G2 Awarded DISA ESS BPA Contract

G2, Inc is very pleased to announce that it was one of three vendors awarded the DISA Engineering Support Services Blanket Purchase Agreement (ESS BPA) contract.

This highly competitive award allows G2 to provide DISA PEO-MA with quick reaction capabilities to enhance DISA ability to secure and operate the Global Information Grid. The period of performance for the ESS BPA contract has been set for 3 years.

About G2, Inc
G2 is a dynamic, advanced technology solutions and services company focused on defending our Nation in Cyberspace. The company specializes in attack analysis, security automation and big data analytics, and is committed to the success and satisfaction of each of its employees.

For more information visit the company’s web site at www.g2-inc.com.

Brian Hubbard Joins G2, Inc as Account Manager, FedCiv Solutions

G2, Incorporated announced today that Brian Hubbard has joined the company as its Account Manager for Federal and Civil Solutions. In this role, Hubbard will lead the business development and service delivery efforts for that particular business unit, while connecting innovative technical solutions to the needs of its FedCiv customer base.

Formerly a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, Hubbard is a strategic business leader with more than 28 years of experience in the Cyber Security arena. He has extensive experience architecting, designing, and developing solutions that address some of the nation’s most significant security challenges. Beyond that, he is well-known for building highly effective teams. As a Senior Program Manager, he has led several large IDIQ contracts from their inception through closure, managing countless individual task orders, staff members, and corporate teammates.

Brian Hubbard joins a G2 executive team that focuses on employee empowerment, client engagement, and creative problem-solving. According to G2’s CEO, Paul Green, it’s “Brian’s professionalism, leadership skills, and know-how” that are most critical to G2’s ability to scale. Green went on to say, “What’s so important is that Brian understands G2. He appreciates our identity and has already made an immediate impact. I’m happy he’s on our team.”

Hubbard holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Purdue as well as a Master’s Degree in Information Systems/Operations Research from UMBC.

About G2 Inc

G2 is a dynamic, advanced technology solutions and services company supporting the public sector. G2’s mission is “to proactively provide innovative solutions to the most significant challenges affecting our Nation’s ability to collect, utilize, and defend digital information”. The company specializes in developing cyber solutions including attack analysis, security automation and big data analytics.

Recognized as the Baltimore Sun’s Top Workplace for Encouraging New Ideas, G2 is also committed to the success and satisfaction of its employees. The company goes to great lengths to ensure that its engineers and business professionals are technically proficient, driven, and humble. Constant communication, trust, and respect are noted as cultural elements that keep employee satisfaction and morale high.

G2 is a small business with corporate offices located in Annapolis Junction, MD. For more information visit the company’s web site at www.g2-inc.com.

Pete Senholzi Joins G2, Inc as Vice President of Strategic Programs

G2, Incorporated announced yesterday that Pete Senholzi has joined the company as Vice President of Strategic Programs.  In this role, Senholzi will have responsibility for business development program planning, implementation, and management. He will lead G2 efforts to provide innovative technology based solutions in support of current and emerging customer mission requirements.

Senholzi brings more than twenty-five years of hands-on, advanced technology business development experience and an extensive business development network in both the public and private customer sectors. This experience includes business development support to both large and small organizations. For the past six years, Senholzi was Senior Director at CSC where he directly supported just under $1.5B dollars of new awards primarily in the Intelligence Community.

Senholzi is an excellent addition to G2’s executive team which focuses on customers, creativity, agility and character.   "We're thrilled to bring Pete on board and believe he is a great fit for G2.  His drive, determination and capacity are well suited for G2's fast paced innovation driven environment."  ~ Paul Green, CEO.    

Senholzi holds both a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business/marketing from Drexel University. He is happily married with two children. His interests include skiing, biking, boating and coaching.

About G2 Inc

G2 is a dynamic, advanced technology solutions and services company supporting the public sector.  G2’s mission is “to proactively provide innovative solutions to the most significant challenges affecting our Nation’s ability to collect, utilize, and defend digital information”.  The company specializes in developing cyber solutions including attack analysis, security automation and big data analytics.     

Recognized as the Baltimore Sun’s Top Workplace for Encouraging New Ideas, G2 is also committed to the success and satisfaction of its employees.  The company goes to great lengths to ensure that its engineers and business professionals are technically proficient, driven, and humble.  Constant communication, trust, and respect are noted as cultural elements that keep employee satisfaction and morale high.  

G2 is a small business with corporate offices located in Annapolis Junction, MD. For more information visit the company’s web site at www.g2-inc.com. 

Leveraging Social Media When Engineering Tomorrow's Cyber Solutions

G2's Emerging Presence Online

At G2, we recognize that the most valuable cyber solutions begin with
meaningful collaboration.  On any given day, you can find our
engineers huddled around whiteboards solving the federal
government's most difficult cyber challenges.  Whether we're working on malware analysis, big data analytics, or security automation, G2
is committed to removing the barriers between its engineers and the broader cyber community. We believe that today's cyber engineer can interact with his or her peers in more productive ways, when leveraging the power of social media.


At this year's Social Media Strategies Summit (hosted by @gsmionline)industry experts discussed how companies and employees can interact with others well beyond their existing networks.  Conference speakers
like Jennifer Cohen Crompton, Glenn Selig, and Patrick Baynes spoke on topics like search engine optimization (SEO) and developing meaningful content.  They stressed the fact that thoughtful preparation (using industry-specific terminology, high-frequency search terms, and stimulating subject matter) can lead to greater visibility on social media sites.  By leveraging this strategy when tweeting, updating linkedin, and blogging, a software engineer in Ft Meade, MD can collaborate with a computer scientist at Google to produce tomorrow's computer network defense systems. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to help our engineers lead innovative discussions with other SMEs. While we are committed to sharing useful content via social media, we encourage our employees, industry colleagues, and friends to actively participate in the dialogue.

In summary: know your audience, create valuable content, connect & collaborate.

What types of cool techniques are you using to expand your online footprint?? We're listening!

An Open Letter to Our Nation's Veterans

Today I enjoyed a wonderful day with my oldest daughter Madeleine.  The highlight of our day was a walk in the woods which ended with a beautiful Eastern Shore sunset.   

Today, I am reminded that this simple pleasure was possible only because of the selfless service of so many men and women who committed their lives to serving our Country.  

To our Vets, I thank you for all that you have done to defend our great Nation.  Your commitment is what guarantees our freedom.  

We are all indebted to you.  From the entire G2 family, thank you.

- Paul Green, CEO

Whither 3D Printers?

By:  E.S., Software Engineer @ G2

Seems as though the market is quietly bring forward more and more 3D printers; as I sit and watch I feel a real trend forming, slowly, one plastic droplet at a time ...
Its sure looking like 3D printing is here to stay, and that its just about to hit the mass market with consumer-level pricing right around the corner.
With all that creativity now possible, and new products and markets that it will create, I can't help to wonder about the security implications that will come along with it. What if it were possible to 'print' a small robot, electrical circuits and all? When you're not home your 3D printer could be hard at work doing a hacker's bidding, printing bot after bot, programmed to deliver the contents of the inside of your house to the waiting moving van the hacker has parked just outside.
How about tiny bots that can be printed without your knowledge, inside your most inner sanctum, complete with high def lens and covert wireless network connection?
Or a swarm of nanobots designed to deliver a payload into a person's body without them knowing?
I wonder what great and and sometimes terrible things humans will come up with when it comes to any technology, especially ones that merge the virtual and physical worlds ...
But for now, we get to print iPhone cases and other things made of plastic, only. Its intruguing technology even at this stage.

Mobile and Your Projects

 By:  M.K., Senior Software Engineer @ G2

I'd like to ask everyone to think about how mobile computing could be incorporated into the projects you are working on.  Ignore for the moment whether or not mobile will ever get approved for use on those projects and just focus on how mobile devices could be used.

When thinking about mobile design here are few concepts to keep in mind:

 

User Context - mobile devices are used in a lot of different contexts.  Users may be walking, driving, talking with friends, or doing a myriad of other tasks.  They may not be focusing 100% of their attention on the device.  Users often want to get into the system, perform 1 or 2 tasks and get out.  The focus should be on accomplishing specific tasks, not necessarily on providing every possible option to the user.

 

Spatial Relationships - mobile devices are not tied down to a set location like traditional PCs.  There are a plethora of spatial cues that a mobile device can use: GPS location, WiFi network, accelerometer, heading, proximity to other devices to name a few.  Which of these cues can be used to enhance your  application and provide a better user experience?

 

Synchronization - mobile devices are only part of the picture.  Users may be switching between different mobile devices, desktops and other platforms.  Intelligently transferring the information between platforms and enabling users to pick up and continue working between devices is an important capability.

 

Complimentary design - mobile devices may not be the best option to accomplish a task.  There are some situations where a certain class of mobile device may not be the best place to do something.  When designing applications to work across multiple platforms you should first focus on providing the most useful and appropriate interactions on the various devices.  There may be tasks that you choose not to enable on a mobile phone but do enable in the desktop, web, or tablet versions.  When used properly in conjunction with synchronization lack of a feature on a platform is not necessarily a shortcoming, especially if enabling that feature degrades the rest of the user experience.

 

The most important thing is that if we don't think about how to enable mobile interactions in our projects someone else will.  Mobile device usage is going to continue to grow, and ignoring it because we don't think it will ever be used in our projects isn't really an option.