ABSI and AVIAN Formalize Mentor-Protégé Relationship

Kevin Switick and Chris Sacco have a lot in common, and when they met, those commonalities forged the core of what would become a long-standing friendship. Now, that relationship continues to evolve as their two companies formalized a Mentor-Protégé relationship through the Small Business Administration (SBA) this summer.  “We met at a bar,” Kevin said, laughing during a Zoom meeting between the two men. Chris took a minute longer to reflect, and then reminded Kevin that it was in 2011 and that the reason they were both there was because a member of Kevin’s…

ABSI Awarded Gold Medallion Through HireVets

The HIRE Vets Medallion Award is the only federal-level veterans’ employment award that recognizes a company or organization’s commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development.  ABSI is please to announce that we are recipients of the Gold Medallion for 2020, and honored to employ so many of those who have (and do) serve!

ABSI Team Raises More than $2k to Benefit the Wounded Warriors Project via Virtual 5k!

ABSI Holds Virtual 5k – Raises Over $2k for the Wounded Warrior Project ABSI Aerospace & Defense, an aviation services, training and T&E company located in the Patuxent River region, just concluded their first company virtual 5k. “Given the current climate, bringing the team together for an actual event wasn’t a possibility,” said Nancy Smay, Director of Communications. “But our company culture is really important to us, and we wanted to find an event that would offer employees the same feeling—of doing something good while sharing an experience.” The effort succeeded in raising…

ABSI SecondSky: LVC Flight Training (Part Two)

ABSI’s Flight Training is Innovative Unique Powered by Machine Learning Experiential ABSI SecondSky: The Next Frontier of LVC Flight Training (Part Two) ABSI Aerospace & Defense is building on the idea of virtual flight training, helping to make flight training more repeatable and efficient.  It’s called SecondSky, and one part of the SecondSky solution is a mixed-reality flight simulator that uses machine learning to build scenarios that student pilots can fly repeatedly to build skills before entering the actual cockpit.  “Simulators have been around for a long time,” Allee, Chief Technology Officer for…

ABSI SecondSky: LVC Flight Training

ABSI’s Flight Training is Innovative Unique Powered by Machine Learning Experiential ABSI SecondSky: The Next Frontier of LVC Flight Training There has been a lot of discussion over the past years throughout the tech community about Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) training, and this concept has applications to the goals of both DoD and commercial organizations. ABSI Aerospace & Defense is building on the idea of virtual flight training, helping to make flight training more repeatable and efficient. Prior to beginning a discussion of LVC, however, it is worth noting first that these terms…