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PREDICT combines industry knowledge, data analysis, and intelligence information to predictively target import shipments for risk factors and regulatory violations.  This allows FDA to screen each shipment electronically to determine whether it meets the threshold for physical inspection or sampling, and deploy its enforcement resources efficiently.

Information submitted to the FDA by importers for regulatory compliance continually grows in both volume and complexity.  From 2001 to 2011, the number of FDA-regulated imports into the United States increased from about 7 million specific line items to over 22.6 million.  To meet the growing demands on its Information Technology systems, FDA has taken steps to modernize its infrastructure and said systems.

As part of this effort, FDA incorporated PREDICT to improve the efficiency and productivity of the entry review and inspection process.  By targeting high-risk imports and leveraging an automated verification of regulatory compliance where possible, FDA entry reviewers can focus on higher-risk items and process imports faster and more accurately.

The GAO Report found that while “… FDA still had considerable work to accomplish on MARCS [Mission Accomplishments and Regulatory Compliance Services]…” and had not yet been able to retire any of the eight legacy systems MARCS was intended to replace, the agency’s deployment of the Predictive Risk-based Evaluation for Dynamic Import Compliance Targeting (PREDICT) tool had improved the efficiency of the inspection process through targeting high-risk imports.  NTELX’s technology and thought leadership was critical to the successful development and deployment of PREDICT across the import entry system.

The NTELX solution automatically flags higher-risk shipments, such as products with poor compliance, and gives lower-risk ratings to products or companies with good histories, which can then clear FDA screening and inspection more rapidly. PREDICT enables FDA compliance officers to spend their time looking at the highest-risk items. It also means that well-labeled products with good histories are not held unnecessarily.  Initially deployed in 2008, PREDICT is now fully implemented in all ports and for all FDA-regulated products.  PREDICT continues to improve and evolve as its learning algorithms adapt to new data and to information gathered through feedback on prior targeting results.

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About NTELX

NTELX, located just outside of the nation’s capital designs, develops, and implements data-driven solutions in support of critical operational decisions.  The company has over ten years of experience improving and automating data-intensive decisions for high level clients including the US Food and Drug Administration, the Transportation Security Administration, the Department of Defense, Department of Treasury, as well as Health and Human Services clients.  NTELX also provides complex congestion management solutions in port communities in the Middle East and around the world.  NTELX solutions have successfully helped clients improve operational processes with significant results that include greater transparency and efficiency, faster decisions, better accuracy, decreased costs, and broader reach.

About FDA

The Food and Drug Administration is the oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency in the US federal government.   FDA’s modern regulatory functions began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, a law a quarter-century in the making that prohibited interstate commerce in adulterated and misbranded food and drugs.

About GAO

The Government Accountability Office, the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress, exists to support Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the American people. GAO examines the use of public funds; evaluates federal programs and policies; and provides analyses, recommendations, and other assistance to help Congress make informed oversight, policy, and funding decisions.

Vienna, Va. – NTELX, a provider of data analytics and operational decision-support solutions to public and private sector clients, has delivered an import risk-targeting solution to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in partnership with Armedia, LLC.  The solution, known as the Risk Assessment Methodology, is being used to pilot test a new approach to risk-based screening for imported products regulated by the CPSC.  The NTELX solution makes CPSC the first Participating Government Agency to receive and be able to use US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data through CBP’s International Trade Data System (ITDS).  The pilot went live on October 11 for selected products at seven ports of entry, and has demonstrated improvements in targeting efficiency and effectiveness.

Rob Quartel, NTELX Chairman and CEO, said: “every level of government has too much to do and insufficient resources.  This pilot underscores our core value proposition–that our advanced technology solutions can help government agencies make better, faster, and fairer decisions with the resources they have in hand.  CPSC’s ability to accomplish its mission is enhanced; the trade gets transparency;  product safety is improved; and tax dollars are spent more efficiently.”

The pilot is evaluating the use of advanced technology and risk-based screening rules, developed by NTELX, to improve CPSC’s ability to identify high-risk products and prevent their entry into the United States.  With the number of imported consumer products increasing each year, this capability is designed to allow CPSC to more effectively identify unsafe products while maximizing the use of available resources.

Initial results show a significant improvement in the ability to identify products that are in violation of product safety regulations, as well as a 45% reduction in the incidence of false positive indications in products such as toys that have lead or small parts, and counterfeit products.

Based on the early success of the pilot program, CPSC is expanding the pilot program from seven to fifteen ports across the country.  More information can be found on this Journal of Commerce Article.

About NTELX

NTELX, located just outside of the nation’s capital in Northern Virginia, designs, develops, and implements data-driven solutions in support of critical operational decisions.  The company has over ten years of experience improving and automating data-intensive decisions for organizations including the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Transportation Security Administration, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Treasury, and a range Health and Human Services clients.  The company also provides freight traffic management solutions at seaports in the Middle East and around the world.  NTELX solutions have successfully helped clients improve operational processes with significant results that include greater transparency and efficiency, faster decisions, better accuracy, decreased costs, and broader reach.

About CPSC

CPSC is entrusted with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death caused by the consumer products that are under its jurisdiction.  The agency began operations in 1973 and since then, has been responsible for examining imported products at the point of entry to ensure their safety.    CPSC will leverage NTELX’s solutions to better focus their efforts on assessing potential risks for products ranging from toys and bicycles to power equipment and fireworks.

About Armedia

Armedia is a content management consulting and software company focused on enabling organizations to achieve success by maximizing the value of their content. The company is made-up of highly experienced business and technology consultants with many years of experience as enterprise architects, technical leads, user experience professionals, senior project managers and ECM industry executives.

Dr. Amrinder Arora, Vice-President–Technology, was one of the speakers at the conference, where his presentation on “Adaptive Intelligent Transportation System for Metropolitan Areas” touched upon the various approaches to traffic management and the importance of implementing the right system in busy metropolitan areas.

Dr. Arora discussed NTELX’s experience designing, developing, and implementing freight traffic management solutions. By example, Dr. Arora shared with the group NTELX’s success in implementing such a system in Aqaba, Jordan’s sole seaport, and in Karachi, Pakistan. Results achieved include reduced congestion in the areas, lower processing times for trucks, and a decrease in carbon pollution.

About NTELX

NTELX designs, develops, and implements data-driven solutions in support of critical operational decisions. The company has more than ten years of experience improving and automating data-intensive decisions for high level clients including Health and Human Services agencies, the US Food and Drug Administration, the Transportation Security Administration, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Treasury. The company also provides complex congestion management solutions in port communities in the Middle East and around the world.

About ITSA

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America is the leading advocate for technologies that improve the safety, security and efficiency of the nation’s surface transportation system. Our members include private corporations, public agencies, and academic institutions involved in the research, development and design of Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies that enhance safety, increase mobility and sustain the environment.

The organization’s core mission is to promote free trade and economic development among the 21 Asia-Pacific Rim countries, strengthen economic integration in the region, and to make regional economic growth more inclusive and sustainable. The summit is an annual event and the primary vehicle for APEC countries to promote open trade and practical economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region. The meeting at which Quartel spoke focused on “greening the supply chain – energy-efficient freight transportation” and was part of several diversely-focused meetings that took place over a two week period. Three thousand delegates, including cabinet secretaries, government officials, diplomats, business representatives, and economic experts gathered to conduct high-level economic discussions. Among the attendees were Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood, and one of several key note speakers, Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place.

APEC indicated that “businesses in the APEC-region are reducing their energy costs and carbon footprints through systematic efforts to improve their freight logistics and shift from transport by trucks to less energy-intensive transport modes like ship, barge and rail. There has also been a move toward increased use of clean, efficient hybrid-electric trucks.”

Quartel, a former Federal Maritime Commissioner and current NTELX Chairman and CEO, spoke to the group about congestion management solutions — adaptive, practical technologies that can be implemented in months rather than years, and can bring immediate operational efficiency improvements and reduced pollution to ports and terminals. He observed that IT solutions aimed at bringing efficiency to truck management can deliver results faster and for a fraction of the cost compared to expanding infrastructure or resources, both of which are out of reach for many developing nations.

Quartel asked attendees the question: “If you could in 90 days add 20 percent carrying capacity to your existing truck fleet; reduce its fuel consumption and fuel costs by a quarter, chop 14 hours on average from a truck driver’s day, and reduce carbon emissions by some 5000 or more metric tons annually as we have done for Jordan’s Port of Aqaba for pennies a day compared to the cost of long-term infrastructure change – why wouldn’t you do it?”

In his presentation, Quartel described a Freight Traffic Management Solution (FTMS) that NTELX and its partners implemented in the port of Aqaba, Jordan’s sole seaport. The solution lowered truck processing times by 14 hours and cuts approximately 5000 metric tons of carbon annually. An independent study of FTMS analyzing the solution’s long-term impact found that the solution added USD $100 million to Jordan’s economy annually.

About NTELX

NTELX serves a high-powered group of clients that have big challenges, too much data, and not enough resources to do the job. NTELX provides the automated, data-driven decision analytics that move transportation, security, food, drug, intelligence and health organizations and numerous other clients from insight to action. 80% of clients use NTELX solutions in their daily operations. NTELX is headquartered in the Washington, DC-area and has a global reach and a track-record of successful operations in intelligence, logistics, security, health and human services and product safety.

About APEC

Apec was first established in 1989 as an informal Ministerial-level dialogue group in Canberra, Australia. The organization has grown. Today, APEC consists of twenty-one member countries and is considered the foremost Asia-Pacific economic forum. Member economies promote a dynamic and community and encourage economic and technical cooperation.

Christopher Wheeler, the lead for NTELX’s Health Care and Pharma practice, presented a major concept poster at the 16th Annual Meeting for the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research held in Baltimore, MD, May 21-25, 2011. The poster was titled “An Outcomes Profile Registry for Establishing a Baseline Matrix in Comparative Effectiveness Studies in Predictive Pharmacology.”

“The mission of ISPOR is to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness of health care resource use to improve health.”
Presenter Chris Wheeler commented “ISPOR’s mission to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness of health care resources to improve health complements NTELX’s mission and goals in the Healthcare and Pharma space well. Participation in ISPOR is critical to NTELX’s efforts to market its predictive analytical capabilities in the outcomes arena.”

About NTELX

NTELX, Inc. based out of Tysons Corner, VA develops practical decision-analytics solutions for clients in a wide-range of industries, including Health Care and Pharma. Mr. Wheeler leads NTELX’s Healthcare and Pharma practice and NTELX’s efforts in that space. The company is currently developing an analytics-based personalized medicine initiative in the clinical and pharmaceutical arenas. One of the major efforts involves developing a predictive analytical framework for analyzing outcomes profiles to be used as benchmarks in comparing desired outcomes to predict appropriate therapies in delivering personalized healthcare and support patient segmentation models in clinical trial design.

About ISPOR

ISPOR is widely accepted and recognized as the authority for outcomes research and its use in health care decisions towards improved health. The organization’s influence extends to outcomes researchers, health technology developers and assessors, regulators, health economists, health care policy makers, payers, providers, patients, populations, and society as a whole. ISPOR has over 10,400 members including 5,900 active members from 92 countries 4,500 members from regional chapters and holds three global meetings annually.

Vienna, Va. – For the second year in a row, NTELX is ranked as one of the country’s fastest growing company’s by Inc. Magazine.  Chairman and CEO Rob Quartel is pleased to announce the company’s rank at NO. 1,652 on the magazine’s fifth annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.

NTELX is located in one of the top ten job-creating states in the country (Virginia ranked NO. 6), and also in one of the top ten job-creating metro areas (Washington, D.C. ranked NO. 4).  One of the categories, global companies, experienced a growth rate of 127.2%, making it the second fastest growing industry sector in the country.  In total, the companies on the Inc. 5000 have created 370,592 jobs over the last three years, fueling the economy through difficult times.  Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on their website.

Rob Quartel, NTELX Chairman and CEO, said “we’re honored to be on the fastest growth list two years in a row, particularly as the overall economy is under great duress.  Our solutions are really important where budgets are stressed but the decisions and obligations neither decline nor go away.”

NTELX’s experienced a revenue growth rate of 163% and doubled its staff over the last three years.  The government service provider sector in the country grew by 141%.  NTELX ranks NO. 159 within that industry, making it one of the fastest growing service providers in the country.

About NTELX

NTELX designs, develops, and implements data-driven solutions in support of critical operational decisions.  The company has over ten years of experience improving and automating data-intensive decisions for high level clients including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Transportation Security Administration, the Department of Defense, Department of Treasury, and Health and Human Services clients.  The company also provides complex congestion management solutions in port communities in the Middle East and around the world.  NTELX solutions have successfully helped clients improve operational processes with significant results that include faster decisions, better accuracy, decreased costs, greater transparency and efficiency, broader reach, and reduced pollution.

About Inc. Magazine

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology.

Vienna, Va. – NTELX Inc., which provides data analytics solutions and operational decision-support to government clients, has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) data contract by FISC Norfolk Contracting Department Philadelphia Office on behalf of the Office of Naval Intelligence. The Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract has a multi-million dollar total value, with NTELX already cleared to be awarded over 25% of the total value over a two-year period.

NTELX Chairman and CEO Rob Quartel, said “this is another significant step in expanding our footprint in a vital national intelligence program. We are both proud and humbled by this opportunity to serve our country.”

The contract is intended to continue support of ONI’s Maritime Domain Awareness Solution, designed to improve maritime safety through the collection of more accurate and detailed data on cargo shipments transported through ships.

As part of the contract, NTELX will provide cargo data reports from a variety of global sources to fulfill ONI’s requirements in support of Maritime Domain Awareness. NTELX will compile and warehouse current worldwide transaction level cargo including country-specific transaction level imports, exports, and transshipments.

About NTELX

NTELX, located just outside of the nation’s capital in Northern Virginia designs, develops, and implements data-driven solutions in support of critical operational decisions. The company has over ten years of experience improving and automating data-intensive decisions for high level clients including the Department of Defense, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Transportation Security Administration, Department of Treasury, and Health and Human Services clients.

About ONI

Every day, over two million commercial containers are transported on ships carrying goods between the world’s ports. This presents an immediate risk to national security and a long-term risk of proliferation of sensitive technologies should terrorists be able to smuggle weapons and other contraband in these shipping containers. Through solutions like Maritime Domain Awareness, the U.S. intelligence community can better collect, process, and analyze enormous quantities of data about the world’s containerized maritime shipments in order to identify and track high-interest shipments, activities, organizations, and individuals as well as identify potential threats as early as possible.

Vienna, Va. – In testimony to the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg praised PREDICT, a solution supported by NTELX’s technology and analytical expertise.

Using FDA industry-specific knowledge, NTELX developed predictive targeting techniques, allowing the FDA to screen each shipment electronically to determine whether it meets the threshold for physical inspection or sampling, allowing the FDA to target hazardous products more accurately. In field testing, PREDICT has proven itself to be more rapid and accurate than the previous system. PREDICT is currently in use in the New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San Francisco–FDA districts covering approximately 40% of total imports to the United States.

About NTELX

NTELX serves high profile customers who face information overload and lack the resources to tackle it.   NTELX provides technology-driven solutions that transform a deluge of data into actionable intelligence directed to the right user at the right time, enabling clients to make faster and more accurate decisions in mission-critical environments.

About FDA

The Food and Drug Administration is the oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency in the US federal government. FDA’s modern regulatory functions began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, a law a quarter-century in the making that prohibited interstate commerce in adulterated and misbranded food and drugs.

The award, hosted by the Northern Virginia Technology Council nominated NTELX CFO, Robert Rosenberg in the “Emerging Growth CFO of the Year” category, a new category to honor the chief financial officer of a company with revenue under $25 million.
A graduate of Brown University, Rosenberg has been with NTELX since the company’s formation in 2001. Prior to joining NTELX, Mr. Rosenberg held finance and asset management positions at subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs.

About NTELX

NTELX, located just outside of the nation’s capital in Northern Virginia designs, develops, and implements data-driven solutions in support of critical operational decisions. The company has over ten years of experience improving and automating data-intensive decisions for high level clients including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Transportation Security Administration, the Department of Defense, Department of Treasury, and Health and Human Services clients. The company also provides complex congestion management solutions in port communities in the Middle East and around the world. NTELX solutions have successfully helped clients improve operational processes with significant results that include faster decisions, better accuracy, decreased costs, greater transparency and efficiency, broader reach, and reduced pollution.

About NVTC

The Northern Virginia Technology Council is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. As the largest technology council in the nation, NVTC serves about 1,000 companies from all sectors of the technology industry, as well as service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and governmental agencies.