--- alias: - Ignite Fueling Innovation - Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. - Ignite - Alatec, Inc. - Alatec - ALATEC - Alatec Incorporated category: Organizations created: 2026-10-03 location: Huntsville, Alabama relations: - fn: 7 role: joint venture with Radiance Technologies; Alabama certificate of formation July 10, 2024; announced October 14, 2024 with Clayton Hinchman as president and chairman start: 2024-07-10 type: founded with: '[[Radiance Ignite Technologies]]' - fn: 25 reverse: true role: chief marketing officer (2017), chief executive officer (May 2020); registered agent on the Alabama record in 2026 type: employed_by with: '[[Clayton Hinchman]]' - end: 2022-11-09 fn: 6 reverse: true role: president and chief executive officer (2017); individual registered agent shown at a Discovery Drive address until the change recorded November 9, 2022 type: employed_by with: '[[Jason Shelton]]' - end: 2016-06-15 fn: 21 role: functional, execution and non-matrix administrative support, orders 0002 ($21,844,756) and 0003 ($45,296,027) start: 2010-09-27 type: contractor_to with: '[[Missile Defense Agency]]' - fn: 21 role: modeling and simulation, analysis and information technology support at White Sands Missile Range (CombatXXI, OneSAF) under Army orders start: 2007-05-03 type: contractor_to with: '[[TRADOC Analysis Center]]' - fn: 21 role: Transportation Family of Systems (FA877119F0021, $36,220,973) and later orders start: 2019-05-29 type: contractor_to with: '[[U.S. Air Force]]' - end: 2023-09-15 fn: 4 role: registered agent and registered office of the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation (AL SOS 001-041-463), between its formation and its dissolution start: 2022-09-23 type: represented with: '[[Sol Foundation]]' - end: 2016-03-31 fn: 22 role: subcontractor under Army order 0003 of indefinite-delivery contract W9113M13D0006, subaward of $906,327 reported November 4, 2013; a second subaward of $98,665 reported June 11, 2026 under Air Force order FA860426FB159 start: 2013-10-31 type: contractor_to with: '[[Radiance Technologies]]' - fn: 12 reverse: true role: Senior Vice President for business development, capture and proposals start: 2026-08 type: employed_by with: '[[Julie Praino]]' - fn: 12 reverse: true role: strategic threat capabilities analyst (2023), Vice President (May 2024); Space Force and intelligence portfolios start: 2023 type: employed_by with: '[[Logan Grumbach]]' - fn: 12 reverse: true role: program manager (2024), Vice President (2025) start: 2024 type: employed_by with: '[[Lonnie Dunbar]]' - fn: 10 role: Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. Federal Political Action Committee (C00830901), $2,500 start: 2024-06-18 type: funded with: '[[Citizens for Turner]]' - fn: 10 role: Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. Federal Political Action Committee (C00830901), $2,500 to Susie Lee for Congress start: 2025-05-08 type: funded with: '[[Susie Lee]]' summary: Huntsville, Alabama service-disabled veteran-owned defense contractor, formed 2001 as Alatec, Inc., with about $197 million in federal obligations since fiscal 2008 and registered agent of the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation from 2022 to 2023. tags: - Organization - DefenseContractor - Huntsville - Alabama - SDVOSB - SolFoundation updated: 2026-10-03 --- Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. is an Alabama domestic corporation based in Huntsville, formed on February 2, 2001 in Madison County and known as Alatec, Inc. until a name change recorded on May 16, 2016. The Alabama Secretary of State record (entity 000-214-606) gives its status as "Exists" and its nature of business as "PERFORM ENGINEERING/TECHNICAL SERVICES." Authorized capital is $250,000 and paid-in capital $100,000. The incorporators listed are John Hamburg, Dan Cleary, Mike Jury and Larry Anderson.[^1] ### Office address The Federal Election Commission registration of Ignite's first political action committee (C00610691, treasurer Brandon R. Umphrey) gives the committee's address as 530C Discovery Dr NW, Huntsville, with Ignite as the connected organization. USAspending recipient addresses on Ignite awards of 2022 and 2024 read "530C Discovery Dr," one with "Ste 450."[^2] ### Alabama registry record The Secretary of State record shows a Certificate of Formation (7 pages), Articles of Amendment dated May 23, 2016 (3 pages) recording that the legal name was "Changed From Alatec, Inc." on May 16, 2016, and further Articles of Amendment dated September 4, 2019 (3 pages) and March 26, 2024 (1 page). The page prints incorporators only and lists no officers; annual reports for 2000 through 2024 are listed.[^1] The registered-agent history on the same record reads as follows. On August 12, 2010 the agent was changed from Larry D. Anderson. On August 5, 2016 an agent (Anderson, at an address on Pratt Avenue) was replaced. On January 4, 2019 the agent was changed from Jason Shelton, at an address on Jan Davis Drive NW. On November 9, 2022 a Registered Agent Change (2 pages) records the agent as changed from Shelton at a Discovery Drive NW address in Huntsville, with the agent's mailing address changed from the same address. The current agent is [[Clayton Hinchman|Robert Clayton Hinchman]], with a registered office on The Bridge Street in Huntsville.[^1] ### Huntsville conference, June 2022 The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies held its Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Conference at the Rocket City Tavern in Huntsville on June 3 to 5, 2022. [Garry Nolan](/people/garry-nolan/) was a panelist on "The National Security Implications of Scientifically Studying UAP," moderated by Joseph DiNoto (described in the program as a former intelligence community officer supporting "special operations, space, and missile defense forces") with Rich Hoffman (an Army Materiel Command Headquarters contractor at Redstone Arsenal and executive board member of the coalition) and two other panelists.[^3] ### The Sol Foundation filings in Alabama The Alabama Secretary of State holds a name reservation (RES036922) for "The Sol Foundation," issued for the exclusive use of Garry Nolan for one year beginning July 28, 2022. A Certificate of Formation for a domestic nonprofit corporation of that name (entity 001-041-463) was filed September 23, 2022. It gives a Discovery Drive NW address in Huntsville as both principal office and registered office, and names Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. as registered agent; the Sol filing names no individual as agent. Ignite's own record shows its individual agent, Jason Shelton, at a Discovery Drive NW address in Huntsville until the change recorded November 9, 2022, which is 47 days after the Sol formation. The stated purpose of the Sol corporation is "The Sol Foundation supports research into and the understanding of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena."[^4][^5] The Alabama corporation filed a Statement of Intent to Dissolve and Articles of Dissolution on September 15, 2023, a year and three weeks after its formation. The Articles of Dissolution have the box "No plan of distribution was adopted" checked, name no recipient of assets and do not state whether the corporation held any. See [Sol Foundation](/organizations/sol-foundation/) for the directors and officers named in the filings.[^5] The Alabama name search run on October 3, 2026 for the address text returned no entity by that name, and the search form does not search by address. No other entity at the Discovery Drive address was identified.[^1] ### Leadership A Business Alabama report of July 20, 2017 describes the company as led by president and chief executive officer Jason Shelton, chief operating officer Brandon Umphrey, chief marketing officer Clayton Hinchman and chief financial officer Trent Poff. The same report says that the company was "known as ALATEC until last year's purchase of and merger with USi," that it had about 250 employees serving federal and commercial customers in 17 states, that it was founded by "a group of retired military officers," that in 2006 it won its first two prime contracts, for modeling and simulation analytics at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico and at [Fort Leavenworth](/places/fort-leavenworth/), Kansas, and that it established an employee stock ownership plan in 2012.[^6] By October 2024 the announcement of the [Radiance Ignite Technologies](/organizations/radiance-ignite-technologies/) joint venture identified Hinchman as chief executive officer of Ignite.[^7] The Alabama record lists Hinchman as the registered agent in 2026.[^1] Shelton joined Alatec in 2009 with responsibility for business development, after working at Camber Corporation, and served 12 years in the [U.S. Army](/organizations/us-army/) and Army National Guard as an Air Defense Artillery officer working "principally in Joint and Coalition integration of missiles and radar systems around the globe."[^8] On May 22, 2020 Ignite announced that Hinchman would succeed him as chief executive officer, with Shelton remaining chairman of the board and Rich McAdams as president.[^9] The Federal Election Commission lists Shelton as "Chairman" of Ignite on contributions to the company's committee in 2016 and 2018.[^10] Hinchman graduated from the United States Military Academy, served as an infantry officer with the 10th Mountain Division and Special Operations Task Force 17, and retired medically as a captain after wounds from an improvised explosive device during a night raid in Iraq. His decorations include the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Meritorious Service Medal; he was an honor graduate of Ranger School. He worked for the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization and Washington nonprofits, served on the board of the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, holds a master's degree from Georgetown University, founded and led the company USi until Ignite acquired it on April 1, 2016, served as Ignite's chief marketing officer for three years, then as president and chief operating officer of Systems, Products, Solutions, Inc. before becoming Ignite's chief executive officer in May 2020.[^9][^11] Ignite's Our Leadership page states that the company has "a minority-owned Employee-Owned Stock Owner Plan (ESOP)."[^12] Hinchman was a Republican candidate for Alabama's 5th congressional district in the 2018 cycle (Federal Election Commission candidate H8AL05208, statement of candidacy first filed June 20, 2017). His committee, Hinchman for Congress (C00648162), reported receipts of $253,800.31 and loans of $100,000 for the cycle; Ignite's committee contributed $2,700 to it on May 18, 2017, and the Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee contributed $5,000 on March 21, 2018.[^10] In the Republican primary of June 5, 2018 he received 34,739 votes (38.7 percent) to 54,928 (61.3 percent) for Mo Brooks, of 89,667 cast in the district.[^13] Trent Poff has been chief financial officer since 2016 and is listed as vice chairman; he joined in 2014 and was previously at Camber. Jessica Wilkerson is chief operations officer (vice president from June 2023), with 17 years as an Army civilian at Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, Program Executive Office Aviation and the Aviation and Missile Command; her team supports the TRADOC Analysis Center at White Sands Missile Range, Program Executive Office Missiles and Space and the Space and Missile Defense Command. Stephen Mitchell has been chief information officer since January 2024 and works on Army Materiel Command information technology contracts.[^12] Julie Praino is Senior Vice President, a position Ignite's release of August 31, 2026 says she took in August 2026 to lead business development, capture and proposal development. The release says she supported air and missile defense programs including the Upgraded Early Warning Radar, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, the AN/TPY-2 radar and PATRIOT through industry partners including Raytheon, held profit and loss responsibility for a portfolio above $600 million, and holds degrees from Bates College (physics), Boston University (electrical engineering) and Boston College (MBA).[^12] She is one of five named inventors on U.S. patent application 2020/0407525 A1, "Porous Polymer Membranes Comprising Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes," published December 31, 2020 from an application filed November 27, 2018 under a provisional of November 27, 2017. The other named inventors include Jerry Shan and Richard Castellano of Rutgers University and Francesco Fornasiero of [Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory](/organizations/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory/). The applicants are Rutgers and Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. Its government interest statement reads: "This invention was made with government support under grant number BA12PHM123 awarded by The Defense Threat Reduction Agency." Assignment records show two of the inventors assigning their rights to Chasm Technologies Inc. (later Chasm Advanced Materials) on May 28 and 29, 2020, and the United States Department of Energy holding a confirmatory license from Lawrence Livermore National Security recorded July 27, 2020. The specification says the nanotubes were functionalized by Chasm Technologies before use.[^14] The same grant number appears in a 2017 American Physical Society abstract by Castellano, Shan, Eric Meshot and Fornasiero.[^15] Lawrence Livermore's Biosecurity Center describes the Defense Threat Reduction Agency-funded effort as a breathable membrane for protective clothing against chemical and biological agents.[^16] [Logan Grumbach](/people/logan-grumbach/) joined Ignite as a strategic threat capabilities analyst in 2023 and was promoted to Vice President in May 2024, according to the company, leading its United States Space Force and intelligence portfolios, including support to the Space Force "Space Security and Defense Program," support to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency full-motion GEOINT mission, and the partnership with Virgin Galactic "to establish Spaceflight as a Service for government missions." The company says he spent 15 years in missile defense at Lockheed Martin and Boeing on programs including Next Generation Interceptor, Glide Phase Interceptor, Multi-Object Kill Vehicle, Redesigned Kill Vehicle, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and Long Range Discrimination Radar, holds a Ph.D. in aerospace systems engineering and is a part-time instructor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.[^12] His curriculum vitae at the University of Alabama in Huntsville lists him from May 2023 to May 2024 as lead scientist/engineer and futurist on "a direct congressional tasking through the United States Space Force (USSF) and elements of the Intelligence Community (IC)," including a 500-plus page futures study for the Space Force "to be delivered to Congress," technical whitepapers on "quantum radar, neutrino science, brain-computer interface, and metamaterials," and briefings to "Congressional Staff" and the Director of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center; the CV does not name the "multi-billion-dollar US company" with which it says he was chief technical coordinator for a partnership.[^17] Lonnie Dunbar III joined Ignite in 2024 as a program manager and became Vice President in 2025, with a portfolio the company describes as "IT, space, electronic warfare, programmatic, and facility efforts" for customers including the Space and Missile Defense Command, the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, the Air Force 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing and United States Special Operations Command. According to the company he served in the Army Signal Corps for over 24 years, including with the White House Communications Agency, and as a sergeant major was senior enlisted leader of the Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence. The Army published his remarks in that role in 2024.[^12][^18] ### Federal contractor record USAspending lists the recipient as Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. (unique entity identifier MU8VTWFS9QP8; a second identifier, Y2C9YZS13BT3, carries the name with a doubled space; DUNS 013188409), with alternate names Alatec Inc. and Alatec Incorporated, and with the business types small business, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business and subchapter S corporation.[^19] The company's own 2015 site described it as an ISO 9001:2008 certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, and a 2014 capture of its "About" page listed its customers as the Missile Defense Agency, the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC), [NASA](/organizations/nasa/), the United States Army Materiel Command and the United States Army Fires Center of Excellence.[^20] USAspending contract obligations by fiscal year (queried October 3, 2026, awarding sub-agency totals; fiscal year 2026 is partial):[^21] | Fiscal year | Total | Army | Missile Defense Agency | Air Force | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2008 | $7,501,119 | $7,501,119 | | | | 2009 | $8,358,726 | $8,358,726 | | | | 2010 | $10,613,383 | $9,415,383 | $1,198,000 | | | 2011 | $15,919,279 | $7,147,233 | $8,769,545 | | | 2012 | $19,486,606 | $8,031,048 | $11,455,558 | | | 2013 | $22,652,928 | $9,480,823 | $13,172,105 | | | 2014 | $18,684,259 | $6,048,584 | $12,635,675 | | | 2015 | $15,579,415 | $3,058,446 | $12,520,969 | | | 2016 | $8,762,863 | $1,756,926 | $7,005,937 | | | 2017 | $1,935,095 | $2,438,420 | -$503,325 | | | 2018 | $1,105,030 | $1,102,530 | $0 | | | 2019 | $6,065,012 | $1,102,441 | $897,566 | $4,065,005 | | 2020 | $8,567,316 | $2,624,971 | | $5,942,345 | | 2021 | $8,206,781 | $2,140,530 | -$6,248 | $6,072,498 | | 2022 | $10,454,171 | $2,091,876 | | $8,364,795 | | 2023 | $9,654,738 | $1,707,483 | | $7,947,255 | | 2024 | $6,270,254 | $2,440,275 | | $3,829,980 | | 2025 | $11,692,890 | $1,681,197 | | $10,008,693 | | 2026 | $5,602,193 | $91,847 | $500 | $5,509,846 | The fiscal-year totals (spending over time endpoint) sum to $197,112,058; the agency columns come from the awarding sub-agency endpoint and differ from the totals by small residuals. By awarding agency over the whole period the figures are the Department of the Army $78.2 million, the Missile Defense Agency $67.1 million and the Air Force $51.7 million, with $3,001 from the Navy and $5,000 from the General Services Administration. Small residuals, including Navy, General Services Administration and Defense Contract Management Agency amounts, are omitted from the columns.[^19][^21] Largest awards by type: - Missile Defense Agency: order 0003, $45,296,027, October 26, 2012 to June 15, 2016, "functional, execution and non-matrix administrative support"; order 0002, $21,844,756, September 27, 2010 to October 26, 2012, same description; and HQ085926FF788, $500, December 29, 2025 to December 28, 2035, "Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) initial order."[^21] - Army, TRAC and White Sands: contract W91QF407D0004 (May 3, 2007, $0 obligated at the contract level) is described as "TRAC-WSMR missions related to analysis, studies, modeling, simulation and information technology." Orders under it and later vehicles carry descriptions such as "ONESAF scenario modeling and exercise support" (order 0043, $1,266,116, 2009 to 2010), "Combat XXI support" (order 0060, $1,951,043, 2011 to 2012), "Brigade combat team analysis support service" (order 0024, $773,937, 2008), "JIEDDO modeling and simulation support" (order 0036, $266,650, 2009), "Analytical engineering support services" (W9115122F0264, $1,158,538, June 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023), "Labor - TRAC WSMR CombatXXI" (W9115124F0091, $1,081,193, May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025) and "TRAC security task order" (W9115125F0060, $620,383, 2025).[^21] - Air Force: FA877119F0021, $36,220,973, May 29, 2019 to November 28, 2024, "Transportation Family of Systems (Trans FOS)"; FA877125F0010, $11,262,704, November 29, 2024 to August 31, 2026, "support services for the cargo and personnel movement product line"; and FA460025F0048, $4,255,740, May 16, 2025 to March 31, 2027, "Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Ops Center."[^21] Of 151 award records read under the recipient name, the only description containing an intelligence term is one 2011 Army order of $849,933 described as "IEW support." No award description names the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the [All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office](/organizations/all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/) or unidentified anomalous phenomena, and no NASA Marshall Space Flight Center award appeared. No document opened ties any award to Redstone Arsenal.[^21] ### Subcontract and teaming record USAspending subaward records show Ignite as a subcontractor to [Radiance Technologies](/organizations/radiance-technologies/) on an Army order issued by the Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal: prime order 0003 under indefinite-delivery contract W9113M13D0006, base period labor, $5,197,210, October 31, 2013 to March 31, 2016, performed in Huntsville, with a subaward of $906,326.71 reported November 4, 2013 described as "provide independent programmatic and engineering support, create/develop program documentation, conduct scientific and engineering studies... and analyze and assess work performed by other contractors." A second Radiance subaward to Ignite, $98,665, was reported on June 11, 2026 under Air Force order FA860426FB159, "ICAM Collection Development and Support" (Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Dayton, $12,955,000 total, June 12, 2026 to March 11, 2029).[^22] Ignite also appears as a subawardee to Torch Technologies on Army Space and Missile Defense Command contract W9113M18FD009 (Future Warfare Center, Decision Support Directorate) from 2018 to 2023, to [Science Applications International Corporation](/organizations/science-applications-international-corporation/) on NASA orders from 2019 to 2023 (the mentor-protege relationship reported in 2017), to Parsons Government Services and ITA International on General Services Administration orders, to Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation on Army order W31P4Q25F0049 (Strike Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance, July 2, 2025, $185,259), and to ManTech, IBM, General Dynamics Information Technology and Boeing on other orders. Repeated monthly reports make the totals unreliable.[^22] ### Award descriptions and capability claims Of Ignite's 214 prime award records (summed award amount $202.5 million: Army $83.65 million, Missile Defense Agency $67.15 million, Air Force $51.74 million), the awarding offices are Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command offices at Fort Huachuca, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Hood and Fort Sill, the Missile Defense Agency, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and the 55th Contracting Squadron. No awarding office is the [Defense Intelligence Agency](/organizations/defense-intelligence-agency/), the Missile and Space Intelligence Center or the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. Descriptions include "Hybrid Threat, Complex Operational Environment (HTCOE) development and analysis support" (order 0011, $904,812, 2014), "Cognitive Behaviors for Units and Soldiers" (order 0042, $450,105, 2009), "IEW support" (order 0065, $849,933, 2011) and, in 2025, "Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Ops Center" (FA460025F0048, $4,255,740, performed in San Antonio). The company's capabilities page lists "Cognitive EW," "All-Source Intelligence Analysis" and "Threat Modeling and Red Teaming."[^7][^23] Ignite's September 24, 2026 announcement states that it was selected as an awardee on the $14 billion Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing (COMET) contract supporting the Missile and Space Intelligence Center "through our joint venture with Radiance Technologies," to provide "Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI), foundational military intelligence, and analytical-enabling services to MSIC located at Redstone Arsenal," and lists the Defense Intelligence Agency among its customers.[^23] ### Political committee contributions Ignite's second committee, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. Federal Political Action Committee (C00830901, registered January 6, 2023), reported contributions to Citizens for Turner ($2,500, June 18, 2024), the Letlow Victory Fund ($2,500, August 26, 2024), Securing the Republic for Our Next Generation ($5,000, September 25, 2024), the Calvert Victory Fund ($5,000, March 6, 2025), Susie Lee for Congress ($2,500, May 8, 2025), the Scalise Leadership Fund ($5,000, August 19, 2025) and Conservative Louisiana ($5,000, March 26, 2026). The Radiance Technologies committee reported contributions to Citizens for Turner on June 18, 2024 and to Susie Lee for Congress on May 8, 2025, the same dates as the Ignite committee's. Hinchman personally contributed to Mike Rogers committees from November 14, 2023 to June 1, 2026 and $2,500 to Citizens for Turner on June 27, 2024.[^10] ### Radiance Ignite Technologies Radiance Technologies and Ignite announced the joint venture Radiance Ignite Technologies, headquartered in Huntsville, on October 14, 2024. The announcement named Hinchman, chief executive officer of Ignite, as president and chairman of the venture and [Bill Bailey](/people/bill-bailey/), chief executive officer of Radiance, as vice chairman, and said the venture would offer capabilities in technical intelligence, directed energy, space operations, electromagnetic spectrum operations, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and systems engineering.[^7] The Alabama record for Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC (entity 001-144-448) gives a formation date of July 10, 2024, about three months before the announcement, and shows a Certificate of Formation of that date (4 pages), Hinchman as registered agent with a registered office on The Bridge Street in Huntsville, and no principal address or nature of business.[^24] A USAspending search for the recipient name returned no awards on October 3, 2026.[^21] [^1]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc., entity 000-214-606, fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=000214606&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= ; name search "530C Discovery" and related queries, https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpname.mbr/output [^2]: Federal Election Commission, Form 1, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. Federal PAC (C00610691), https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00610691/1219703/ and https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/c00610691/1236793 ; USAspending awards W9115124F0369 and W9115122F0075, https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W9115124F0369_9700_W9115120D0012_9700 [^3]: Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, "AAPC 2022 Presenters" and agenda, https://web.archive.org/web/2022id_/https://www.explorescu.org/_files/ugd/8374d8_1cadf190ff174763bc827f1884849c7a.pdf ; "Upcoming 2022 Science-Based Conference on Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena," May 4, 2022, https://www.explorescu.org/post/upcoming-2022-science-based-conference-on-anomalous-aerospace-phenomena ; Micah Hanks, The Debrief, https://thedebrief.org/scientific-conference-on-anomalous-aerospace-phenomena-to-convene-this-summer/ [^4]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, The Sol Foundation, entity 001-041-463, fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001041463&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= [^5]: Alabama Secretary of State, document copies for The Sol Foundation, entity 001-041-463 (name reservation RES036922; Certificate of Formation filed September 23, 2022; Statement of Intent to Dissolve and Articles of Dissolution filed September 15, 2023), purchased October 3, 2026. [^6]: "Newly Merged Huntsville Tech Company is Just Warming Up," Business Alabama (BCA Today), July 20, 2017. https://www.bcatoday.org/newly-merged-huntsville-tech-company-is-just-warming-up/ [^7]: "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," PR Newswire, October 14, 2024, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture-302275375.html ; carried the same day by 256 Today, https://256today.com/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture ; read October 3, 2026. [^8]: "Our Leadership," Ignite Impossible, https://igniteimpossible.com/our-leadership/ [^9]: "Hinchman CEO of Ignite," Ignite, May 22, 2020, https://igniteimpossible.com/hinchman-ceo-of-ignite/ ; Radiance Ignite Technologies, "About Us," https://radianceignite.com/about/ [^10]: Federal Election Commission API, schedules A and B and candidate and committee records for H8AL05208, C00648162, C00610691, C00830901 and C00372979, queried October 3, 2026. [^11]: "Clayton Hinchman," Boots for the Brave, October 8, 2022, https://bootsforthebrave.org/clayton-hinchman/ [^12]: Ignite Fueling Innovation, "Our Leadership," https://igniteimpossible.com/our-leadership/ ; "Ignite Welcomes Julie Praino as Senior Vice President," August 31, 2026, https://igniteimpossible.com/news/ [^13]: Alabama Secretary of State, "2018 Republican Primary Results," https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/election-2018/2018%20Republican%20Primary%20Results.xlsx (sheet Summary, CD 5) [^14]: U.S. Patent Application Publication 2020/0407525 A1 (application 16/767,507; WO 2019/104313 A1), including its legal events listing. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200407525A1/en [^15]: American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2017, session E14.5. https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD17/Session/E14.5 [^16]: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Innovative Nanotube Membrane Helps Protect Soldiers in Hazardous Environments." https://gs.llnl.gov/biosecurity-center/second-skin [^17]: Joshua "Logan" Grumbach, curriculum vitae, University of Alabama in Huntsville, https://www.uah.edu/images/fsdir/cv/5172/logan-grumbach-cv-5172.pdf [^18]: "Soldiers hold touchpoint with SMD Center of Excellence experts," Army.mil. https://www.army.mil/article/274602/soldiers_hold_touchpoint_with_smd_center_of_excellence_experts [^19]: USAspending.gov, recipient profile, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc., https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/recipient/bfaed4e4-6d4d-c02d-4f49-a5d0d96f41ce-C/ , and spending by awarding agency since fiscal 2008, queried October 3, 2026. [^20]: Alatec, Inc., "About Us," Internet Archive capture of July 17, 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20140717055729/http://alatecinc.com/about-us ; home page capture of August 1, 2015, alatecinc.com. [^21]: USAspending.gov API, endpoints search/spending_over_time, search/spending_by_category/awarding_subagency (per fiscal year, October 1 to September 30) and search/spending_by_award (recipient name searches "Ignite Fueling Innovation," "Alatec" and "Radiance Ignite"), run October 3, 2026. Obligations are as reported to USAspending; order numbers shown without a prefix are the order numbers printed in the award record. A recipient of a similar name, Alatech Healthcare, L.L.C., is a different entity and is excluded. [^22]: USAspending.gov API, spending_by_award with subawards=true, recipient search "Ignite Fueling Innovation" and "Alatec"; awards CONT_AWD_0003_9700_W9113M13D0006_9700, CONT_AWD_FA860426FB159_9700_FA860422DB008_9700 and CONT_AWD_W31P4Q25F0049_9700_GS00Q14OADS606_4732, queried October 3, 2026. [^23]: Ignite Impossible, "Capabilities," https://igniteimpossible.com/capabilities/ ; "Ignite Named Awardee on MSIC COMET through Joint Venture," September 24, 2026, https://igniteimpossible.com/ignite-named-awardee-on-msic-comet-through-joint-venture/ [^24]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC, entity 001-144-448, fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001144448&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= [^25]: Alabama Secretary of State, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc., registered agent field, fetched October 3, 2026 (see note 1); "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," PR Newswire, October 14, 2024 (see note 9); Business Alabama, July 20, 2017 (see note 2).