>> My name is Chris Dour.
I am the Vice-President of Synexxus which is a small defense company in Arlington, Virginia,
and we're building what the military has coined a "digital backbone," and it's to help bring
in a number of different components on military ground vehicles.
So we're -- our product is called the Electronic Keel, keel like the backbone of a boat,
and it brings in all the different sensors, radios, cameras, weapon systems,
where you can easily view it in the front seat of a military vehicle.
Much like you might expect to see something in a cockpit of a plane
where the pilot can easily see all the different sensors in his cockpit,
we're trying to give a cockpit-like atmosphere into a ground vehicle,
and we work a lot of the big vehicle manufacturers, AM General, Oshkosh, Navistar,
companies that are building military vehicles,
and we're putting our product inside those vehicles.
I'm mostly filling a Chief of Operations role or COO role, and as the Vice-President
of a small company, everybody wears a lot of different hats,
so some days I'm doing HR-related work,
some days I'm doing business relationships with other companies.
We're working on contracts, we're working with the lawyers, or sometimes accounting work.
So, for example, this morning I was just signing an agreement between a new company
that we just -- we just had meetings with last week
and we're just filling out the paperwork today.