Dynetics

Dynetics

Type	Employee Owned
Industry	Defense, Aerospace, Automotive, Cybersecurity, Information Technology
Founded	1974
Headquarters	1002 Explorer Blvd. Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Key people	Marc J. Bendickson, Ph.D (Chairman of the Board) David A. King (CEO) Greg Lester (President) Thomas A. Baumbach (CTO)
Revenue	$293M (2015)
Number of employees	1500
Website	www.dynetics.com

Dynetics is an American private (employee-owned), applied science, and information technology company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. Its primary customers are the United States Department of Defense, the United States Intelligence Community, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Herschel Matheny and Dr. Steve Gilbert founded Dynetics in 1974. During the 1980s, Dynetics expanded to include electro-optic and infrared sensors, missile systems analysis and design, software development, modeling and simulation, and foreign material exploitation of radars, missiles, and missile seekers.

In the 1990s, Dynetics continued to grow its core business, and expanded into the automotive supply industry as a provider of electrical test systems. Since 2000, Dynetics has been selling information technology (IT) and cybersecurity services, including winning a contract to provide IT services to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The company entered the space business with the development of the FASTSAT (Fast Affordable Science and Technology Satellite) micro-satellite and the purchase of Orion Propulsion. Its space business continued to grow with the SLS (Space Launch System) contract with NASA.

Dynetics divides its services and products into the following categories: Intelligence, Missiles, Aviation, Cyber, Automotive, and Space. The company opened a new building in 2012 called “The Solutions Complex” that is 226,500 square feet of research and development facilities located in Cummings Research Park in Huntsville, Alabama. Dynetics operates remote operations additionally in Michigan, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Texas.

Dynetics served as systems integrator for the development of the world's largest precision-guided air-dropped system, the 22,600 pounds (10,300 kg) MOAB bomb.

In May 2014, Dynetics announced that they will build up to 18 satellites to orbit Earth, in order to gather more data about the planet for the government and businesses. The company will be partnering with OmniEarth LLC, Harris Corp. and Draper Laboratories for the project. Dynetics also partnered with rocket propulsion company Aerojet Rocketdyne to help design upgrades to NASA's Space Launch System.