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Stephen Gillotte featured in Virginia Tech’s “50 for 50” celebration

Stephen Gillotte, CEO of Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) and a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) graduate, was recently chosen as one of 50 alumni featured in the Virginia Tech Computer Science (CS) Department’s 50th anniversary celebration. The “50 for 50” spotlights seek to showcase CS alumni who are industry leaders while inspiring the Hokie leaders of tomorrow.

Within the spotlight, Steve discusses the early stages of his technology career, which began in the third grade when he discovered the GW Basic interpreter and taught himself to program, as well as the path he took that led him to found RGi on his 30th birthday.

Steve also talks about how the CS Department helped equip him for running a successful small business by allowing him to focus on interdisciplinary skills, such as public speaking and the ability to communicate technology information to the outside world effectively.

To read Steve’s “50 for 50” spotlight, click here.

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RGi wins follow-on work to support the US Army intelligence community

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) was recently awarded a contract to continue providing critical geospatial intelligence support to the US Army’s enterprise intelligence system.  On this contract, RGi’s expertise in Software and Systems Engineering, as well as DevOps, will be instrumental to the program’s continued success.

RGi supports the enterprise system, based on Esri’s ArcGIS, and helps tailor various products to support Army’s Intelligence mission. Additionally, RGi offers support in systems engineering, architecture planning, analysis, design, and subject matter expertise to integrate and interoperate with existing COTS and GOTS platforms.

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RGi offers 4th annual $10,000 scholarship

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) has partnered with The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) to offer its fourth annual scholarship as part of the 2021 USGIF Scholarship Program.

The $10,000 RGi Scholarship for Geospatial and Engineering will be awarded to an undergraduate who is committed to becoming competitive and constructive in the geospatial and engineering disciplines.

“RGi has a long history of supporting students, and we are thrilled to continue these efforts with USGIF through our annual RGi Scholarship,” said RGi CEO Stephen Gillotte.

Every year, USGIF awards scholarships of various amounts to exceptional students studying the geospatial sciences and related fields. In total, USGIF has awarded more than $1.4 million in scholarships since the program began in 2004.

To learn more about the RGi Scholarship or to apply, please visit https://usgif.org/usgif-scholarship-program/. The deadline to apply for the RGi Scholarship is May 16, 2021.

For information on the 2020 RGi Scholarship recipient, click here.

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RGi CTO Chitra Sivanandam featured on Iron Butterfly podcast

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc.’s (RGi’s®) Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chitra Sivanandam, shares her story on this week’s podcast episode of Iron Butterfly. Iron Butterfly, co-produced by the Amazing Women of the IC (AWIC) and the National Security Institute, is the first podcast by women that features the stories of women in the intelligence community (IC).

During the podcast, Chitra shares about her journey over the past 25-years as an imaging scientist with the IC and Department of Defense (DoD), and how being comfortable with wacky and unusual ideas has played a vital role in her success. She discusses the importance of people being their whole authentic selves, and how it brings variety and diversity to the table.

Chitra also owns a brewing company, The Craft of Brewing, and she talks about the risk she took to build her brewing company and the time it takes to run it. While she has support from her family, she states that her biggest limiting factor is time, and how a lack of time is partially the value of why Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here. Chitra says, “It’s why [AI] is critical. That’s why we’re making it. That’s why we’re consuming it. We’re going to all buy ourselves back some time.”

The podcast was named “Iron Butterfly” after Eloise Page who worked her way up from a secretary position for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), to a case officer, and later became the first female Chief of Station at CIA. During her career journey, she proudly earned the nickname “Iron Butterfly,” which signifies being a fierce fighter with a core of steel.

Check out Chitra’s Iron Butterfly podcast episode wherever you listed to podcasts: Acast, Apple Podcast, Spotify.

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Chitra Sivanandam joins RGi Executive Team as Chief Technology Officer

FAIRFAX, April 19, 2021 /PR Newswire/ — Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) is thrilled to announce Chitra Sivanandam as our Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

As CTO, Chitra will oversee RGi’s data science, AI/ML, and cyber situational awareness & understanding vision, strategy, and direction while working with the community to support our contracted and internal research and development (R&D) efforts. She will be responsible for driving our technology forward, inspiring and growing RGi’s engineering team, and delivering innovative technical solutions that provide an immediate impact to our Defense and Intelligence customers.

“Given Chitra’s proven track record within AI/ML, Mission Applications, and Data Science, she will enhance RGi’s position as an innovative, technology-first firm, and energize our entire company around our technical abilities and offerings,” said Stephen Gillotte, RGi CEO.

Chitra brings a wealth of experience by previously serving in various executive-level technology capacities at SAIC, Raytheon (formerly Blackbird Technologies), Exelis, and In-Q-Tel, where she developed and maintained the roadmap and strategy for analysis and analytic platform capabilities, as well as the AI strategy and path forward, including Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, as well as Modeling and Simulation capabilities and High Performance Computing analytics. Chitra holds an MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. in Imaging Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and is a recent recipient of the AI Executive of the Year award from WashingtonExec.

Chitra’s technical expertise won’t be outshined by her creative talents, as she is also a founder of The Craft of Brewing, a small craft brewery with brew-on-premise capabilities in Ashburn, VA. When she’s not making an impact for RGi’s customers, she’ll likely be at the brewery grabbing a beer and discussing grains, hops, or the latest in computer vision algorithms.

“What excites me the most about RGi is the company’s passion, culture and intellectual curiosity to solve our customers’ toughest problems,” said Chitra. “I’m fortunate to be able to lead and grow with this talented team.”

“Chitra is a high-energy person who is eager to help propel RGi into our next phase of growth while ensuring we remain a go-to firm for top talent,” said Sidney Medford, RGi COO.

For more information on RGi, please visit rgi-corp.com.

Read the original article from PR Newswire here.

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RGi to provide intelligence analysis for the Department of Defense

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) was recently selected to provide GIS analytic expertise in support of National Security.

RGi will support the DoD with the implementation of a geographic information system and provide onsite technical expertise to design and develop web-enabled GIS applications and provide analysis of the underlying intelligence information. This effort also includes data processing and geo-enabling their legacy enterprise databases, building mobile workflows and applications, and producing strategic and tactical products, all leading to a safer, more secure situational awareness capability for key decision makers.

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RGi wins new contract to provide geospatial and software engineering support

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) has been selected to provide geospatial analysis and software development support for a national security customer. Under this contract, RGi provides geospatial, dashboard, data visualization, and software engineering expertise to missions and operations across the customer’s mission area. Our work also includes a variety of GIS analysis and engineering tasks and activities, including:

  • Design and implementation of new applications
  • Design of new mission specific data visualization techniques and applications
  • Comprehensive analysis of disparate near-real time data feeds in support of mission operations and decision making
  • Geospatial database management expertise
  • Development of geospatial products, including reports, statistical analyses, cartographic layouts, infographics, and dashboards
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RGi names Brian Loggins as Chief Growth Officer

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) is excited to announce the creation of a new Chief Growth Officer (CGO) position, naming Brian Loggins as the inaugural CGO. Brian’s focus will be on leading all business development efforts and the corporate strategy to drive the company’s growth in GEOINT, AI/ML, and C5ISR.

Brian joined RGi in 2019 and has served as the company’s Director of Business Development and Strategic Growth, leading RGi’s Business Development, Capture and Proposal functions.

“Brian is perfect for this new role, given his proven leadership and demonstrated track record leading and winning major contracts across federal agencies in his extended career,” said Stephen Gillotte, RGi’s CEO. “These are exciting times for RGi, and under Brian’s leadership we are transforming our business and accelerating the expansion and growth of our company.”

Prior to joining RGi, Brian held several leadership positions at Northrop Grumman after serving in the U.S. Army for 21 years in various command and staff positions.

“I am excited to take on this new role and usher RGi into a period of accelerated growth,” said Loggins. “I look forward to expanding RGi’s impact within the Defense and Intelligence communities through our innovative, mission-focused solutions.”

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RGi named a Best Place to Work in Virginia

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) has been named a 2021 Best Place to Work in Virginia by Virginia Business Magazine and Best Companies Group.

This award recognizes companies that go beyond the norm to foster an exceptional life experience for employees. Companies are judged based on the results of an anonymous third-party employee survey that evaluates factors such as leadership and planning, corporate culture and communication, role satisfaction, work environment, training and benefits, and overall engagement.

RGi is always looking for smart, energetic people to join our growing team. For more information on job openings, visit https://careers-rgi-corp.icims.com/  

Learn more about the Best Places to Work in Virginia award and see the full list of winners here.

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Reinventing Geospatial launches new website focusing on ‘The Why Behind RGi’

Reinventing Geospatial®, Inc. (RGi®) is excited to announce the launch of our new website, which offers visitors greater insights into our uniquely fun and downright amazing company.

Our new site features information on The Why Behind RGi, the Life Experience we give to RGi’ers, and our Social Impact programs, as well as how we work incredibly hard to help our customers achieve mission success.

“We are thrilled to debut our new website and share more about who we are as a company and what’s important to us,” said Sidney Medford, RGi’s COO. “I hope visitors will experience our passion for making work fun and meaningful while driving the GEOINT community forward.”

To check it out, visit www.rgi-corp.com and be sure to give us your feedback!

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