-: My name is Kathy Tarr.
I was Kathy Moral when I was at Pomona
and I'm the president of AeroComputers.
Wherever you live in The United States,
you are protected by one of our pieces of equipment
so what it does is allows an observer,
it's called the tactical flight officer
in a helicopter or fixed wing to be looking at a map
to locate the position of the aircraft
and also they typically have a camera onboard
which is housed in a gimbal
to give it a geolocation in space
and then that allows a video to come in on the screen
that's being observed so you can see
where a car is for example or an incident
or a fire or a flood or a mob
and then the video can be taped and examined later.
The footage that you saw if you did on the TV
after the Boston Marathon, that was from our equipment.
So wherever you are in The United States,
there is undoubtedly an aircraft lying overhead
protecting your safety.
Well, I joined the company.
I became the president four and a half years ago
because my brother-in-law, my sister's husband
invented the entire field 25 years ago
and he drove to the corner of each of the maps,
pages of the maps and geo located it
and then stitched together
the whole county of Los Angeles and Ventura
and was able to put a GPS unit
in a computer onboard the ship
and the industry was born.
I'm kind of completing trajectories that I established
when I first took over four and a half years ago.
Unfortunately, my brother-in-law was becoming ill
and he did pass away so I took his vision
and the things I needed to do first
were to get the morale of the company.
We have 25 employees up.
Many were leaving, it was a stressful time.
And then my second objective was to reestablish
our relationships with our clients.
They'd been somewhat neglected
so I visiting, phone calls, everything.
And then my final act was to get our industry partners
on good footing with us.
So the gimbal manufacturers, they search lights,
the radios, radars, et cetera, integrators,
and so that's what I've been doing
so I generally act as sort of a cheerleader,
a buyer and chief salesperson.
I do a lot of traveling.
I've been to South America several times
and also to Europe many times,
Canada, so those are some of the places
where we have our equipment.