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People (6)

  • Bill Bailey William C. Bailey Jr. is chief executive of Radiance Technologies, a former Air Force engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and lead defendant in the dismissed ESOP suit Berry v. Bailey.
  • Bud Cramer Democratic member of the House from Alabama's 5th District from 1991 to 2009, Radiance Technologies director from December 2015, and a lobbyist listed on 535 Group filings; a defendant in Berry v. Bailey.
  • Clayton Hinchman Robert Clayton Hinchman is a West Point graduate and medically retired Army captain, chief executive of Ignite Fueling Innovation since May 2020 and a 2018 Republican primary challenger to Mo Brooks.
  • Joe Lonsdale Joe Lonsdale is an American technology entrepreneur and investor who cofounded Palantir Technologies as a founding engineer in 2003, founded the venture capital firm 8VC, and has been a central figure in the Thiel-aligned defense-technology investment cluster backing Anduril Industries.
  • Logan Grumbach Joshua Logan Grumbach is a Huntsville engineer and futurist, former Boeing and Lockheed Martin missile defense manager, and Ignite Fueling Innovation vice president for space, intelligence and missile defense since May 2024.
  • Rinaldo Nazzaro Rinaldo Nazzaro, alias 'Norman Spear,' is an American intelligence contractor who founded The Base neo-Nazi paramilitary network in 2018 while directing operations from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he holds dual citizenship and remains uncharged as of 2026 despite active FBI investigation.

Organizations (13)

  • Anduril Industries Anduril Industries is a defense-technology contractor founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and Palantir Technologies alumni Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, and Joe Chen, backed by Founders Fund, that builds the Lattice autonomous-systems platform and autonomous hardware for the Pentagon and allied militaries, and was valued at 30.5 billion dollars in its 2025 Series G round.
  • Apogee Engineering Colorado Springs defense contractor and one of four holders of the $866 million NASIC ASTRA advisory and assistance contract, awarded May 6, 2026.
  • BDM Corporation McLean, Virginia defense and intelligence contractor founded in 1959 as Braddock, Dunn and McDonald, owned by Ford Aerospace from 1988 and by a Carlyle-led group from 1990, and sold to TRW in 1997.
  • Dynetics Huntsville, Alabama engineering and weapons-systems company founded in 1974, employee-owned until Leidos bought it for $1.65 billion on January 31, 2020, and holder of FCC experimental licence WK2XCW with a Sierra Blanca, Texas site.
  • Ignite Fueling Innovation Huntsville, Alabama service-disabled veteran-owned defense contractor, formed 2001 as Alatec, Inc., with about $197 million in federal obligations since fiscal 2008 and registered agent of the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation from 2022 to 2023.
  • Modern Technology Solutions Alexandria, Virginia defense and intelligence contractor founded in 1993 by two retired Air Force officers, 100 percent employee-owned since 2017, with NASIC NOVASTAR task orders and a 2026 order under the ESOP pilot.
  • Odyssey Systems May 1997, Odyssey is founded in the Boston area by Michael Sweat and Michael Prisco to support the Air Force Electronic Systems Center (ESC).
  • Omega Solutions International Omega Solutions International LLC was a New York-registered defense contracting firm operated by Rinaldo Nazzaro that held a federal CAGE code and marketed intelligence and counterterrorism software to U.S. government agencies, but produced no confirmed prime contract awards.
  • Palantir Technologies Palantir Technologies is a data-analytics and defense contractor cofounded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Gettings with CIA In-Q-Tel seed funding, that supplies data-integration platforms to U.S. intelligence, the Department of Defense, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
  • Radiance Ignite Technologies Huntsville, Alabama joint venture of Radiance Technologies and Ignite Fueling Innovation: formation July 10, 2024 on the Alabama record, announcement October 14, 2024, described as an SBA approved SDVOSB mentor protege joint venture.
  • Radiance Technologies Employee-owned Huntsville, Alabama defense contractor with National Air and Space Intelligence Center awards, employer of Jay Stratton and Travis Taylor from 2022, and named by Daniel Sheehan in December 2023.
  • Varo Manufacturing Company Garland, Texas electronics manufacturer for the military whose Military Assistance Division retyped an annotated copy of M. K. Jessup's The Case for the UFO after it reached Office of Naval Research officers.
  • WiSC Enterprises Chantilly, Virginia veteran-owned ISR and GEOINT support firm, founded in 2008, whose June 2026 posting for a Wright-Patterson analyst lists Foreign Materiel Exploitation among its NASIC mission areas.

Concepts (1)

  • Foreign Materiel Exploitation Department of Defense practice of acquiring, disassembling, testing and reverse engineering foreign weapon systems, run by the Air Force at NASIC, by the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, and by Army and Navy centers, with contractor laboratories.