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Company History
1984
Founding
Monterey Technologies, Inc. was formed in 1984 by Dr. Robert Hennessy, Dr. Mike McCauley, and Dr. Kirk Conway with the goal of providing better human factors consulting services to the federal government and defense industry. The founding partners concluded that wherever the new company was founded, the work would always be someplace else, so they picked a place everybody liked – the Monterey Peninsula, and thus Monterey Technologies, Inc. was formed.
1990
Commercial usability testing
Dr. Kirk Conway left the company after a year. In 1990, Dr. Barry Beith joined as a partner, focusing on usability testing for consumer electronics products. MTI’s largest commercial customer was Thompson Consumer Electronics, owner of the RCA brand. In 1999, Dr. Beith spun off the commerical work as Humancentric Technologies, LLC. MTI continued to focus on government contracting with NASA Ames, the US Army, and the US Navy. MTI was a critical part of the NASA/Army team developing the Commanche helicopter for the Army.
In the early 1990s, MTI developed two products: a software tool called ADIVA and a driving simulator. ADIVA addressed the needs of the military aviation test community by assimilating and synchronizing up to 24 streams of digital, analog, and video data, allowing much more efficient playback and analysis of test data.
The driving simulator used an actual Saturn sedan mounted in a semi trailer. It featured an 180-degree front field of view along with a 60-degree view through the rearview mirror. The Commonwealth of Australia acquired two of these mobile driving simulators and used them to conduct new driver training with a goal of reducing the new driver accident rate. Several of these driving simulators were sold to research universities in the United States and Canada.
1994
Merger with C31
In 1994, MTI was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract to conduct human factors analysis for the Navy’s E-2C Hawkeye aircraft. This was followed by a Phase 2 SBIR in 1995. C3I, Inc. and its principal, Mr. Robert Chamberlain, were hired to provide subject matter expertise on Hawkeye mission operations. C3I, Inc. served as a subcontractor to MTI for two years until it was merged with MTI in early 1998. The most significant contract that C3I, Inc. brought to MTI was with the Ball Solutions Group in Australia, and in 1999 MTI began the first work for the Commonwealth of Australia on the E-7A Wedgetail aircraft.
2007
ViPER Mission Management
In early 2001, Dr. McCauley left MTI to form a new venture, leaving two partners, Dr. Hennessy and Mr. Chamberlain. Dr. Hennessy retired from the company in 2012, leaving Mr. Chamberlain as the sole owner of the company.
In 2007, Mr. Chamberlain approached the Naval Air Systems Command, PMA-281 Strike Planning & Execution Systems with a concept to automate the complex, manual, multi-aircraft strike planning process. Through a series of SBIR and Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) contracts, MTI developed and fielded Visualization, Planning, Execution & Review (ViPER) on US aircraft carriers, on US Navy and Australian Navy submarines, as well as with the US Navy F/A-18 fighter community and the RAAF F/A-18 squadrons. MTI continues to provide mission management systems development to both the US Navy and the US Air Force for multi-aircraft mission planning as well as smart weapons planning systems.
2014
Move to Park City
In 2014, MTI completed a move from the beaches of Monterey, CA to the slopes of Park City, UT. Doug Cherry, Brig. Gen, USA, Retired, was appointed as the CEO of Monterey Technologies, Inc. in January 2021 and is currently responsible for all day-to-day operations of the company. MTI maintains a diverse customer base that encompasses the US Navy, US Army, US Air Force, the US Space Force, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Federal Railroad Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NASA, and multiple prime contractors.