Tether specification and design. Mr. Bentley has over thirty-five years of experience designing, fabricating and testing synthetic fiber reinforced cables for a wide variety of applications. In the seventies, he collaborated on the design of balloon tethers for Patrick AFB and Holloman AFB. In the eighties, he designed the electrodynamic satellite tether for the Tethered Satellite System that was flown from the space shuttle. In the nineties, he supported the design and manufacturer of tethers for NASA’s Small Expendable Deployer System (SEDS) and Propulsive SEDS programs. Early this century, he proposed the aerostat tether designs for several major military defense systems including Persistent Threat Detection System, Persistent Ground Surveillance System and Rapid Elevated Aerostat Platform. With this background, Mr. Bentley is available to your personnel in specifying tether function and design, installing a reliable mechanical termination at the end of any fiber strength member tether, finishing fiber optic terminations internal to tethers, and assessing other issues such as minimum bend tolerance for different tethers and level wind considerations. He has traveled as far as Abu Dhabi in the UAE to provide such services.