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Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
Stardog was founded out of the experience of building NASA’s first expertise location service during the founders’ time at an AI Lab at the University of Maryland, just outside Washington, DC. We grew the business in the early days with public sector focus and were headquartered until recently in Arlington, VA with an office that looked out over the Potomac, Georgetown, and the Kennedy Center.
The early days of the company saw a strong presence across government and defense clients, the visionaries knowing they needed connected data to best serve the mission. Stardog ❤️ DC!
But we evolved to focus on finance, pharma, and manufacturing over the past few years. So it made sense to relocate the headquarters to NYC. I’m writing this in our new office in the Meatpacking District, around the corner from Google, Yext, and an Apple Store. Stardog ❤️ the Big Apple, too!
The Pull to Serve is Strong
And yet we’ve not entirely given up on our roots in DC and, in fact, a large Stardog team builds digital thread and digital twin solutions daily to support the Artemis missions and NASA’s Moon to Mars program. Stardog excels at connecting information across these boundaries and constraints, and fueling those critical decision making by enabling the mission with the revolutionary Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities like Voicebox.
Recently, we’ve seen growing interest across the public sector, from civilian agencies to the Department of Defense (DoD), and the intelligence community (IC).
The Stardog Public Sector Team
To support this growing interest, and formalize our continuous commitment to the mission, we’re happy to announce our new public sector team.
Dr. Carlton Reeves joins Stardog as our Head of Government. Dr. Reeves brings decades of experience working across the federal government and in the information technology sector, both as a civil servant, as a contractor, and as an entrepreneur. Dr. Reeves began his career serving in the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as well as the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
He then left government and began leading public sector teams at C3 AI, Virtualitics, and New Relic. Dr. Reeves holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and a minor in applied mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and a Masters and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. When Dr. Reeves isn’t working, he spends his time alpining the world’s tallest mountains as he seeks to complete his journey of the Seven Summits.
Al Baker, VP of Enterprise Solutions, will support Dr. Reeves for solution engineering and delivery. With 25 years of experience and 20 patents, Mr. Baker is a recognized expert and recipient of the prestigious Edison Inventor Award. He has a proven track record, having led teams at Ft. Monmouth and Aberdeen Proving Ground, supporting Team C4ISR and GEN Lawrence at CIO G/6 and the Army’s Net-Centric Data Strategy (ANCDS) Center of Excellence.
Before joining Stardog, he was a systems engineer at Bell Labs, leading development teams, getting products to market, including guiding them through JITC certification. He later developed data and SOA solutions at Booz Allen Hamilton, taking them through the Authority to Operate process.
What We’re Proud of … that We Can Talk About Publicly
Data Mesh and Object Based Intelligence
Stardog is a recognized early implementor of the Data Mesh reference architecture present within the DoD and IC for building object based intelligence knowledge graphs. This type of knowledge graph can be used for a wide variety of use cases, from enhanced domain awareness for all source INT types, to specific operational actions such as targeting operations or pattern of life and link analysis tracking. Stardog’s support for the Open Geospatial Consortium’s GeoSPARQL standard, best in class ontology reasoner, and virtual graph capabilities means the DoD and IC can build distributed and federated solutions across mission areas, organizations, systems, and echelons while maintaining harmonization in object identification and fusion of data supporting mission objectives.
The demo video at the beginning of this post shows an example on how different members of the IC take advantage of Stardog technology today. For more information on the Stardog Voicebox roadmap, see the Voicebox vision post at Stardog Labs.
Digital Twins and MBSE
Outside of intelligence and warfighter use cases, Stardog has a longstanding presence in model based systems engineering (MBSE), building digital thread, and digital twin products to serve a wide variety of missions across the public sector. Many folks have heard of our ongoing support of the Artemis mission, where our team has supported everything from the design certification of Artemis 1 to the ongoing activities surrounding future Artemis missions and the Moon to Mars efforts at NASA.
Of course, rockets to Mars isn’t the only place that can benefit from connecting key data points together to gain insights, we find similar use cases wherever complex supply chains, bill of materials, large scale engineering efforts, or just the scale of the defense department must be understood and reasoned about. While many of these customers began their journey with the enterprise knowledge graph, describing the data where it lies and connecting systems like PLM, ERP, and others, the future is bright with plans under way to add Voicebox to their solutions and expand access to insights on demand.
The Way Ahead
Our team recognizes the importance of the mission, the need to get insights and information to the right people, at the right time. Our solution enables the public sector to realize this value, and achieve information superiority in their missions, and have decision advantage. The US military requires the next step in data architecture, capturing knowledge and insight to empower decision making.
Current industry leaders help realize the best cost per gigabyte in storage and compute, but don’t go far enough in being able to connect the dots as needed to support the mission. Stardog adds the universal semantic layer and data fusion capability to these architectures, empowering knowledge workers and warfighters alike in connecting the data points critical for the mission.
The public sector aims to maintain information superiority, by bringing these interoperable and scalable architectures across agencies and missions. Across the DoD and IC, advancing the state of the art in object based intelligence, artificial intelligence, and data integration through mesh technology will set the foundation for information superiority for decades to come.
Stardog Voicebox and associated knowledge graph technology directly aligns with these objectives, offering a standards based solution to build these next generation systems for 2030 and beyond. In the coming months, we’ll be formalizing our solutions and offers for public sector delivery, as we go to market with the great work the Stardog team has done all across the public sector, intelligence community, and DoD.
Stardog is proudly reporting for duty.
