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REPS rising!

MIL’s Rapid Engineering and Prototyping Solutions (REPS) sector
is celebrating the groundbreaking and early stages of its latest
facility expansion. In addition to the current MIL Integration
Facility, REPS has committed to leasing an additional 26K
sq. ft. integration facility just down the road from the current
building. This will give REPS a total of over 50K sq. ft. of flexible
and configurable engineering, production, integration, and
warehousing space.
As steel seemingly springs from the ground at MIL’s newest
Patuxent River, MD location, REPS Executive Vice President
(EVP) Tom Clark and Senior VP Harvil Jenkins have cause to
anticipate the early fall opening of MIL’s latest Southern Maryland
engineering workspace. The new facility will expand MIL’s ability
to provide increasingly more complex and advanced engineering
support to our NAVAIR and NAWC WOLF customers.
Over the last two decades, MIL’s REPS customers at NAWC
WOLF have grown to depend on our ability to rise to
each technical challenge we have faced. Under Tom and
Harvil’s leadership, REPS has expanded its technical team to
approximately 150 engineering, integration, testing, logistics, and
project management experts, and grown its service area into a
$35M annual operation, with no limits in sight.
MIL’s new facility and larger Southern Maryland footprint will enable REPS sector staff to work on projects on a much larger scale,
develop creative efficiencies to perform existing work better, and give MIL’s customers more options when rapid and flexible facilities
are needed. These new capabilities will help us continue to expand MIL's current staffing base with the addition of flexible and modern
office amenities, state-of-the-art conference room facilities, and an ability to house large-scale systems indoors.
REPS EVP Tom Clark says, “We are excited to be expanding our MIL capabilities and resources, to give our customers more options
to execute their missions—all while having a positive influence on our Southern Maryland community. This new facility will go a long
way in solidifying continued growth for the REPS sector, the DoD Business Unit, and MIL as a whole.”

Promotions

Michael Brockman, AVP, Enterprise Technology and Cloud Computing, ITS

It is with great pleasure that we announce the promotion of Azure data services pipeline to ingest, transform, and store all ITA
Michael Brockman to Assistant Vice President (AVP), Enterprise data for analytics and reporting.
Technology and Cloud Computing, for the ITS Sector! These efforts, along with his engagement with ITA senior
Michael joined MIL in 2016, originally as the Lead Architect of leadership, have given him a reputation as the Microsoft App in-
the ITA SharePoint engagement. Over time, Michael successfully house SME, and were instrumental in building confidence for our
executed multiple high visibility projects for the ITA CIO and contract recompete and expansion. Most recently, Michael was
their Directorates, providing architecture, solution design, named the Enterprise Architect for the ITA apps contract, where
release, and operations management. Michael refactored team he is currently standardizing all our application and platform
roles and responsibilities, mentored team members, and changed development approaches across the Office365, Salesforce, and
recruiting approaches. As a result, the SharePoint team grew into Drupal efforts.
a best of class, true DevOps team delivering across the Azure and Prior to joining MIL, Michael’s career spanned multiple
Office365 stack. industries, first as a software developer and consultant in the
Michael led the successful launch of Tasking and Tracking using a search industry, to later roles as Principal Consultant and
no-code approach with Nintex and SharePoint Online; established Enterprise Solutions Architect in the biotech industry. Michael
an Azure tenant at ITA to support solution development in Office holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of
365; the migration of ITA’s on-prem SharePoint farm and network Minnesota and received his Doctorate in Philosophy from the
file shares to Office 365; launched the 232 Steel and Aluminum University of Leuven in Belgium.
Exception system which fulfilled the CIO’s promise to the In his new role, he will work across all application and platform
Commerce Department Secretary; led the effort to containerize efforts to create a community of practice, and deliver best of class
applications in the Azure Kubernetes Service; established Azure solutions across all of MIL’s platforms. Congratulations, Michael!
DevOps to integrate agile boards; and led the effort to establish an
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