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Who we are

Veterans and operators who have sat on the government side of the table

We are a team, not a founder with a rolodex. The credentials belong to the business, and every one of them is public enough for you to check before you ever book a call.

Why we exist

The technology America needs is being built by companies that cannot get in the door

The best dual-use technology in this country is coming out of small companies, and most of them will never reach a program office. Not because the technology is wrong, but because federal buying runs on a process nobody handed them, on a calendar set years in advance, through instruments with legal limits they have never heard of.

We spent our careers on the other side of that process. We know which office owns the money, how the requirement got written, and what actually happens in the room where the decision is made. We do that job for companies now, so the technology gets to the people who need it.

Mission · Vision · Values
  • MissionPut breakthrough technology in the warfighter’s hands by giving the companies who build it an insider team to win the federal market.
  • VisionA nation defended by the best technology America can build.
  • ValuesWe represent the mission. We represent the client. We represent the standard.
  • Where we workNationwide, delivered remotely, based in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
The team

The people who will actually do the work

Not a sales team with a delivery team behind it. The person on your first call is on your account.

Portrait of J.R. Mullis

J.R. Mullis

Founder and CEO

Twenty-plus years of government acquisition experience, including service as a United States Air Force Contracting Officer. He has been the person on the other side of the table who evaluates, negotiates, and signs.

USAF Contracting OfficerPackard AwardMBA, UNC Kenan-Flagler
Portrait of Ike Holley

Ike Holley

Chief of Staff

Nineteen-plus years of active-duty Air Force service across innovation programs and federal partnerships. Ike leads team operations, strategy, and client delivery, and runs the Fellowship program.

19+ years USAFInnovation programsFederal partnerships
Portrait of Jenna Biter

Jenna Biter

Director of Operations

A master’s in national security and a published writer and editor whose work has appeared in Leatherneck, Coffee or Die, and The National Interest. Jenna runs operations and proposal quality.

MA, National SecurityProposal quality
Portrait of Jackson Senczyszyn

Jackson Senczyszyn

Account Executive

Jackson runs client relationships and day-to-day business development execution across the ellimaC portfolio: the outreach, the follow-ups, and the pipeline discipline that keeps a federal pursuit moving between milestones.

Business developmentPipeline execution
How we sound

The calm voice is the one you can check

We name the program, the amount, and the date. When we cannot be specific, we do not publish. We tell you the truth when it costs us, and we say we do not know when we do not. Every founder we work with arrived having been sold to loudly by someone else first.

Where we focus

Five sectors where our clients concentrate

We work where we can be genuinely useful, which means where we already know the offices, the programs, and the money.

F.01

AI and software

Autonomy software, decision support, data platforms, and the accreditation path that decides whether any of it can run on a government network.

Software and data
F.02

Space

Launch, on-orbit systems, sensing, and ground segment, including SpaceWERX pathways and the transition instruments that follow them.

Space systems
F.03

Autonomy and uncrewed systems

Drones, robotics, and the counter-systems that follow them, across air, ground, and maritime programs.

Uncrewed systems
F.04

Advanced manufacturing

Materials, additive manufacturing, and the industrial base programs built to shorten supply chains that currently run through the wrong countries.

Industrial base
F.05

Cybersecurity

Security products and services for federal environments, including the compliance ladder that gates them: CMMC, authority to operate, and the sequencing question of which one you actually need first.

Federal security
Growing our team

SkillBridge fellows

We participate in the DoW SkillBridge program, helping transitioning service members build experience in federal business development and operations. It is also the reason our bench keeps current government perspective in it.

Fellow

Don Eidson

SkillBridge Fellow

Fellow

Casey Santos

SkillBridge Fellow

Fellow

Tim Deberry

SkillBridge Fellow

See the Defense Fellowship program

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