Omnis, Inc.

Omnis, Inc. is an American technical and scientific consulting and training firm. It also has a concentration in market intelligence and the emerging field of threat finance. It was founded in 2004 and has clients in government, academia and private industry. The company is located in McLean, Virginia, near Washington, D.C.

This article is about the American consulting firm. For the Malagasy government organisation, see OMNIS.

Technology research and consulting

Omnis, Inc. is a global consulting firm[1] with a concentration in the physical sciences, engineering, aerospace, defense, intelligence and finance.[2] The company works with those in government, academia and private industry. Charles A. Duelfer is a special advisor to the chief executive officer, Dr. Joseph E. Pesce, Ph.D.[3]

In 2008, Omnis recruited Wall Street professional Christina Ray to develop a market intelligence practice. Ray heads Omnis’ practice in this area. She is an expert in computational finance, and is the author of several books, including the most recent one, Extreme Risk Management: Revolutionary Approaches to Evaluating and Measuring Risk.[4]

Her interests and focus of activities involve the fusion of risk measurement methods used by the Intelligence Community and the financial community in areas that involve low frequency, high consequence events. In particular, she is involved in the fusion of structured and unstructured data for purposes of the creation of enhanced predictive analytics models used to provide early warning of tactical and strategic threats.

For example, market data from the financial markets might be fused with news data for purposes of enhanced predictive ability, situational awareness, and sensemaking. In this effort, she and the domain experts that support the Omnis efforts utilize advanced methods appropriate to “big data”, including machine learning and topic-code modeling. [5]

Omnis researchers are investigating a mystery painting by Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre known as "Portrait of a seated gentleman". The goal of the research is to determine both the identity of the subject and its provenance before 1928.[6]

Training and education

Another area of activity for Omnis, Inc. is training and education. It specializes in critical thinking, analytic methodologies, problem solving, leadership, and a variety of other topics.[7][8] In leadership training, Omnis focuses on employing the psychological principles of positive reinforcement.[7]

gollark: I am leaving off the second half so as not to fill more than a screen or so.
gollark: No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
gollark: Oh, wait, better idea.
gollark: Hey, I *said* (GNU[+/])Linux, isn't that good enough for you, Stallman?!
gollark: Yep!

References
  1. Speaker biography for Rethinking Seminar Series, 2010–2011: "Rethinking the Future International Security Environment" Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Retrieved May 15, 2011
  2. Omnis Staff
  3. Leadership and Management Archived 2010-01-06 at the Wayback Machine Omnis, Inc. Retrieved May 16, 2011
  4. Leadership and Management Archived 2010-01-06 at the Wayback Machine Omnis, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2011
  5. Leadership and Management Archived 2010-01-06 at the Wayback Machine Omnis, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2011
  6. Contact the researchers Mystery Portrait by Delapierre, 1785. Retrieved May 16, 2011
  7. Training and Education Omnis, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2011
  8. Courses Omnis, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2011
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