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Joe Ordia
Chairman and CEO
ORDIA Solutions
Joe E. Ordia founded Ordia
Solutions in 2005 for the singular purpose of equipping public safety agencies
and their front line personnel with next generation interoperable technologies
to effectively communicate, collaborate, coordinate, command and control (5Cs of
Interoperability) during critical incident and disaster response, major event
security, critical infrastructure and dignitary protection, as well homeland
security exercises involving multiple jurisdictions and disciplines. After
witnessing the operational benefits that collaborative command & control
technology brought warfighters and their commanders in Iraq, and seeing the
difficult public agency responses to the Asian Tsunami, Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita, and London bombing, Mr. Ordia felt compelled to focus on the development
of the next generation of collaborative command and control solutions to enhance
public safety and homeland security.
Prior to founding Ordia Solutions, Mr. Ordia served as Chief Engineer at General
Dynamics Viz for the US Army's Command Post of the Future (CPOF) program. He
later served as project manager for the DARPA CPOF Pattern Discovery program
where he led a team of machine learning experts in developing solutions to
automate the flow of information between operators in the Army’s CPOF
environment. Mr Ordia was dispatched to Iraq for most of 2004 to execute the
successful deployment of CPOF with the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division, 3rd
Infantry Division, and 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, providing tactical system
support during the first fielding of CPOF to operational units. This
mission-critical, real-world experience gave Mr. Ordia a high degree of
practical understanding of tactical operations that enabled him to guide
technology development efforts in such a way as to focus on capabilities that
are most valuable to the operators at the edge (common operating picture that is
dynamic, real-time enhanced situational awareness), yet technically feasible.
Mr Ordia did his undergraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Carnegie Mellon University where he founded his first company, Ordia Corp, a
developer of real-time enterprise collaboration software for instant messaging,
document collaboration, group conferencing, and online presentations.
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