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Mission

Decision management is a vital, universal, and often complex, business process, complicated by distributed work environments. Robust Decisions provides leading decision management solutions and services that help resolve group deliberation issues, assess decision risk, and improve communication between stakeholders.

Management Team

David Ullman, President. 21 years in product development best practices, product design and corporate management. An active product designer who teaches, researches, and writes extensively about design and product development practices. BikeE Corp. founder and former principal product designer. Consultant on the design process for clients including Lucent, Freightliner, Cummins, Autodesk, Sequent, and Comfortex. Author of The Mechanical Design Process, a widely used university engineering textbook, and Making Robust Decisions, detailing the robust decision-making process. PhD, Ohio State.

Bruce D'Ambrosio, Chief Technology Officer. 25 years in software development, decision processes, and corporate management. Prevision founder and principal software strategist. Consultant developing enterprise software systems for financial and health care institutions including Fannie Mae, and Kaiser Permanente. A recognized expert in computational decision theory, modeling uncertainty in dynamic processes, and Bayesian network software. PhD, UC Berkeley.

Research

Bayesian Team Support and the Accord Suite of software have been developed through research grants from:

• The National Science Foundation (NSF)
• The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• The U.S. Air Force (USAF)
• The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• NASA, Ames Research Center
• Lockheed Corporation
• ATT Solutions
• Hewlett Packard Corporation
• Edge Consulting, Inc.

Research for these organizations has been tailored to their specific decision-making issues. Robust Decisions specializes in decision-support methods to support the management of uncertain, evolving, incomplete and conflicting information. It prides itself in balancing intellectual defendably with products that are usable and useful. The proof of any decision-support method is in its ability to help people make robust decisions.

Partners

	visit web site NISC
	The founders of National Interest Security Company, LLC (NISC) have over seventy years experience in intelligence, systems engineering, and consulting. Our staff combines deep intelligence domain expertise with engineering, analytical, and commercial consulting methods to help clients achieve and sustain higher performance.

Learn More

• Accord™ Quick Tour
• Accord FAQ
• Underlying Technology
• Why Robust Decisions

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