Anthony J. Tether

Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. develops and manufactures unmanned systems and aerospace vehicles. Its programs include lightning strike, Orion, Centaur, eVTOL, sidearm, autonomous aerial cargo utility system, D8, robotic copilot, solar aircraft, and spheres. The company was founded by John S. Langford and Donald C. Fraser in 1989 and is headquartered in Manassas, VA.

Qteros, Inc. develops cellulosic ethanol transportation fuel. The firm utilizes a Q Microbe that converts all fermentable components of biomass to ethanol. The company was founded by Stephan Rogers, Jeffrey Hausthor, Susan Leschine, Jonathan Gorham, John Fabel and Jeffrey C. Sharp in 2006 and is headquartered in Amherst, MA.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MaxID Corp is engaged in the provision of identity and security solutions. It designs, manufactures and sells identity management solutions for a mobile environment. The company is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, and has offices in Chesapeake, Virginia, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

SigmaSpace Corp. provides optoelectronic aerospace instruments. It offers Single Photon LiDAR and Micro Pulse LiDAR. The firm provides atmospheric sensors, space instruments, multi channels scalers, instrument development and engineering services. The firm produces next-generation LiDAR, laser ranging, attitude determination, spectroscopy, and radiometry instrumentation for remote sensing. The company was founded in 1998 by J Marcos Sirota and is headquartered in Lanham, MD.

NextWave Ventures LP (NextWave Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by John M Slosar and Jeff Slosar. The firm headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

Tessera Technologies, Inc. develops and licenses innovative semiconductor, interconnect and imaging technologies. The company offers mobile computing and communications, memory and data storage and 3-D Integrated Circuit technologies. Tessera Technologies was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies provides policy research and development services. The firm identifies and shepherds discussion on key science, technology, and national security issues facing the society, providing in particular, an academic forum for the study of related policy issues. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.