Mr. Bryant has over 30 years experience involving increasing levels of responsibility in design, development and testing of defense systems. He is responsible for leading Davidson Technologies System Development/Simulation and Modeling Division and is currently supporting Missile Defense, Tactical Missiles, AMCOM RDEC/McMorrow labs, GMD, THAAD and several emerging programs.

Mr. Bryant has developed new technology approaches to offer customers beneficial solutions to complex problems. He personally developed the ISTC and MDSE, developed and implemented business strategies that expanded the Technologies Group 3 fold, making it the largest TBE group-over 600 employees.

Doug served on the board of MEMs Optical, the board of Army Space and Missile Defense Association and as a study member of the Defense Science Board. He served as a special NDIA advisor to OSD in matters relating to use of Modeling and simulation in defense systems acquisition.

Dr. Julian Davidson founded Davidson Technologies dedicating the company to providing research and development support to the government and commercial sectors. Dr. Julian Davidson has distinguished himself as one of the renowned experts in missile defense research with a career that has spanned over forty years. Dr. Davidson's career with the U.S. Government culminated with his position as the Deputy Program Manager of BMD where he managed several thousand personnel and controlled programs with funding levels of several billions of dollars. He was the first Director of the Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency responsible for all U.S. BMD advanced technology development. While director, Dr. Davidson pioneered the use of System Engineering for Ballistic Missile Defense.

After leaving government service, Dr. Davidson held management positions with SAIC as Vice President for Strategic Planning; with Systems Development Corporation as Vice President and General Manager of Eastern Operations; and, with the management consulting firm Booz-Allen and Hamilton as a Senior Vice President. Dr. Davidson founded Davidson Technologies in 1996. He serves as Chairman of the Board for the company.

Dr. Davidson has served as member and chairman of numerous committees and panels dealing with missiles including BMD and military and space systems. He is a former chairman of the Air Force Studies Board of the National Research Council and a former Vice Chairman of the Technology Assessment Committee of the U.S. Space Command for the National Research Council. Dr. Davidson twice received the Army Exceptional Civilian Service Award and he has received the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award and the Medaris Award. He is a member of the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Employee Hall of Fame.

Mr. Gotvald has over 39 years of experience in the design, test, installation and acceptance of aerospace, tactical, space control and Ballistic Missile Defense Systems. He is currently the Project Manager responsible for leading the Davidson GMD subcontracts to The Boeing Corporation and Teledyne Brown Engineering covering the areas of Interceptor Integration & Test, Embedded Test, Range Interface Test Equipment, Systems Engineering & Integration, Threat Specification, Survivability, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM), Information Assurance, Lab Operations, Modeling & Simulation, and Program Change Management.

Mr. Gotvald has been responsible for staffing unique GMD Program skill requirements and supporting surge staffing requirements. He has been involved in the evolution of BMD since ABMDA Hardsite and BMSCOM Site Defense in the early 70's to the present MDA BMDS involving real time HWIL end-to-end simulations and environment modeling.

Mr. Gotvald has a BEE from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Administrative Science from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. He is a member of IEEE, AUSA, NDIA, HAMA and AIAA.

Colonel Greer spent 30 years in the U.S. Army with experience that included Deputy Director of the AMRDEC; Deputy Program Executive Officer for PEO Tactical Missiles; and, HELLFIRE/GLLD Project Office Chief of Logistics Management Division and Assistant Project Manager for Logistics. After leaving the Army, Colonel Greer worked for Teledyne Brown Engineering before joining Davidson Technologies.

Mr. Hoff was previously Vice president and Program Manager of Ground-based Midcourse Defense at the Boeing Company where he was responsible for delivering the first of a kind limited defensive capability to protect all 50 states from long range ballistic missile attack. He led and managed the contractor team of over 6000 people on this challenging program that spans technologies from radars to rockets and included integrating over five million lines of software code.

Paul spent two years as technical advisor to the Director of MDA responsible for helping transform the organization, the technical approaches and the operating processes from existing stove-pipe elements designed under the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty and old Department of Defense 5000 series practices to an integrated BMDS using spiral development and capabilities based systems engineering at MDA in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO with a B.A. – Double Major in Mathematics & Physics.

Ms. Knapp has over 20 years of experience in the defense industry, working primarily in the financial planning, analysis, human resources, and the administration field. Before joining Davidson Technologies, Ms. Knapp managed Teledyne Brown's Technologies Group Business Management Unit and was responsible for overseeing the group's $90M budget.

Ms. Knapp will oversee Davidson Technologies’ finance, accounting, contracts, subcontracts, business management, security, IT, and other administrative personnel, and will be responsible for overall development of strategic business plans.

Ms. Knapp is a graduate of the Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and received a Certificate in Project Management from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

Prior to joining Davidson Technologies, Mrs. McCarter worked for U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions as his north Alabama Field Director, and as his press secretary in the 2002 senatorial campaign. Before joining Senator Sessions’ staff, Mrs. McCarter was the Executive Director of the Alabama Aerospace, Science and Industry Commission (AASIC), which included members of the aerospace community in Alabama appointed by Governor Fob James.

Prior to her service with the AASIC, Mrs. McCarter worked as a political consultant in several congressional races and a presidential campaign. She worked for the Victory '96 Fundraising Committee of the Alabama Republican Party, Chaired by Senator Richard Shelby. The committee raised money for federal, state and local candidates throughout Alabama.

Ms. McCarter received a BA in Communications and Political Science from the University of Alabama, Huntsville.

Ms. Peterson has over 17 years experience in Human Resources. She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). She has been an active member of the North Alabama Society for Human Resource Management (NASHRM) and served on the NASHRM Board 2002-2009. She is also a member of the North Alabama Business Ethics Roundtable (NABER).

Ms. Peterson is responsible for the Human Resources Department. She is also the Corporate Secretary and serves as the Senior Corporate Ethics Officer for Davidson Technologies, Inc.

Ms. Peterson received a BBA in Human Resource Management and a BS in Psychology from Athens State University.

Mr. Shafer has been involved in missile testing and launch operations for over 25 years; starting out as a submarine weapons officer and then a Naval Plant Representative at Lockheed, overseeing the Polaris/Poseidon missile fleet liaison office. After retirement from the US Navy, he went to Lockheed where he was the test director and subsequent site manager at Kwajalein for the ERIS program and initial startup of the PLV program; both early elements of the National Missile Defense program.

Mr. Shafer was the Launch Operations Manager for the Lockheed Tactical Missile Targets Program; Willow Dune. He was responsible for development and conduct of a unique target test program that involved coordination between system, design and test engineering aspects of different foreign assets. He directed reverse engineering efforts to develop operational plans, test procedures and safety doctrine to assemble, test, fuel and launch two highly successfully SCUD missiles from an alternate remote site at Kwajalein Missile Range.

Mr. Shafer also served as the test operations manager, Lockheed Martin, Huntsville, AL. After early retirement in 1998 from Lockheed Martin, Mr. Shafer worked at Steve Meyer & Associates as a test engineer consultant and was assigned to Raytheon, Tucson, as acting EKV test manager and setup the original EKV test program and test team transition plan for Kwajalein. He left SM&A to join Davidson Technologies, Inc in June, 2001 and work on the GMD program at Boeing, Anaheim. As a program manager, he developed an aptitude in developing new business ventures and initiated contractual work with numerous aerospace companies. After gaining business experience, he was moved to Director, Field Operations in 2004 and as Senior VP in 2007. Mr. Shafer has an ASEE from University of Oregon (Navy Campus) and a BS from Chapman University, Orange, CA.