February 18, 2026
Accessibility programs move faster when teams work from a clean, trusted inventory of digital properties. This whitepaper lays out a practical approach to data preparation and governance so your scanning results are accurate, actionable, and easy to report. The focus is on building a repeatable crawl strategy, applying layered rules before scanning, and producing structured datasets that support prioritization, remediation […]
February 2, 2026
Authors: Mark Turner, PhD, President & CEO – Optimal Solutions Group,Co-Founder – Revelo Software Mark Partridge, PhD Community colleges are facing a rapidly changing accountability environment in which student completion, post-completion earnings, and educational debt are increasingly used to assess institutional performance and risk. Federal transparency and accountability frameworks now elevate these outcomes from reporting metrics to strategic imperatives, particularly […]
January 23, 2026
Author: Mark Turner, PhD | President, Optimal Solutions Group | Co-Founder, Revelo Software Economic impact studies of festivals and events are often expected to answer a deceptively simple question: What changed because of the event? In practice, many studies report large economic figures based on gross spending and multipliers, without clearly separating activity that truly occurred because of the event from activity […]
January 7, 2026
This whitepaper explores the challenges faced by federal agencies in managing peer reviewers across competitive grant programs. Agencies like the Department of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education rely on qualified reviewers to evaluate applications, yet many still use fragmented, siloed processes. These methods lead to operational inefficiencies, including delayed recruitment, reviewer fatigue, and lack of capacity forecasting. The […]
August 18, 2021
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) offers tools, solutions, and resources to address manufacturer’s diverse challenges and opportunities. Optimal Solutions Group LLC (Optimal) will provide access to a manufacturing data analysis and modeling tool or service . This tool/service will put dynamic and relevant manufacturing data in the hands of the MEP Centers, which helps […]
August 18, 2021
Each year, the Small Business Administration (SBA) produces its Small Business Procurement Scorecard, which aims to assess the performance of federal agencies towards achieving their small business contracting goals, provide valid and reliable data on federal contracting with an emphasis on transparency, as well as analyze and report agency level and government-wide progress towards the goals. For fiscal year 2017, […]
August 17, 2021
The Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program, part of the Small Business Administration (SBA), helps small businesses in low-income metropolitan or rural areas with high poverty and unemployment rates gain preferential access to federal procurement opportunities. Businesses obtain HUBZone certification in part by employing staff who live in a HUBZone and maintaining a “principal office” in one of these specially […]
August 15, 2021
The Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Boots to Business (B2B) program is offered free of charge and helps transition service members from military to civilian life through entrepreneurship education and training. During the COVID-19 pandemic, an in-person course rapidly transitioned to an instructor-led virtual course. A new study by Optimal Solutions Group LLC (Optimal) examines the implementation of the virtual delivery […]
August 15, 2021
The Small Business Administration (SBA) monitors whether government agencies are providing opportunities for small business participation in federal contracting by performing Surveillance Reviews, which assess whether selected Procurement Centers (PCs) at federal agencies execute their small business programs effectively and according to federal regulations. The SBA completes about 30 Surveillance Reviews annually at major PCs across the country. These are […]
August 11, 2020
COVID-19 has interrupted corporate internships, but Optimal Solutions has developed a safe alternative.
July 1, 2020
The annual federal procurement scorecard assesses the extent to which federal agencies reach their small business contracting goals, which Congress develops. The SBA is responsible for ensuring that small businesses participate in the government-wide goal, which is established annually at the statutory levels, and that the reporting agencies’ achievements are close to reaching the goals. The SBA made revisions to […]
June 10, 2020
The challenges of quickly transitioning to online classes in response to the COVID-19 global health crisis highlight the urgent need for digital accessibility in higher education. Website designers and developers often overlook incorporating accessibility features and best practices and may be unaware that they have created an inaccessible website. iAccessible tests websites for digital accessibility, instructs developers on how to […]
April 20, 2020
Revelo Software, LLC (Revelo) has been approved to join as a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Led by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Director Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C is an international community that develops protocols, guidelines and standards for the web. Web standards that are presented by the W3C are developed by members for the W3C community, W3C […]
April 1, 2020
The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH) awarded a Maryland Industrial Partnership (MIPS) grant to Optimal Solutions Group (Optimal) and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) jointly to build an automated government procurement decision support tool. The work conducted over the next year will focus on creating a deep learning algorithm as the backend of a tool for government agencies’ […]
December 4, 2019
The MacArthur Foundation and its affiliate Lever for Change, has launched the Economic Opportunity Challenge aimed to improve the financial health of low-income individuals and families in the United States. The panel will select up to five finalists that present the best evidence-based, data-driven solution on how to improve economic opportunities for low-income families and communities in the United States. […]
June 17, 2019
Optimal Solutions Group will present and have an exhibitor booth at the National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) Data Conference (DC-STAT) from July 24-26.
June 16, 2019
Optimal Analytics, a division of Optimal, has been at the forefront of automation and machine learning in the public sector since 2009.
June 10, 2019
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Program Support Center announced awards for the Intelligent Automation/Artificial Intelligence Solutions, Services and Products IDIQ on May 31st.
June 6, 2019
Optimal Solution Group, LLC will participate as an exhibitor in the 2019 M-Enabling Summit, unveiling its new iAccessible software Platform.
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