Enterprise Search leader Sinequa held a ribbon cutting for their new office on Tuesday at the Invention to Innovation Center on campus at UAH. The office will help them with their new business practice that was also announced this week, dedicated to the specific needs of public and private agencies serving the United States Aerospace and Defense Industry. With their new office at UAH, their team hopes to tap into the region’s technology and partner ecosystem.

Spearheading their new business will be Sinequa’s Senior Vice President of Aerospace & Federal Business, Bob Lewis. The company also welcomed Colonel David Wallis as their new Director of Operations. Wallis has 27 years of experience with the USMC and IT experience with companies like Dynetics.

“Sinequa’s new Aerospace and Federal Defense Business Unit is the first of many strategic growth initiatives we are launching to grow our customer footprint and expand our partner ecosystem, including government contractors and systems integrators,” said Alexandre Bilger, CEO of Sinequa.

“Sinequa’s leadership team, expansion of resources and the new Huntsville office will allow us to deepen relationships with our existing customers such as NASA and Northrop Grumman, develop new partnerships and continue to collaborate with premier integrators like SAIC, while further advancing intelligent search technology to serve this critical market,” Bilger continued.

Sinequa’s Search Cloud aims to bring organizations of all sizes the most complete enterprise search ever. Customers employ Search Cloud to connect all content, both text and data based, derive meaning, learn from user interactions, and present information in context. This solves content chaos and informs employees through a single, secure interface.

Sinequa’s platform allows them to extract and protect valuable insights from information such as structured and unstructured data for their clients such as NASA, Northrop Grumman and Airbus. Their AI-powered search platform, which is optimized for Microsoft Azure, helps them provide insights on this data by using deep learning, language processing and a neural search function.

In an interview with The Huntsville Business Journal, Sinequa’s Vice President of Aerospace Bob Lewis explained how their work with NASA led to them determining their need for an office in Huntsville.

“We started working with NASA about four years ago and NASA engaged us with what is arguably their most innovative group, which is their engineering team at Marshall Space Flight Center . And the technology that we bring to market provides the ability to find information that’s otherwise hard to find. So we were able to take all the engineering documents that they’ve developed over the last 60 years, index that information and make it searchable and findable for the NASA engineers,” he explained.

“We also have been doing a similar project with Northrop Grumman here in Huntsville as well,” Lewis continued.

“And so what brought us here though, is that NASA has been describing this ecosystem of partnerships that as they move from exploring sort of low orbit space to outer space, they kind of outsource the low orbit stuff to commercial side. But they’ve got all these constellation of partners and they’re interested in using our technology to connect their information with the information that sits inside that partner community. The facility here at the university, the Invention to Innovation Center, it just seemed like a perfect place where we could both serve existing customers and expand our business and grow into that ecosystem.”

Sinequa is already integrating itself in the Huntsville community as the company recently joined the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville, is a member of the National Space Club and a member of Cyber Huntsville. Sinequa is also a contributor to the Nerdettes, an all-girls, high school robotics team from Huntsville.

For more information on Sinequa and the services they provide, visit their website at https://www.sinequa.com.