AN HONOR AND A CHALLENGE
GREGORY GLAROS CEO and Chief Technical Officer SYNEXXUS Inc. Arlington, VA
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YNEXXUS is a CMMI Level 3 certified electronics design, manufacturing and engineering services company headquartered in Arlington, VA, and an SDVOSB. [Te CMMI Institute certifies organizations in Capability Maturity Model Integration, an internationally recognized framework to
guide organizations in benchmarking their capabilities and identifying perfor- mance gaps so that they can develop capabilities efficiently.]
As a program executive in the DOD Office of Force Transformation from 2001 to 2006, I was exposed to a number of challenges facing DOD. Specifically, we were charged with showing the DOD acquisition community that it was possible to deliver on a program ahead of schedule and under budget. I am proud to say that we did that with two of the programs I was associated with: the Stiletto (special operations intelligent boat operations) and Operational Responsive Space (a tacti- cal micro-satellite effort). Both programs have grown considerably and are still supporting combatant commanders 10 years later.
When I left uniform in 2006 [as a Navy commander, a strike/fighter pilot], I was asked to introduce a cockpitlike architecture into the ground vehicle community so that Soldiers and Marines could have the same situational awareness that our aviation community enjoys, as well as data distribution systems that would allow all government-furnished equipment and software to work together. At the urging of the secretary of defense, I started SYNEXXUS with that goal in mind.
Starting a business is not for the faint of heart. Fortunately, I had a team of first-round draft picks to assist with this endeavor, as well as support and encour- agement from senior military officers and business leaders. When SYNEXXUS was approached by the Rapid Equipping Force in 2008 to deliver this capability, I gave my team only one directive: Deliver a system where the driver or commander in the vehicle could access all communications equipment, sensors and weapons, as well as ground robots, all from the same display within an arm’s reach, similar to the way my F/A-18 was configured.
126 Army AL&T Magazine January-March 2016
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