Decisive Analytics Corporation
DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corporation is an employee-owned engineering company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with offices in Alexandria, Virginia, Huntsville, Alabama, Dayton, Ohio, Jeffersonville, Indiana, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Huntington Beach, California.[1] Clients include United States Intelligence Community, Missile Defense Agency, United States Department of Defense and commercial customers.[2]
Products and Services
DECISIVE ANALYTICS provides analytical products and services to government agencies and commercial clients. Capabilities include: Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Video Asset Management, Systems Analysis, Acquisition Support, Strategic and Operational User Support, International Support and System Security Engineering.
Contour
Launched in 2010, Contour (http://contour.dac.us) is a web-based application which identifies critical facts from data repositories. Contour is made up of three components:
- BOBCAT is an analytical tool that provides guided prediction through large amounts of unstructured text. It has been featured at the United States Joint Forces Command Empire Challenge.
- PANTHER turns structured and unstructured data into predicted future events, relationships, and/or entities of interests.[3]
- MAINSHIP is an enterprise-class Media Asset Management (MAM) system.[4] It collects and monitors open-source information, such as television broadcasts, print articles and radio programs. Mainship used by thousands of authorized users through the 'OSC.gov' network and has ingested in excess of 400 terabytes of data.[5]
Systems Engineering
DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corporation authored the SE chapter of Defense Acquisition Guide, the Risk Management Guide for DoD Acquisition, and the Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Guide.[6] It developed of the Acquisition Logistics Reporting and Monitoring System [7]
Published Works, Conference Papers, and Patents
- C W Misner, J van Meter, D Fiske. Numerical relativity beyond I+. Gravitation and astrophysics: On the occasion of the 90th year of general relativity: Proceedings of the VII Asia-Pacific International Conference : National Central University, Taiwan, 23–26 November 2005.
- D Fiske. Error and symmetry analysis of Misner's algorithm for spherical harmonic decomposition on a cubic grid. Classical and Quantum Gravity 23 (2006)[8]
- C Misner, J van Meter, D Fiske. Excising das All: Evolving Maxwell waves beyon scri. Physical Review D 74, 064003 (2006)[9]
- D Fiske, E Schnetter, M Tiglio. Parca: A Paramesh-based driver for Cactus. American Physical Society April Meeting. April 2007 [10]
- D Pederson, D Fanjoy. Solving the weapon target assignment problem with multi-hypothesis maximum marginal return. Military Operations Research Society Symposium. June 2007 [11]
- D Fanjoy, D Pederson. Solving variations of the assignment problem with a genetic algorithm. Military Operations Research Society Symposium. June 2007 [12]
- C Kittner. The Role of Safe Havens in Islamist Terrorism. 2007. Terrorism and Political Violence. 19(3):307-329 [13]
- D Pederson. Ensuring schedulability in the weapon target assignment problem. Military Research Society Symposium. June 2008 [14]
- A David, D Fiske. A Framework for Integrated Tracking and Discrimination. Army Science Conference, December 2008 [15]
- D Pederson. Ensuring Schedulability in the Weapon Target Assignment Problem. 76th MORS Symposium, WG-4, Air and Missile Defense. June 2008 [16]
- J Bradley, J Thompson. Predictive analysis network tool for human knowledge elicitation and reasoning. 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2007.[17]
- K Hoffman, D Menon. A Practical Combinatorial Clock Exchange for Spectrum Licenses. DECISION ANALYSIS, March 2010; 7(1); 58-77 [18]
- M. Durbin and K. Hoffman. OR PRACTICE—The Dance of the Thirty-Ton Trucks: Dispatching and Scheduling in a Dynamic Environment. Operations Research, January 1, 2008; 56(1): 3 - 19.[19]
- R Peaslee, J Mahaffey. Method and Apparatus for Streamlined Wireless Data Transfer. Patent Pending. Application 20090201380.[20]
- D. Przebowski. Design Maturity Model. STSC CrossTalk. June 1999 [21]
Awards
- Washingtonian Magazine Great Places to Work (2013, 2011, 2009, 2007)[22][23] [24] [25]
- Washington Business Journal Best Places to Work (2013, 2011, 2009)[26][27] [28]
- National Tibbetts Award SBIR Program Success (2007)[29]
- Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards: Small Contractor of the Year Nominee (2005) [30]
- Arlington County Chamber of Commerce Tech-e Corporate Citizen of the Year (2005)[31]
- Virginia Chamber of Commerce Fantastic 50 (2006)[32]
- Inc. (magazine) 5000 List (2009 and 2005)[33]
- Deloitte Technology Fast 50: Virginia (2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004)
- Deloitte Fast 500 (2006, 2005, and 2004)[34]
- CRN Magazine VAR 500 List (2010, 2009 and 2008)[35][36][37]
References
- ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=30830260
- ↑ http://www.usaspending.gov
- ↑ http://contour.dac.us
- ↑ http://www.mainshipvideo.com/
- ↑ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBS/is_3_34/ai_n45026122/
- ↑ http://theriac.org/DeskReference/viewDocument.php?id=39&Scope=journal&year=2005&Q=2
- ↑ http://decisiveusa.com/serv_sys_acq.html
- ↑ http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0412047
- ↑ http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v74/i6/e064003
- ↑ http://absimage.aps.org/image/MWS_APR07-2007-000332.pdf
- ↑ http://www.mors.org/UserFiles/file/meetings/morss/75th_abs.pdf
- ↑ http://www.mors.org/UserFiles/file/meetings/morss/75th_abs.pdf
- ↑ http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a780502437
- ↑ http://www.mors.org/UserFiles/file/meetings/morss/76th_abs.pdf
- ↑ http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA503408
- ↑ http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA490120
- ↑ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4408129
- ↑ http://da.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/58
- ↑ http://or.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/1/3
- ↑ http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090201380
- ↑ http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/1999/06/przebowski.asp
- ↑ http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/businesscareers/14156.html
- ↑ http://www.washingtonian.com/packages/placestowork2007/
- ↑ http://www.washingtonian.com/packages/work-family/50-great-places-to-work-2013/
- ↑ http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/work-education/50-great-places-to-work-in-washington/
- ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/fedbiz_daily/2011/06/contractors-win-kudos-from-employees.html
- ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/06/08/tidbits2.html
- ↑ http://bizj.us/s8997/i/19
- ↑ http://www.tibbettsawards.org/pastwin07.htm
- ↑ http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2005/11/02/05-greater-washington-contractor-awards-it-leaders-take-their-turn-in-the-spotlight.aspx
- ↑ http://www.arlingtonchamber.org/pdf/Arlingtonian/2005_December.pdf
- ↑ http://www.vachamber.com/news.asp?id=10&newsid=46
- ↑ http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2009/company-profile.html?id=200948330
- ↑ http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/us_tmt_2006TechnologyFast500Winners.pdf
- ↑ http://www.crn.com/var-500/2010/417/company-details.htm
- ↑ http://www.crn.com/var-500/2009/477/company-details.htm
- ↑ http://www.crn.com/var-500/2008/464/company-details.htm