Innovate! Team

Key Innovate Project Wins 2008 GCN Award for Agency IT Achievement

innovateadmin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:08:42 +0000

Innovate personnel have been key players in the development of EPA’s GeoData Gateway (GDG) and EPA Metadata Editor (EME). These two projects are cornerstones of EPA’s comprehensive metadata sharing and management framework. On October 20, 2008, Government Computer News honored EPA’s geospatial metadata framework as one of the top 10 government agencies whose information technology initiatives are being recognized as the best of 2008. For more information, please see the full article: http://www.gcn.com/print/27_26/47379-1.html

2008 Environmental Systems Research Institute’s (ESRI) Second Place Embedded GIS Application

innovateadmin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:13:19 +0000

DSAS 4.0: An Extension for Computing Shoreline Change with Dynamic Topology and MATLAB Interface won second place for Best Embedded GIS Application at the 2008 ESRI International User Software Applications Fair. Innovate personnel were the primary developers for DSAS. For additional information, please see http://www.esri.com/events/uc/results/app_fair.html

Innovate work wins client EPA CIO Award for Innovation

innovateadmin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:28:52 +0000

Innovate’s successful work on the Exchange Network (EN) Performance Measurement Program has won our client the prestigious EPA CIO Award for Innovation. This award is given out to the project teams for program excellence. The Performance Measurement Program has become a demand driven product sought out by top executives, tribes, and EPA. The project team is praised for working collaboratively with the large number of stakeholders involved as well as for consistently keeping the stakeholders fully engaged. Innovate has had a hand in all aspects of this program from its inception and has helped to make the program the success it is today.

Innovate wins NSDI CAP Grant for Metadata Training

innovateadmin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:42:31 +0000

Innovate was awarded a grant for providing comprehensive metadata training and instruction for EPA’s geospatial community (personnel, contractors, and grantees), other (non-EPA) federal agencies, state agencies, tribes, and additional groups (e.g., organizations, academia, local government agencies, and/or private companies). This training will be conducted between August and October 2008. For more information on the training, please see our project description. Or, learn more about our win at the FGDC website.

Awarded LDBE Certification

admin — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:08:45 +0000

Awarded LDBE Certification through Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Local Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (LDBE)

Awarded WBENC Certification

admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:32:16 +0000

Awarded WBENC certification through Women’s Business Enterprise National Council

Awarded SWAM Certification

admin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:24:28 +0000

Awarded SWAM certification through the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Minority Enterprise (DMBE)