Dan Havens

IPKeys Technologies LLC provides information and communication systems and solutions. The firm offers technology integration, consulting, and software to the federal, commercial, Department of Defense, and energy sectors. Its services include cyber security, engineering, network operations and support, program management, training, equipping, and fielding; and technology consulting. The company was founded by Lanfen C. Nawy in March 2005 and is headquartered in Stafford, VA.

Tropos Networks, Inc. is providing the most reliable and flexible wireless communications networks for utilities to build and control the smart grid. The company has customers around the world in different countries. Tropos was founded in 2000 and got its start selling its standards-based, secure wireless networks to cities as a foundation for multiple municipal services including public safety, intelligent transportation systems, mobile worker automation, and utilities (water, power, gas). Over the past few years, with the emergence of the smart grid, Tropos discovered the value its solutions could bring towards the development of this mission-critical infrastructure with its field-proven products and services. Tropos' GridCom network architecture for smart grids blends high performance network technologies with unified network management providing utilities with the most economical and completes communications for deploying a wide range of mission-critical applications.