Our solutions and systems are primarily focused on DoD and partner-nation requirements – solving the most difficult problem sets. Our founding Team has extensive recent military experience in both Iraq and Afghanistan developing technological and innovative solutions for the warfighter.
Our Team has first-hand experience with the frustrations of navigating systems to rapidly get the right technological solutions in the hands of the warfighter. Adversaries are often able to counter our technologies before we can counter their efforts. Having an adversary inside your technology development cycle is clearly not a good place to be.
Innovative Algorithms was founded on the premise of staying ahead of any potential adversary. We are driven to serve those who continue to serve in harm’s way. We are motivated in part by passion to create something new and in part by our shared experiences with bureaucracies stifling innovation. Our Team believes we can continue to serve and thrive – by creating a new and different kind of company: one that can move fast, take risks, and iterate innovation to deliver superior products to the warfighter.
Technology is not enough
For a technology to become an innovation it must encompass many complex aspects of military and human culture. DOTMLPF in the JCIDS process is good, but only the beginning. Innovative Algorithms develops innovation based on our years of experience in the field. Having witnessed firsthand the frustration of troops using technology that was not functional, well-understood, or supported – or worse – that caused more problems than it solved, Innovative Algorithms is premised on the concept of developing innovations that SIMPLY WORK for the warfighter.
It was once remarked to the founder, while deployed to Afghanistan, by a solder: “Sir, the Unattended Ground Sensors seem to need a lot of attending.” It was true: short battery life, high False Alarm Rate, inadequate communication systems, and poorly-designed ergonomics are just a few of the shortfalls that required the sensors to need “a lot of attending”. The Commanding General of RC-South voiced his frustration as well: “Please don’t send us any more systems that can’t be supported.” Many UGS were thrown away, or as one soldier remarked, “Sir, we call these E-UGS” – for expendable UGS.
Innovative Algorithms not only understands the concerns and frustrations of the warfighter, but has lived them. Our system design strives to go beyond requirements to simplify and satisfy warfighter technology in the field. We will propose no solution that cannot be fully supported from a training, logistics, and systems-integration perspective – we will enable – not burden – the warfighter. Our systems are designed, manufactured, and field-tested by us – as if we were going into harm’s way with the system ourselves.
