as crafting targeted appropriations language.

• Federal Systems Provider – Executing authorization and appropriations counselling for a large federal IT systems provider on a business critical issue related to shared services.

• DOE contractor – Representing the interests of a DOE contractor on a critical Congressional investigation involving the House Oversight Committee and the Department of Energy.

Representative engagements

Experience and Qualifications

Special Interest Projects

• FITARA Implementation – The Joint Venture team includes the author of FITARA (Rich Beutel) and one of the industry’s leading advocates for the legislation during its consideration (Mike Hettinger). Together, we are now advising the Federal CIO and other key stakeholders on key factors needed for effective implementation of the law.

• FedRAMP – No firm anywhere is more actively engaged in the FedRAMP program. We work closely with leadership at GSA and within the FedRAMP PMO, as well as with numerous industry groups advocating for changes to the program to make it work more effectively for CSPs doing business with the government.

• Accelerating Government Cloud Adoption – While the original 25 Point Plan started the government in the right direction on cloud, that momentum has slowed considerably. As thought leaders for government’s effective adoption of cloud we are driving debate around the importance of strong cloud computing and IT security policies.

Contact Us

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