DUANE A. COX
Chairman & CEO


     Mr. Cox has 40+ years of experience in corporate, personnel
and crisis management, and in policy development in military,
private and non-profit organizations. He is Founder, President and Chairman of the Board of the Scientific Environmental Research Foundation (SERF), a nonprofit organization formed to provide leadership in environmental research and education by advancing high payoff research and education projects. SERF is project manager of the National Oceanographic Environmental Monitoring System. Mr. Cox also served as CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of Planning Systems Incorporated. He turned that company into a $30+ million, 350 plus person private defense contractor specializing in U.S. Navy Warfare (ASW) and environmental systems, and sold a portion of the company to Lockheed Corporation (now Lockheed Martin). Mr. Cox is a retired Naval Officer who has served in many operational billets and administrative positions in the Atlantic& Pacific theaters, Far East and Washington D.C. While in the U.S. Navy his highest position of command was as Commodore Oceanographic Systems Pacific (Pearl Harbor).


BARENT L. FAKE
Corporate Affairs


     Mr. Fake is President and Managing Director of Executive Advisors, LLC. He provides advice to the chief executives of companies in international development and marketing, health care and telecommunications solutions, information technology, management, engineering solutions and services, and Internet applications. He assists the executive management teams of his clients in restructuring their organizations, developing their executive teams, establishing strategic marketing plans and growth strategies within the global market, and developing sound alliance strategies and relationships to position his clients as solutions companies that incorporate systems and structures to manage the challenge of technology obsolescence. Mr. Fake has over 25 years of experience as a corporation attorney, most of which was spent while a partner with Miles & Stockbridge, a Baltimore, Maryland-based law firm, where he provided legal advise to corporate executives of both domestic and international manufacturing and service corporations. Mr. Fake served for 10 years as a Naval Flight Officer in anti-submarine warfare operations.


JAY R. SNYDER
Chief Technology Officer


     Mr. Snyder is co-founder of Victory Systems, having 20 years general experience in analysis, engineering, and applied mathematics and 15 years experience related to threat analysis, exploitation, strengths, weaknesses and counter tactics development. He was a member of SAIC's Technology Research Group in the Systems and Technology Division for five years. He was Senior Engineer on many UAV development projects during that time. He created hardware and IT architectures for the Coast Guard, the Army and the Air Force for the period that will span the next 30 to 40 years. Mr. Snyder served as a Member of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Long Range Planning Section in the Pentagon, and as Director of the Revolutionary Planning Division in the Pentagon. He has extensive experience specifically in the engineering, sensor and IT development, and long-range strategic and operational mission planning for UAVs. Mr. Snyder authored the UAV white paper and decision paper for the Air Force. Mr. Snyder served as a Fighter Pilot, flying both the F-15E, including 269 hours of combat time in Desert Storm, and nearly 2,000 flight hours in the F-111. Mr. Snyder holds the record for most Top Gun awards in the Air Force.


TOM EVERSOLE
Financial Matters


     Mr. Eversole is the Chief Financial Officer of Stargate Solutions Inc. and president of E. B. Associates, Inc., where he provides consulting services to clients in requirements definition, management situation assessments, financial management, and the conduct of market analyses. He has more than 30 years of business experience in program management, financial management, technology assessment, operational concepts, and research and development. Mr. Eversole also served as Vice President at the Advanced Systems Division of Planning Systems, Incorporated, where he was responsible for directing the activities of the division in support of advanced maritime surveillance systems within the Navy. He previously provided technical support for the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) program office in the areas of Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence, and participated in the development of the Surveillance Direction System (SDS) Concept of Operations, and the development of TSC/aircraft interface identification, sensor interface, and design requirements for the P-3C aircraft.

ADVISORS:

Chairman of Technology Advisory Board:


     Rear Admiral Bradford Mooney, Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired) has a very in depth background in high technology areas. He retired from the Navy in 1987 with over 34 years of professional experience including 6 commands at sea and ashore. His fields of expertise are in management, research, education and training and very deep ocean operations. Since 1964, he has been involved in ocean engineering, at-sea operations, research and development (R&D), including management, hands-on R&D and personal collaboration with R&D leaders of government, academia and industry. Consulted (1987-1989) in ocean engineering research at Florida Atlantic University, University of New Hampshire and Texas A&M University. He has held many leadership positions such as Member of the Board of Directors, President and Managing Director of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Member of the Marine Board at the National Research Council (NRC), President of the Marine Technology Society, chaired a NRC study on Undersea Vehicles and National Needs, Member of the U.S. Delegation to a United States/Russia Ocean Technology workshop in Moscow in 1996. Chaired a workshop "Lessons Learned During the Ocean Search and Recovery of TWA 800" for the Marine Board of the NRC.

     Before retiring, Radm Mooney was the Chief of Naval Research. He directed headquarters staff, four subordinate laboratories and offices in London and Tokyo totaling in excess of 5,000 people. Maintained Close contact with the funded R&D work at 400 universities, 9 Navy R & D Centers. Worked in direct cooperation with NASA, National Science Foundation, NOAA, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, President's Science Advisor, Administrator of NASA and periodically briefed members of Congress and their staffs.

Chairman of Business Advisory Board:

     Jim Runquist has 25 plus years of business development through team building, in both small and large high-tech corporations. He is currently the President of Temple Mountain Oil and Gas, Inc., which provides oil and gas technology/products/systems integration for enhancing recovery in the oil and gas industry. Current Chairman of the Board of Directors for Minnesota Project Innovation, Inc, which helps over 750 Minnesota small business high-tech companies/clients with business development. He has 20 years experience in aerospace electronic/information systems business, new market development, business growth through R&D, strategic alliances partnering and acquisition. He has strategically positioned several divisions of a large aerospace corporation to capture major market shares in Command and Control Systems, Avionics Systems, Submarine Systems, Surface Ships' Systems, Air Traffic Control/Management Systems, Postal Systems and International Marketplaces (Canada, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Australia and Hong Kong).

Mr. Runquist's strengths are;

Strategic management and planning/developing and implementing winning business strategies
Creative and forward thinking Business Development, Marketing and Sales
Sound Operations Planning/Budgeting/Evaluation/Control practices
Expertise in initiating from the group up new Systems/Products/Services Development and Marketing
Powerful Market Research/Competitive Analysis/Opportunity Modeling/Business and Market Forecasting     and Planning techniques and processes
On Time, On Target Product/Project/Program Management
Innovative IT and Internet technology implementation/Business to Business e-Commerce/EDI
Creative leadership, skilled communications and positive team participation, building as well as     motivating

UAV EXPERT ADVISOR:

     Larry D. Friese, Jr., is an Aerospace Engineer working with the Department of the Air Force at Eglin AFB, FL in simulation, systems, and controls engineering. He also serves as a sub-scale drone control and simulation software project leader for the Gulf Range Drone Control System. He is the founder, President and CEO of Aerial Information Systems Corporation, which is a commercial and government UAV service provider as well as small UAV manufacturer. Prior to his current jobs Mr. Friese worked with the National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD as the project leader and lead engineer for the effort to develop, test and deploy a specialized sensor package on a tactical UAV. He also has participated in several signals collection operations and conducted significant work in the areas of aircraft and air-launched missile instrumentation signals analysis.

Mr. Friese is a private pilot and also has skills in;

Flight testing
Aerodynamic predictions
Aircraft design
Flight simulation
Signals collection and analysis
Systems engineering
Project management



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