Active Computing's principal is Dr. Doug Dyer, former DARPA program manager and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel.  Active Computing's business manager and accountant is Susan Dyer, a summa cum laude graduate of  the State University of New York's Institute of Technology who passed the CPA Exam on first sitting.

Doug Dyer's short resume.

In addition, here is a short list of people we love to work with because they're really good:

  • Many former colleagues at DARPA, OSD, the Air Force, and SOCOM
  • Joe Eash and the PCMT team at National Defense University
  • Brian Sharkey and Jim Miller and their teams, Hicks and Associates
  • John Poindexter, independent consultant
  • Warren Knouff, independent domain expert for special operations including the Air Force
  • Fred Bobbitt, independent domain expert for special operations, intelligence, and the USMC
  • Kelly Snapp, independent domain expert for special operations and the Army's special forces
  • Terry Sullivan, independent domain expert for special operations and the Navy's SEALs
  • Alice Mulvehill, BBN
  • Manuela Veloso and Steve Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Paul Cohen, Craig Knoblock, Jim Blythe, and Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute
  • Steve Minton, Fetch Technologies
  • Steve Cross, Director of Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Scott Fouse, CEO of ISX
  • Many folks at SET Associates
  • Ken Sharpe, SAIC
  • Austin Tate, University of Edinburgh
  • The US Army Rapid Equipping Force
  • Bob Kocher, Ideal Innovations
  • Gene Santos, Dartmouth
  • Alex Kilpatrick, Independent Contractor and computing Jedi master
  • Richard Hipp and Mark Smith, Blueteam Software Jedi masters (and taskmaster Richard Blanchard)
  • Drew Bennett, iRobot
  • Arnie Mangolds, Draper Labs (robotics; formerly at Foster-Miller)
  • Mark Maybury, Mitre
  • Art Fritzson and team, Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Tom Garvey, Karen Myers, David Wilkins, Charlie Ortiz, Regis Vincent, and Roger Mailler at SRI International
  • Jack Thorpe, Independent Contractor and guy voted most likely to simultaneously have insight and be fun
  • Jim Hendler, University of Maryland
  • Nort Fowler, now retired but formerly Chief Scientist, Air Force Research Lab/IF
  • John Lemmer and many others at Air Force Research Lab/IF
  • Teresa Lunt, PARC
  • And many, many more...