Ben Adams has 25+ years of experience in Enterprise Application Design & Development and is a serial entrepreneur/inventor holding multiple software engineering patents. He has a proven track record of rapidly designing, developing and deploying first generation products (and building teams) from abstract concept to stable production release in support of mission critical capabilities for the IC and DoD communities.

Ben’s Air Force background includes DLI (Arabic), AFSOC/SOCOM (Intel), 76th Space Operations Squadron and he was a founding member of the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron. Following his military career he studied at the University of Colorado in Computer Engineering, founded Lumin LLC (solar/wifi/sensor technology), and was deployed twice to Iraq as a technical advisor where he designed and developed the first automated IED analysis and intel reporting tool.

In addition to his military background Ben has held engineering positions at both large commercial companies and small tech startups to include Avaya and DigitalGlobe before becoming the VP of Engineering for Ntrepid where he helped design and develop cutting edge solutions for the national security community.

Currently Ben is a technical advisor through SAIC to the US Space Force’s Kobayashi Maru Space C2 program and he is the Chief Architect for the Starfleet effort.