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Brian came up on the government's side of the table. He spent three years as an Air Force acquisition and program management officer, then a year as deputy CIO of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Air Vehicles Directorate, before moving to industry. As president of TACG he grew a federal consulting firm from twelve people to nearly four hundred over eight years. He is also an instrument-rated private pilot, which is the part that explains FlytWERX.
At Vista TechWERX he owns product and leads capture. He built and shipped FlytWERX on iOS, which turns live-flight and simulator telemetry into a maneuver debrief in about ten seconds, across more than twenty training maneuvers. He secured the firm's NASA STTR, a thirteen-month collaboration with Louisiana Tech University on AI for space collision risk, and serves as commercialization lead on it.
Operations and client delivery are the through line. Jon held full P&L on a $130M federal services portfolio at TACG, five Air Force programs and an FDA cybersecurity account, with a hundred-person delivery organization behind it. Fourteen years at KPMG Consulting, later BearingPoint, and at Deloitte came before that. He started in 1992 as a human factors engineer on Air Force programs, studying how distributed teams collaborate on design work. The same question turns up in most engagements since.
At Vista TechWERX he runs the operating side. That means delivery and proposal management, plus the controls a small firm needs before a federal customer will trust it with anything. He built the proposal process from nothing and ran eight federal R&D submissions through it. He led product development for BidWERX, and is project manager on the NASA STTR.
Federal funding should go to the best work, not the best-resourced team. Vista TechWERX was organized in 2024, though the working relationship behind it is older than that. Jon and Brian worked together for most of a decade at TACG, Brian as president and Jon as a delivery director, and again at VS Merlot before starting this firm.
The work splits three ways. We build software, which is where BidWERX and FlytWERX came from. We perform federally funded research, currently a NASA STTR with Louisiana Tech. And we advise organizations pursuing federal funding without a proposal team of their own.
We've worked across government, aviation, research, higher education, construction, nonprofit, and professional-services environments. That range is what lets us tell quickly whether a problem is actually unusual.
