Company Profile
Dynetics
Company Overview
At Dynetics, our history of technical excellence is built on a foundation of innovation and integrity. Our mission is to deliver superior-quality, high-technology products and services ethically, responsively, and cost-effectively—a mission we take seriously. All Dynetics employees make a commitment to continuing this legacy, united by the drive to provide cutting-edge capabilities for our customers.
We also value our collaborative culture. More than employees, our people are owners of Dynetics, a 100% employee-owned business. They are the reason Dynetics can commit to technical excellence, integrity, and customer satisfaction.
More than just a company, we are a partner. We seek to strengthen and enrich the communities in which we live.
At Dynetics, we enjoy our work. We enjoy each other. We enjoy doing more for our customers. That is the Dynetics difference.
Company History
During Dynetics’ first 6 years, we experienced success as a small company—with only 25 employees in 1977. Our employee count may have been small, but our employee presence was large. For example, in 1975, we won a sole-source contract with MIA, now known as the Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC): the start of a successful business partnership that is still ongoing. In 1976, Dynetics won our first competitive contract that focused on signal processing. During this same year, we were featured on the cover of Aviation Week Magazine for solving the mystery of why Soviets used their waveform of choice. This publication was considered the “Bible” of avionic solutions, and our presence on the cover solidified Dynetics’ entrance into the world of defense. But Dynetics not only entered the world of defense, we were here to stay.
As the decade drew to a close, Dynetics began to enter into the world of tactical solutions, rather than strategic systems alone, in pursuit of work with MICOM. However, in 1979, simulation was still in its infancy, leaving customers (and contractors) skeptical. However, Dynetics managed to not only be successful in modeling and simulation, but we took it to another level of expertise and made it into an art in spite of the harsh climate surrounding it. Our employees’ commitment to build a solid company based on the perceived needs of our country and employee interests still remains today and is evident in our state-of-the art modeling and simulation.
Our growth did not stop there. During this decade, we invested further in our campus infrastructure and built our Solutions Complex, which houses offices and a significant amount of square footage attributed to high bays. The building is designed to be completely reconfigurable, allowing us the flexibility to adapt to new and changing customers and needs.
Dynetics made a particularly noteworthy leap into a new sector in this decade: advanced materials. We hired a small group of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory that specializes in novel methods for additive manufacturing of nanomaterials and structures. What was originally driven by the desire to expand into the sector of composites has now become a growing team of people pushing the boundaries of science.
In many of our existing technical areas, we built onto the work performed during previous decades and made significant advancements. One example of this is our Small Guide Munition (SGM) that we designed, developed, built, and operationally tested, building off of the grid fin design that we implemented in the MOAB and MOP during the previous decade. The SGM was Dynetics’ response to an industry briefing by a precision-strike organization, a conceptual design of a modular guide munition with interchangeable payloads. We invested in this design on our own, and then built and tested it on an R&D agreement with the Air Force. Today, we still have a limited-rate production of this cutting-edge product.
Another example of expanding sectors is space. The previous decades positioned us perfectly to take off, and we took every advantage of that. We are now set to build a Dynetics Aerospace Structures Complex in Decatur, Alabama. We won NASA’s Space Launch System Upper Stage Adapter contract, and are excited to expand this Decatur Aerospace Structures Complex to include another facility to support this contract. This location will enable us to build and transport further large space scale apparatus.