Category: News

SPEC CEO Paves Way for Women

Happy Women’s History Month! We are more proud than ever to be a Woman-Owned Small Business led by the brilliant, Cynthia (Cindy) Mahugh-Dam. Cindy has made it her goal to create an environment that fosters equality and growth for everyone. In doing this, SPEC Innovations has hired and retained many women and created a diverse […]

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SPEC Innovations Showcases Innoslate at West 2023

SPEC Innovations recently participated in the West 2023 conference in San Diego, California, which centered around the theme of “Readiness, Capability, and Capacity: How to Do the Sea Services Match Up Against the Future Threat?” The conference was held February 14-16 and featured prominent industry leaders who shared their insights on current and future capabilities. […]

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SPEC Innovations Releases Innoslate 4.7

Manassas, VA; 2-06-2023: SPEC Innovations is proud to announce the release of Innoslate v4.7. This release follows its prior release of 4.6 in May 2022. Innoslate 4.7 focuses on user experience and enhancements. This release features updates such as SysML 1.6 Compliance Developers have been working hard to keep up with the continuous SysML updates. […]

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SPEC Innovations’ Tool, Innoslate, Receives Security Technical Implementation Guide Approval

Manassas, VA; 11-17-2022: SPEC Innovations is proud to announce that our product, Innoslate, is now Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) approved. A STIG is a configuration standard consisting of cybersecurity requirements for a certain product. Following these protocols certifies that Innoslate is a fully cyber-secure software that protects all critical information for any product or […]

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SPEC Innovations Attends NDIA Conference

By Taylor Duffy SPEC Innovations President, Dr. Steven Dam, and Systems Engineers, Michael Campbell and Andy Tapia, just got back from representing SPEC Innovations at the 25th Annual Systems and Mission Engineering Conference! The annual conference is hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), and this year took place in Orlando, Florida, November 1-3. […]

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3 Biggest Lessons Learned Owning a Small Business

By Cynthia Mahugh-Dam  In 1998, I joined SPEC Innovations as the CEO, with the vision to provide quality and innovative engineering services to clients, create a safe and pleasant working environment, and offer superior leadership and guidance. Although our vision remains the same, SPEC Innovations has evolved into something much greater. With new opportunities comes […]

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Letters to Our Younger Selves

As part of our sponsorship with INCOSE’s Empowering Women Leaders in Systems Engineering (EWLSE), we wanted to take our own spin on a book they wrote, Letters To My Younger Self: How Systems Engineering Changed My Life. 5 SPEC Innovations women wrote letters to their younger selves about lessons learned from pivotal moments in their […]

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