I have been lucky to get the opportunity to run a small business in a highly technical field. Fortunately, I had the technical training and the temperament to lead a handful of very talented engineers in a variety of projects. A lot of our work at SySense, Inc. involved SBIR and STTR grants as well as direct contracts and subcontracts to provide research and development work in support of a large aerospace programs. We have assisted in the development of adaptive feedback control methods to maintain control of hypersonic vehicles as well as optimally planning its trajectory, of methods for autonomous aerial refueling, and of fault detection, identification and isolation techniques. We even had developed a smartphone application to make use of all the sensors on a smartphone to calculate the location of distant objects.From our efforts on these high-end aerospace applications, we developed our proprietary RTK GPS solver that allows the use of extremely low-cost components. It is designed to be RTK GPS for the rest of us. Encapuslated in our Phase Ruler product concept, we still hope to find a partner to bring it to market.Given that we were a small firm, I was not only a technical lead but also volunteered to take on thea adminsitrative task to running a small business, with federal government work. I have admit, I didn't necessarily hate learning some the nuance of FAR/DFARS. All jokes aside, there is a rational logic to those regulations. It's just not an "easy read."