Harmonia was founded in 1999 in Blacksburg, VA. Over the years we have developed the LiquidApps® suite of development tools. LiquidApps® brings user interface design and development from the programmers to the subject matter expert who is best able to develop the software. Additional modules convert legacy code such as Ada to Java. Harmonia developed the UIML language to allow user interfaces to work on multiple platforms without recoding the application. Harmonia has worked on a number of major software development projects over the years and refined the software and the systems it operates on. See www.harmonia.com for more information on LiquidApps®.

Harmonia is a woman owned, small disadvantaged business located in a HUBZone.

The management and personnel of Harmonia Federal Services have extensive experience in networking, system design and development, software development and solutions that meet your needs. Harmonia Federal Services management have over 100 years experience with government and technology solutions.

• Pallabi Saboo, Chief Executive Officer
• Marc Abrams, President and Chief Technology Officer
• Michael Bame
• Paul Tremblett

Our main office is located in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center. Our proximity to Virginia Tech provides us with many resources that we can bring to our clients including:

• System X - one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world built using 1,100 Apple PowerMacs
• Access to over 25,000 students who can provide low-cost labor and have computer skills.
• Many international students giving us a wide variety of possible language translation capabilities.

We have sales offices in Washington, DC and Salt Lake City, Utah. Additional offices are established as needed at client locations to facilitate support activities.Contract Vehicles:

IDIQ contract issued by the Naval Air Warfare Center, US Navy for $25M to provide software development and related support services. This five year defense contract was awarded in December 2006.

Harmonia Federal has teamed with the prime contractor Suhdutsing Technologies on their IDIQ multi-year contract awarded by SPAWAR for C4ISR requirements.

We have extensive experience working as a subcontractor and using subcontractors.

Dr. Abrams serves as Harmonia's President and CTO. He has guided Harmonia's team in developing groundbreaking tools to empower non-specialists, scientists, managers, and average users to create personal mashups and fusion of data through Harmonia's LiquidApps® tool suite. He has worked extensively with web services, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, and other XML technologies to facilitate widespread access to diverse data sources, on projects for a variety of government agencies. He has also been principal investigator on several projects for Army and Missile Defense Agency on visualization methods, which have been integrated into LiquidApps®. A theme in his career has been to find ways to enable non-specialists to use simulation and scientific data, through projects with the Army, NASA, and now at Harmonia.

He provides technical and business leadership to the company and manages all its technical projects. In the past, Dr. Abrams has been with the former U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency, a post-doc in the Distributed Operating Systems group in Stanford's Computer Science Department, a Visiting Scientist in the network protocol group at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland, and an Associate Professor with Tenure in Computer Science at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He has been the Principal Investigator for almost $20M in research and development projects with IBM, MDA, NAVAIR, NAVSEA, NSF, ONR, OSD, Raytheon, and SAIC. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park in Computer Science.

Before Harmonia, Dr. Abrams was a tenured associate professor at Virginia Tech, where his research on Human-Computer Interfaces led to the creation of UIML and later the co-founding of Harmonia. UIML forms the basis for Harmonia's LiquidApps® product. At Virginia Tech, he also co-founded the Center for Human Computer Interaction, and worked with faculty in HCI in fields ranging from cognitive psychology to human factors on scenario-driven HCI design. Dr. Abrams was co-organizer of the 2004 workshop "Developing User Interfaces with XML: Advances on User Interface Description Languages," held as part of the Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004 conference in Gallipoli, Italy, attended by most of the world's researchers doing state-of-the-art work in user interfaces.

He also oversaw the Government use of UIML and LiquidApps® in the Initial Operating Capability 2 of the Army Training Information Architecture - Migrated. He also worked with the Navy for creating HMI screens for DDG 1000 surface combatant and Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS) using LiquidApps® and UIML. His HCI work includes voice-based interfaces using speech recognition. He also supervised the application of UIML to represent gestures, speech, and multi-modal HCIs, and he worked on an implementation for the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (www.ami-c.org).

In the past, Dr. Abrams has been with the former U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency, a post-doc in the Distributed Operating Systems group in Stanford's Computer Science Department, a Visiting Scientist in the network protocol group at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland and an Associate Professor with Tenure in Computer Science at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He has been the Principal Investigator for almost $20M in research and development projects with IBM, MDA, NAVAIR, NAVSEA, NSF, ONR, OSD, Raytheon, and SAIC.

• Abrams, M., and Helms, J. (2004). Retrospective on UI Description Languages, Based on 7 Years Experience with the User Interface Markup Language (UIML). Proceedings of Developing User Interfaces with XML: Advances on User Interface Description Languages, a Satellite Workshop of Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, Gallipoli, Italy. Phanouriou, C., and Abrams, M. (1999). "UIML: An XML Language for Building Device-Independent User Interfaces." December, 1999.
• Abrams, M., Phanouriou, C., Batongbacal, A., Williams, S., Shuster, J., (1999). "UIML: An Appliance-Independent XML User Interface Language." Computer Networks 31: 1695-1708.
• Ali, M., and Abrams, M. (2001). Simplifying Construction of Multi-Platform User Interfaces in UIML. UIML Europe 2001, Paris.
• Abrams, M., editor. The World Wide Web: Beyond the Basics, Prentice-Hall. (1998)
• Helms, J. and Abrams, M. 'Retrospective on UI description languages, based on eight years experience with the User Interface Markup Language (UIML)', Int. J. Web Engineering and Technology, Vol. X, No. Y, pp.000-000. (in press)
• Helms, J., Schaefer, R., Luyten, K., Vermeulen, J., Abrams, M., Coyette, A., Vanderdonckt, J. "Human-Centered Engineering of Interactive Systems with the User Interface Markup Language" in Seffah, A., Vanderdonckt, J., Desmarais, M. (eds.), Human-Centered Software Engineering, Springer Series of HCI, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Vol. 10, 2007 (in press)
• Abrams, M., Saboo, P., Helms, J., Thomas, A., and Sims, J. "Using UIML to Automate Generation of Usability Prototypes and Tactical Software" in Proceedings of the Human Systems Integration Symposium 2007