John Smith
Chief Executive Officer · Chantilly
One of the four founders. Spent eleven years in flight control software before deciding the harder problem was organisational, and has run the company since 2006.
People
Team
About 140 people across ten sites. These are some of them, and most of the names appear elsewhere on this site attached to the work they did.
01 — People
The people whose names are on the work.
Several of them wrote the stories on this site. That is deliberate — if an engineer is willing to put their name on an account of a programme, including the parts that went wrong, you learn something about how the company works.
Jeff Johnson
Chief Technology Officer · Chantilly
Architect of the Aegis triplex design and the person who insisted the Meridian processing core sit behind a hard interface boundary. That decision saved a constellation programme nine years later.
Dr Elena Voss
Principal Engineer, Radiation Effects · Chantilly
Runs part selection and radiation qualification across Helios-RH and Thermion. Has sat through more beam time than anyone else in the building and will tell you derating is not a substitute for it.
Sarah Johnson
Senior Avionics Engineer · Wichita
Leads integration on the iron-bird rig. Responsible for the fault-injection campaign that every Aegis build has to pass before it goes near an aircraft.
Marcus Adeyemi
Certification Manager · Wichita
Takes programmes through DO-178C and DO-254 to DAL-A, and runs the internal stage-of-involvement rehearsals that have never once found nothing.
Jen Barnes
Radiation Measurement Lead · Farnborough
Nuclear instrumentation and radiometrics. Led the flux channel rebuild that found eleven years of drift in a cable penetration nobody had looked at since commissioning.
Claire Dubois
Programme Lead · Ottawa
Ran the nine-week Meridian core redesign after a rad-hard FPGA went end-of-life mid-constellation. Now runs the obsolescence review at every design gate.
02 — How we are organised
Executive leadership
Strategic direction, and accountability for the fact that every project reflects the quality standard we claim.
Engineering
Avionics, radiation effects, instrumentation, propulsion control and integration. Average tenure nine years.
Verification and certification
Deliberately independent of the design teams, with the authority to reject. An organisation chart is not independence.
Programme and support
Planning, supply chain, obsolescence and the people who keep a twenty-year fleet dispatchable.
03 — Working here
We hire slowly and keep people for a long time.
Average tenure is nine years. On programmes that run for two decades that is not a perk, it is a technical requirement — the person who wrote the requirement should still be reachable when somebody questions it in year eight.
We do not run a graduate intake scheme or a permanent careers pipeline. When we need someone we say so, and we would rather wait for the right person than fill a seat.
Get in touchThe engineers who present at a certification review are the engineers who did the work. We do not staff reviews with people who were not in the room for the design.
Work with us
Tell us what you are trying to fly.
Send the requirement, the environment and the date it has to work by. An engineer will read it — not a form handler.
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