TransVoyant has a rich history of converting historical, real-time and forecast data such as weather, shipping, traffic, location and video into actionable intelligence in the DOD and Intelligence Community,” stated Dennis Groseclose. “We are honored to participate in this conference and continue to strive to learn more about how to apply these capabilities to the healthcare community — bringing real-time data together to allow the industry to make better decisions.”

“Harnessing the power of live spatial, temporal, preference and context data through emerging technologies can help healthcare supply chains and patient care delivery,” continued Dennis. “For instance, ‘what’s the real-time status of temperatures, water levels, air quality, winds, mosquitos, news and social media surrounding an outbreak and how do I process all these disparate sources of live data to make meaningful real-time decisions to adjust inventory of medications and allocate scarce human capital to problem areas?’ We are focused on getting the right decisions in the hands of the right people, through the power of real-time information and prescriptive analytics using traditional healthcare data combined with a rapidly expanding universe of global live data. We recognize we must collaborate with the community to learn how to apply these capabilities in order enhance healthcare situational awareness, make better predictive decisions, reduce costs and improve outcomes.”

The Health and Personal Care Logistics Conference has existed for over 80 years as a source of logistics education for the health and personal care industries. For more information, click here.

About Dennis Groseclose
In his role at TransVoyant, Dennis is focused on helping customers solve global logistics, defense, security and supply chain challenges. Dennis has extensive experience and expertise designing, building and operating technologies to assist customers assessing and managing global risk — and influencing human and system behaviors — while making critical decisions in real-time environments.

Dennis began his career in the United States Air Force and later joined IBM as a Program Director for Worldwide Supply Chain Optimization. After IBM, Dennis joined C-Bridge Corporation, a company specializing in supply chain, financial services and risk management technology solutions. He served as its Vice President of Operations and was part of the executive team guiding the company from start-up to a successful IPO.

In 2002, Dennis became Lockheed Martin’s Deputy Vice President of Homeland Security. He led development and deployment of risk, targeting, analytics and intelligence solutions for U.S. Homeland Security immediately following the 9/11 attacks. A handful of his National Security programs grew into the current DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Dennis later became the Vice President of Business Development and Advanced Programs for Lockheed’s simulation, logistics and supply chain business.

In addition to a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Air Force Academy, Dennis holds an MBA from Louisiana State University, and a MS from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Dennis has served on Boards of the National Center for Simulation, the Center for Applied Identity Management Research and the Economic Crime Institute.

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Alexandria, VA – March 5, 2013 – TransVoyant^™ announced today that it has received a contract renewal with the Department of Energy (DOE) Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) for map software application interfaces.

Under subcontract to Ma-Chis Lower Creek Indian Tribe Enterprises, Inc., TransVoyant provides new maps that show the position of shipments on a street level for the DOE’s TRANSCOM Maps module. TransVoyant uses the latest version of SpatialFX^®, its patented and scalable web mapping and visualization tool, the most recent version of NAVTEQ data, the Google maps API and a spatial routing service called GeoDecisions to provide the new maps and optimized routes for tracking shipment locations to determine if a vehicle has deviated from its pre-determined route. Users with varying levels of access utilize the TRANSCOM Maps module interface to visualize position data from the TRANSCOM GPS database with the corresponding U.S. shipment(s) locations.

About SpatialFX

TransVoyant customers use SpatialFX^® to visualize complex maps, combine imagery and vector formats, integrate dynamic data, rapidly refresh views and display large numbers of query results efficiently (and in near real-time) for insight into vehicle locations, network traffic, troop deployments and the status of geographically dispersed projects. Click here for more information on SpatialFX^®.

About TransVoyant
In our high-volume data-driven world, TransVoyant delivers real-time intelligent decisions to global customers. TransVoyant employs a team of cleared analysts, consultants and technologists to assist clients in designing, implementing and managing solutions for outcome-focused intelligence. TransVoyant solutions are used by business and government customers to make real-time decisions with high-velocity live location, time, context and preference information. Our decision and predictive analytics technologies and proven customer-centric methodology, combined with our long history of on-time and on-budget solution delivery, improves outcomes for intelligence, defense, supply chain and risk management customers. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with additional locations in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Florida.

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Alexandria, VA – February 28, 2013 – TransVoyant^™ announced today that it has been awarded a continuation of its contract with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), under prime, Alion Science and Technology, for ongoing support and maintenance for the Risk Recon Risk Management Tool.

Initially developed by PEO GCS in partnership with TransVoyant, Risk Recon is a custom developed, government owned application used to enter and track risk associated with projects and programs. It is currently in use across the TACOM LCMC, Army and Marine Corps programs. Designed to be used by all Program Management Offices, Integrated Project Teams and any other groups performing organizational risk management, the Risk Recon tool enables standardized capture of risk data in a collaborative environment with security features that maintain confidentiality of information, while ensuring that all program and project teams use a consistent Risk Management process.

Benefits of Risk Recon include:

“While this tool satisfies the requirement to have an integrated risk management software process and database to capture, manage and report on risks, a gap still exists to track and monitor program issues and opportunities,” stated TransVoyant Program Manager, Robert Missig. “In partnership with Alion, TransVoyant developers are working on advancing this tool into a risk, issue and opportunity management resource through the integration of a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis database, project management schedule integration and Lessons Learned search and tracking components.”

In addition, TransVoyant is providing Systems Engineering software support and training for Project Recon and the Advanced Systems Engineering Capability (ASEC) suite of tools, including help desk support and mobile training. The ASEC is a collaborative suite of Systems Engineering tools whose basis is decision management, which allows a user to trace decisions to requirements, solutions and tests; perform design trade-off analysis; and manage requirements. The purpose of the ASEC is to make it easier for Systems Engineers to work in a single web-enabled collaborative framework where all program data is brought together in the context of a decision – enabling stakeholders to make decisions with confidence.

About TransVoyant
In our high-volume data-driven world, TransVoyant delivers real-time intelligent decisions to global customers. TransVoyant employs a team of cleared analysts, consultants and technologists to assist clients in designing, implementing and managing solutions for real-time and prescriptive decision-making. TransVoyant solutions are used by business and government customers to make real-time decisions with high-velocity live location, time, context, attribute and preference information. Our decision and predictive analytics technologies and proven customer-centric methodology, combined with our long history of on-time and on-budget solution delivery, improve outcomes for intelligence, defense, supply chain and risk management customers. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with additional locations in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Florida.

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Since 2010, TransVoyant (fka Portal Dynamics) has provided custom Microsoft SharePoint development support to DARPA under subcontract to Wyle Information Systems.

By using Microsoft SharePoint, TransVoyant has assisted DARPA in:

Customized SharePoint solutions completed under the DARPA contract include:

The TransVoyant PMEP automatic financial data import and mapping tool has replaced a manual user import process from Sybase to the SQL Server, saving DARPA time and money on a formerly inefficient process. TransVoyant’s contract documents management system has led to an improved organization structure by providing users with a central location to upload, retrieve and read contract information and documents.

About TransVoyant SharePoint Services
TransVoyant’s SharePoint services include SharePoint integration, custom development, web part development and legacy systems integration. In addition, we provide Integration and Systems Support, Phase Design and Development, Testing and Implementation, Operations and Maintenance and End User Training. For more information on our SharePoint Services, please give us a call at (703) 778-3500.

About TransVoyant
In our high-volume data-driven world, TransVoyant delivers real-time intelligent decisions to global customers. TransVoyant employs a team of cleared analysts, consultants and technologists to assist clients in designing, implementing and managing solutions for outcome-focused intelligence. TransVoyant solutions are used by business and government customers to make real-time decisions with high-velocity live location, time, context and preference information. Our decision and predictive analytics technologies and proven customer-centric methodology, combined with our long history of on-time and on-budget solution delivery, improves outcomes for intelligence, defense, supply chain and risk management customers. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with additional locations in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Florida.

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Originally published by GeoWorld Magazine, December 2012
Written by Dennis Groseclose, President of TransVoyant^™

Since Ptolemy drafted his ancient discourse on cartography, Charles Picquet placed a rudimentary heat map across the 48 districts of Paris showing cholera severity or Fred Armisen taught the world a few things about political maps on Saturday Night Live, GIS and derivative capabilities have been about something other than pleasing maps, pretty pictures or the coolest technology. Alright, perhaps Armisen’s skit was about cool technology, but after watching and laughing a bit, the frustration GIS technophiles cause industry and government executives crystallizes in the mind.

GIS has always been a means to an end: timely and accurate decisions and proactive modifications of human and system behavior. When was the last time you heard a C-level decision maker say, “Hey, I really have to get some of that GIS and location-based services stuff today, and I’ll need more tomorrow, so let’s spend some money on a pile of technology?” Instead, the following typically are heard:

Called “Intelligence” for a Reason

I had the honor to serve the United States in the aftermath of 9/11. Quite often, I was the only industry leader in a series of senior-government threat, capability and risk decision meetings. During a meeting in spring 2002, for example, a senior administration official turned to me and said, “I’m sick of industry equating intelligence with technology and mounds of data … It’s called intelligence, because it’s supposed to drive a decision to prevent something bad or cause something good five minutes, five days or five weeks from now.”

That single comment stuck in my mind since 2001 and has influenced personal time allocation and financial investment choices ever since, including the decision to build TransVoyant’s GeoVigilance^™ geospatial awareness platform for real-time decision support and pattern detection. I realized it was about future system and human behavior. In other words, “It’s future behavior, Stupid.”

Built as a location-based awareness platform designed to aid users with real-time geospatial, temporal, context and preference support, GeoVigilance^™ features a flexible visualization interface that gives users the ability to perform tracking and analysis of location and time-based events.

Not behavior in the sense of “big brother” digging through electronic breadcrumbs to track behavior and risk with an eye toward individual monitoring and jack-booted interdiction, but complex systems—such as global supply chains—demonstrating behaviors that must be optimized based on context and preference.

Context can be things such as weather, traffic, seismic, labor strife or political unrest. Preference includes concepts such as profit maximization, new market-penetration objectives, cash conservation and inventory targets.

Focus on the Ends

In a similar fashion, consumers have preferences and react to context, thereby altering personal and group behavior. Annapolis, Md., may be a great town, and it may be inside the rudimentary geofence that current location-based advertising applications use as D.C.-based consumers move around the Washington area, but relentless notifications and coupons pushed to a smartphone to visit a sports bar near the Naval Academy may force users to uninstall the various applications out of lack of interest.

A basic knowledge of context, user preferences and life patterns would enable a better technology to realize that users’ normal movements don’t take them near Annapolis on Fridays, weekends or anytime temperatures are below 50 degrees. And he or she certainly never drives there in a snowstorm.

GIS and all the industry jargon used as derivative monikers must be focused on the ends and not the means. Showing someone pretty maps, layers of additional static infrastructure and a few points of interest near a static geofence are nice and sometimes cool, but, as a collective, technology must focus on future decisions and behaviors.

The collective challenge is to deliver value where it’s needed most—a decision prior to when it’s needed. For example, GeoVigilance^™ drives such a decision-making process through analysis of geospatial, context and temporal data (e.g., weather, airplane, signals intelligence, maritime, GPS, street, vehicle and preference datasets), employing iterative techniques to refine patterns of life definitions for real-time event detection and notification—sent to decision makers via text or e-mail.

Losing or Building Trust

An example of related technology losing focus can be pulled from global supply chain evolution. As the story goes, someone thought it would be great if companies and governments could use technology to track global supply. An entire industry sprung up around active and passive RFID tags and global in-transit visibility.

Early investors rushed in for a piece of the action, and senior politicians were persuaded to mandate heavy use in the defense industry. Eventually, large and slow-moving companies bought up the early technology leaders, squashing the innovation required to take the basic visibility data to the business and mission-value “promised land.”

An oil refinery uses live data feeds of earthquake activity for risk identification and mitigation to recalibrate equipment when seismic events occur.

Until recently, the in-transit visibility value proposition forgot the most important question: “What good is all these data if I can’t first make and then implement decisions to quickly modify supply chain behavior before I even see the problem on a map or picture?”

Does a factory manager need pretty maps and reports if the exact parts needed to meet the exact customer demand show up at the exact start of the production line every time the parts are needed? After the production manager gains trust through repeated supply chain performance, he or she doesn’t need the global in-transit visibility data as the end result. Instead, the visibility is simply a means to an end. The ends are the multitude of real-time decisions taking place automatically or through machine-triggered human intervention to modify supply chain behavior so the parts show up on time, every time.

Technology to Aid the Mind

With a bit of imagination, this supply chain example can be modified to demonstrate the addition of real value to defense and security, consumer-demand generation, insurance and re-insurance, agriculture, energy, and myriad other human needs around the globe. For years, the primary recipient of basic sensor data was the human mind, which processed them over various time periods, made decisions, and modified individual or attempted to modify collective behavior.

Recently, capable real-time location, context and preference technologies have emerged. As global innovators leverage these technologies, they will enable a combination of humans and machines to rapidly deliver prescriptive decisions to modify behavior.

An example shows GeoVigilance^™ actively scanning Twitter feeds for key words (and integrating traffic monitor feeds) for enhanced event security.

Even with a recent move toward interdependent human and machine decision making, it’s interesting to remember that the valuable decisions still surround the same three categories of human needs that have been present for thousands of years:

1. Risk Identification, Mitigation or Elimination

2. Economic Gain

3. Social Tuning

Industry and government customers now are asking for real-time prescriptive decisions instead of simply buying software and piles of yesterday’s data. These customers understand that mission and business value isn’t derived from the analysis of historical data collected with little rhyme or reason. Instead, they’re demanding a set of predictive and prescriptive capabilities.

Organizations that can harness the exponential growth in location, context and preference data to influence human and system behavior will help customers move beyond their business or national-security adversaries. In other words, it’s future behavior, Stupid.

Click here for more information on GeoVigilance^™.

About TransVoyant^™
TransVoyant^™ solutions are used by business and government customers, providing them with control and enabling decisions using location, time, context, risk and preference variables. The company’s solutions provide enhanced outcomes for compliance, risk management, intelligence and logistics support. TransVoyant^™ data fusion tools, virtual intelligence, analytics, and supply chain risk assessment programs help customers integrate and visualize both historical and real-time geospatial data in fluid and responsive experiences, allowing for smart and timely decisions. TransVoyant^™ solutions help clients process and make decisions about tens of thousands of data points in mere seconds. The solutions are dynamic, flexible, scalable and easily integrated into existing and new data architectures and applications. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Anniston, AL – October 18, 2012 – TransVoyant^™ announced today that it has signed a multi-year contract renewal with the Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) for Depot Total Asset Visibility System (DTAVS) Development and Maintenance Support.

TransVoyant originally architected, developed and deployed and continues to maintain and support the Visual Planner System (VPS) web-based system component of DTAVS for ANAD. In partnership with ANAD’s Directorate of Information Management (DOIM) organization, the TransVoyant professional services team has provided maintenance and sustainment support for VPS since October 2006. VPS is the material management solution that is used to track and report the status of ground combat vehicle components, sub-components and parts as they undergo the reset (remanufacturing) process in ANAD’s Industrial Complex. DTAVS has effectively reduced the depot’s spare parts inventory, while reducing re-manufacturing bottlenecks, expediting repair cycles, and saving the U.S. government and taxpayers millions of dollars.

“DTAVS is a critical system for Anniston Army Depot production,” stated Wayne Chesley, TransVoyant Vice President and General Manager. “We are honored to continue our work supporting the United States Army to optimize material flow and reduce inventory cost in this difficult budget environment. We look forward to continuing support of DTAVS in order to provide increased visibility, configuration and coordination of asset and material movement and inventory availability, as well as decreased cycle time and increased productivity for ANAD’s remanufacturing operations in support of ongoing efficiency initiatives.”

About TransVoyant
In our high-volume data-driven world, TransVoyant delivers real-time intelligent decisions to global customers. TransVoyant employs a team of cleared analysts, consultants and technologists to assist clients in designing, implementing and managing solutions for outcome-focused intelligence. TransVoyant solutions are used by business and government customers to make real-time decisions with high-velocity live location, time, context and preference information. Our decision and predictive analytics technologies and proven customer-centric methodology, combined with our long history of on-time and on-budget solution delivery, improves outcomes for intelligence, defense, supply chain and risk management customers. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with locations in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Florida and Pennsylvania.

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Alexandria, VA – October 5, 2012 – TransVoyant^™ to Reveal Real-Time Activity-Driven Intelligence, Complex Event Processing and Full Motion Video Advancements in Geospatial Awareness Platform, GeoVigilance^™, at GEOINT 2012.

The largest intelligence event in the United States commences at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Florida, on October 8th. TransVoyant™ (Booth #416) will be demonstrating our latest complex event processing, visualization, and activity-driven intelligence tools within our comprehensive GeoVigilance™ platform.

GeoVigilance provides cloud-enabled geospatial awareness for real-time decision support and event-driven risk detection. Developed for the intelligence, defense, and global supply chain communities, GeoVigilance combines and monitors real-time data feeds from multiple sources, such as full motion video, weather and aircraft location data. It allows users to create event rules and decision algorithms quickly and efficiently with the ability to change event definitions on demand and send automated alerts to decision-makers or other systems – effectively driving faster and better-informed decisions through the analysis of live location, context, attribute, preference and temporal data.

“We are excited to showcase our latest version of GeoVigilance at GEOINT 2012, which has new capabilities that were requested by senior leadership in defense, intelligence and the global supply chain community,” stated Dennis Groseclose, President of TransVoyant. “With a faster, more flexible and easier to use complex event processing engine, GeoVigilance now has enhanced tracking and decision-making features that can ingest live data feeds; automate full motion video analysis; capture and share analysts’ workflow and intellect; and monitor large and diverse sensor inputs to drive decisions about complex behavior from single or interdependent dynamic objects in three dimensions.”

Scenarios that will be on display at the TransVoyant booth (#416) include monitoring real-time aircraft data feeds as airplanes pass near dynamic Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) along with urban narcotics discovery and intervention using full motion video as the source for both object identification, tracking, live activity-based rule definition and real-time alerting. For more information about GeoVigilance, click here.

About TransVoyant
TransVoyant solutions are used by business and government customers, providing them with control and enabling decisions using location, time, context, risk and preference variables. The company’s solutions provide enhanced outcomes for compliance, risk management, intelligence, defense and logistics support. TransVoyant data fusion tools, predictive intelligence, real-time analytics and supply chain risk programs help customers integrate and visualize both historical and real-time information in fluid and responsive time and space experiences, allowing for smart and timely decisions. TransVoyant solutions help clients process and make decisions about tens of thousands of real-time data points in mere seconds. The solutions are dynamic, flexible, scalable and easily integrated into existing and new data architectures and applications. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

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In this capacity, TransVoyant will be providing support to the global consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, in the area of functional subject matter expertise, advisory, analysis and other support services. TransVoyant Analysts will be working with Combatant Commanders and Program Managers with support to C4 and ISR to provide collection and analysis of unfilled battlefield requirements.

“TransVoyant was ultimately chosen for this contract due to our Combatant Command mission, technology and subject matter expertise,” stated Wayne Chesley, Vice President of TransVoyant. “By partnering with Booz Allen Hamilton, we are able to provide the Department of Defense (DOD) with decades of experience related to battlefield operations, training requirements, research and decision analysis, technical assessments and intelligence operations support.”

This contract represents TransVoyant’s continued successful partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton and a combined effort to further DOD’s mission to provide “a fully capable, and agile combat force to defend the United States and its interests…synchronizing planning of global operations against terrorist networks.”

About TransVoyant
In our high-volume data-driven world, TransVoyant delivers real-time intelligent decisions to global customers. TransVoyant employs a team of cleared analysts, consultants and technologists to assist clients in designing, implementing and managing solutions for outcome-focused intelligence. TransVoyant solutions are used by business and government customers to make real-time decisions with high-velocity live location, time, context and preference information. Our decision and predictive analytics technologies and proven customer-centric methodology, combined with our long history of on-time and on-budget solution delivery, improves outcomes for intelligence, defense, supply chain and risk management customers. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with offices in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.

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TransVoyant Analysts will provide real-time 24/7/365 motion video exploitation at deployed locations to support combat operations and decision makers involved in the Global War on Terrorism. This IDIQ contract consists of a six-month base and three one-year options. The total contract value is $49 million.

“We are honored to be called on to provide mission critical intelligence support as a part of the national defense team and we are grateful for the trust the customer has put in the TransVoyant team,” stated Wayne Chesley, Vice President and General Manager of TransVoyant.

TransVoyant, the Prime Contractor, is teamed with Wiser Company to provide the contract support.

TransVoyant LLC is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. Its solutions are used in business and government by decision-makers to provide enhanced outcomes for risk management, intelligence and logistics support.

Wiser Company LLC, headquartered in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, provides services including Intelligence & Security Services, Information Technology Solutions, and Infrastructure for federal, state, local and commercial clients.

About TransVoyant
In our high-volume data-driven world, TransVoyant delivers real-time intelligent decisions to global customers. TransVoyant employs a team of cleared analysts, consultants and technologists to assist clients in designing, implementing and managing solutions for outcome-focused intelligence. TransVoyant solutions are used by business and government customers to make real-time decisions with high-velocity live location, time, context and preference information. Our decision and predictive analytics technologies and proven customer-centric methodology, combined with our long history of on-time and on-budget solution delivery, improves outcomes for intelligence, defense, supply chain and risk management customers. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with offices in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.

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Alexandria, VA – May 29, 2012 – TransVoyant^™, a global data intelligence and analytics solution provider, today announced the launch of TransCloud^™ – a cost-efficient, cloud-based video delivery platform, providing government agencies with the ability to send live video anywhere around the world while maintaining the reliability and quality of the content.

“This cloud-based video content contribution and distribution technology has a proven track record with broadcasters, affiliate stations, teleports, studios and television distribution locations around the world as a high-quality, high-reliability, cost-conscious alternative to satellite transport,” said TransVoyant President Dennis Groseclose. “TransCloud’s unique global footprint and cost efficiency will support a broad group of Federal agencies, given their need for ubiquitous global connectivity, especially in light of with current budget constraints and objectives.”

TransCloud leverages a secure and redundant global network of “Super Nodes” to deliver content around the world. The technology is currently leveraged by a large number of media enterprises. TransCloud’s video distribution capability has major cost advantages versus broadcasting video over satellite or fiber. TransCloud’s backbone network is accessible from anywhere in the world via a business-class public Internet connection.

“TransCloud solves the problem of the Internet’s limited availability, reliability, quality level and loss of data packets,” Mr. Groseclose said. “We bridge the gap between the current capabilities of the Internet and the level of service required for professional quality distribution.”

Some of TransCloud’s features and benefits include:

Groseclose added, “We started TransVoyant with the purpose of providing data analytic solutions that help people make better decisions. TransCloud adds another dimension to our offering by supporting video feeds and distributing them efficiently for real-time decision support.”

Click here for more information on TransCloud.

About TransVoyant
TransVoyant solutions are used by business and government customers, providing them with control and enabling decisions using location, time, context, risk and preference variables. The company’s solutions provide enhanced outcomes for compliance, risk management, intelligence and logistics support. TransVoyant data fusion tools, virtual intelligence, analytics, and supply chain risk assessment programs help customers integrate and visualize both historical and real-time geospatial data in fluid and responsive experiences, allowing for smart and timely decisions. TransVoyant solutions help clients process and make decisions about tens of thousands of data points in mere seconds. The solutions are dynamic, flexible, scalable and easily integrated into existing and new data architectures and applications. TransVoyant is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

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