A radar, a repair crew, a mountain of incompatible data. FTI Defense has built a business around the awkward space between owning military equipment and knowing whether it will work.

In Liberia, the virus moved faster than the planning process. The former Army officer built Onebrief around a stubborn question: how much better could military decisions become if the software finally kept up?
A West Point officer watched treatment units get built where the virus had already left. He sketched the fix on a napkin. Six years later it is worth $2.15 billion.