Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Columbia, MD

Freedom Consulting Group, which now operates as Freedom Technology Solutions Group, LLC (FTSG), is a technology firm based in Columbia, Maryland. It works mainly with government and Intelligence Community customers. The company has passed its 20th anniversary.

It describes its approach as mission-first and agile: it aims to replace rigid, legacy ways of working with solutions that can change as priorities and budgets change. Buyers looking for business intelligence support in a classified or national security setting will see that its offerings focus on moving, enriching and delivering mission data, not on commercial dashboard tools.

Signature Solutions

FTSG sells a family of branded platforms, which it calls its signature solutions. Each one targets a different stage of the mission data lifecycle:

• Mission Connect: an enterprise platform for releasing and disseminating intelligence. It links data sources, adds context and sends finished intelligence to the right people when they need it.
• MAWS: a workflow suite that turns manual, paper-heavy processes into automated workflows, giving managers better visibility into cost and performance.
• PORTAL: a cross-domain transfer capability for moving sensitive information between networks at different classification levels, built for speed and scale.
• FORGE: an automated DevSecOps software factory that covers coding, testing, security scanning and deployment, so teams can ship reliable software faster.
• ANUBIS: a platform for independent verification and validation of AI models. It assesses, accredits and monitors models before and after they go into operational use.

Services and How They Work

Alongside its products, FTSG offers technical services and capabilities. The firm says these rest on in-depth engineering expertise in the technologies behind modern missions. In practice, this means the company can deploy one of its own platforms or put engineers on a program to modernize workflows, speed up delivery and strengthen how intelligence is managed.

Its open approach means clients are not tied to past methods. Instead, the team adjusts solutions as requirements shift. For organizations that rely on analytics, the most relevant pieces are data dissemination, intelligence enrichment and trusted AI, because they decide how quickly sound insight reaches decision-makers.

Background and Credentials

Vernon Saunders is the company's CEO. Its leadership includes senior executives who run programs for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and other Intelligence Community portfolios. Senior NGA officials have publicly praised its work. The agency's Chief Technology Officer said FORGE was far more advanced than most DevSecOps teams.

The director of NGA's Technology Assurance Office called ANUBIS an intuitive way to scale AI validation and model accreditation. The company's news section also celebrates the USAID GeoCenter receiving a 2024 Esri President's Award, which points to FTSG's involvement in geospatial work.

FTSG stands out for pairing productized platforms with consulting talent, and for its long record of supporting intelligence agencies. Buyers in defense, intelligence or federal civilian agencies will find it most relevant if they need secure data movement, intelligence delivery, and validated AI and analytics. Organizations that want off-the-shelf commercial reporting software may find its mission-specific focus a less natural fit.