Homegrown Symetrics, a total-solution provider, to grow the brand locally
Homegrown Symetrics, a total-solution provider, to grow the brand locally
Melbourne, Florida - 27 Nov 2006Symetrics Industries, one of Brevard County's oldest defense contractors, has agents around the world that market the company's products and expertise. Overseas, the Melbourne-based private business has been gaining visibility in the defense community for providing nose-to-tail electronic-warfare solutions.
The growing firm, which continues to expand its engineering-software capabilities, is also well represented at international trade shows. The Symetrics name is marketed in far-off places like Singapore, Jordan, Greece and the United Kingdom.
But when it comes to brand awareness in the local market there's a gap, says Chris Watt, the new vice president of business development for Symetrics Industries LLC.
p>"A lot of people in the area do not realize what we do and the capabilities we have as a company. My goal is to change that thinking and to really push Symetrics within the local technical community and the community in general," says Watt, a University of Florida ROTC graduate and former U.S. Navy pilot with 20 years of service.He adds, "We want companies like Boeing, Hams, Northrop Grumman and DRS, among others, to know that we are a total-solution provider. As a small business we can adapt to a customer's needs and be flexible. But we can also deliver like a big business, having that credibility, reliability and responsibility."
The 44-year-old company, with more than 140 employees, specializes in the design, manufacture and testing of electronic systems for the Department of Defense, NASA and prime contractors. "We are not set up to be a big commercial board house. That's not our mission. As a business we want to provide solutions to the customer."
Symetrics: Small Business Agility...Big Business Ability
Low-Key Management Style Proves to be Successful Strategy for CEO
Low-Key Management Style Proves to be Successful Strategy for CEO
Melbourne, Florida - 25 Nov 2006Mitch Garner, the president and CEO of Symetrics Industries doesn't feel as if he has spent half his life at the company, but he has.
Garner worked his way up to the big corner office at the top of the building from an entry-level manager's position he secured in 1986 at the tender age of 22. Fresh out of UCF and armed with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Garner first thought of his employment with the Melbourne-based company as a mere stepping stone on his way to a career in Chemistry.
Symetrics, established in 1962, manufactures aircrew protection systems for the Department of Defense, NASA, and other contractors.
Symetrics: Small Business Agility...Big Business Ability
Florida Today: Symetrics gets $67M
Florida Today: Symetrics gets $67M
Melbourne, Florida - 07 Nov 2006Symetrics Industries LLC, a Melbourne-based defense contractor, has won a $67 million contract with the Air Force to manufacture countermeasures dispenser systems.
Symetrics, a 44-year-old company that employs about 140 people also was awaarded a navy contract for $1.5 million for another of its products - memory loader verifier set.
Chris Watt, vice president for business development at Symetrics, said the contracts probably won't lead to any immediate new hires, but there's a possibility of an expanded work force in the future, if the contracts end up requiring a boost in manufacturing shifts.
Symetrics: Small Business Agility...Big Business Ability
Florida Today: Sky's the Limit for Contractor
Florida Today: Sky's the Limit for Contractor
Melbourne, Florida - 10 Sep 2006Portable, shoulder-fired rocket launchers are, unfortunately, weapons that are in numerous supply in today's world.
In the hands of terrorists, drug runners and other criminal types, the relatively inexpensive, lightweight rocket launchers greatly increase the vulnerability of all types of aircraft - from helicopters to large commercial jets.
Enter melbourne-based Symetrics Industries LLC, a 44-year-old company that quietly has been winning accolades - and contracts - for developing countermeasure systems that recognize incoming rocket threats, like shoulder-fired Stinger missiles, and then directs them safetly away from aircraft using hot flare decoys.
Symetrics: Small Business Agility...Big Business Ability
Symetrics supports US Department of State with Self-Protection Suite for the Huey II.
Melbourne, Florida - 07 Mar 2006Symetrics Industries announced today an award from US Helicopter, in Ozark, AL, for the self-protection suites on ten Huey II helicopters. Symetrics will be providing the AN/ALE-47(V) Countermeasures Dispensing Systems and the ATK AN/AAR-47(V)2 Missile Warning Systems for installation onto the aircraft, which will be supporting the US Department of State in various missions.
Symetrics will also be providing software, including the Mission Data File, support equipment, including the AN/ALM-295 Countermeasures Dispenser Test Set, and logistics training. The subcontract from US Helicopter is worth nearly $2.5 million, and is expected to be completed by April of this year.
“This order is significant in that it demonstrates our capability of providing a complete nose-to-tail Electronic Warfare solution,” said Mitch Garner, Symetrics’ President and CEO. “Through our company’s superior arrangements within the EW community, we can provide the customer with all the necessary elements of the self-protection suite, which includes hardware, but also software, support equipment, training, and integration support.”