We find sensible answers to our Nation’s toughest problems

Visionist works closely with our customers on the front lines of defense and intelligence to combat misinformation, anticipate our adversaries’ next moves, and secure critical infrastructure

Bringing our Unique Expertise to National Security

Data Visualization & User Experience

Visionist’s foundation lies in our ability to learn customers’ pain points and develop solutions that are both effective and easy to use, including GPU-enhanced signal forensics tools, browser-based big data query tools, and everything in between.

We complement our development with one of the largest User Experience teams in the industry.

Core technologies:
React
Elixir
Material UI
Leaflet
Node.js
Express
D3.js
Java
Python
Golang
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
SQLite
Amazon Web Services
Adobe Creative Cloud
Axure

Cyber Defense & Operations

Visionist analysts play critical roles in defending our nation’s cyber infrastructure, providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, penetration testing, and operational planning. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps.

Core technologies:
Python
C++
Wireshark
Ghidra
IDA Pro
React

Analytics, Data Science, and Data Engineering

Visionist develops analytics tailored to ingest, shape, and normalize high-volume, mission critical data, where timely answers can be the differentiator between success and failure.

Core technologies:
Python
Java
spark@2x
Flink
Jupyter
Kafka
SQLite
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Heron

Our approach to data science adopts proven processes and algorithms to draw out knowledge and insights from the data. We leverage our expertise in advanced math and statistics to sift through massive amounts of data to locate needles in our customers’ haystacks. From Natural Language Processing to Machine Learning libraries, we extract intelligence from data sets to produce answers that influence tactical and strategic decision making on a global scale.

Signal Processing and Analysis

Visionist signals analysts are regarded as some of the best in the industry – ask anyone in our customer organizations about them and you’ll hear a storied history of expertise, mentorship, and dedication to critical missions. We support our analysts by building specialized tools that leverage both hardware acceleration and bleeding edge web browser capabilities to identify, isolate, and reverse engineer novel signals.

Core technologies:
Java
React
Material UI
Python
Electron

Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

Visionist engineering teams solve many unique challenges of transitioning commercial DevSecOps best practices to on-premise, high security cloud enclaves our customer’s mission depend on. We build automated solutions for inventorying software dependencies, generating documentation, and cross-domain synchronization of software between networks at varying security levels.

Core technologies:
Amazon Web Services
GitLab
Golang
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
rancher@2x
Helm
Puppet

Internal Research & Development (IR&D)

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Innovation with an entrepreneurial drive is how Visionist was started. We continue to celebrate that attitude with our Piranha Pond IR&D process, which encourages employees to pitch their idea to a select panel of company leadership and their peers. Winning teams are funded to build a working prototype and demonstrate it to the company. At the conclusion of the prototype, each team works with Visionist leadership to identify next-level opportunities for their concept. Below are a few of the many we have funded and supported over the last decade:

DraftGeM & RecruitGeM

DraftGeM is a tool that takes a data science approach to evaluating and comparing NFL draft prospects and current players with an intuitive interface that any user can understand. DraftGeM was been crafted and refined with cooperation and feedback from multiple NFL teams.

RecruitGeM expands our DraftGeM approach to evaluate the performance of athletes that are candidates for NCAA (college) teams. RecruitGeM is approved by the NCAA for use by college sports programs and has been evaluated by several major high-profile NCAA Division I football programs.

TakeBack America

When the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services sponsored a 24 hour hackathon to identify data-driven solutions for combating the opioid crisis, Visionist’s team of data scientists and engineers built TakeBack America, a tool that identies under-served communities at greatest risk of prescription opioid abuse, helping tailor the Federal response to maximize impact. Our solution won the HHS “Prevention Track”, and our team worked with Google to integrate our data into Google Maps.

Grab & Go

When the pandemic started, many families lacked reliable transportation and financial ability to obtain meals. Visionist created the Grab & Go tool to coordinate volunteer delivery drives with those in need. Grab & Go is used to manage meal deliveries to more than 50 needy families in Howard County, Maryland.

ReTo

The pandemic has made remote screen sharing a critical part of training and collaboration. Our ReTo solution extends open-source screen sharing solutions to function on tightly controlled high-security networks with bandwidth limitations, where bidirectional communications between systems could be heavily restricted or outright blocked.

Understanding managers and passionate coworkers. No meetings that should be emails.
Visionist was my first choice for employers!
I would say if I had to choose any company to spend 8+ hours of my day I would pick Visionist 10 times out of 10.
Holiday parties, company trips, and company gatherings. Pay is good and they really don't skimp on anything.
Lots of friendly people very willing to help teach/guide new developers.
Every day I wake up feeling excited about the work I'm doing.
At Visionist, it's been clear that they care about their employees from day one.
Company atmosphere is very open and supportive.
Hard work, creativity, enthusiasm, and team building are valued and appreciated.
Pick a random employee and they'll tell you how employee focused Visionist is.
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