Our Purpose

The Native American Software Coalition, L.L.C. exists to facilitate the growth of software development capabilities among Native American-owned organizations, with a particular interest in developing professional jobs on reservations.  It has assembled an exceptional team of world-class software architects and leaders, whose role is to help win software development contracts for Native America, and provide the leadership, training, and mentoring to assure successful completion.

We welcome new coalition members who share our vision.  We also seek prime-contract and sub-contract opportunities that will allow our members to deliver solid value while growing their enterprises. 

Our Current Native American Coalition Members

Ewing Engineered Solutions
Ewing Engineered Solutions is a division of Ewing Electronics, Inc.  This Native American owned 8(a) company has been in business for 28 years, and supplies goods and services to federal and state government agencies as well as commercial markets.  Located in Allen, Texas, the ISO9001:2008 certified company partners with Motorola, Inc. to provide mission-critical communication products and services.  It also supplies a wide range of "green" energy-efficient products and services.  Led by CEO Phil Hawley, it recently established a GSA supply schedule.

REI
REI Corporation is a Tribal 8(a), HUBZone company located on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in Mission, South Dakota.  Established in 2006, REI is a tribally-owned, for-profit business providing solutions to defense and commercial OEMs. REI currently is under a Department of Defense (DoD) contract providing electronics manufacturing services for research, development, test, and production of advanced electronic circuitry.  The company is led by CEO Greg Young and COO Gabe Doney.  It is currently ISO 9001 certified and is pending certifications for AS9100 and ISO 14001.

Our Skills

We can fulfill many software development requirements, but we specialize in Internet-based, database and document management systems driven by Java and open-source technology.  We are particularly interested in SOA/REST/Web 2.0 /ESB applications and emerging technologies that involve systems integration, networking, and distributed systems.  We are interested in expanding our .NET capabilities on carefully chosen projects.

Our Past Clients (partial list)

Our Technology Mentors

Marshall Cline
Marshall is an internationally respected technologist, known for developing systems and for motivating people.  He has trained and mentored thousands of developers, and is known for developing people as well as systems.  He was the point person for one of the earliest large, successful object-oriented projects, a five hundred person-year effort that required training and mentoring one hundred and fifty IBM programmers, and is particularly adept at Web 2.0-related technologies. He has trained developers for Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Texas Instruments, Lexmark, and UPS.  Marshall is a noted author and speaker who has been a voting member of several international standards committees. He has provided technical leadership to important projects within the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office.  His Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering is from Clarkson University.

Mike Girou
Mike has been at the forefront of applied Internet technology since 1989. He has authored several books on computer technology and mathematics, several dozen-research papers, and is listed in Who's Who in the World (15th edition) as well as the third edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering.  As a senior outside technology consultant to IBM throughout North America, he advised on product strategy, mentored developers and managers, and performed internal audits.  He has performed similar roles for other corporations and several organizations within the U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of Defense.  Mike was a member of several ANSI standards committees, and is a technology adviser to USA TODAY. He has served on the Board of Directors for multiple public and private corporations.  He received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Jim Watson
Jim is one of the industry's leading Enterprise Architects.    He was one of the early leaders in object-oriented middleware, serving as IONA's first Technical Director, later becoming Vice President of Engineering and Chief Engineer-Products.  He has had successful; repeat architectural engagements at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Wells Fargo Bank. Jim has trained and mentored developers at some of the most sophisticated organizations in the United States and Ireland. His work on a military modeling/simulation integration platform resulted in extended contract awards and special recognition from the U.S. Department of Defense.  He has led teams and organizations with up to two hundred and fifty developers, but is also well known for his individual technical excellence in Services-Oriented Architecture, Agile approaches, and open-source software. Jim received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.