  In this paper, a strategy is developed studying a simplicial commutative
algebra A whose zeroth homotopy group is a Noetherian ring B and whose higher
homotopy groups are finite over B. The strategy replaces A with a connected
simplicial supplemented k(q)-algebra, for each prime ideal q in B, which
preserves much of the Andre-Quillen homology of A. The methods for this
construction involves a mixture of methods of homotopy theory (e.g. Postnikov
towers) with methods of commutative algebras (e.g. completions, Cohen
factorizations). We finish by indicating how these methods resolve a more
general form of a conjecture posed by Quillen.
