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CEO Evan Fortunato Participates in Panel on DoD Joint Interoperability at NDIA Symposium
Apogee CEO Evan Fortunato discussed “Integrating Across C3ISR” with Steve Walker (Lockheed Martin CTO), John Launchbury (Tangram Flex Founder) and Arun Seraphin (Executive Director, NDIA’s Emerging Technologies Institute) at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) symposium, highlighting the work Apogee is doing with our Government and Industry partners to embrace heterogeneity and rapidly adapt kill-chains through recomposition.
STITCHES To Be Used In New AI Battle Labs in EUCOM, INDOPACOM
The DoD has announced two new AI Battle Labs in EUCOM and INDOPACOM. Apogee is excited that STITCHES will be an integral part of these labs with the goal of helping warfighters better understand and leverage their data and of creating a consistent cadence of fieldable capabilities for the Combatant Commands to leverage.
STITCHES Used To Demonstrate Rapid EW Integration In Project 212
Apogee’s very own Matt Davis worked alongside our partners at the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing and others in the DoD push the boundaries of rapid system integration on Project 212. The months-long effort culminated in a demonstration flight at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona that proved dissimilar application frameworks can be stitched together to create new capabilities at scale. Maintaining our technological edge against near-peer threats is critical to national defense, and STITCHES enables a new paradigm for achieving that objective. Apogee is proud to support the United States Air Force in their endeavor to revolutionize electronic warfare operations throughout the fleet.
Jessa Lee, Apogee Research’s Chief Technology
In her presentation, “Analyzing Code Stability Using Control Theoretic Techniques” (slides here), Jessa explored how techniques adopted from control theory can be applied to analyze the stability of software and presented results showing how we can use Laplace transforms to analyze the stability of code written in SymLang, the first instance of a Controller-Oriented Programming language.
BAE Systems honors Apogee Research, LLC with a Supplier of the Year award
Apogee Research, LLC among top award recipients recognized at fifth annual ‘Partner 2 Win’ Supplier Symposium
Arlington, VA – March 29, 2022 – Apogee Research today announced it received a BAE Systems ‘Partner 2 Win’ Supplier of the Year Award in the category of “FAST Labs Technology Innovation Partner Of The Year”. The honor is in recognition of the advancement and delivery of technology for BAE Systems, Inc.’s Electronic Systems sector. Apogee Research was honored at a virtual ceremony and was selected from the pool of suppliers that worked with BAE Systems in 2021.
“We are honored to be recognized by BAE Systems for our efforts to create and transition technologies to improve our national security.” said Evan Fortunato, CEO of Apogee Research. “Our collaboration with BAE Systems enables us to work on interesting problems that really matter.”
The ‘Partner 2 Win’ program is designed to achieve operational excellence and eliminate defects in its supply chain by raising the bar of performance expectations to meet the demand of current and future customers. As part of the program, BAE Systems meets regularly with its suppliers to transfer best practices to ensure that the components and materials that compose BAE Systems products meet the highest quality standards.
“We are very grateful for the partnership of companies like Apogee Research and look forward to another year of exceptional performance,” said Kim Cadorette, vice president of operations for BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector. “Our top suppliers still delivered the highest quality products on-time despite the supply chain challenges presented by yet another year of a global pandemic.”
Apogee Research, LLC. has been Awarded a $48M Contract to Transition the STITCHES Capability to the Air Force
Apogee Research, LLC has been awarded a $48M (base plus option) contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory to transition the STITCHES capability to the Air Force. STITCHES (System of systems Technology Integration Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems) provides scalable interoperability between capabilities even if they were not designed to work together.
Recently, the services have invested in standards-based acquisition to create interoperability, but that brings its own set of challenges. While open standards bring significant value to DoD acquisition, there is skepticism that a universal global standard can ever be practical. STITCHES obviates this problem by providing a novel approach to interoperability.
STITCHES generates on-demand interoperability without forcing the components to use a common, much less, global standard. Instead, the toolchain uses the Field and Transform Graph, a key new data structure, and an automatic compilation toolchain to synthesize small, efficient code that has been optimized for the task at hand. The result is the rapid generation of new mission capabilities that have the efficiency of artisan solutions with the maintainability and flexibility of abstracted designs.
“We are very excited to provide the DoD with this novel technology that reduces both the cost and schedule to get new capabilities into the warfighter’s hands,” said Evan Fortunato, President of Apogee Research. “STITCHES allows the DoD to continue to leverage its large inventory of existing electronic equipment and standards while also supporting the rapid integration of capabilities to respond to the ever changing mission needs of our warfighters.”
STITCHES has been demonstrated in a series of Gauntlets, two-week long hackathon-style events, designed by DARPA to challenge the technology and prove its agility in the battlespace. The first week focused on integration: given a set of constituent capabilities a small team of engineers and users had to design and implement a novel system of systems composition to create a Government defined mission capability. In the second week, these new mission capabilities were employed in a field or flight event, proving the ability to rapidly integrate new, critical capabilities and adapt to the mission at hand.
This work is done with a team of subcontractors including Systems & Technology Research, SRI International, Barnstorm Research, and Radiance Technologies and in coordination with other organizations including Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® and MITRE.
“Maintaining superiority in contested environments and enabling mosaic warfare to become a reality requires unprecedented levels of interoperability across platforms, sensors and subsystems,” said Susan Woodmansee, Systems & Technology Research Vice President of System Development. “We’re excited to partner with Apogee and the STITCHES team to further mature STITCHES and support widespread deployment to the Services.”
“We are pleased to partner with Apogee Research and the entire STITCHES team to advance integration technologies that enable our military forces to rapidly reconfigure and prevail over any threat,” said Justin Taylor, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® Mission Systems Roadmaps director.“Seamless all-domain integration requires the ability for warfighters to bridge a data exchange gap across DoD and commercial standards. STITCHES plays an important role in ensuring our warfighters have the right data when they need it to successfully perform their mission.”
This effort is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA).
Apogee Wins New Contract to Develop SymLang
Apogee Research LLC, has been awarded a $13,398,315 cost-plus-fixed-fee completion type contract for SymLang, an invariant driven approach to software via symmetries in software. The objective of this effort includes developing novel software systems that enable automated adaptation of the resulting software system to radical changes in requirements and computational environments. SymLang, a new programming language and its associated toolchain will allow for the rapid development and adaptation of code that is efficient at run-time over a wide range of operating conditions.
Apogee Wins Large IDIQ for JADC2
Apogee Research has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the maturation, demonstration and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains, leveraging open systems design, modern software and algorithm development in order to enable Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2). This contract is part of a multiple award multi-level security effort to provide development and operation of systems as a unified force across all domains (air, land, sea, space, cyber, and electromagnetic spectrum) in an open architecture family of systems that enables capabilities via multiple integrated platforms.
Honored at 2019 Recognize DC GovCon Summit
In October we had the pleasure to attend the Recognize DC GovCon Summit where Apogee was honored as one of the innovative companies in our market. We also got to hear two interesting panels on creating value and trends in the Government contracting space.
System of Systems Panel Session at NDIA Conference
At the NDIA System Engineering Conference in Tampa, Evan Fortunato participated in a panel discussion on System of Systems. This panel was run by Judith Dahmann (MITRE) and also included Chris Kibble (DARPA) and Michael Solari (Lockheed Martin). A key focus was not just the new technology but also the real-world demonstrations that have occurred.
NNBC Firewall Presented at MILCOM 2019
At MILCOM19, Greg Frazier presented on a new anti-DDoS Firewall technology that we have developed. It detects the onset of a DDoS attack and uses a non-Bayesian classifier to identify and block the attacking clients. A key feature is that it can protect against “zero-day” attacks (i.e., it can defend against attacks that it doesn’t know about). The paper was nominated for Best-in-Conference.
Apogee’s STITCHES technologies in the Press!
DARPA’s SoSITE Program held a set of real-world demonstrations leveraging Apogee’s STITCHES technology. Here are just a few of the press articles about what is going on:
Virginia Fantastic 50 for 2018
Apogee was honored to be named one of Virginia’s Fantastic 50companies for 2018 (11th on the list). We want to thank the Virginia Chamber of Commerce for everything that they do to promote businesses in Virginia.
Evan’s HCSS Talk 2017
Evan Fortunato was invited to give a keynote presentation at the High Confidence Software and Systems Conference. His presentation introduced a new way to think about software abstractions using the concepts of symmetries from the physics community.
Arlington’s Fast Four, 2017
Apogee was honored to be named one of Arlington’s Fast Four Companies, winning the $5-$50M category.
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First Public Presentation of STITCHES
Too often, the DoD thinks that the way to solve interoperability problems is to create more global standards. We developed a different solution, STITCHES, which lets systems interoperate together without needing them to share a common global standard. We were invited to present this new technology at NDIA.
SECAF’s 2016 Gov Contractor of the Year ($6-12M)
Moving up from the under $6M in revenue category, Apogee won the SECAF Contractor of the Year for the $6-$12M revenue category in 2016.
