Brewster, August 19, 2026 – US Electrodynamics, Inc (USEI) has formalized its senior management team as part of a strategic leadership initiative designed to position the company for continued operational excellence and long-term growth.
As part of this transition, founder Jim Veeder will focus on strengthening strategic partnerships across the company’s technological initiatives while dedicating more time to advancing USEI’s research and development efforts in support of U.S. and allied space, defense, and critical infrastructure priorities.
“Largely this is the realization of a powerful leadership team that has developed organically within USEI and that is young with innovation improving product services beyond what I myself am capable of as a scientist leading a service-based company in a complex industry,” says CEO Jim Veeder.
The newly formalized leadership team includes:
- Dr. Paul Kaminski, Chairman of the Advisory Board
- Professor William (Bill) Saylor, Advisory Board Member, Space Science & Engineering
- Ben Pigsley, President & CEO
- Darryl White, General Manager & COO
- Jeff LaMastus, Senior Vice President, Business Development
- Eddy Martinez, Vice President, Projects
- Steve Cox, Vice President, Operations Engineering
- Tom Cox, Vice President, Field Engineering
- Brent Reed, Vice President, Operations
- Julie Tupling, Vice President, Networks and IT Systems
- David Grooms, Vice President of Customer Partnerships
Together, these executives are already the heart of USEI’s operations/service evolution, bringing excellence to technology paced levels of higher resilience and robustness while achieving partner style competitive pricing. Building the best customer relationships and strategic partnerships is the future.
Jim Veeder’s words, “I have complete faith and confidence in the strategic leadership of Ben, Darryl, and Jeff. Similarly, matching that leadership is the ability to solve any problem and to do anything within all space and ground communications technology. Their leadership experience and technical skill sets, integrity, and longstanding reputations within the industry have earned my trust and the trust of our customers, partners, and vendors alike. While Professor William Saylor and I will be leading USEI’s research and development initiatives, our commitment to our customers and industry relationships remains as strong as we have always promised it. We want to stay accessible and encourage our customers and collegues, all valued friends in our industry, to keep with me/us in dialogue as they are the people who have driven the success of USEI over the years and are important for our continued success”.
Veeder added, “I am excited about the future of USEI under their direction. Just as importantly, this transition allows USEI to develop projects more rapidly, presently ones related to distributed ledger, blockchain, quantum key distribution, advanced PNT technologies and more that support the interests of our Nation’s and allied interests and contribute to critical defense-related initiatives. In fact, my founding plan in 1985 was that USEI would be a leading scientific research asset of several of the most important US and allied defense initiatives, and like that I must also mention that USEI’s 43 year friendship and close association with chairman Dr. Paul G Kaminski, who actually encouraged my founding of USEI, will keep USEI’s focus on protecting America, its allies and all the free world!”
This leadership announcement reflects USEI’s continued commitment to operational excellence, innovation, and strengthening its position within the satellite space and ground station industry while expanding its long-term strategic capabilities.
About U.S. Electrodynamics, Inc. (extended)
Founded in 1985 by Jim Veeder for advancing low observable stealth technology and weapons system survivability, USEI is now a leading provider of satellite communication services and technologies supporting the most advanced resilient/robust solutions.
With more than four decades of expertise in the field, USEI specializes in delivering high-performance satellite and ground network communications systems across all orbital regimes, including cislunar, for government, military, and commercial customers. USEI has long been a leader in government-backed research and development initiatives and continues to drive advancements with a focused emphasis on security, resilience, anti-jamming technology, maximizing data bandwidth performance, and positioning, navigation, and timing technologies.
The transfer of the Brewster Satellite Earth Station to USEI in 1987 grew out of a powerful Department of Defense initiative to ensure the United States maintained dominant communications superiority across the Pacific, supporting commercial, national defense, and covert missions. This strategic purpose was emphasized to USEI by Dr. Joseph Charyk, founder of the NRO and widely regarded as the father of global geosynchronous satellite communications networks. Dr. Charyk planned, organized, and built the original global INTELSAT system, primarily to provide the critical global communications services needed to support free world defense communications.
Brewster was the first station location selected by Dr. Charyk after more than a year of exhaustive site evaluation. The site was chosen for its very low to insignificant seismic risk, its semi-desert arid environment, and its ability to provide full Pacific and partial Atlantic coverage. Construction and service planning were led by Major General George Sampson, Deputy Director of the Defense Communications Agency, and the station was later built and commanded by U.S. Army Colonel Wally Lauterbach and his team from 1964 to 1975. Wally later played a critical role in helping Jim assimilate into his new responsibilities and in deepening his understanding of the space communications environment, particularly as it served the free world’s needs for both defense and commerce