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San Diego Union-Tribune Names Fuse a 2021 Top Workplace

Post author By Rebecca Unetic
Post date 8 December 2021
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Fuse Integration has been named a 2021 San Diego Union-Tribune Top Workplace. The award recognizes Fuse as one of the year’s best small companies to work for in San Diego County.

“When founding Fuse, we wanted to build a creative place that applied the best ideas from the commercial world to solve warfighter issues. And we wanted to build a team that took a different approach designing and engineering solutions,” said Sumner Lee, Fuse CEO. “We’re thrilled to be recognized for the awesome workplace that Fuse has become.”

Based solely on employee feedback, Top Workplaces recognize employers that score high enough across a range of attributes important to the workforce:

Alignment – where the company is headed, its values, cooperation, effective meetings
Coaching – managers care about concerns, are helpful, encourage employee development
Connection – employees feel appreciated, work is meaningful, working at full potential, feel informed
Engagement – productivity, retention, recruiting
Leadership – confidence in company leaders
Performance – execution, open-mindedness, innovation, clued-in leadership
The Basics – pay, benefits, work/life flexibility, training, expectations

To learn more about the Fuse culture and explore current job openings, visit the Careers page: https://www.fuseintegration.com/careers/

About Fuse Integration

A leading supplier of innovative communications, networking and computing solutions for U.S. defense agencies, Fuse Integration ensures secure and reliable communications at the tactical edge. Engineered from a warfighter-focused design process, the Fuse virtualized network systems, modular tactical edge virtual network and gateway products deliver resilient connections that improve mission success across airborne, maritime and ground environments. Fuse is a rapidly growing, service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in San Diego. Visit www.fuseintegration.com for more information.

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Fuse Aligns Three Director-Level Roles to Advance Communications and Networking Product Solutions for Defense Customers

Post author By Rebecca Unetic
Post date 1 December 2021
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Fuse Integration, a leading supplier of innovative communications, networking and computing solutions for aerospace and defense organizations, today announced a new alignment of three director-level roles, all reporting to Fuse CEO, Sumner Lee. The technology, engineering and program leadership moves support the company’s shift toward a product-based approach to serving customers.

Promotions include:

Dell Kronewitter is now director of technology, responsible for creating the company’s strategic technical direction and new programs as well as providing engineering subject matter expertise for software, network and hardware solutions. He joined Fuse in 2013 and has served as the director of engineering for the past five years. Prior to Fuse, Kronewitter held software manager and lead engineer positions at San Diego Research Company, Argon ST and Boeing. He holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics.
Allen McAfee is promoted to director of product engineering, responsible for engineering development of the Fuse product lines. McAfee joined Fuse in 2019 as a project manager before being promoted to a program manager in 2020. He previously held engineering and project leadership roles in industry and served in the U.S. Navy. McAfee earned a B.S. in Business Management and an MBA.
Dennis Wojcik is director of programs, leading the program management office and managing the CORE solution program. Before joining Fuse as director of operations in 2017, Wojcik held program leadership roles at Northrop Grumman and served in the U.S. Navy.

“With their expertise and passion for our client-first mission, Dell, Allen and Dennis have been vital to our success in developing and delivering cutting-edge products for defense communications,” said Lee. “Their leadership, guidance and attitude will continue to be instrumental to our growth.”

Collectively, the three leaders have more than 85 years of experience. They will provide essential oversight and expertise to advance the company’s vision of providing the world’s best and innovative communications and networking systems in service of the warfighter.

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Sea Air Space 2021

Mr. Geurts came by the Fuse display at #SAS2021. It was great discussion on #JADC2 and warfighter focused tactical networks. We are excited to be a part of the team of innovators changing the way we fight future wars.

Naval Aviation remains at the tip of the spear, and our team is working tirelessly to advance the capabilities of our tactical, C2, and ISR aircraft as they operate at the tactical edge. VADM Dean Peters, we are hard at work to keep your pilots, aircrew, and platforms safe, and functioning like a well-oiled machine into the future. Integrated networks are critical to maintaining our advantage in the air and on the sea. The Fuse warfighter-focused approach to design, engineering, and rapid prototyping will keep driving innovation into the fleet!

We were excited to have an “11-star day” at the conference and proud that our team is getting the attention of senior leadership and forward thinking technologists across the Navy. We look forward to working with you, bringing together NAVWAR and Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to deliver advanced capabilities to sailors and aviators deployed around the world.

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Design Thinking Blitz with Warfighters

Post author By Rebecca Unetic
Post date 15 April 2021
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Fuse is investing in our nation’s sailors and the Maritime Domain by working directly with active-duty U.S. Navy experts in the development of advanced technologies. Warfighter workshops build a working relationship between users (warfighters), experts, and stakeholders and the Fuse engineering and design team. This close partnership and collaboration enables Fuse engineers to design and develop products and capabilities applicable to our Navy’s requirements for mission success. Throughout the past month Fuse engaged a host of end users of our Tactical Technologies Toolset (T3) product to improve functionality and add features and capabilities requested by the user.

The T3 team conducted workshops with system experts, product owners, and uniformed warfighters to immediately prototype the requested modifications to the Graphic User Interface and add enhanced capability to the system. Fuse overcame COVID induced hurdles and conduct these workshops over Microsoft Teams, using innovative digital whiteboard and workflow products to bridge the digital divide. The only way to accelerate deployment of game-changing capabilities to the fleet is to work closely with the warfighter, and that is where our team is focused.

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Rapid Prototyping Proves Networking Capabilities

Post author By Rebecca Unetic
Post date 13 April 2021
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The Fuse Test Squadron took to the skies over San Diego yet again in the past couple of weeks to demonstrate advanced airborne networking capabilities using off-the-shelf radio and link equipment. Fuse has been able to achieve exceptional success with complex networks of networks, operating in constrained airborne environments, using the CORE family of systems. Fuse software running in CORE has closed the gap for network connectivity over dissimilar links. A constant drumbeat of flight testing has allowed our team to connect with the user and constantly experiment with new approaches to configuration and connectivity. The amazing feat of interconnecting dissimilar aircraft with dissimilar links has been achieved using CORE in this environment of constant test throughout development.

Test and demonstration will sometimes fail, but the critical step forward is to learn at every chance you get and continue forward without making the same mistake twice. This approach of build, test, break, rebuild and test again has brought us to a point where our systems are working consistently, and our capabilities are proven! It is exciting to see this approach to rapid prototyping helping to drive the fleet forward!

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Additive Manufacturing Accelerates Prototyping

Post author By Rebecca Unetic
Post date 8 April 2021
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Patches Bring Squadron Culture to Fuse

Post author By Rebecca Unetic
Post date 7 April 2021
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Fuse used its native 3D printing capability to rapidly prototype and solve a pop-up hardware issue. This issue was identified during local flight-testing of an integrated communications pod. The Fuse hardware team designed and printed cable backshells to fix a connector orientation issue at the last minute of flight testing. The quick-thinking and skilled engineering of the team ensured that flight testing was able to continue with minimal schedule slippage.A big part of the Fuse culture is keeping our team of tech experts clearly focused on the warfighter. A small way of pulling our engineers into the domain of aviation is our own squadron and detachment patches. Fuse recently celebrated successes of the past year with the addition of patches to our Warfighter Wall. The wall hosts patches from the past ships, squadrons, and commands of our team, as well as those of our customers and users. To this display of insignia our team has added their own commemorative marks. Our patches are small way of celebrating the hard work of the team.

This year Fuse celebrated our ten-year anniversary. Life here in San Diego mixes the beach, with ships, aircraft, and global deployments.

Our MUDLAN team has performed exceptionally well! Together with teammates from George Mason University, Pacific Antenna Systems, First RF, Boeing, and Cubic we have been able to pull a struggling Tech Demo up to be an exceptionally successful experiment with multiple aircraft and multiple firsts.

2020 was a tough year with the impact of COVID lockdowns. We are proud of our Essential Workers at Fuse and proud of the impact our team is having on warfighting capabilities despite the lockdown.

Our T3 software has deployed to its first lifetime deployment onboard ship. It is exciting to have our Fuse systems out in the fleet.

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Second Fuse Patent Awarded

Post author By Rebecca Unetic
Post date 2 April 2021
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Dr. Dell Kronewitter, Fuse Integration’s Director of Engineering, received his second Patent from the USPTO on February 16, 2021. This expansion of the Fuse Intellectual Property portfolio is a significant accomplishment for the organization and showcases Fuse’s commitment to developing advanced technologies that enhance our nation’s warfighting readiness and capabilities.

The most recent patent covers our Tactical Airborne Network Simulator (TANS) and its ability to model and experiment with GPS perturbations. The patent applies to systems level simulations with alternate position navigation and timing (APNT), perturbed geolocation, and orientation. Using this technology Fuse can analyze degradation in distributed system performance due to degraded PNT information. TANS can artificially perturb a location or orientation solution by adding error via supplied configuration. The results can be compared to the device under test receiving accurate location information. The ability to simulate perturbation of geolocation/orientation systems allows software and hardware developers to design, test, and evaluate robust networking systems.

This technology gives Fuse the ability to provide a simulation environment that can test, evaluate, and validate networking algorithms which must remain robust against perturbed orientation data. This further enables development of systems with increased immunity to GPS or other position and orientation errors.

There is direct and immediate applicability for this technology across the DoD and a range of GPS users.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10924939B2/en?oq=US+Patent+10%2c924%2c939

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T3 gets U.S. Navy DADMS Approval

Post author By Rebecca Unetic
Post date 4 February 2021
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The U.S. Navy added Fuse Integration’s Tactical Technologies Toolset (T3) to the Department of the Navy (DoN) Application and Database Management System (DADMS) list. DADMS is the Navy’s authoritative record of software applications approved for use in all Navy and Marine Corps software, equipment, and devices.

T3 is a remote monitoring solution for multi-domain operations providing users with an enterprise view of distributed fleet networks, systems, and an intuitive layout of radar settings and status. This advanced technology significantly enhances the capabilities of operators and decision-makers in today’s dynamic operational environment.

Such recognition and achievement for Fuse Integration further highlights the company’s long-standing commitment to the nation’s warfighters at the tactical edge.

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Fuse Donates to San Diego Food Bank

Post author By Ashley Kozak
Post date 7 January 2021
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At the end of last year, Fuse team members pulled together to participate in a Fusegiving Food Drive, an effort to collect nonperishable food items to donate to the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank. Altogether, the team managed to amass 236 pounds of nonperishable food items, estimated to provide 197 meals to people in need. Additionally, the Fusegiving Food Drive collected $175 in monetary donations, estimated to provide 5 meals for every dollar. In total, the Fuse team donations amounted to an estimate of 1,072 meals for San Diegans in need.

The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and North County Food Bank chapter work together to provide healthy food to those in the community who need it, act as advocates, and spread awareness for people who are hungry and hunger-related issues. The food bank provides support to hundreds of thousands of people per month in San Diego County.

The Fusegiving Food Drive was organized by Mary Bolton, Sonia Wilson, and Joe Daniels. The drive was held after the Thanksgiving holiday from November 30^th to December 14^th.

Fuse is incredibly thankful and proud that, despite these unprecedented and difficult times, our team was able to come together in support of others who are facing hardships in our community.

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