Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) October 4, 2011 – Geospatial-intelligence provider, ObjectFX®, today announced a new member to its leadership team – President, Beverly Parker. “Beverly brings a broad-range of management experience in multi-billion dollar enterprises, start-ups and turnaround situations to the company,” says Bill Pardue, CEO of ObjectFX®. “We are excited to have her on our team as her expertise of sales, customer service and marketing processes will help to launch ObjectFX® to a higher level of company recognition within the government and commercial marketplaces.” As President of ObjectFX®, Parker will oversee the company’s business development and marketing teams to develop the overall strategy, new market segment identification and sales growth for ObjectFX®’s geospatial decision-support engine, SpatialRules®, and web mapping tool, SpatialFX®. Parker will also manage strategic partnerships and the existing government and commercial customer base, including relationships with Lockheed Martin, the United States Army and Union Pacific. Previously, Parker served an extensive 22-year career with LexisNexis as [...]
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ObjectFX Appoints Bill Pardue Chief Executive Officer
Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) September 20, 2011 – ObjectFX®, a leading provider of geospatial intelligence solutions, today announced that Bill Pardue has been named Chief Executive Officer. Bill brings more than 25 years of general management, product development and marketing experience to ObjectFX® in the information-technology and publishing sectors, ranging from multi-billion-dollar global enterprises to startups. He also is a partner in TransVoyant™ LLC, the Alexandria-based private equity firm that purchased ObjectFX® earlier this summer. In his new role, Mr. Pardue will lead the company in identifying market needs in the defense, intelligence, security and transportation logistics sectors, and decide how ObjectFX® solutions can best fill those needs through the advancement of new and enhanced technologies, partnerships and through acquisitions. “Bill brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in building outstanding decision-support information products,” said Tim Fleischer, Chairman of ObjectFX®. “His strong leadership, business management background and market knowledge will help both accelerate ObjectFX®’s growth and support our [...]
ObjectFX Announces Acquisition by TransVoyant LLC
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) August 4, 2011– ObjectFX®, a leading provider of location-based intelligence solutions, announced today its acquisition by a group of private-equity investors based in Alexandria, VA. The company also announced that significant investments are underway for continued enhancements to SpatialRules®, ObjectFX®’s geospatial decision-support engine for analyzing massive streams of spatial and temporal data. “Both our commercial and government clients have asked for these advancements,” said the company’s new Chairman, Tim Fleischer. “We are excited about releasing the new features later this year.” SpatialRules® won the prestigious Industry Achievement Award last year from the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. The company maintains a long-running cooperative research and development agreement with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. David Hemphill, who continues as Chief Technology Officer for ObjectFX®, said the new product functionality will help fill serious gaps existing in the marketplace for key user groups in defense, intelligence, security and law-enforcement, along with customers in the transportation management [...]
ObjectFX Wins US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s Industry Achievement Award
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) November 14, 2010– ObjectFX, a leading provider of dynamic geospatial tools and middleware, announced that President Steve Panzer and Chief Technology Officer David Hemphill received the 2010 USGIF Industry Achievement Award. ObjectFX was presented with the award on Nov. 3rd at the annual GEOINT conference in New Orleans, LA, for developing and deploying SpatialRules®, a Complex Event Processor (CEP) for geospatial data. Each year the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation presents awards to the most influential members of the geospatial intelligence community from academia, government, and industry. Recognized for outstanding achievements and innovations, winners are selected based on their contributions for advancing the intelligence tradecraft. “It’s quite an honor to be selected,” stated Steve Panzer. “This is a testament to the hard work and contributions of not only our people at ObjectFX but our mission partners as well. ObjectFX places a high value on our partnerships within the intelligence community. This award confirms [...]
NGA Recognizes ObjectFX as their Longest Running CRADA
In a ceremony hosted by Vonna Heaton, Director of Innovision, NGA acknowledged ObjectFX’s “above and beyond” contributions to NGA and its Mission Partners Minneapolis, MN – June 22, 2010 – ObjectFX was recognized by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for technology contributions to the defense and intelligence communities under its long-standing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Initially established in 1999, when NGA was still NIMA, the NGA/ObjectFX CRADA has provided a vehicle whereby commercial software could be both enhanced and tailored to better meet the needs of the government’s geospatial programs. By gaining access via this partnership arrangement, ObjectFX was able to transition its commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, oriented originally towards commercial vehicle tracking for the transportation, logistics and supply chain management industries, to be deployed on a multitude of defense, intelligence and homeland security programs. The thrust of the original CRADA focused on advanced geospatial visualization. ObjectFX’s solution, SpatialFX, was enhanced to display [...]
More Security, Less Expense: A Spatiotemporal Rules Engine Makes Port Security More Efficient
By David Hemphill, Chief Technology Officer, ObjectFX Published in GeoPlace August 2009 Because of their proximity to urban centers and other critical infrastructure, ports make attractive terrorist targets due to the fact that a successful attack would result in significant loss of life, structural damage and economic impact. Protecting our ports requires constant vigilance by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and marine enforcement officers. We rely on the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and others to ensure our safety and protect our nation’s critical infrastructure. Since Sept. 11, 2001, however, mission priorities of the USCG have shifted significantly, as critical new challenges made their way to the forefront. Traditionally, mission priorities focused on search-and-rescue operations, combating drug smuggling and preventing illegal immigration. Dynamic Cluster Detection determines when a user-specified number of vessels are within a certain proximity at the same time. After the terrorist attack in 2001, priorities shifted to homeland security and maritime domain [...]
Demonstration for Emergency Information Sharing Hits Home Run
Minneapolis, MN – June 23, 2009 – ObjectFX, a leading provider of spatiotemporal technology, was honored to participate in the recent Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) project. UICDS is sponsored by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and is being executed through a contract with prime contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE:SAI]. The UICDS project successfully conducted a demonstration of the prototype reference implementation of the national architecture for emergency information sharing. The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) hosted the demonstration at the Virginia Emergency Operations Center (VEOC) in Richmond on April 29. The UICDS prototype implementation integrated information from 23 commercial, government and academic technology provider applications, demonstrating how this information is shared among applications and the jurisdictions they serve. The demonstration included six incident vignettes occurring in a simulated East Coast storm, with each vignette showing information sharing among five to seven applications currently in use [...]
NGA Partner Announcement
Published in C4ISR Journal, June 3, 2009 NGA isn’t the only agency that directly benefits from its CRADAs. Technology developed under NGA CRADAs has been incorporated in major procurements. A 1999 CRADA with geospatial intelligence-tool developer ObjectFX, which focused on displaying situational awareness and common-operating picture data, led to wide applications, according to Steve Panzer, vice president of ObjectFX’s government division. Our product was really built for the commercial industry, but NGA saw the value of moving our technology into an area where they could make better use of it both for the intelligence community and the defense community,” Panzer said. NGA selected ObjectFX’s SpatialFX product for its Image Exploitation Support System, a geospatial database of imagery and other data. The Army also included the software in its All Source Analysis System and its Tactical Exploitation System, which automate the analysis of intelligence from satellites and airborne sensors. “I don’t think we would have been [...]
Deriving Location Intelligence from Complex Event Processing for National Security Applications
By Joe Francica, Editor in Chief and Vice Publisher, Directions Magazine May 06, 2009 As sensory information becomes more advanced, the government is faced with a continuous and ever-expanding stream of real-time information from which it collects intelligence in support of national security. Thousands of small, seemingly insignificant events happen every day. ObjectFX has created a solution that fits within Complex Event Processing. CEP helps to automate incident detection and is enabling applications in government to streamline processes, while more quickly identifying what’s important. Geospatial analysts, working toward the same goal of most efficiently identifying actionable intelligence, are turning to Geospatial Event Processing to correlate space- and time-relevant events to determine when a significant event has occurred. Editor in Chief Joe Francica posed some questions to Steve Panzer, the vice president of ObjectFX’s Government Division. Read the full story
Cradling Innovation
By Steve Panzer, ObjectFX Published in Military Geospatial Technology, April 2009 When implemented well, public-private partnerships bring the best of both worlds together. A cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA), in which private enterprise provides innovative technology for public sector review, analysis, support and guidance, is an excellent example of a public-private partnership that works. This partnership leverages resources and knowledge from the private sector, while providing guidance from the public sector and insight into the specific needs of individual government agencies. A CRADA offers both parties the opportunity to share technical expertise, ideas and information in a protected environment. Originally authorized in 1986 as a means of expanding technology transfer between federal laboratories and the private sector, the CRADA program ultimately strives to advance science and technology that not only meets government objectives but also has viability in other potential commercial applications. The candid interactions that are nurtured through a CRADA bring both public enterprises [...]