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>> My name is Chris Dour.

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I am the Vice-President of Synexxus which is a
small defense company in Arlington, Virginia,

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and we're building what the military has coined
a "digital backbone," and it's to help bring

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in a number of different components
on military ground vehicles.

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So we're -- our product is called the Electronic
Keel, keel like the backbone of a boat,

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and it brings in all the different
sensors, radios, cameras, weapon systems,

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where you can easily view it in the
front seat of a military vehicle.

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Much like you might expect to see
something in a cockpit of a plane

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where the pilot can easily see all
the different sensors in his cockpit,

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we're trying to give a cockpit-like
atmosphere into a ground vehicle,

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and we work a lot of the big vehicle
manufacturers, AM General, Oshkosh, Navistar,

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companies that are building military vehicles,

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and we're putting our product
inside those vehicles.

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I'm mostly filling a Chief of Operations
role or COO role, and as the Vice-President

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of a small company, everybody
wears a lot of different hats,

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so some days I'm doing HR-related work,

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some days I'm doing business
relationships with other companies.

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We're working on contracts, we're working with
the lawyers, or sometimes accounting work.

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So, for example, this morning I was just
signing an agreement between a new company

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that we just -- we just had
meetings with last week

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and we're just filling out the paperwork today.