June
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OST Participates in the 2008 FAA National Small Business Procurement Opportunities Training Conference and TradeshowJune 24, 2008 - OST actively participated in and hosted a booth at the 2008 FAA National Small Business Procurement Opportunities Training Conference and Tradeshow held at the Rivera Conference Center in Las Vegas, Nevada June 16th-19th 2008. OST showcased a diverse portfolio of projects serving the FAA, to include the Aviation Safety Thesaurus, which supported the conference’s focus of “Partnering to Achieve FAA Flight Plan Goals”. While at the conference OST was able to meet with representatives from the FAA and other attending Federal Agency personnel as well as with a host of small and large business representatives that attended the conference. The conference covered topics relevant to the FAA Small Business community such as the FAA Mentor-Protégé Program, Information Technology Perspectives, FAA Contracting Opportunities, and Subcontracting Opportunities with large FAA Contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Harris Corporation, and ITT Corporation, Systems Division. FAA guest speakers included Mr. James Washington, Vice-President for Acquisition & Business Services for ATO, Mr. David Bowen, FAA CIO, Mr. Dennis Filler, FAA ATO CIO, and other FAA IT professionals, Program Managers, and support contractors (small and large) from across the country. About OST Contact InformationRon Rhodes |
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OST Attends the 2008 Air Traffic Controller’s Association (ATCA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) Technical Symposium.June 15, 2008 - OST actively participated in the 2008 ATCA/FAA/NASA Technical Symposium held at the Trump Marina in Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 10-13, 2008. The symposium offered a global overview of research issues related to infrastructure, aircraft and flight vehicles, airports, the environment, and airspace technologies being developed to address system evolution. OST participated in the annual ATCA Scholarship Golf Outing and in all of the technical sessions throughout the week. This year’s Symposium commemorated the 50th anniversary of the FAA and NASA and highlighted the technical achievements by both the FAA and NASA and their contributions in making the air transportation system what it is today and what it needs to be in the future. OST was able to meet with representatives from the FAA, NASA and ATCA as well as with a host of FAA Technical Center Support Contractors who attended the symposium. The conference covered topics such as an overview of major air navigation service providers’ plans for the future air transportation systems; Infrastructure elements essential to enabling the future global ATM system; Future Aircraft Avionic Technology Requirements; and Airport and Airspace Technologies. FAA guest speakers included Dr. Wilson Felder, Director, William J. Hughes Technical Center; Dr. Karlin Toner, Director of Airspace Systems, NASA; and a series of discussion panels that included key technical experts from NavCanada, EUROCONTROL, U.S. Private Industry (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Sensis, SAIC, CSC, and MITRE), as well as technical experts from the DoD, NASA, and the FAA. About OST Contact InformationRon Rhodes |
May
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OST Participates in FAA Shared Vision of Aviation Safety ConferenceMay 30, 2008 - OST participated in the recent FAA-sponsored Shared Vision of Aviation Safety Conference on May 27-29, 2008 in San Diego, California. This year’s conference focused on Voluntary Aviation Safety Programs and the integration of information from such programs into the Safety Management System (SMS) of an organization. Keynote speakers included John M. Allen, FAA Deputy Director, Flight Standards Service and Air Force Brigadier General; Robert Sumwalt, NTSB Vice Chairman; and John Nance, Boeing 737 Captain for Alaska Airlines, decorated Air Force pilot, and author of 17 fiction and non-fiction books on aviation. OST showcased their electronic Aviation Safety Thesaurus, a source of aviation terms, abbreviations and acronyms for use by aviation safety analysts. The thesaurus is a resource to be used with text mining tools for search, classification, and knowledge discovery of aviation safety reports. Designed and developed by OST specialists in aviation safety and computational linguistics, the purpose of the thesaurus is to improve aviation safety through more effective analysis of aviation accident and incident reports such as those discussed in the conference. OST offers its services for expansion of the thesaurus to meet the specific aviation safety needs of client organizations. About OST Contact InformationRon Rhodes |
April
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OST Awarded Department of Defense Internet NOTAMS Service SubcontractApril 08, 2008 - Optimal Solutions and Technologies (OST, Inc.), a CMMI Level 3 externally appraised information technology services provider, has been awarded a multi-million dollar subcontract to provide services to the United States Air Force (USAF). The United States Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) Program is a joint Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration (DOD / FAA) project supporting the entry and distribution of Safety of Flight information to all military, commercial, and private pilots and aircrews around the world. The DoD Internet NOTAM Service (DINS) provides near real-time aeronautical information portal capabilities and data distribution to pilots, aircrews, base operations, and Terminal Procedures (TERPS) personnel throughout the world. The purpose of this effort is to enhance existing web based capabilities and increase its value to the military and civil flying community. About OST Contact InformationRon Rhodes |
March
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OST Wins DC Government Contract to Support Effort to Replace Critical Financial Management SystemMarch 18, 2008 - OST has been awarded a contract with the District of Columbia (DC) Government to develop the functional requirements for a new core financial management system. The scope of work includes interviewing more than 150 stakeholders across various district agencies to understand their needs and elicit the requirements for the new Financial Management System. The defined requirements will ensure that the financial data that the District agencies use in their daily operations is adequately captured, classified, processed, stored, and retrieved. OST has been supporting the DC Government for almost a decade, and has a dedicated team which better understands the DC Government operations and knowledge of government financial and accounting systems. Our knowledge of the DC Government operations and the government sector in general allows OST to deliver the requirements with confidence to achieve customer satisfaction. About OST Contact InformationRon Rhodes |
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OST Attends Strategic 2008 FAA IT/ISS Partnership and Training ConferenceMarch 11 2008 - OST hosted a booth at the 2008 FAA IT/ISS Conference in Atlanta, Georgia held February 25th – 27th, 2008. OST showcased a diverse portfolio of projects serving the FAA which supported the conference’s focus of “Maximizing IT Resources”. The conference covered topics such as Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Standardization Initiatives (ITIL), Wireless Intrusion Detection, Cyber Security, among others. The FAA attendees encompassed FAA CIO’s, IT professionals, Information System Security professionals, and Program Managers from across the country. In addition, OST hosted a successful reception to celebrate the relationships with more than 70 attendees. About OSTOST (www.ostglobal.com) is a provider of management consulting, integrated information technology, and engineering services mainly to the aviation, defense, financial, health, insurance, transportation, and utility industries. Its client base includes numerous Fortune 1000 companies and public sector organizations including the US Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Treasury, as well as state and local governments. Contact InformationRon Rhodes |
February
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OST Team Member Published in Healthcare Related Scientific JournalFebruary 29, 2008 - An OST Project Manager co-authored an article that was published in scientific journal Bioinformation. The article is entitled “CliniProteus: A Flexible Clinical Trials Information Management System”. Abstract To read the entire article, please follow this link To download the pdf version of the article, please refer to http://www.bioinformation.net/002/003900022007.htm or http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2255069 |
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