ARLINGTON, Va., July 21, 2011 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced an agreement to acquire Solutions Made Simple Inc. (SMSi), an information services provider for the U.S. government and the Intelligence Community. Known for its Twister data integration framework products, SMSi’s technology allows users to easily extract, share and query information stored in an unlimited number of data sources and applications.

SMSi employs approximately 65 people and is based in Reston, Va.

Once acquired, SMSi will operate within the Information Solutions division of Boeing’s Network & Space Systems business.

“Our customers continuously look for better, more cost-effective ways to manage data across disparate networks, and SMSi has terrific capability to do that,” said John Hinshaw, Boeing vice president and general manager of Information Solutions. “We’ve worked with SMSi for a number of years and see their team and products as strong complements to our existing capabilities. SMSi adds important vertical content to Boeing’s product portfolio for two high-growth markets that are key priorities for our customers: C4ISR and cybersecurity.”

SMSi is privately held and the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2011.

A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world’s largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world’s largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $32 billion business with 65,000 employees worldwide. Follow us on Twitter: @BoeingDefense.

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Forward-Looking Information Is Subject to Risk and Uncertainty

Certain statements in this release may be “forward-looking” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the expected timetable for completing the transaction, future business prospects, and benefits and synergies of the transaction, as well as any other statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Forward-looking statements are based on current assumptions about future events that may not prove to be accurate. These statements are not guarantees and are subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. As a result, these statements speak only as of the date they are made and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, except as required by law. Specific factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include the effect of global economic conditions, the ability of the parties to consummate the transaction, our ability to successfully integrate SMSi’s business and realize anticipated synergies, and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contact:

David Sidman
Boeing Communications
Office: 314-232-1980
Mobile: 314-406-1818
david.sidman@boeing.com

Deborah Bosick
Boeing Communications
Office: 703-872-4505
Mobile: 703-795-5284
deborah.d.bosick@boeing.com

This webcast will focus on the technologies needed to implement a data integration capability in your organization at either the program or enterprise level. Whether your organization is moving towards data consolidation (involving a data warehouse or multiple data marts) or maintaining all data in a Federated environment, a data management framework must be put in place to enable information sharing and collaboration. SMSi’s Twister Data Framework® provides all of necessary infrastructure, delivering a suite of tools allowing organizations to effectively gather, process, control, and access the multitude of data types – relational databases, emails, reports, web data, cloud, etc.

Customer uses for Twister Data Framework® include:

• Creating data ingest pipelines for batch or streaming data
• Populating data marts or data warehouses
• Managing data flows throughout an organization
• Accessing data in multiple formats across many holdings

Register now to learn how Twister can help your organization integrate and access data. This webcast will provide:

• An overview of the types of data normalization and enrichment components needed
• An overview of database, web, application, and file connectors needed
• A demonstration of how to build data integration flows

SMSi will also demonstrate many of the new features in its 3.7 Twister release, including dynamic scaling of processing nodes, new dashboard features such as graphs that trend duration and record counts for each project, sequences which can include user tasks, and sharing of sub flows among projects.

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We’re very proud of this recognition because  it represents the unified corporate face we all strive hard to present and achieve.  Without our people, SMSi would not be what we are today…an employee owned and thriving small business.

Check out the new site for all things DoDIIS tech and their write-up on Twister here!

SMSi’s Twister Data Framework | May 2, 2011 | By RyanKamauff

If you’re interested in data management, servers and integration, check out the Twister booth in the Carahsoft Partner Pavilion on the expo floor here at DoDIIS. Twister enables ingestion of disparate data sources to provide a searchable, extractable, and highly usable data layer to bring information from across the enterprise, to users throughout it. Twister offers LDAP integration to identify users – and define roles and access.

Twister offers the ability to read and write Oracle, SQL, MySQL and other such databases. It can ingest structured data as well unstructured data – providing the capability to process XML, CSV, PDF, DOC and HTML (among others).

The Twister Data Integration layer sits between your choice of databases and your choice of extraction, search or discovery tools. Providing source and extraction agnostic data integration services enables installation on any system – saving administration from forklift upgrades.

As data sources grow, and gigabytes turn into petabytes, scalable data integration solutions are key to mission success. Pulling in multiple data sources and types, Twister spits them out into clean, usable data for extraction, analysis and aggregation.

SECAF Announces Third Annual Awards Gala Winners

Companies Recognized for Excellence in the Government Contracting Industry

April 28, 2011, McLean, VA—The Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum (SECAF), the premier organization for the small and emerging government contractor, is pleased to announce the winners of the Annual SECAF Awards Gala. The SECAF Awards Gala is the premier commemorative event honoring small and emerging government contractors and the players in the ecosystem that rely on small business. 

The winners and their categories are as follows:

SECAF Contractor of the Year:
InCadence Strategic Solutions (revenue under $6 million)
Onyx Government Solutions (revenue $6 to $12 million)
Solutions Made Simple, Inc. (SMSi) (revenue $12 to $25 million)

 SECAF “Award of Excellence”:
Atlas Research (revenue under $25 million)

 Small Business Partner of the Year:
Robbins-Gioia, LLC (revenue $25 to $100 million)
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (revenue more than $100 million)
Government Advocate of the Year:

Michael O’Neill, Director of the Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) Programs a the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

During the SECAF Awards Gala, the finalists were also recognized for their contribution to the community and excellence in their category. SECAF celebrates their success as well: view finalists.

The 2011 winners were announced at the Annual Awards Gala on April 28, 2011 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. The original field of nominations included nearly 200 submissions.

“This is the third year we have been able to applaud the success of these notable companies in the government contracting community—we expect to see growth continue from these companies,” said Shiv Krishnan, chairman of SECAF and CEO of government contractor INDUS Corporation. “We also offer great appreciation for the friends of the emerging contractor: the industry small business partners and the advocates within government who enable our community to succeed. We are proud to offer a forum for them to be recognized.”

“These companies have demonstrated what it takes to succeed,” added Mark Moore, John Marshall Bank, and Scott Brezler, Dixon Hughes Goodman, co-chairs for the Awards Gala selection committee. “We applaud the successes of this year’s award winners, nominated companies and the industry as a whole and we look forward to a successful 2011.”
 
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About The Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum
The Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum (SECAF) enables the small and emerging government contractor to achieve maximum growth rates in a highly competitive marketplace. Arming members with business resources, access to influencers and government agencies, and advocacy opportunities and education, SECAF is an important resource for a growing company. 
 
SECAF also serves the medium to large government contractors, providing invaluable introductions to specialized small businesses that enable the overall contracting community to work successfully in tandem. For more information visit www.secaf.org.

Government Big Data Forum 2011

Date: January 26, 2011
Time: 7:00am – 2:00pm
Location: 
Mayflower Renaissance Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

All projections indicate federal agencies will be awash in increasing amounts of data with greater need to run analytics across the data while ensuring it is indexed, stored, and retrievable for future use.  

Join us for the Government Big Data Forum on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. to hear from a group of experts as they outline the steps federal agencies should take to rapidly make sense of increasing amounts of data, leading to better decision-making government-wide.

Agenda:

Please join the Capital Area Cloud Computing User Group on the 9th of December to discuss Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2, presented by SMSi’s own Tom Grant.

Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2

Thursday, December 9th, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Eastern

Meeting Location: 4713 A Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304 (plenty of FREE Parking spaces)

6:30 to 7:00 p.m. — Member Networking (refreshments & pizza will be provided)

7:00 to 8:20 p.m. — Featured presentation

8:20 to 8:30 p.m. — Raffles and giveaways

Tom Grant is the Product Manager for Twister Data Framework, a high performance data integration platform offered by SMSi. He has 11 years of experience developing solutions for both the commercial and government markets where his customers have shared the common challenge to gain insight from big data. The big data challenge has lead him to specialize in grid and cloud technologies, applying them to provide business intelligence systems.

Complimentary Online Seminar

SMSi’s Twister Data Integrator is designed to enhance the overall user experience with the Hadoop framework. Twister allows organizations to extract, transform, load, and manage massive Hadoop clusters. Twister manages all interaction with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), allowing complex data transformations to take place seamlessly without the complexity of command-line interaction.

Once files have been pushed to the framework, Twister manages job scheduling and execution of the map and reduce operations. Through an easy to use graphical interface users can add Map / Reduce operations to complex business intelligence operations.

Twister alleviates the burden of writing custom code to get data into and out of the Hadoop cluster. The abstraction layer provided by Twister makes using Hadoop easy and transparent to an organization’s data layer.

Customer uses for Twister Data Framework® include:

• Management of Hadoop clusters
• Creating data ingest pipelines
• Populating data marts or data warehouses
• Accelerating data migration projects, including SQL to XML
• Deploying text analytics applications including entity extractors and machine based translation to process unstructured or semi-structured text
• Implementing Federated query and Cross Domain Query capabilities

Join now to learn how Twister can help you access and manage your data. This webcast will provide:

• High-level overview of Twister Data Framework®
• Live demonstrations showing the interaction between Twister and Hadoop

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