To this day, SEAKR is the leading provider of aerospace electronics and has a 100% on-orbit success rate. Ray Anderson is a newly retired Air Force Colonel. Ray and his eldest son Scott, while not working together, both have jobs at Rockwell International. However, after years in the military, living behind a desk without a challenge soon loses its luster for Ray. That’s when he and Scott decide t
o become space subcontractors on their own. They sit down at the family dinner table and begin flipping through a bulky government catalog of Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants. Ray and Scott find a SBIR for a Solid State Record (SSR), the first of its kind. Scott thought he could build it, Ray had critical contacts, and the rest, as they say, is history. That first SBIR contract launched SEAKR’s dominance in the SSR market as the preeminent space qualified memory provider. Since then we’ve grown exponentially in both employees and capabilities. Ray’s second son, Eric, joined SEAKR soon after its inception, and a corporate move to Colorado followed. Ray’s third son Kurt also joined SEAKR and leads crucial National Asset programs. At SEAKR, the buildings might be bigger now, the products faster, and the mountain views picturesque, but you can only reach your destination by knowing where you came from. We will forever be a company started by a father and son at the dinner table with a dream and a doorstop of a catalog. We like it that way.
