Massport: Using Technology to Improve Program Management
On October 7th, PMA Consultants’ Nick Baldasarre, along with Dareen Salama (Gryps) and Maria Itati Moguilner Costantini (Massport), presented at the Project Controls Expo. This presentation, focused on leveraging technology to create better project management outcomes, was based on their experience with a complex portfolio of Massport’s capital projects across aviation, maritime, and real estate.
Managing these projects efficiently requires harmonizing data from disparate systems and ensuring all stakeholders are aligned with accurate, timely information. PMA and Gryps partnered with Massport to help achieve just that. At the core of this partnership was a shared goal: unify data across legacy platforms and build a program-wide source of truth for smarter, faster decision-making.
One of the early priorities was solving for fragmented cost data across Oracle Primavera P6 and PMWeb. Gryps worked with PMA and Massport to integrate these systems and deliver unified, program-wide cash flow visualizations—complete with dynamic budget breakdowns by cost codes. These dashboards not only improved visibility into budget versus actuals, but also helped project controls and finance teams proactively manage risk across dozens of active jobs.
PMA, Gryps, and Massport also developed a program-wide labor rate tracker, which became critical in maintaining billing integrity. By aggregating labor rates from across vendors and tying them to historical trends, the tool provided an automated way to flag outliers. This empowered Massport to ensure contractors remained within expected billing norms, strengthening cost oversight and compliance.
This partnership between PMA, Gryps, and Massport has dramatically improved transparency and coordination across their capital program. Executives now have real-time access to the metrics that matter most, enabling faster, evidence-based decisions across planning, procurement, and project delivery. Through data integration, custom analytics, and AI-powered insights, Massport has set a new standard for public sector capital program management.