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 […]
July 29, 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)’s Learning and Diffusion Group (LDG) awarded Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) the Learning System Data Management (LSDM) Project. Under this project, Optimal is developing a system for standardizing and collecting learning event data from each CMMI’s healthcare innovation models to meet Government Performance and Results […]
July 22, 2014
This year marks the fourth year of the Small Business Administration (SBA)’s Regional Cluster Initiative pilot program.
July 22, 2014
This year marks the fourth year of the Small Business Administration (SBA)’s Regional Cluster Initiative pilot program.
January 31, 2014
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia has struggled to regain political, social, and economic stability.
January 13, 2014
Poverty has afflicted Bangladesh since its independence in 1971. Since then, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has designed and implemented projects to promote private-enterprise development and employment generation. These previous USAID-funded projects had the same goals of 1) strengthening product, market development, and market linkages; 2) promoting economy-wide and sector-level reforms; and 3) increasing lending to target firms. […]
September 9, 2013
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) held its bi-annual Education Summit from August 6 – 8 in Washington, DC.
September 9, 2013
Dr. Barbara Morgan, currently a senior lecturer and undergraduate advisor in the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, will be giving a presentation on the key methodologies economists, sociologists and lawyers use to demonstrate whether or not discrimination exists in the labor market.
August 30, 2013
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in their efforts to reach out to small businesses, awarded Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) a contract to study and prepare a report which documents the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) providers and participant characteristics. The SFSP was designed to ensure that children who benefit from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and […]
August 5, 2013
The LEAP team conducted cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) of four agriculture-related projects in Ethiopia to assess the beneficiary, social, and financial outcomes of the following interventions: Agribusiness and Market Development (AMD), the Livestock Growth Project (LGP), Pastoralists Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion Project (PRIME), and Graduation with Resilience to Achieve Sustainable Development Project (GRAD).
July 31, 2013
Scott Dempwolf, currently an Assistant Research Professor in the University of Maryland, Economic Development University Center will be presenting his dissertation on regional innovation clusters on Wednesday, July 31st at 12 noon at Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal’s) office in M Square Research Park, Maryland.
July 3, 2013
In an effort to sustainably reduce poverty and hunger through its Feed the Future (FtF) global initiative, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) works with host governments, development partners, and other stakeholders to address the root causes of global hunger. The initiative seeks to: 1) facilitate efficient market systems to meet the growing demand for food; 2) increase […]
June 27, 2013
Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) was contracted to work with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on its Regional Cluster Initiative in October of 2010. The SBA’s Cluster Initiative provides funding to the organizing entities of ten clusters in order to increase opportunities for small business participation within the clusters, promote innovation in the industries on which the ten clusters […]
April 9, 2013
Carol Boston- Faculty Research Assistant at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool), will discuss work in progress on iSchool research related to volunteer motivation to participate in citizen science projects, and the technology (including mobile apps and multi-user, touch-input-based tabletops) to support and encourage their participation on April 17, 2013 at 12 noon at Optimal Solutions Group, […]
January 14, 2013
This past September, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) opened its new innovation and entrepreneurship center (IEC) as a part of its ongoing commitment and focus in these areas. The center, which is operational, is located adjacent to Optimal’s current headquarters in the University of Maryland’s (UMD) M Square Research Park. Research park tenants, University of Maryland officials, clients and partners […]
December 1, 2012
The 2012 holiday charity collection focused on the survivors of Hurricane Sandy, which caused devastating damage to parts of New York and New Jersey in late October 2012. Over $600 was donated to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy disaster relief with staff contributions matched by the company. In addition, staff also collected supplies for Health Care for the […]
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