dt company overview january 2013
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Data TacticsCapabilities Brief
Corporate Summary
Founded in 2005• A Minority-Owned Small Business• Washington Business Journal Fast 50 Recipient
Offices in VA, MD, and NC• TS/SCI Facility Clearance• Advanced Lab Facilities• Development, Testing, Integration & Evaluation Facilities• Host nine clouds for the Army and DARPA• Two Sponsored Certified and Accredited SCIFs
Certifications• ISO 9001 – Quality Management Systems• ISO 27000 – Information Management Security Systems
Prime Contract Vehicles• Army RDECOM BAA• Army I2WD BAA• GSA Alliant Small Business• Subcontracts with many LSI firms across the DoD and IC
NAICS Codes• NAICS 541330 - Engineering Services• NAICS 541712 - Research and Development in the
Physical, Engineering, and Life
Today's decisions makers are tasked to gather, correlate, and analyze information from ever increasing data sources in shorter amounts of time. Data Tactics is focused on solving the problems of Data Management facing the DoD, Intelligence Community, Law Enforcement, and the Private Sector. From tactical to strategic efforts, our team has lead the creation, integration, and implementation of innovative and proven solutions in the world of Data Alignment, Modeling, and Analytics.
Our Staff
200 Employees • 90% TS/SCI cleared, many with polygraphs• 60% have Advanced Degrees and Doctorates • Over 30% are Military and Intelligence
Community Veterans• 10% of Staff are “Data Scientists”• Three World-Class Semantic Researchers
Certification Highlights• Project Management: CMMI, Project+, and PMP• Software Development• VMware • Cybersecurity• Cloudera Certified Engineers (40% of Technical Staff) • Hadoop • Puppet• MapR• Greenplum
Our Focus
Client Focused• Our work contributes to our client’s success because we design, deliver, and sustain those services to work in the client's environment
and by the client’s personnel.• Team diversity provides a greater understanding of customer requirements which translates to focused and efficient solutions.
Strategic Planning • Program Leadership • Technical Roadmaps • Commitment to Action
Strategically Focused • Engineering, Operations, and Management personnel in support of strategic objectives. Our personnel provide these capabilities in our
facilities, our customers’ facilities, and military facilities in country, such as forward locations and hostile mobile and tactical facilities.• Strategic Subject Matter Expertise for the development of innovative solutions in support of our customers’ objectives.
Business Analytics • Geospatial Analytics • Information Sharing • Counter Intelligence, Terrorism, and Proliferation
Core CapabilitiesData Architecture
• Innovation and Design• Assessment and Benchmarking• Collaboration and Uniformity
Data Engineering• Discovery, Ingestion, and Cleansing• Scientific Analysis• Large Scale Computation and Platforms
Data Management• Security and Assurance• Infrastructure and Administration• Visualization and Dissemination
Systems and Software Engineering
Systems Integration• Ingestion • Generalized Ingest / Niagra Files • Geospatial Capabilities• Biometric Capabilities• DoD-level Systems Hardening• Distributed Compute• Highly Distributed Computer
Processing• Hadoop/MapReduce • Cloudera• MapR• Solr / Lucene
Software Development• Analytics• Traditional All Source
Intelligence• Open Source Intelligence• Social Networking• Financial Intelligence• Human Geography• Highly Distributed Scientific
Analytics• Visualization and Widgets• Ozone Widget Framework• HTML5
Systems Engineering• Data Ingestion Frameworks
(structured, unstructured, semi-structured)
• Semantic Data Space Enrichment• Cloud Management Systems (CMS)• Cloudbase/Accumulo• Pig (Big Data) Plug-in• Dissemination and Reporting Tools • Data Mining, Exploitation, and
Correlation Tools• Peta-Scale Data Engineering• Automated Data Ingest• Data Modeling• Data Mark-Up• Data Analytics
Key Public EffortsAIR FORCE AIR FORCE TENCAP: FIRST DoDImplementation of NSA Ghost MachineArchitecture
ARMY DCGS-A STANDARD CLOUD (DSC):FIRST DoD Production Cloud DCGS-A EDGE NODE (DEN) / TACTICALEDGE NODE (D-TEN)INSCOM ENTERPRISE PLATFORM (IEP):FIRST DoD R&D Cloud
DNI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYEFFICIENCY (ITE): FIRST IC/DoD Big Data SystemFIRST Cloud to implement ICD 501
DARPA NEXUS 7: FIRST DARPA Big Data SystemMORE EYES: FIRST Deployed DARPACloud XDATA: Integration and CASE Project
NSA TEST, INTEGRATION, DEPLOYMENT ANDSUSTAINMENT (TIDS)T3 - Security Engineering / InformationAssurance
Globally Deployed Clouds
17 Clouds on SIPRNET
• 4 at DT in Tysons• 1 at Ft. Bragg• 2 in Hawaii• 1 in Germany• 7 at APG in MD• 2 in Afghanistan
5 Clouds on TS/SCI
• 1 in Denver, CO• 1 in Washington, DC• 1 at DT in VA• 1 in Springfield, VA• 1 for DSC
16 Clouds on UNCLASS
• 4 in Arlington, VA• 1 at DT in VA• 10 at DT in APG• 1 in Germany
Cloud and Big Data Domains are where we live.
Data is the hard problem.
Architecture Solutions/Features
Customer Requirements Drive Solution• Not cookie cutter• Budget, Data, Performance, Security, and Existing Components are
all Drivers
User Capability• Thin Client DataSpace Retrieval via Query and Search for Resolved
Entities• User Upload of Analyst Products to Cloud• Persistent Data Query and Alerting (on ingest)• Uniform Widget Experience and Data Sharing between Widget Views
Data Sourcing• Flexible, secure Data Ingest Architecture
• Unstructured Artifacts (e.g., free form report)• Semi-Structured (e.g. email message)• Structured Artifacts (e.g. RDB table, XML document)
Architecture Solutions/Features
• Advanced Analytics for Entity Extraction, Resolution, and Link Analysis• API for Retrieval of Artifacts, Metadata, and Semantic Indices• API for Application Access to Analytics Results• Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Scalable Storage with Double Redundancy• Security Infrastructure with Role and User Based Access Control
System Capability
• Log Viewer App: Ability to Monitor Users and Activities in Cloud• User Management App: Ability to Define Access for Users• Ingest Monitor widget: Ability to Track Progress of Data Ingest• Bulk Export/Import App for DataSpace• Cloud Management System for Monitoring and Control• Workflow Management System
Management Capability
Our Technology Network
Data Tactics engages with our technology partners to develop cutting edge technologies and implementations.