ACTD Team of the Year

Members of KeyLogic Systems' team for the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) program have been recognized as a "Team of the Year" winner by the U.S. Pentagon.

Team members won the award for creative use of "Adaptive Battlespace Awareness (ABA)” information processing in support of EUCOM U.S. armed forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom.  DISA's work enhanced situational awareness for all U.S. and allied warfighters in the theater of operation, Pentagon officials confirmed.

It is the first time this DISA team has won such high level recognition in competition with other federal government programs.  The award specifically mentions the ACTD team's ability to improve military operational effectiveness and to optimize funding and personnel resources to keep on budget, and on time.

Betty Carey, KeyLogic senior systems analyst, was among a team of 30 specialists from eight collaborative information technology firms comprising the Team of the Year.  Efforts lauded by Pentagon officials included overall program support, system engineering and software development.

Among the challenges DISA faced was transforming flat electronic battlefield maps into practical, functioning and customized information analysis and planning tools.  These tools directly impacted military commanders and field officers' abilities to prosecute military activities.

”The overall results reflect flexible, integrated intelligence and image enhancement of millions of bytes of information on a second-by-second real time basis,” Ms. Carey said.

Key achievements of the program include:  improved access to intelligence, improved reliability of images displayed, computer modeling of templates, instant links to support databases and intuitive displays of data, she added.

Pentagon officials reviewing the overall DISA ACTD program agreed with nominating petitioners that cited the team's performance as "most deserving of ACTD Team of the Year" recognition.

"We are extremely pleased with this team award from the Pentagon and especially proud of KeyLogic's expertise as managed by Betty Carey.  It is proof of our firm's creative approach to IT problems/solutions," Jon Hammock, KeyLogic president, said. “We are proud to be supporting our troops during this important period of history,” Mr. Hammock added.

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