USDA Case Study

In 2013, ChalkLabs developed a novel research portfolio management solution for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a research arm of the US Department of Agriculture. This solution allows directors, national program leaders, national program staff, and communications specialists the ability to visually identify latent relationships, identify overlaps, and identify gaps within the grants and research programs that they fund. This solution immediately generated a cost efficiency of 96% on average for two common types of interagency and Congressional requests the agency receives. This new solution is saving the agency hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.