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- Category: Activities
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- Category: Case Studies
- Category: Community Engagement
- Optimal’s COVID-19 Community Response
- Optimal Supports the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as Donors
- Turner appointed to USM Board of Regents
- Tracye Turner to Serve on University of Maryland Board of Trustees
- Optimizing Positive Social Impacts with Technology
- Seton H.S. Crew Team Dinner
- UMD’s human-computer interaction lab launched 34th annual symposium
- Purple line art in transit
- Small Business Saturday
- Optimal supports Howard University Econ Grads
- MNCPPC – Optimal participates in the river clean up
- Optimal recruits tech talent from local high schools
- Optimal sponsor of human computer interaction lab symposium
- Optimal VP on board for the Maryland Innovation Initiative
- Optimal VP on board for the E-Nnovation Authority
- Optimal VP on advisory board for UMCP iSchool
- Turner Family Establishes New Scholarship to Support Undergraduate Economics Students
- Category: Education
- Optimal Solutions Group Awarded Department of Education PRESTO Contract
- Collecting COVID-19 Mask Mandate Information Using Artificial Intelligence to Contextualize 2022 NAEP Results
- Optimal’s CEO Joins the Council of Graduate Schools Employer Roundtable
- Optimal’s COO Offers Real World Career Optimizing Tips to UMD iSchool Graduates
- Optimal Researchers to Present on Automating Mask Mandate Google Searches
- Equity Indicators Project: The Nation’s “Equity Report Card”
- International Education Progress Reporting Website Launched
- Category: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Community Navigator Pilot Program Evaluation
- Evaluation of 8(a) Certified Firms
- Economic Impact Study – Small Business and Type of Set-Aside Procurement Programs
- The National-Level Economic Impact of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
- Optimal Solutions Group Supports SBA’s Office of Performance Management and Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) in Program Evaluation Efforts
- International Conference on Public Policy- Singapore 2017
- Category: Events
- APPAM Policymaking at the Federal, State, and Local Levels
- 2024 FCSM Research and Policy Conference— The Relevance, Timeliness, and Integrity of Federal Statistics — October 22–24, 2024
- Optimal joins Naval Air Systems Command for “Way Too Early Session on Section 508” Podcast
- Webinar: Create Citizen-First Digital Public Experiences Featuring iAccessible
- Webinar: Leveraging GPT Chatbots for Citizen Experience Success
- Optimal to Showcase AcquisitionAI Tool at NCMA GCMS 2023
- Optimal to participate as an exhibitor at the 10th annual Interagency Accessibility Forum (IAAF)
- Optimal Solutions Group, LLC to Showcase OptiBot at FCSM Conference
- Streamline Market Research for Government Procurement
- Using AI in Public Comments Analysis Featuring Comments AI
- Leveraging Generative AI for Policy Research
- Opportunity to Participate in a Telehealth Study
- Optimal Researchers Present Findings on Equity in Federal Government Procurement at Economic Research Conference
- Optimal Will Present Findings on the Effects of Federal Government Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses at APPAM Research Conference
- Helping Organizations Achieve Impact: Optimal Join Sponsors for UMD Social Sciences Workshop
- Optimal Will Present Findings on the Effects of Federal Government Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses at Fall Research Conference
- iAccessible (powered by Revelo Software) accepted into GSA IAAF
- Revelo Software selected to join Forefront 2020 Industry Program
- Established entrepreneurs share their stories
- Optimal Sponsors Intern Tech and Data Challenge for COVID, Jobs, Small Business and Mobile App Development
- Automate with NAEP -Optimal participates as panelists and exhibitor at DC STAT conference
- Optimal to Debut iAccessible at M-Enabling Summit June 17, 2019
- 2018 ADRF Network Research Conference: Innovations in Administrative Data for Social Science
- Optimal to Discuss Logic Models at Evaluation 2018 Conference
- Demographics of the Entrepreneur Workshop
- 2018 National Center for Education Statistics STATS-DC Conference
- Reducing the Barriers for Data Driven Policy Decisions: Examining the Role of Standardized Open Data in Empowering the Global South
- Data Challenge: University of Maryland iSchool
- 2017 NCES DC Stats Conference: Using Tableau for Displaying Percentile and Regional Data Maps from NAEP Assessments
- Dr. Turner to Present “Open Data in the Public Sector” at UMD’s James Clark School of Engineering
- Optimal presents at International SME Networking and Clustering (SNC) Project Conference
- Category: Brown Bag Series
- Maryland SAFE Center Visits Optimal
- Beating the Odds: Studies in Federal Education Research
- National cyber-security and communications integration center (NCCIC)
- Marion Pines presents strategies for implementing large-scale initiatives
- Dr. chris yang presents “Clarity in the Clutter: Automated Temporal Topic Organization in Social Media.”
- Dr. William Rand presents “A Discussion on the Diffusion of Information in Social Networks”
- Dr. Muhiuddin Haider and Ms. Hoda Sana to present on “Neonatal Health Issues in South Asia”
- Access to public parks as a place-based health prevention strategy
- Healthcare from a Physician’s Perspective
- Optimal staff learn how to tackle technical debt
- Costly Cost Savings: An Overview of The Flint Water Crisis
- The New ABC’s of Research
- Dr. Chris Yang presents “Clarity in the Clutter: Automated Temporal Topic Organization in Social Media.”
- Dr. Herrmann to present “Model-Based Systems Engineering for Healthcare Organizations” at Optimal’s Brown Bag Seminar
- Monthly Household Income Fluctuations, Material Deprivation and Health Outcomes in the U.S.
- Nutrition expert visits Optimal to discuss healthy living
- Category: Corporate Events
- Category: Health
- Category: Housing, Economic Development, and Transportation
- Category: International Practice
- Category: Press Releases
- Optimal’s CEO, Mark Turner, Joins the National Data Science Alliance Education and Workforce Committee to Advance Data Science at HBCUs
- Optimal Approved to Join GSA’s Program Evaluation Services Subgroup
- Optimal Launches Generative AI Webinar Series
- Optimal’s Corporate AI Initiative Produces Results
- Optimal Solutions Group Selected by Maryland State Department of Education to Assess Online Course Materials for Accessibility Standards
- ChatGPT: Optimal analytics, software development, data science and project teams test ChatGPT
- Optimal Awarded Government-wide Acquisition Contract – OASIS
- Study Finds Underrepresentation of Women-Owned Small Businesses Depends on How Disparity Ratios Are Measured
- Study Analyzes Effectiveness of Surveillance Reviews in Government Agencies
- SBA Scorecard Has Strong Positive Relationship With Indicators of Small Business Prime Contracting Opportunities
- Optimal Will Provide Data Tool to Better Understand Changes in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector
- Preferential Contract Awards Add Value and Jobs to Underutilized Areas
- A New Study Analyzes a Switch to Online Delivery of Boots to Business Course
- Study Finds 8(a) Program Benefits Businesses By Obtaining Prime Federal Contracts
- A microloan program designed to assist women, low income, veteran, and minority entrepreneurs, and other small businesses will be evaluated for its impact in growth outcomes
- Optimal assessed the performance of the SBA small business regional clusters
- Optimal assessed the impact of SBA’s Emerging Leaders Training and Mentoring Initiative
- Optimal assessed the impact of small business development program
- Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal), evaluated a Small Business Administration (SBA) program to determine its ability to promote small businesses’ chances of obtaining government contracts
- Optimal develops AI-tool to assist government agencies identify qualified under-represented firms
- Optimal evaluated four Small Business Administration programs using logic models to determine outcomes
- Optimal analyzed small business program designed to provide business development assistance
- Revelo Teams Up with University of Maryland for Digital Accessibility Pilot
- Revelo Software Joins W3C Members
- Streamlining Government Procurement by Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Analysis
- Optimal CEO Joins Panel of Judges for Economic Opportunity Challenge
- Optimal Selected for HHS Intelligent Automation/Artificial Intelligence Solutions, Services, and Products IDIQ
- Track Record of Technological Innovation in the Public Sector
- Optimal Solutions Group to Create Platform to Review Sites for Accessibility Compliance
- Understanding the role of HUBZone businesses in fulfilling federal government contracts.
- Understanding the effects of 7(j) online training for 8(a) firms
- Optimal Founder and CEO appointed to University of Maryland Economics Leadership Council
- Optimal awarded GSA IT Schedule 70
- Optimal Runner-up in Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge
- Optimal publishes Child and Adult Care Food Program Assessment of Sponsor Tiering Determination for 2015
- Optimal Awarded Evaluation of the Summer Food Service Program Participant Characteristics
- Optimal Solutions Group Appraised at CMMI Level 3 – Services
- Optimal Solutions Group Appraised at CMMI Level 3 – Development
- Occupation-specific Collaboration Among Local Stakeholders Key to Energizing Baltimore’s Economic Growth, New Study Finds
- Optimal Studies Employment Clusters for Low-Skilled Workers
- CMS Approves Optimal’s Authority to Operate
- Using Mobile Applications in Opioid Treatment: Opportunities and Challenges
- Evaluation Report for the U.S. SBA’s Regional Cluster Initiative
- Lane Koenig, Ph.D. Named Senior Associate
- Ruth Sherman Joins Optimal as Associate
- UMD Associate Vice President Welcomes Optimal to M Square Research Park
- Education Streamlined Acquisition Tool (ED-SAT) Awarded
- Optimal Receives Program Support Center IDIQ Task Order Contract from DHHS
- Optimal Professional Development Series: Dr. Heidi Golding Discusses the Prevalence of PTSD in the Military
- Walton to Present on ELL Student Performance at AERA
- Maryland Lieutenant Governor Brown Tours Optimal
- NCSER Releases Technical Paper “Statistical Power Analysis in Education Research”
- Fashola Chairs Sessions at AERA Conference, Presents to Chicago Public Schools
- Dr. Nancy Miller Discusses Long-Term Care for Seniors
- UMD Economics Department Invites Mark Turner to speak at Commencement
- Report Evaluating Charter Schools Impacts Released by the Dept of Education
- Reaching out into the Social Media Landscape
- Bringing Business Intelligence to the Winning Fathers Initiative
- “Why be an Economist?” Day
- Workforce & Economic Development Policy Roundtable: Focus on Low-Skilled Workers, Promising Careers, and Green Jobs
- Optimal Builds Re-usable and Sustainable Code for Cost Savings at CMS and ED
- Dr. Calvin Johnson Presents on Business Analytics in the Government
- Dr. David Engel Presents a Writing Seminar as Part of Optimal’s Brown Bag Series
- Dr. Calvin Johnson Presents to Staff as Part of the Optimal’s Brown Bag Series
- Dr. Ernst Nilsson Presents on the Benefits of Large IT Investments
- Lindsey Cramer to Present at National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics (NAWRS) Annual Workshop
- Optimal to Co-Sponsor, Participate in University of Maryland Health IT and Economics Workshop
- Optimal Launches New Website
- Mark Turner Selected to the Board of Visitors at the University of Maryland’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Intelligent Management Helpdesk
- Dr. Jack Meyer to Discuss Health Reform Opportunities and Challenges
- Optimal Contracted to Support SBA’s Regional Innovation Clusters Initiative
- Employees Shed Pounds, Get Healthy and Lower Insurance Premiums
- Real-Time Seminar: Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics in Criminal Justice
- Marion Pines, Director of the Sar Levitan Center for Social Policy Studies, John Hopkins University will Present “Lessons in Implementation”
- Girl Scouts Robotics Team Wins Rookie Award
- Real-Time Systems Save Money for CMS and Other Federal Agencies
- Optimal Obtains Apple Developer License
- Quantifying Quality Improvement Cost Savings for Medicare
- Dr. Berna Demiralp Presents on Entrepreneurial Choice, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital
- Dr. Michael Kaiser of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research Presents on Prevalence in Healthcare Disparities
- Panel Discussion on Multidisciplinary Approaches in Crime Prevention Marks First Real-Time Seminar
- Capability Maturity Model Integration Training Emphasizes Risk Management and Best Practices
- SBP Conference Brings Social, Behavioral and Computer Scientists Together for Innovation in Research
- Study on Extended School Days Presented at AEFP Conference
- Optimal Wins Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Small Business Research and Demonstration Award
- Program Monitoring and Evaluation: Tools for Measuring the Performance of Federal Policy Agencies
- Mark and Tracye Turner Present UMD School of Public Health Scholarship at Dean’s Scholars Dinner
- Optimal Research Analyst discusses Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems in Education
- Optimal Conducts Social Media Analysis Demonstration in Topic Detection
- Dr. Mark Turner Joins UMD Health IT and Economics Board
- Optimal Holds 5th Annual “Why be an Economist Day?”
- Demonstration of Dashboard Tools at 2011 National Forum on Education Statistics
- MIPS Project Challenge: “Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Monitoring and Knowledge Diffusion Costs for Medicaid Advantage Plans: a Feasibility Study”
- Measuring School Superintendent Efficiency
- UMD’s Public Health Dean Robert Gold Speaks at Annual Meeting
- Optimal Awarded International Development Evaluation
- NCES Announces The Education Statistics Support Institute Network Awardees
- University of Maryland’s Kenyon Crowley presents on Health IT Initiatives and Collaboration
- Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility in Rural China: 1988 – 2002
- UMD Social Sciences Business Plan Competition Students Visit Optimal
- USAID to Assess International Education Strategy Goals with Optimal’s Support
- Optimal Awarded Evaluation of Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration
- CMS to Monitor and Identify Best Practices in Medicare Advantage and Part D Quality Improvement Initiatives
- Optimal staffers pull together for Baltimore Homeless and Sandy Relief
- Optimal Hosts Open House for New Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center
- The Evaluation of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Regional Cluster Initiative — Year One Report
- Johns Hopkins University’s Dr. Stefanie DeLuca to present “Why Poor People Move (And Where They Go): Residential Mobility, Selection, and Racial Segregation”
- University of Maryland College of Information Studies (iSchool) Carol Boston to present “Motivation and technology for citizen science projects”
- The Evaluation of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Regional Cluster Initiative — Year Two Report
- Network Analysis in Cluster Development
- Key Methodologies in the Analysis of Labor Discrimination
- Optimal participates in the USAID Global Education Summit
- Innovative and sustainable methods to conduct a population-based survey
- Release of results for final USAID evaluation of PRICE project
- Year 3 Evaluation Report for the U.S. SBA’s Regional Cluster Initiative
- Performance review report released of USAID youth-centered project in Armenia
- USAID Learning, Evaluation, and Analysis Project work in 22 countries
- Fair trade: resistance to and collusion with the free market
- Bridging the gap between art and science
- Optimal staffers pitch in for worthy causes
- Survey non-response bias, power analysis, and external validity
- Optimal to Provide Evaluation Support for NIST’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership Business-to-Business Network Pilots
- Optimal Celebrates Earth Day
- Optimal to Speak at 15th Annual DOE SB Event
- Tackling Technical Debt: Carolyn Seaman, Ph.D.
- Optimal Supports APPAM as a Silver Sponsor
- USAID Approves Optimal’s Authority to Operate
- Category: Publications
- Evaluation of Community Development Financial Institution and Minority Depository Institution Lender Participation in SBA Capital Programs and Lender Match
- 7(j) Training Program for 8(a) Participants Evaluation Report
- Evaluation of Boots to Business Virtual Training Report
- HUBZone Early Engagement Initiative Evaluation
- Woman-Owned Small Business NAICS Analysis
- Evaluation of Microloan Program Outcomes
- SBA HUBZone Economic Impact Report
- Evaluation of SBA’s Small Business Procurement Scorecard
- 7(j) Training Program for 8(a) Participants Evaluations Report
- Spotlight On … Optimal in Bangladesh
- Partnership for Growth: Cross-Cutting Report for Mid-Term Evaluations of El Salvador & the Philippines’ PFG Initiatives
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- Category: Software Development
- Category: Software Services
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- Category: Workforce & Social Policy
- Category: Workforce Development