
He spent 22 years in the Air Force, then co-founded a business built around getting intelligence where it needs to go. Scott Ritchie’s next chapter keeps bringing him back to Middle Georgia.
A sensor can see everything and still tell the wrong person nothing. Sigma Defense builds the software and networks that help military information reach the people who need it.

John Parris helped turn a small electronics venture into Smartronix, the business behind SMX. His next chapter at Parraid returns to an ambition that was there at the beginning: making products.
Somewear Labs builds satellite-powered hardware and a software-defined network that keep defense, government, and emergency-response teams connected when conventional networks fail. Its pocket-sized devices automatically route mission data across mesh radios and satellite links, integrate with tactical systems like ATAK, and serve users from helicopter paramedics and wildland firefighters to U.S. special operators.