RTGX News

RTGX announces opening of youth-serving Technology Center

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:31:01 -0500

Baltimore, Maryland — December 12, 2011
RTGX is pleased to announce the opening of the Ross Technologies, Inc. and Greater Baltimore Cares Technology Center located in the newly renovated Perkins Fire House. The Perkins Fire House will be known as the Power House beginning with the ribbon cutting ceremony on December the 15th 2011.

Susan L. Taylor
National Cares Mentoring Movement Founder and Editor and Chief Emeritus of Essence Magazine Susan L. Taylor will be a featured speaker at the ribbon cutting. There are no words that can describe the personal sacrifice, commitment and Impact of Susan L. Taylor to keeping the plight of our most vulnerable children front and center in the national dialogue. Greater Baltimore Cares is an independent affiliate of The National Cares Mentoring Movement founded as a result of Susan’s inspirational mission to save the children.

The Power House is part of the continuing vision, community empowerment and mentoring efforts of the Living Classrooms Foundation. The Power House will act as a Community Center and a platform for mentoring the children of the community surrounding the Power House. RTGX and its partner Greater Baltimore Cares, a charitable organization, have embarked on mentoring initiatives that leverage technology as a means towards accelerating that path to better test scores, reducing truancy and providing the tools to our most at risk youth to strive for success in our ever increasing technology based society. Knowledge is power and technology can help a child reach beyond the confines of their home, neighborhood and circumstances. It allows children to explore their dreams, learn new languages, explore mathematics skills and visit exotic lands. Technology is a path of never ending possibilities.

Technology based mentoring compliments the value of person-to-person mentoring efforts and expands mentoring opportunities when used in combination with modern collaboration and internet video technologies.

RTGX is an award winning Cyber Technology, Data Analytics and Flash Storage solutions company headquartered in Baltimore Maryland that serves its clients throughout the United States and Europe. The company is headquartered at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Research Park, the region’s leading center of Cyber and Technology based research and innovation. Customers from the Intelligence Community, Law Enforcement, Department of Defense, Finance and Healthcare sectors rely on RTGX to keep them at the forefront of cyber protective measures, cyber discovery, network infrastructure best practices and Big Data Analytics.
RTGX wants to lead by example in demonstrating that small businesses can make a difference in their communities and empower the next generation. Come join us at www.rtgx.com and in our charitable efforts at http://www.baltimorecares.org/.

We are honored just to be nominated

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:30:39 -0500

Baltimore, Maryland — December 3, 2011
In good times and in tough economic times across all industries as has been the case now for many years it is great to be appreciated. As a company we strive to do our best within the limits of good business practices to provide our employees with as much support as we reasonably can. We honor commitment, technical excellence, loyalty and excellence in customer service. It’s probably the reason we still employ today after 10 years of Government Service and total of 14 years in business a significant number of employees who have been with us from the start. Amazing - we actually have military veterans who chose RTGX for their second careers that are now retiring from the work force after service to our nation in uniform and as civilian employees of RTGX.

So imagine our thoughts when one of our own nominates RTGX for recognition due to their pride in our support for their Military Service? Honored – RTGX has been nominated for the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The award recognizes employers for exceptional support of their employees who serve in the Guard Reserve.

We are happy to do our part to support those who sacrifice much to serve our nation and protect our freedoms and support our customers with their skills and commitment to excellence.

For more on the Freedom Award click on the following link:

http://www.freedomaward.mil/HomeView.aspx

DoD selects RTGX for multi-year IDIQ business intelligence contract

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:34:32 -0500

Baltimore, Maryland — November 11, 2011
RTGX has been selected by the Department of Defense to provide Project and Portfolio Management support along with Systems Engineering Services. The multi-year IDIQ contract is centered on delivering up to the minute business intelligence to senior government managers and executives on the status of key information technology investments. RTGX will utilize its expertise in supporting DoD, Civilian and Commercial customers with astute management of the financial, schedule, resource, and compliance aspects of IT investments in the billions of dollars in value.

RTGX is not new to this type of work having supported many customers such as the United States Air Force, the Intelligence Community and the United States Army amongst others with gaining insight and a firm handle on IT investments and research projects. RTGX will manage the Oracle based implementation and management of a state of the art and leading IT portfolio management solution. RTGX consultants will be responsible for the development of dashboards, portals and reports needed to track and balance the customers IT investments. Skill sets to be used include:

Software configuration and implementation
Automated workflow development
Requirements gathering and documentation
Configuration Management
Testing
Training
Certification and Accreditation
Oracle database management
Linux Server Administration
PKI access

RTGX continues to expand its portfolio of services to commercial and Government Program Executive Offices (PEOs) - ensuring that in these budget challenged times our customers can assess IT investments, return on investment and perform the what-if budget drills and essential compliance and accountability functions.

RTGX garners new DoD training and communications outreach win

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:03:04 -0500

Baltimore, Maryland — October 31, 2011
RTGX will be helping the DoD navigate the complex aspects of serving our nation in vastly different parts of the world through an innovative set of services that will provide training, outreach, conferences and web based information needed to easily transition from one duty station to another.

The new work is 100% compatible with similar work performed by RTGX for over 5 years helping all branches of the Armed Forces and logistics and transportation providers settle into learning the intricate details of how to move military and household goods across the United States and the world. Our staff traveled all over the globe training personnel on how to use a near billion dollar custom software application used to move the personal household items of military families and the supplies and weapons that help protect our best and brightest on the front lines in the service of our nation.
RTGX will leverage its abilities to develop web based content, videos, marketing materials and informational seminars and conferences.

ebay selects RTGX partner to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:53:20 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — October 5, 2011
We are excited about our relationship with the unique and leading edge storage solutions from Nimbus Data systems, Inc. and elated about the selection of Nimbus S-Class flash memory by eBay.

eBay is the world’s largest online marketplace. eBay has deployed more than 100 terabytes of Nimbus S-Class flash memory to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. The scale of the Nimbus deployment at eBay, which started with one system and expanded to 12 systems in less than one year, makes it among the world’s largest consolidated deployments of network-attached flash storage for virtualization today.

The selection of Nimbus came after eBay carefully evaluated its existing hard disk-based storage systems, flash-based caching solutions, and tiered storage architectures. eBay required a storage solution with tight integration with VMware virtual infrastructure, iSCSI connectivity over 10 Gigabit Ethernet, ease of administration, and inline deduplication to reduce storage capacity requirements. In the end, eBay was most attracted to the performance, efficiency, simplicity, and comprehensive SAN and NAS software capabilities of the Nimbus Sustainable Storage™ platform. The Nimbus solution delivered near line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI performance to the VMware hosts while consuming 78 percent less energy and 50 percent less rackspace than conventional disk-based solutions.

RTGX provides virtualization and cloud solutions architecture consulting. The Nimbus S-Class Flash memory is being used by RTGX in the development of blazing large data processing solutions for customers needing maximized performance metrics. RTGX is currently contracted to develop Hadoop based solutions that leverage our proprietary data parsing engine and framework to quickly parse through all manner of data formats.

SDDC Selects RTGX For Contract Expansion

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:12:00 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — October 4, 2011
RTGX has been serving some of aspect of the Surface Distribution and Deployment Command’s (SDDC) operations for over 5 years through a variety of contracts. This track record of reliable performance and partnership with the SDDC was a major reason why RTGX was selected as the firm to entrust with SDDC’s expanded requirements for Network Support, Systems Administration and Information Assurance.

SDDC had many choices but decided that RTGX’s consistent track record of getting the job done, attention to detail and commitment to mission requirements was deserving of the continued trust the organization.

RTGX is known for its ability to manage mission essential network infrastructure and for its ability to ensure the cyber security of DoD networks worldwide. The company continues to expand its worldwide operations as customers such as SDDC select RTGX to provide mission essential solutions in support of DoD networks.

The contract expansion is one of several awarded to RTGX by various DoD elements this year that include:

* Cloud Computing research and development using Hadoop
* Cyber Intercept software development and solutions deployment
* Large database management and analytics
* Virtualization architecture and management
* Open Source Intelligence collection and analysis

In order to support customer demand for increased cyber security solutions, large data analytics, power management for data centers and computing labs and faster storage – RTGX has developed and released a series of custom cyber tools, large data processing solutions architecture and tools and has partnered for state-of-the-art solid state storage and managed end point security.

We have a lot to offer and customers like SDDC know it and continue to come back to RTGX when they need to get it done.

We are happy to be of service.

Data storage startups to watch: Nimbus Data Systems Inc.

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:19:15 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — September 22, 2011
Nimbus Data Systems is the oldest startup on this list with a 2006 launch data, but its switch to an all-solid-state drive (SSD) storage system in 2010 makes the vendor stand out. CEO Tom Isakovich said his goal is to replace disk as a primary storage tier. "We're showing flash is mainstream," he said. "Cost is no longer a barrier to adoption. We say there should be two storage tiers. Use flash for primary storage, and SATA for everything else." The Nimbus S-class storage platform scales from 2.5 TB to 250 TB of flash storage; supportsEthernet, Fibre Channel (FC) and InfiniBand connectivity; and has a HALO operating system with thin provisioning, deduplication and replication. Nimbus makes its own SSDs, enabling it to keep costs down; systems are priced at $24,995 for 2.5 TB and $99,995 for 10 TB. Nimbus recently received validation from eBay, which has 100 TB of Nimbus S-class storage platform installed. Nimbus' biggest challenge could be its own success; will it prompt larger data storage companies to make their own SSDs and bring down costs?

Nimbus Data

RTGX is a Nimbus Solution Provider

RTGX selected to pride OPM with EMC Centera Content Addressed Storage Archiving upgrade

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:07:55 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — September 8, 2011
RTGX, one of the regions leaders in advanced storage solutions for our nation’s most demanding customers in the Defense and Intelligence Community, has been selected by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to upgrade its EMC Centera Content Archiving solution. OPM stores millions of documents that deal with the very important work it performs for our nation providing a qualified work force.

Managing the millions of documents and related content is a daunting job. In today’s world being able to comply with regulations that govern document retention is also a task that requires the ability to make available important documents but to also be able to archive and retrieve documents when needed to comply with research requests or regulatory concerns.

EMC Centera delivers the reliability needed to ensure content management functions at the enterprise level. OPM has been a Centera user for years and will now leverage the latest advances towards improving its content management and archiving functions with help from RTGX.

RTGX has been an EMC Solutions provider for over five years and we offer our customers the latest in advanced storage solutions that include flash storage for fast data retrieval with lower space and power consumption.

RTGX awarded new Army Health Intelligence IT Contract

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:19:35 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — September 7, 2011
Adding to RTGX’s United States Army portfolio is a new contract that will help the Army’s ability to assess risks and resilience among Service-members.

RTGX will perform testing and release management, MS SQL Server design, development and maintenance, coordinate data delivery and analysis using the Army STARRS database, data disaster recovery, Army STARRS service desk support, support backup and data recovery, configuration management and technical writing.

RTGX supports Army IT and Cyber objectives worldwide with a portfolio that includes substantial enterprise network support, voice over IP, continuous information assurance defensive posture maintenance, support for video conferencing, VSAT and secure cellular wireless. RTGX also supports virtualization, flash storage and cloud computing efforts for classified and unclassified networks.

The contract award comes on the heels of the successful completion of Army acquisition and network project management in support of BRAC activities at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland.

RTGX will finish the Government’s fiscal year with some of the highest performance ratings ever received across all business sectors including Air Force, Army, Department of Justice, Intelligence as well as others.

RTGX founder interviewed for Delta Airlines' Series

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:51:53 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — August 18, 2011

RTGX's Senior Executive Vice President was recently interviewed for "The Executive Report" series airing on Delta Airlines flights. Listen to the interview here:

RTGX set to launch XNOX Blue mobile computing backup and encryption solution

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:22:26 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — August 1, 2011
Today’s computing environment involves an ever increasing amount of mobile devices with ever increasing amounts of potentially sensitive customer, proprietary, financial, healthcare and other private data being stored on them. High-level executives, military personnel, physicians, researchers and corporate financiers must travel around the globe to meet the demands of their customers and mission. Protecting data on laptops and tablets from a "WikiLeaks moment" has increasing in significance in a world that continues to spawn new ways to breach data security.

* One in 10 laptops will eventually be stolen according to the FBI
* Fifteen percent of laptops will fail in their first year
* Disk failures account for 50 percent of laptop failures
* One in four laptops will fail by their fourth year

According to some recent studies, about 90% of corporate data resides on laptops and an ever-increasing amount of data is migrating to mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and other devices. With more employees using mobile computing devices for work, keeping an organization’s data secure from competitors seeking a competitive advantage, or from corporate or industrial espionage and hackers who might want retribution from being fired can only be accomplished through smart, proactive policy and protective measures.

XNOX Blue® from RTGX is designed to protect valuable information on mobile devices such as laptops with data backup, recovery, and data shredding if laptops are lost or stolen. XNOX Blue also protects desktops that are remotely distributed. XNOX Blue also secures data deduplication, and is available as a hosted solution or in public cloud infrastructures such as Microsoft Windows Azure or Amazon Web Services.

XNOX Blue can follow a company’s remote devices by placing a tracing agent in both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X systems.

RTGX's GSA 8(a) Stars GWAC is ready for business!

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:02:38 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — July 29, 2011
Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX) has been awarded a GSA 8(a) Stars contract by the General Services Administration. The vehicle allows agencies of the Federal Government to contract with RTGX for a wide variety of information technology services. RTGX is in the process of expanding its GSA labor categories in order to offer our customers more diversified options for contracting with RTGX. Awarded as an 8(a) small business set-aside, the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (8(a) STARS) II Government-wide Acquisition Contract is a competitive multiple award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. It is designed to promote small business utilization when purchasing technology solutions for the federal government.

Each of the 8(a) STARS II constellations includes four functional areas designated by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Orders over $4 million are competed amongst the industry partners in the chosen constellation and functional area.

RTGX is a leading provider of enterprise network management services that leverage ITIL best practices and cyber security that ensures secure network operations. RTGX is known for its virtualization expertise and cloud based solutions.
RTGX operates in over 33 States and Europe today. The company provides its customer’s with software engineering, systems engineering, virtualization, storage and state of the art end point backup and encryption solutions for laptops and mobile devices. RTGX is set to launch its cloud based end point security services for Government and commercial enterprises in August and is close to a launching a new suite of virtualization management offerings for commercial and federal customers.

RTGX Tapped to support DoD network engineering & cyber assurance

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:02:08 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — July 18, 2011
RTGX has been tapped to provide network engineers in support of DoD requirements for various Air Force locations throughout the United States including, Montgomery Alabama, Tinker Air Force Base Oklahoma and Colorado.

RTGX currently supports the Air Force and other DoD agencies throughout the United States and abroad. RTGX is a provider of network Cyber Assurance, virtualization, VOIP, VTC, Storage and other services for numerous DoD clients. The new contract work expands RTGX’s portfolio of network management contracts with DoD and State and Local Government customers.

RTGX is seeking network engineers with CCNA certifications, VLAN experience, network installations, network design review and implementation, Cyber Assurance requirements implementation and analysis, NIPRnet and SIPRnet experience amongst other skills.

RTGX is part of IRS TIPSS-4 SB MBOSS and Cybersecurity contract winning Team

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:02:08 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — June 28, 2011
The Internal Revenue Service has selected 14 contractors, and RTGX is part of the winning team in support of the SB MBOSS and Cybersecurity contract.

TIPSS-4 SB is comprised of two principal task areas of Cybersecurity and Management/Business Operations Support Services (MBOSS). Cybersecurity related services may be required across virtually all software languages and hardware platforms. MBOSS will cover services necessary for implementation of large-scale systems across functional areas that require high-level project management skills and tools for managing, tracking, reporting, and transitioning large-scale systems, and for maintaining configuration management controls. Specific requirements will be competed among TIPSS-4 SB contractors and issued via cost reimbursement or fixed-price task orders. The period of performance is 10 years, comprised of a one-year base and nine, one-year options. TIPSS-4 SB provides sources of information processing support services for the IRS, Department of the Treasury and its Bureaus.

RTGX supported the winning efforts using our experience in Cyber support across intelligence and DoD agencies. RTGX's headquarters are located at the University of Maryland's Research Park North. The University and many of the companies in the park such as RTGX are considered at the forefront of Cyber Security Research and Solutions. The subcontract win for this IDIQ will help expand RTGX's Cyber Security reach into the Internal Revenue Service.

Department of Justice taps RTGX for more Cyber support

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:55:44 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — May 27, 2011
The Department of Justice has selected RTGX to provide Cyber related services in support of mission essential services for law enforcement.

RTGX currently provides similar services as a prime contractor to the Department of Justice. RTGX's selection is based on the company’s highly regarded achievements performing similar work for DoJ and the intelligence community. RTGX has garnered repeated high performance and management ratings by DoD, DoJ, and from our Nation's most important agencies focused on security.

RTGX will provide:

* Design and implementation for mission essential networks and servers.
* Cyber intercept and exploitation
* Agile virtualization and server deployment
* Remote server administration
* Configuration management
* Telecommunications intercept and exploitation
* Mobile hardware and network support for all manner of mobile networks and technology.

We appreciate our employees, without whom our success would not be possible. Customer's such as DoJ that demand excellence but also collaborate as partners with a common interest with their contractors help us achieve success and mission accomplishment.

The Army thanks RTGX for 100% cyber mission support excellence!

Fri, 20 May 2011 10:25:24 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — May 19, 2011
RTGX has employees deployed across the United States and Europe. While we enjoy visiting all of our locations, our Hawaii operations are tough to beat in terms of sheer beauty and great weather. RTGX supports a number of Army and other DoD centric missions in Hawaii, primarily centered on cyber assurance and network management.

The Department of the Army this week bestowed two certificates of appreciation to RTGX’s Network Engineers based out of our Hawaii Army Transportation Command location. The RTGX dynamic duo exceeded expectations in the architecture and implementation of the USARCYBER HBSS McAfee Host Based Security System (HBSS) for the Army's NIPR and SIPR networks. Army senior leadership highlights that for the past two years RTGX and its Cyber duo "has surpassed all expectations” and "maintained the information assurance program by assessing and mitigating information assurance vulnerability alerts (IAVA) as reflected by the brigade's 100% compliance status." Army leadership also touted RTGX's ability to quickly scale to meet mission needs and our agile responsiveness.
For over five years, RTGX has been fortunate to continue to serve the Army worldwide as a prime contractor for cyber assurance, virtualization, software maintenance and enterprise network management. RTGX performs similar, highly regarded cyber and network centric consulting for the United States Air Force worldwide and RTGX was recently tapped to architect a secure cloud solution for the Department of Defense. The recognition by the Army is RTGX's 3rd so far this year from Army customers and when combined with the recent kudos from the United States Air Force and the Department of Justice we are feeling pretty good as we celebrate our 10 years of service to the Federal Government and 14 years total in the IT business.

RTGX CEO a 2011 SmartCEO Baltimore Brava! Winner!

Fri, 20 May 2011 10:24:50 -0400

Baltimore, Maryland — May 18, 2011
RTGX’s Kathlyn Adams Seay was recently honored by SmartCEO’s Brava! Women Business Achievement Awards.

The 2011 Brava! Women Business Achievement Awards honor the top 25 female CEOs, presidents, business owners and executive directors in Greater Baltimore. These remarkable women are dedicated not only to overseeing successful businesses, but to giving back to the community through charity and philanthropic endeavors.

As a whole, the 2011 Baltimore Brava! CEOs are running companies that generate $800 million in collective revenue and are managing more than 4,600 employees in the Greater Baltimore area.

Out with the old and in with the new! RTGX has moved!

Fri, 20 May 2011 10:24:14 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — May 16, 2011
RTGX has moved its Maryland Offices to:

5520 Research park Drive Suite #250
Baltimore Maryland 21228
Telephone: 443-543-5300
Fax: 443-543-5299

We are at located at the UMBC Research Park — a major center for Cyber focused research and technology and cyber entrepreneurial innovation. RTGX is located on the second floor of the building. The location offered RTGX and its creative team a blank slate from which to design a modern and light filled facility that utilized soothing colors, extensive use of interior glass walls and doors. The RTGX led design team’s mandate was to create a space that integrated corporate operations while providing space for our Cyber Training facility and Cyber Innovation Suite. RTGX also built a secure operating facilities and optioned additional expansion space to accommodate growth.

RTGX implemented the use of curved walls that mimick the interior curvature of the building and created an Aquarium like effect in the new Aqua Spazzio conference rooms using a new aquarium design from Spacearium. The conference rooms include an 8 foot fresh water aquarium that floats in front of a wall of glass suspended from the ceiling.

In keeping with the green theme of the building, RTGX implemented renewable materials wherever possible and extended our green approach to include the use of virtualization to conserve space and energy. RTGX also implemented motion sensor lighting in offices and all common areas. When a room is not in use the lights automatically turn off and come back on only when they sense motion in the room. The green theme is in keeping with RTGX’s research and planned participation in software development technology projects for energy management and control.

RTGX is a GSA 8(a) Stars II GWAC finalist

Mon, 16 May 2011 12:24:23 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — May 4, 2011
RTGX has moved its Maryland Offices to:

RTGX recently submitted its proposal for the 8(a) STARS' follow-on contract - GSA 8(a) STARS II. The 8(a) STARS II will have a period of performance (base + options) through 2016. Final award is expected in early June 2011 with notice to proceed expected shortly afterwards.

Each of the 8(a) STARS II constellations includes four functional areas designated by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). These NAICS are:

* 541511- Custom Computer Programming Services
* 541512- Computer Systems Design Services
* 541513- Computer Facilities Maintenance Services
* 541519- Other Computer Related Services

8(a) STARS II Features:

* A multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract vehicle
* A five-year base with one five-year option.
* A $10 billion program ceiling
* Limited protestability
* Directed Order Authority: Directed task orders up to $4 million each are allowed for federal civilian and Department of Defense activities.

8(a) STARS II Benefits:

* 8(a) socioeconomic credit transferrable to the agency
* Pre-competed, easy to use contracts
* Access to proven 8(a) small business technology providers
* Shortened procurement lead time
* A low user access fee (0.75 percent) built into contractor's ceiling prices

RTGX Represented at UMBC Cyber Incubator Grand Opening

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:34:42 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — April 21, 2011
RTGX Executives and Founder participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony at UMBC's Research Park. The new center will incubate emerging businesses focused on cyber security innovation.

RTGX is almost ready to open its new headquarters facility in the same building that will house the RTGX Cyber Innovation Suite. The company has already garnered two emerging businesses with a focus on cyber security service and solutions.

As part of the ceremony, RTGX Executives greeted State of Maryland Officials, UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski as well as the Senior Senator from Maryland the Honorable Barbara Mikulski. The Senator is a huge factor in Maryland's continued economic growth and her leadership as a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence amongst other committee assignments reflects her commitment to the security of our nation and growth of Maryland businesses of all sizes and in particular those focused on the Intelligence sector.

RTGX President and CEO and Co-founder selected for Business Achievement Award

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:34:53 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — April 11, 2011

RTGX President and CEO has been selected as a recipient of Baltimore SmartCEO magazine's Brava Women Business Achievement Award. She will be featured in the July issue of SmartCEO magazine. The award honors women CEOs for their business accomplishments and their contributions to their community. RTGX's President and CEO has fostered the continued growth of RTGX while at the same time making time for worthy causes. The many causes and organizations to which she contributes time, money and passion are many and below is a brief list:

The National Cares Mentoring Movement
She also is Founder and Chair of the Board of the Greater Baltimore Cares Mentoring Movement a non-profit registered 501c organization dedicated to ensuring that children from underserved communities rise above their circumstances through positive mentoring.

Leadership 500 Annual Summit
An organization founded by the NAACP Chair Roslyn M. Brock to foster the inspiration and education of the next generation of leaders across the country and supported by the likes of Exxon, Wells Fargo Bank, BMW, Honda, Astra Zeneca and many other corporations.

The Howard County chapter of the esteemed Links Incorporated
The Howard County Chapter of the national organization and non profit of women leaders dedicated to charitable works within their community.

Sisters at the Well
An organization that honors women business leaders for their contributions to the community.
The HerShe Group
A Los Angeles based organization and non-profit with a mission to ensure the successful transition of young women from Foster Care and to successful, productive, and healthy lives.

While all of the organizations she contributes her time and attention to are important in their own right, they cannot replace the one on one time she has invested with many young people over the years, helping them figure out life's complications and a positive vision of their future.

RTGX announces Suite of Cyber Monitoring and Forensic Analytic Tools

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:35:06 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — April 5, 2011
RTGX announces the first line of cyber solutions from our new Cyber Xccelerator. The RTGX Cyber Xccelerator is part of RTGX's new UMBC Research Park facilities and it will house innovative cyber research and product development by emerging companies and thinkers.

The first line of solutions to emerge from the RTGX Cyber Xcellerator is designed to meet middle market needs for Cyber Forensic and Cyber Monitoring capabilities. RTGX's work with Department of Defense and Law Enforcement customers is valuable experience and we use lessons learned and fuse them into ideas that turn into new cyber solutions.

The continuous advancements in networks, wireless and mobile computing present many advantages but also many threats to Federal, Law Enforcement and Commercial customers interested in protecting valuable information assets but also in monitoring and detection of possible threats to information, data privacy, corporate and personal privacy, infrastructure and intellectual property.

When combined with expert cyber security engineering, analysis and cyber program management, the CyberX StillWaters suite of tools and services is a powerful discovery asset that can thwart malicious computer and internet based threats or can be used to help identify perpetrators and provide valuable evidence to law enforcement and other adjudicators of cyber related attacks and crimes. Customers needing more capability or custom integration options need look no further — our team of developers can customize our tools for any mission purpose.

CyberX StillWaters Suite – Still waters run deep – Trust but verify

StillWaters - PKA Packet Keyword Analytics Tool
Some of the most famous cases of cyber related crime and espionage have been detected by tracking how words were used and transmitted in daily electronic communications. Our packet keyword analytic software tool allows for packet inspection and monitoring using key words as triggers. Key words detected will cause the packets to be set aside for further analysis and action. Continuous monitoring and keyword expansion capabilities can be used for pattern detection and expansion of network based communications monitoring.

StillWaters - SSA Screen Shot Activity Tool
Intellectual property loss through network based exploitation acts is a fact of life. It takes one rogue employee to steal valuable corporate information assets or to provide stolen information assets to a competitor or new employer. This year saw the conviction of former employees of a business enterprise that went to work for a new upstart in the same line of business in another state. Prior to leaving their employer, one of them set up a forwarding scheme that allowed incoming new customer communications to be forwarded to the servers of their new employer and their by allowing the new employer to poach the potential new customers to the benefit of the new upstart. This went on for months and only an accidental interaction provided the clues that led to a comprehensive analysis of the network based communications and related hardware that led to the discovery of the cyber crime.

StillWaters-SSA can be used as a stand-alone tool to capture and monitor the screens of intended monitoring targets without detection. When combined with StillWaters-PKA and expert analysis and monitoring the combined solution is a powerful prevention measure against cyber crime. Screen shots can also be configured to occur on pre-configured intervals and on keyword hits.

StillWaters - CTA Communications Trending and Analytics Tool.
The ability to analyze trends in data and communications on a network are key tools for cyber attack prevention and detection. Major financial institutions and corporations utilize tools to analyze and develop trend analysis in order to predict or stop cyber related crimes and threats of information and financial assets. StillWaters-CTA provides the data visualization component that can aid in reporting and spotting trends or suspicious activity.

RTGX signs up 100 runners for this year's AFCEA 5k and Fun Run in Columbia Maryland

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:35:15 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — March 24, 2011
RTGX continues its commitment to worthy causes through its support for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Central Maryland Chapter. The firm also supports chapters in Montgomery Alabama, South Florida, Georgia, Washington DC and Virginia.

Live Now Fitness
RTGX and our fitness partner Live Now Fitness have once again signed up and registered 100 runners to support this worthy cause. The AFCEA Central Maryland 5k and Fun Run occurs April 9th in Columbia Maryland. The entrance fees for each registrant support the important causes of the AFCEA Central Maryland Chapter.

AFCEA is a non-profit international association. Its mission is:

(a) To promote industry-government cooperation in developing effective intelligence and information management, including the development, manufacture and operation of equipment and systems, and provision of services in communications, electronics, computers, intelligence systems, command, control and technical photography.

(b) To foster strong Armed Forces and national C4I organizations.

(c) To contribute to the professional development of those serving in C4I fields.

For more information on the AFCEA Central Maryland Chapter and the AFCEA 5k and Fun Run you can use the following link:

http://www.afceacmd.org/

RTGX establishes new operations office in Montgomery Alabama

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:35:28 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — March 16, 2011
Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX) has announced that it has established an operations office in Montgomery Alabama in support of employees and customers in the region. The location is located near key RTGX customers and employees.

RTGX serves customers such as the Air Force, the United States Army, the United States Navy, the Intelligence Community and numerous other Federal and State and Local Government customers. The Montgomery Alabama and surrounding region is an important strategic location for RTGX that allows the company reach into important customers in the area. The customer has strategic growth plans for the region and Montgomery Alabama extends the operations reach of the company and allows it to further focus efforts on the Air Force and the Defense Information Systems Agency – another RTGX customer with operations in Montgomery Alabama.

RTGX to move Maryland operations to the center of Cyber and Computer Science innovation

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:35:35 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — February 24, 2011
RTGX is known for its agile management of mission critical Department of Defense, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community mission critical networks and infrastructure.
As a leader in Network Program and Cyber Program Management and operations the firm will leverage its new partnership with University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to foster the development of the creative and out of the box thinking in Cyber and Computer Science that UMBC is known for worldwide.

The new facility is being designed to foster creativity and to allow research and collaboration in a modern setting that leaves behind the traditional workspaces of endless drab colored cubicles. The firm is using a variety of materials, textures and colors that will create an exciting, vibrant and inspirational workspace for our employees and customers. The firm is allocating space in the new facility planned for research and to provide workspace for talented Cyber researchers and computer science innovators.

The UMBC Research and Technology Park is a Federal Hubzone and the University is at the center of innovation and education of the next generation of Science, Engineering and Cyber work force.

UMBC Research and Technology Park
5520 Research Park Drive
Suite #240
Baltimore, MD 21228

RTGX Customer U.S. TRANSCOM Operates Despite Enemy Attacks

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:35:44 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — February 23, 2011
For over five years, Ross Technologies Inc. (RTGX) has been a sought after provider of information technology solutions world wide for the U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM). RTGX employees maintain the network operations and Cyber defenses for U.S. Transcom worldwide. RTGX is deployed from Hawaii to the Netherlands and points in between in support of TRANSCOM mission networks and related infrastructure. RTGX is responsible for thousands of servers, desktops, routers, firewalls, wireless access points, video teleconference systems, government issued cell phones and supports technology insertion and continuous modernization of this mission critical network.

Our vital support for TRANSCOM only begins with our worldwide network services, we also have trained thousands of Military and Civilian personnel all over the world in the use of the Defense Personal Property System. The system is at the center of how military equipment and military household goods are transported worldwide in support of our military families and warriors. RTGX provided critical program management support and was responsible for the independent requirements verification and testing.

In addition RTGX provided the logistics, graphic, communications support and web development that provided the constant outreach needed for the eventual implementation of the new DPS system. RTGX also provide logistics, organizational and seminar support for TRANSCOM industry conferences and symposiums throughout the United States.

U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) suffers more cyber attacks than any other combatant command, according to its commander, Air Force Gen. Duncan McNabb.

This is partly because, unlike other commands, TRANSCOM relies on unclassified and commercial networks to deliver supplies and passengers all over the world, McNabb said Feb. 7 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

In 2010, there were 33,326 "computer network events against TRANSCOM," according to the four-star's briefing.

In addition to cyber attacks, TRANSCOM is the target of piracy and other supply-route attacks, a particular vulnerability for operations in Afghanistan, a landlocked country.

Countries north of Afghanistan allow nonlethal cargo to transit what's called the Northern Distribution Network, while Pakistan allows supplies to arrive in the port of Karachi and then travel on to Afghanistan. However, Pakistan does not allow any uniformed U.S. military presence and therefore shipments must be handled by contractors.

TRANSCOM conducts 90 percent of its operations by surface transportation, leaving 10 percent carried out by airlift. However, in Afghanistan, 30 percent is delivered by air, McNabb said. Air transport is 10 times more expensive than surface delivery, he said.

Sensitive, high-value products travel by air, according to McNabb, who said he is confident about the transit options available. In case something unforeseen happens, such as the floods in Pakistan, the coup in Kyrgyzstan or the volcano in Iceland, TRANSCOM has enough options to fall back on, he said.

But McNabb said he does worry about evolving threats and their ability to destabilize the U.S. military's movement of cargo and forces.

In response to a question about the growing menace of shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan, McNabb said, "Even though it's not a threat today, it could be tonight or it could be tomorrow."

Therefore, TRANSCOM tracks intelligence on man-portable air-defense systems very carefully, he said.

After helicopters, strategic airlift aircraft, such as the Air Force's C-17s and C-130s, are the primary target, he said. Last year, 120 aircraft were shot at and 15 were hit.

Overall, there were 1,100 attacks in 2010 against TRANSCOM, McNabb said. This includes improvised explosive device attacks.

TRANSCOM, located at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., has $56 billion in assets and includes 145,500 people, according to McNabb's briefing.

RTGX announces award of US Army subcontract

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:35:51 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — February 17, 2011
Ross Technologies, Inc. announced today the award of a subcontract as part of the Army’s five-year, $400M enterprise-wide IT services and solutions Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, Information Technology Services – Small Business (ITS-SB). The U.S. Army, Department of Defense (DoD), or any other Federal Agency will be authorized to fulfill their IT support requirements under this ITS-SB contract.

RTGX looks forward to working with our prime contractor in expanding our mission centric solutions across the Army. RTGX currently supports The Army transportation Command across several prime and subcontracts The Army's 4th Signal Center Pacific Theater Network Operations and Security Center and The Army at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

RTGX Launches Open Source Intelligence Course Offering

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:36:00 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — January 31, 2011
The Depart of Defense as well as local and Federal Law Enforce have all launched initiatives centered on Open Source Intelligence or OSINT.
RTGX has partnered with Cyber Solutions provider Cvolve to launch a first in a series of Cyber Solutions and Intelligence training for DoD and Law Enforcement personnel and contractors.

Course Objective: Provide knowledge and instruction on the the basics of Open Source Intelligence Collection. The course will provide the student with the knowledge needed to identify resources and how o apply them against illicit organizations (drug trafficking, terrorism etc. The student will learn ontological trees and white hacking techniques to gather the most relevant information in the least amount of time and demonstrate how these sources can be use to build social information networks (tactical or prepare assessments (strategic).

The course materials will include efiles with extensive lists of trusted sources and book recommendations. The student will learn intelligence community resources, exploitation of www resources, assessment of reliability, trustworthiness and frequency of sources. The course will also cover legal issues, available tools and the writing of OSINT reports.

Location: Columbia Maryland

Date: To be announced (tentative late February and/or early March)

For more information: sales@rtgx.com

RTGX New Year Business News

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:36:11 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — January 14, 2011
RTGX lands Web Commerce and Mobile Applications Development Contracts
RTGX has been tapped to design and develop two web applications with companion mobile applications that support the Iphone and the Android operating systems. RTGX launched mobile applications development partnerships in 2010 and had developed training partnerships for its employees to quickly come up to speed on the skills and tool needed. The company is also installing a mobile applications development, simulation and testing lab that will also focus on secure mobile communications in support of DoD customers at its new headquarters facility. RTGX's new headquarters construction will break ground next month and will be completed in April of 2011.

RTGX is part of Department of Justice major Technology IDIQ
RTGX is part of one of the winning teams that will provide the future of law enforcement technology for the near future as part of the $30 billion dollar Department of Justice IDIQ technology contract. RTGX has for the past 4 years provided sophisticated law enforcement intelligence collection solutions for the Department of Justice as a prime contractor and is considered a top provider of on demand and deployable network based law enforcement solutions.

RTGX starts the New Year with Army ITS-SB IDIQ subcontract win

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:36:17 -0400

Columbia, Maryland — January 2, 2011
Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX) increases its ability to provide the United States Army with technology buying options with the recent subcontract win of the Army ITS-SB IDIQ. RTGX is a member of one of the winning teams comprised of leading IT solution providers to the Federal Government and the United States Army.

ITS-SB is the Army's five-year, $400M enterprise-wide IT services and solutions Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, Information Technology Services – Small Business (ITS-SB). The U.S. Army, Department of Defense (DoD), or any other Federal Agency can use the contract to fulfill their IT support requirements under this ITS-SB contract. The contract has functional areas that include Electronic Product Environment Assessment Tool (EPEAT), Information Assurance (IA), Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V), Internet Protocol Version 9 (IPv6) Engineering Services, Migration/Integration IT Services, and Warranty and Maintenance Support.

RTGX has prime and subcontracts in support of the United States Army worldwide including locations such as Hawaii and Rotterdam, Netherlands. RTGX is known for its IPv6 migration services and expertise having accomplished a number of first for the United States Air Force in support of IPv6 migration design and implementation.

RTGX is well known for its Information and network infrastructure assurance and support services that include Cyber Security, Certification and Accreditation, server and desktop support and technology insertion. RTGX also maintains mission critical Army software applications and databases.