GDX Development

Small Business,
Extensive Experience

GDX is a small business with extensive combined experience in the markets we serve. Having our roots in supply chain, technology development, and supporting special operations teams around the world, our reputation has centered us at the nexus of solving the most difficult challenges our clients currently faced with, and most importantly, will meet in the future.

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OUR MISSION

To design and build market leading intuitive systems that provide end-users the operational edge and enhanced mission awareness.

Our Vision

To become the preeminent choice our clients turn to, to solve complex challenges in the environments they operate in, by cultivating a values-based culture within our organization always focused on the mission.

OUR ETHOS

OUR ETHOS

Mission and purpose is at our core.

Clients always over bottom line. The financials of our company are dependent on the outcomes our clients experience.

Research and Development is a core tenant. The challenges and requirements our clients will confront in the future will lead our company’s endeavors.

Foster a culture which allows our team to be creative, market competitive, and collaborative.

Leadership

Michael Gates

Michael Gates

Chief Executive Officer

Michael leads Gates Defense Systems (GDX Development) having nearly 20 years of Supply Chain and National Security experience. He continues to push the limits of innovation with his team on edge sensor fusion, data visualization, and situational awareness in austere and complex environments.

Brian Files

Brian Files

EVP, CFO

Brian is proven team builder in new and challenging environments. Expertise includes strategic business development, risk assessment/mitigation, statutory and regulatory analysis, advocacy/KOl management, international government affairs, and transformative operations change.

James Markley

James Markley

CTIO

James spearheads the GDX Development Technical Vision and Innovation leveraging his 21 years experience in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, System Planning and Integration (including both COTS and proprietary systems), and machine and client based coding and markup languages (including software development and publishing).

Advisors

Chris Costa

Chris Costa

Advisor

Mr. Costa served as the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council (NSC).

James Freitas

Advisor

Mr. James Elliott Freitas retired from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2020, after serving nearly 30-years with the Federal Government.
Dennis Holden

Dennis Holden

EVP, CTIO

Dennis is a U.S. Navy Veteran with over two decades of technical and leadership experience in business, information technology service management, and system integration, punctuated by a track record of accomplishments in diverse and challenging cyber environments.