Our Services

Fischer & Associates provides a full range of customized, experienced services to help support your export compliance and research security needs.

Export Compliance

Export Compliance Assessment, Program Development & Implementation

For new and established programs, we can assess your particular requirements and risk profile; develop and/or enhance procedures (including your Policy and SOPs); and provide pragmatic guidance and support on implementing your program. We can also draw upon our archive of templates and guidance documents that we have developed over many years of supporting export compliance to accelerate your implementation and provide “turnkey” solutions to key processes and information management strategies.

Help Desk:
On-Demand Solutions

Help Desk: On-Demand Solutions

Through our Help Desk services, we provide answers and solutions to specific questions and matters as they arise. Clients leverage our Help Desk services as an expedient “go-to” resource to tackle particularly complex issues, resolve regulatory interpretative matters, or provide an extra level of quick support in relation to any export control implementation (e.g., travel reviews, visa reviews, classification, contract reviews, restricted party screening, license applications, CJ requests, Technology Control Plans, etc.).

Administration and Faculty/Staff Training

We provide multiple types of export compliance, facility security, insider threat, and research security training for senior administration and all levels of personnel. We partner with our clients to customize training modules based on objectives, audience, and budget, with the key objective of presenting material and training scenarios that are as relevant as possible to attendees.

Personnel Support/ Outsource Services

Fischer & Associates can fill ECO, Export support, and/or FSO roles on a short- or long-term basis. We work with senior administration and management to ensure that we become a seamless member of your team. We conduct our work through a collaborative approach that transparently explains the reasons for control requirements, while remaining sensitive to the varying levels of awareness and bandwidth that personnel have and can devote to this area.

Compliance Staff Training & Development

Export, FSO, and research security personnel benefit from ongoing training and development. For institutions who need effective and knowledgeable training for their compliance employees, we provide one-on-one, customized training and skills development. We work with the manager to develop a training plan, success metrics, and consistent feedback plan. Training is often delivered virtually, but in-person training is available for specific issues/processes.

Classified Program Assessment & Development

For institutions or entities with existing Classified programs, or who are embarking on developing a Classified program, our US government Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) provides on-site assessments of security compliance capabilities and requirements, including NISPOM and Intelligence Community Directives (ICD) compliance requirements. This includes personnel clearance, facility clearance, information security, Operations Security (OPSEC) and physical security management.

Research Enterprise & Evaluation Consulting

We provide targeted, experienced support to help your institution grow or improve its research enterprise. Our proven methodology uses a combination of process and organizational structure assessment, faculty and staff interviews, peer institution benchmarking, and internal metrics analysis to evaluate whether your research enterprise and governance fully supports overall research objectives. Based on our findings and observations, we offer actionable recommendations and solutions to grow or enhance your research enterprise.

Research Security Program Development

We provide guidance, templates, briefings, and training to develop a comprehensive foreign influence prevention and Research Security program inclusive of multiple institutional stakeholders and core institutional structures. As new NSPM-33 and related requirements emerge, we continue to be on the forefront of developing and providing practical guidance and materials to support your research security needs.

Corporate International Trade Compliance University and Non-Academic Research Institutions Research Security Program Development