The science to build it. The experience to deliver it.

John Plumer founded the company in 2010 after a 48-year career as an Army scientist and Pollution Prevention Program Manager. The institutional fluency that runs through the company — across DoD, USACE, and the federal environmental agencies — is built on relationships and contracting experience that span the entire modern history of the federal environmental and analytical research enterprise.

His past performance as principal includes direct prime contracts with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and USACE-ERDC's Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, both executed end-to-end as a veteran-owned small business prime, with subsequent transition into the active Army ERDC joint program under RDT&E 0602146A.

Beyond contract execution, his work includes university teaching and research, SCORE business advisory service, and federal program management — the kind of credentials that take a career to assemble and that federal contracting officers know how to evaluate.

David Tardif is the company's commercial bridge — the leader responsible for federal market development, capture strategy, and moving analytical capability into the hands of the agencies, primes, and commercial partners that need it.

His background combines a B.S. in Biology with more than a decade in enterprise technology sales leadership, including roles through North American sales director. He is also a co-founder of a commercial analytical firm using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for cultural heritage authentication — direct, hands-on commercial deployment of the same family of technology that anchors the company's federal work.

A U.S. Army infantry combat veteran, his relationships across defense, government, technology, and commercial sectors are the result of shared service and sustained presence — not introductions.