Decisive Analytics Corporation

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Decisive Analytics Corporation, a Whitney, Bradley and Brown, Inc. (WBB) company, is located in Arlington, Virginia with additional offices in Alexandria, Virginia, Huntsville, Alabama, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and San Diego, 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.

Engineering Services[]

Systems engineering, life-cycle logistics, acquisition management, cybersecurity & IA,^{[clarification needed]}, geospatial intelligence analysis, space and missile defense, media integration & C2,^{[clarification needed]}, international support

Advanced Technology[]

Target discrimination and data fusion, decision support systems, planning and mission design

Machine Learning[]

Launched in 2016, (http://analytics.dac.us)

Wrangling Difficult Data

Ingest of data that is ugly, clean, and every format in between. We get data into a form that can be utilized by machine learning.

Natural Language Processing

Insight into text through topic modeling, relationship extraction, entity resolution, semantic search, and event detection.

Imagery and Video Processing

Turn streaming imagery and video into actionable information through the identification of objects, actions, events.

Machine Learning Visualization

Interactive explanations of results from machine learning models and techniques.

Contour[]

Launched in 2010, Contour (http://contour.dac.us^{[permanent dead link]}) 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 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.
• Fiske, David R. (21 October 2006). "Error and symmetry analysis of Misner's algorithm for spherical harmonic decomposition on a cubic grid". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 23 (20): 5951–5960. arXiv:gr-qc/0412047. Bibcode:2006CQGra..23.5951F. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/20/016. S2CID 6316383.
• Misner, Charles W. (1 January 2006). "Excising das All: Evolving Maxwell waves beyond scri". Phys. Rev. D. 74 (6): 064003. arXiv:gr-qc/0603034. Bibcode:2006PhRvD..74f4003M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.064003. S2CID 5307362.
• "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-06-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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• D Fanjoy, D Pederson. Solving variations of the assignment problem with a genetic algorithm. Military Operations Research Society Symposium. June 2007
• Kittner, Cristiana C. Brafman (4 July 2007). "The Role of Safe Havens in Islamist Terrorism". Terrorism and Political Violence. 19 (3): 307–329. doi:10.1080/09546550701246791. S2CID 145505382.
• "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-06-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
• David, Andrew; Fiske, David (20 February 2017). "A Framework for Integrated Tracking and Discrimination". Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2010 – via Defense Technical Information Center.
• Pederson, Debbie (12 June 2008). "Ensuring Schedulability in the Weapon Target Assignment Problem". Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2010 – via Defense Technical Information Center.
• Thompson, J.; Bradley, J. (1 July 2007). "Predictive analysis network tool for human knowledge elicitation and reasoning". 2007 10th International Conference on Information Fusion. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1109/ICIF.2007.4408129. ISBN 978-0-662-45804-3. S2CID 14484620 – via IEEE Xplore.
• Hoffman, Karla; Menon, Dinesh (1 March 2010). "A Practical Combinatorial Clock Exchange for Spectrum Licenses". Decision Analysis. 7 (1): 58–77. doi:10.1287/deca.1090.0169.
• Durbin, Martin; Hoffman, Karla (1 February 2008). "OR PRACTICE—The Dance of the Thirty-Ton Trucks: Dispatching and Scheduling in a Dynamic Environment". Operations Research. 56 (1): 3–19. doi:10.1287/opre.1070.0459.
• "Method and Apparatus for Streamlined Wireless Data Transfer – Patent application".
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-24. Retrieved 2010-09-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Awards[]

• Washingtonian Magazine Great Places to Work (2013, 2011, 2009, 2007)^{[8][9][10][11]}
• Washington Business Journal Best Places to Work (2013, 2011, 2009)^[12][13][14]
• National Tibbetts Award SBIR Program Success (2007)^[15]
• Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards: Small Contractor of the Year Nominee (2005) ^[16]
• Arlington County Chamber of Commerce Tech-e Corporate Citizen of the Year (2005)^[17]
• Virginia Chamber of Commerce Fantastic 50 (2006)^[18]
• Inc. (magazine) 5000 List (2009 and 2005)^[19]
• Deloitte Technology Fast 50: Virginia (2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004)
• Deloitte Fast 500 (2006, 2005, and 2004)^[20]
• CRN Magazine VAR 500 List (2010, 2009 and 2008)^[21][22][23]

References[]

External links[]

• Decisive Analytics Corporation
• Machine Learining Home
• Official Twitter