2013 Federal 100 awards program: Irving Townsend -- FCW

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Enter Townsend, who in the span of 16 months led the building of Orion, a key system for fusing, interpreting and visualizing data. With capabilities for tagging, commenting and highlighting information, Orion is built on open-source technology and is flexible enough to deploy worldwide. 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