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A Dayton-area defense contractor and technology firm has been flying under the radar, while still garnering millions of dollars in federal contracts to streamline and improve processes for the nation’s warfighters.
InfiniteTactics, based in Beavercreek, is gaining multimillion-dollar contracts with the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, and others. This comes at a time when the company is planning to double its local footprint; add a half-dozen new jobs; launch into state government and commercial business markets; and seek out strategic acquisition opportunities.
“The mission keeps expanding,” said Fred Killingsworth, chief strategy and growth officer at InfiniteTactics.
The firm is a veteran-owned small business that produces advanced technology systems and expert services in the information technology, computer science and software space.
Its founder CEO Jack Harris, a veteran Air Force officer, came from the Air Force Research Laboratory where he built the world’s largest virtual supercomputer for cognitive science, pre-2016.
From there, Harris founded InfiniteTactics in 2016 with the goal of creating Analytics Gateway, a platform to make it easier to access large-scale computation for modeling, simulation and artificial intelligence (AI).
The company earned three government awards, including SBIR phases I and SBIR II and TACFI, totaling over $3 million to enhance the Analytics Gateway technology for DoD use. This platform has been integrated over a dozen different High Performance Computers (HPC) across all five of the DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers.
InfiniteTactics recently deployed its technology at the DoD’s Maui High Performance Computing Center directly on a novel two-phase liquid immersion cooled high-performance computer called Scuba to convert it into an on-premise cloud computing capability with burstable access to other DoD HPCs and commercial cloud resources.
Analytics Gateway also was used to enable an AI piloted autonomous flight of XQ-58A Valkyrie, an unmanned combat aerial vehicle, last year.
“We have 13 different organizations that have also adopted Analytics Gateway,” Killingsworth said.
The company also works with Wright State University, which has a license to use Analytics Gateway, to support next-generation engineers and the AFRL at its Autonomy Technology Research Center.
InfiniteTactics’ recent awards include HPC as a Service, DevSecOps and software engineering for AI, machine learning, deep reinforcement learning and autonomy on Analytics Gateway for national security supporting contracts with the DoD, DARPA, Army Corp of Engineers, Air Force and Space Force.
InfiniteTactics is also preparing to double its square footage inside the Apple Valley Office Center. Currently the firm occupies 3,400 square feet.
“We need some changes to infrastructure,” Harris said. “We’re negotiating a new five-year lease that includes expanding our office to over 6,000 square feet.”
Harris said the building would handle renovations.
“InfiniteTactics is well positioned and specialized to capitalize on the astronomical market demand for AI and secure, scalable computation in both public and private sector enterprises," Harris said. "We could use the space for more people and wider capacity as we expand services and solutions to the broader market."
The growth is being precipitated by the success of Analytics Gateway, which has sold licenses to academia, the DoD and industry.
“It’s hit a tipping point where we’re getting more deployments and customization,” Harris said. "Analytics Gateway now enables government and industry to take advantage of emerging technology that was previously not accessible, not secure and cost prohibitive at scale."
InfiniteTactics has 20 employees and is actively hiring another three workers this month.
“We’re looking not just for software experts but a fit culturally with unwavering integrity and a team focus,” Harris said. “The ability to communicate in a team is so important as it fosters our culture of continual learning and personal growth.”
InfiniteTactics is a multimillion-dollar company whose revenue doubled from 2021 to 2022, and again from 2022 to 2023.
“We expect to double again this year,” Killingsworth said. “It is profitable, growing and scaling.”
The company is also exploring organic growth opportunities through local acquisitions.
“We are looking at some companies in the same size of ours; that are in segments of the industry that we haven’t gotten to yet,” Killingsworth said.
Harris echoed this, adding they are always looking for new collaborators, partners, and acquisitions in the Dayton region.
“We expect continued growth this year,” Killingsworth said. “The company is profitable, disciplined and scaling deliberately."
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