About
Pixia Corp. is a dynamic commercial software company based in Sterling, Virginia. Drawing from an entertainment background, the company was founded in 1999 with the mission of applying its cutting-edge digital imagery experience to the commercial industry.
To accomplish this, Pixia hired programmers and engineers from Hollywood, specifically from Disney and DreamWorks. However, this commercial focus shifted after 9/11 when Pixia realized that its software could revolutionize the way that massive digital imagery files could be accessed within the DoD and its branches around the world. Pixia's forward-leaning, adaptable approach to software solutions has immediate implications for mission success by transforming massive, cumbersome data files into easily-accessible knowledge.
Leader in Digital Data Access
Pixia provides commercial off-the-shelf software products to manage large data files. Instead of conforming to the legacy approach of analyzing massive data as individual files, Pixia organizes the data into logical containers. These data files can be easily accessed in a manner that quickly provides only the desired data, thereby optimizing network bandwidth, or in a manner that allows direct access to all original files. Mission data becomes available in a quick and practical way, to any authorized user, in any location, in any format, via Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services. The speed and accuracy of this process ensures that current, up-to-date information is readily-available, rather than sitting on a shelf or in a disk. Pixia’s core technology consists of rapid data access in the areas of Geospatial Imagery, Wide Area Surveillance, and Full Motion Video.
Complete Solution Provider
Pixia helps customers realize the full potential of data collection by providing end-to-end software solutions in order to meet their unique needs and requirements. Its problem-solving methods are innovative and agile, while keeping in mind the practicalities of the hardware and software infrastructure currently in place for its customers. Pixia understands the complex and multi-faceted environments in which its software is used, as well as the role its products play within the larger mission of geospatial data collection and analysis. Hence, Pixia is able to ask the right questions in order to identify key performance issues, and then offer a systems-wide solution designed specifically for these issues.
Transforming Data into Knowledge
Pixia is heavily focused on serving the U.S. Defense and Homeland Security Departments, as well as the Intelligence Community, where large datasets are abundant. The exponential growth in data collected by space, airborne and ground-based platforms, compounded with the inability to access this data, has led to the catch phrase, “Drowning in data, but starving for knowledge.” Pixia's technology promises to play a crucial role in addressing this challenge.
Numerous entities within the DoD, IC, and DHS have already tested and deployed Pixia's technology, including: U.S. Army, NGA, DHS (Enterprise Architecture Board approved Pixia), OSD, USJFCOM, USGS, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, FEMA, and several national- and defense-level research laboratories. Additionally, Pixia's technology has been integrated into Government solutions by several systems integrators, including: SAIC, SRA, GD, Harris Corp, Texel Tek, ManTech and URS Corp. Pixia is a member of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
