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>> My name is Douglas Hinkley; I'm the Director of Operations and Program Management
at GPS Source Incorporated in southern Colorado.
We employ about 3 high-tech individuals; highly educated in a high tech workforce
so that worriers, soldiers, firemen, first responders, or anyone in need of the GPS signal
for location or for safety purposes to have that indoors whether it's inside of a military hangar
or a fire station or an airplane for the special operators.
The MEP really found us.
We were attending some of the meetings and they were looking for a company that had the type
of capability I believe that we have.
The heads of display to an aviator is like driving any sports car
where you have an avionics cluster or you have an instrument cluster and you can look
at that instrument cluster without taking your eyes off the road.
It really gives you the visualization of where you're going and how to get there.
The reason why we need a reverse engineer is because the heads-up display was made years ago
out of the country and it's obsolete;
the drawings are obsolete, the companies are obsolete.
We're having a difficult time remanufacturing those products
so we're reverse engineering not only for the reason of reproducing those, but we can bring it
in America and we can have that heads-up display made in America, made by Americans;
companies made with American labor.
Our systems outfitted the first three Stryker brigades, first two Stryker Brigades that went
into Iraq; the Stryker vehicle is really the antipersonnel carrier with wheels.
Our systems use the C-17 for joint precision aerial delivery
of guided logistic pallets that go to the battlefield.
So now we can crop airborne supplies, we can drop blood supplies, we can drop MREs,
we can drop water within 50 meters of the war fighter on the ground.
Our GPS retransmission system is used by the Navy SEALs in many missions, including the team
that went in and captured Osama Bin Laden; they utilized our equipment in that mission.
Well I think NIST-MEP has brought opportunities to our company.
We were able to keep our talent and hire new talent
to continue the product innovation that our company does.
I think NIST-MEP has helped us become more efficient and helped us
with our processes internally so that we can not only manufacture more efficiently,
but we can develop products faster and more innovative.
Our niche is innovation; our niche is staying more innovative than our competitors as well
as having a niche where competitors just can't innovate in our space.
Today we have the smartest system in the world developed by an extremely high-tech,
high educated workforce and we're looking down the road as "what is that next technology?"
We're a veteran-owned company and we know what it's like to be in the military.
A lot of our employees are former veterans or continue to serve.
I continue to serve as a Battalion Commander in the Army National Guard so I'm a user
of the technology and I've seen the technology in use on the battlefield as well as in use
in training and that's one of the reasons that make us passionate about working with NIST-MEP
and being able to develop products that are going
to help the war fighter on the battlefield.
And our product certainly helps and enables the warrior in the battlefield
to have more situational awareness, have better location, have quicker location,
and be able to know where he's at, be able to make decisions faster,
and I'm sure that our product is saving lives.
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