Scientia LLC was founded in September 2010 by Doug McDaniel, Lucas Johnson, and Mark Koi. These three entrepreneurs have over 80 years combined experience in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting myriad systems for the U.S. Government and commercial customers. Following very successful careers as civil servants, they have been in private industry over 15 years and have performed various tasks and provided high-tech products for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DoE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) among others. Systems supported include the U.S. Marine Corps’ Ground-Based Operational Surveillance System (G-BOSS), Army’s G-BOSS(E), Air Force’s G-BOSS(AF), Navy’s Shipboard Protection System (SPS) and Integrated Radar Optical Sighting Surveillance System (IROS3), U.S. Army’s Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment (RAID), and Military Sealift Command’s Shipboard Security Module (SSM).
Our expertise, knowledge and experience enable us to supply our customers with cutting-edge technical solutions that are truly unsurpassed and unparalleled.
Has over 34 years’ experience in federal government acquisition and contracting statutes, regulations and processes. His expertise includes Federal Acquisition Regulations, GAO Bid Protests, start-up business requirements and leading federal small business concerns.
Has over 34 years’ experience providing engineering and software development services to the U.S. DoE and DoD. His expertise includes military sensor integration, rapid development/prototyping, and has worked with products from L3/WESCAM, and Northrop Grumman supporting Manned and Unmanned Air Systems. Mr. Koi is a co-patent holder (U.S. 6,903,676 and 7,049,998).
A 2002 graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and specializes in software development. Mr. Johnson has written numerous drivers to integrate sophisticated sensors and other equipment into several tactical systems. He also designed and is the principal developer for our VMS, which is used on the Marine Corps’ G-BOSS as well as several Navy maritime systems.