1. Data Tactics
Capabilities Brief
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2. Corporate Summary
Today's decisions makers are tasked to gather, correlate, and Certifications
analyze information from ever increasing data sources in shorter • ISO 9001 – Quality Management Systems
amounts of time. Data Tactics is focused on solving the problems • ISO 27000 – Information Management Security Systems
of Data Management facing the DoD, Intelligence
Community, Law Enforcement, and the Private Sector. From Prime Contract Vehicles
tactical to strategic efforts, our team has lead the • Army RDECOM BAA
creation, integration, and implementation of innovative and • Army I2WD BAA
proven solutions in the world of Data Alignment, Modeling, and • GSA Alliant Small Business
Analytics. • Subcontracts with many LSI firms across the DoD and IC
Founded in 2005
• A Minority-Owned Small Business NAICS Codes
• Washington Business Journal Fast 50 Recipient
• NAICS 541330 - Engineering Services
• NAICS 541712 - Research and Development in the
Offices in VA, MD, and NC Physical, Engineering, and Life
• 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Core Capabilities
Data 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
6. Systems and Software Engineering
Systems Engineering Software Development Systems Integration
• Data Ingestion Frameworks • Analytics • Ingestion
(structured, unstructured, semi- • Traditional All Source • Generalized Ingest / Niagra Files
structured) Intelligence • Geospatial Capabilities
• Semantic Data Space Enrichment • Open Source Intelligence • Biometric Capabilities
• Cloud Management Systems (CMS) • Social Networking • DoD-level Systems Hardening
• Cloudbase/Accumulo • Financial Intelligence • Distributed Compute
• Pig (Big Data) Plug-in • Human Geography • Highly Distributed Computer
• Dissemination and Reporting Tools • Highly Distributed Scientific Processing
• Data Mining, Exploitation, and Analytics • Hadoop/MapReduce
Correlation Tools • Visualization and Widgets • Cloudera
• Peta-Scale Data Engineering • Ozone Widget Framework • MapR
• Automated Data Ingest • HTML5 • Solr / Lucene
• Data Modeling
• Data Mark-Up
• Data Analytics
7. Key Public Efforts
AIR FORCE DNI
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
AIR FORCE TENCAP: FIRST DoD
EFFICIENCY (ITE): FIRST IC/DoD Big Data System
Implementation of NSA Ghost Machine
FIRST Cloud to implement ICD 501
Architecture
DARPA
ARMY NEXUS 7: FIRST DARPA Big Data System
MORE EYES: FIRST Deployed DARPA
DCGS-A STANDARD CLOUD (DSC):
Cloud
FIRST DoD Production Cloud
XDATA: Integration and CASE Project
DCGS-A EDGE NODE (DEN) / TACTICAL
EDGE NODE (D-TEN) NSA
INSCOM ENTERPRISE PLATFORM (IEP): TEST, INTEGRATION, DEPLOYMENT AND
FIRST DoD R&D Cloud SUSTAINMENT (TIDS)
T3 - Security Engineering / Information
Assurance
8. Globally Deployed Clouds
17 Clouds on SIPRNET 5 Clouds on TS/SCI 16 Clouds on UNCLASS
• 4 at DT in Tysons • 1 in Denver, CO • 4 in Arlington, VA
• 1 at Ft. Bragg • 1 in Washington, DC • 1 at DT in VA
• 2 in Hawaii • 1 at DT in VA • 10 at DT in APG
• 1 in Germany • 1 in Springfield, VA • 1 in Germany
• 7 at APG in MD • 1 for DSC
• 2 in Afghanistan
Cloud and Big Data Domains are where we live.
Data is the hard problem.
9. 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)
10. Architecture Solutions/Features
System Capability
• 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
Management 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
11. Our Technology Network
Data Tactics engages with our technology partners to develop cutting edge
technologies and implementations.
Hinweis der Redaktion
DT was started with a group of seasoned engineers that are considered subject matter experts in their fields (database architecture design, database engineering, information assurance), analysts and management specialists who have worked together for over thirty collective years. These personnel are still Executive Principals of the corporation and continue to drive our vision of delivering quality solutions to our customers.