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New CIC Company Focuses on Fusion and Linking of Data
Patented Technology Facilitates Improved Intelligence Analysis
ANNAPOLIS , MD (July 31, 2006) – VSi, a pioneer in object-oriented e-Business intelligence applications, is the newest member company to join the Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC), Anne Arundel County 's business incubator. The company's focus is the development of software that copes with the deluge of information currently confronting the intelligence community.
“VSi specializes in real time integration and analysis of distributed multi-source data for the intelligence community. This is an important capability for U.S. intelligence agencies to use in our war on terrorism,” said Mark Vasudevan , President of VSi. “VSi's capabilities are aligned with the government's pressing need to share intelligence between agencies,” he continued
Users of VSi's product are able to model, link, manipulate, analyze and visualize both structured and unstructured data, including emails, documents, spreadsheets, maps and CAD drawings from distributed data sources within a web browser. This gives analysts an unprecedented degree of flexibility in viewing and analyzing complex data as well as performing comprehensive data fusion on demand. Users/Analysts no longer need to switch between databases or applications to manipulate, analyze or visualize complex data.
“VSi has developed advanced informatics and data mining technology that is relevant to the protection of the U.S. homeland,” said Laura Neuman, the Interim Executive Director of the CIC. “This company is a perfect match for the CIC and our focus on national security,” she continued. “Helping companies like VSi grow and get their product to the right people is at the core of what the CIC does.”
About Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC)
The Chesapeake Innovation Center , located in the “informatics corridor” of Anne Arundel County , Maryland , is a business accelerator that focuses the power of entrepreneurship on America 's most pressing security requirements. By creating a bridge between major users of security technology and small companies at the forefront of innovation, the CIC, its partners and member companies are able to offer significant advancements in the areas of informatics and homeland security technologies.
The CIC has partnerships strategic to America 's national security which include public and private sector entities. These partnerships connect the early stage technology companies at the CIC to a valuable network of industry leaders in these sectors. Current partners include Northrop Grumman Corporation, ARINC, the National Security Agency, Next Century Corporation, Innerwall Corporation and Athlone Global Security.
The CIC is the intersection of innovation, patriotism and capitalism.

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