Service-Disabled Veteran · SDVOSB  ·  PA Veteran Business Enterprise  ·  Pennsylvania & Mid-Atlantic

Enterprise PM.
Applied Where
It Actually
Matters.

PMWERX delivers the program management discipline behind billion-dollar federal portfolios — to Pennsylvania government agencies, defense contractors, and commercial organizations that need it but have never had access to it.

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$1B+
Portfolio Under Management
16
Years CHART Framework
18
New Positions — One Recovery
$4M+
Documented Cost Savings

You're Delivering to
a Prime Who Expects
Defense-Grade PM.

Your customer runs EVMS, schedule adherence reviews, and risk escalation protocols. You're running on tribal knowledge and gut feel. You have one or two people holding the program together. If either of them walked out tomorrow, you'd miss your next delivery — and your prime is already watching.

That's not a personnel problem. That's a systems problem. And PMWERX is the firm that fixes it — because our founder has sat across from your customer, managed programs at the scale they operate, and built the framework that closes that gap.

"I spent 16 years managing billion-dollar programs for the primes your company delivers to. I know exactly what they expect and precisely what your team is missing. That gap has a name, a sequence, and a fix."

— Joe Walker, MBA, MS · Founder, PMWERX
Defense & Federal
Commonwealth & Public Sector
Commercial
Raytheon Technologies Northrop Grumman SAIC L3Harris Curtiss-Wright GDIT MTSI Deloitte Federal JHU APL AFRL MITRE KBR

Six Ways We
Move the Needle.

01
PM Capability Assessment

Two-day structured diagnostic of your program management systems, accountability architecture, schedule risk drivers, and communication failures. Written report. 30/60/90-day action plan. Delivered with the precision of someone who has managed programs at this level from the prime side.

02
PM Systems Build

EVMS fundamentals, risk management cadence, schedule discipline, and stakeholder communication protocols — implemented into your organization's operating rhythm. Not a training. An installation. 60–90 day engagement.

03
Monthly PM Advisory

Fractional senior PM leadership. Monthly program health reviews, escalation support, and direct access for emerging problems. Walker's KBR-level expertise applied to your portfolio for a fraction of what a full-time hire would cost.

04
Leadership Development

CHART Framework applied to your program teams — building the trust, accountability, and resilience infrastructure that makes PM systems stick. The reason most PM implementations fail is leadership culture, not process design.

05
Program Rescue

For programs at risk. A crisis intensive: diagnose the root failure, stabilize the customer relationship, and lead the recovery before the customer makes the decision for you. Walker has done this. The case study is below.

06
VBE / SDVOSB Teaming

PMWERX is a PA Veteran Business Enterprise and SBA-certified SDVOSB. Available as a subcontracting partner to prime contractors on Commonwealth and federal engagements who need to meet VBE/SDVOSB participation goals with a firm that delivers real PM capability — not a certification checkbox.

Pennsylvania Government
Programs That Deliver.

Your agency is running a modernization program that touches every department. The scope keeps growing. The original timeline is gone. Your team is stretched across three other priorities. The vendor says they're on track — but you don't have independent visibility into whether that's true.

You don't need another contractor. You need someone who has managed programs at this scale, who can see through vendor status reports, and who will tell you what's actually happening — before the next budget hearing makes it public.

"Government programs serving Pennsylvania residents deserve the same rigor as the programs defending them. I built PMWERX to bring that level of discipline to organizations that need it but have never had access to it."

— Joe Walker, MBA, MS · Founder, PMWERX
Commonwealth Procurement
PA Supplier Portal — Registered PA DGS Veteran Business Enterprise PA DGS Small Business SBA VetCert SDVOSB SAM.gov Active NAICS 541611 · 541614 · 541618 · 611430

Available for PA RFP response, ITQ qualification, Small Business Reserve solicitations, task order competition, and VBE subcontracting on Commonwealth prime engagements.

The CHART
Framework.

C
Communication
Shared understanding before any execution begins. Eliminates the ambiguity that produces cost overruns.
H
Human Infrastructure
The relationships and trust architecture that determine whether people actually execute what they committed to.
A
Accountability
Ownership that is specific, visible, and consequential — at every level of the program organization.
R
Resilience
Identifying problems at yellow — before they become red. The early warning system most programs don't have.
T
Transformation
Building the capability that sustains performance after PMWERX disengages. Not dependency — independence.

Developed over 16 years across Air Force Security Forces nuclear weapons operations, the Air Force One Complex, GDIT, and KBR — the CHART Framework is a proprietary leadership system that addresses what process improvement cannot: the human and organizational failures underneath every program that underperforms.

It is style-agnostic. It works in any industry, any program, any organization. What changes is the language used to apply it — and PMWERX translates it directly into the context of your programs.

2009–2011
Misawa AB, Japan — 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster response and recovery operations.
2012–2018
Air Force One Complex, Andrews AFB — Presidential support operations.
2022–2023
GDIT — Defense IT program management.
2024–Present
KBR — $1B+ defense program portfolio management.

From Near
Cancellation to
Growth.

18
New positions created
$4M+
Cost savings documented
25%
Lead time reduction
2
Competitor billets captured

A defense program was at near-cancellation risk. The customer relationship had deteriorated. Accountability had collapsed. The program leadership did not have a shared understanding of what had failed or in what sequence. Walker applied the CHART Framework diagnostic, identified the root communication and accountability failures, and led the recovery.

Within one contract period: 18 new positions created, 2 competitor billets captured through rebuilt trust, $4M+ in documented cost savings, 25% lead time reduction, and zero personnel lost through the entire recovery.

"You were close to losing this program altogether. I want you to know how happy we are with you and the team."

Government Customer — Defense Program

The PM Capability
Assessment.

PM Capability Assessment
Everything included · Fixed fee · No surprises
  • 2-day on-site CHART Framework diagnostic $6,000 value
  • Written assessment report — root cause, sequenced findings $3,000 value
  • Prioritized 30/60/90-day action plan with milestones $2,000 value
  • 60-minute debrief — Walker walks every finding in person $750 value
  • 30-day direct email access to Walker post-assessment $1,500 value
  • Bonus: Leadership accountability audit — who owns what $1,000 value
Total Value
Your investment: $8,500
$14,250
Government Contracting

PMWERX is available for SDVOSB sole-source awards up to $5M under FAR 19.1406 and SDVOSB set-aside competitions. SAM.gov registered. VetCert certified. All NAICS codes registered for professional services and management consulting.

NAICS 541611 NAICS 541614 NAICS 541618 NAICS 611430 SDVOSB · VetCert SAM.gov Active

Joe Walker,
MBA · MS

Portfolio Manager · KBR

Managing a $1B+ defense program portfolio with active working relationships across every major defense prime. Current. Active. Not retired experience.

Air Force Security Forces

2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster response and recovery operations, Misawa AB, Japan. Air Force One Complex, Andrews AFB.

Johns Hopkins · Colorado State

MS Organizational Leadership, Johns Hopkins University. MBA, Colorado State University. Academic credentials that match the operational depth.

SDVOSB · Service-Disabled Veteran

SBA VetCert certified SDVOSB. SAM.gov registered. Eligible for sole-source awards up to $5M and SDVOSB set-aside competitions government-wide.

Get Started

Request a
Capabilities Briefing.

30 minutes. Walker briefs PMWERX's capabilities and asks the questions that determine whether there's a fit. No pitch. No obligation.