--- alias: - William C. Bailey Jr. - William C. Bailey, Jr. - William C. Bailey - William Bailey - Bill Bailey Jr. - Bill Bailey, Jr. - William "Bill" Bailey - Bailey, William C. - Bill Bailey (Radiance) category: People created: 2026-10-04 location: Huntsville, Alabama relations: - fn: 1 role: B-52 aircraft maintenance technician, then research and development engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and Phillips Laboratory (fourteen years of military service per the company biography) type: member_of with: '[[United States Air Force]]' - fn: 10 role: joined 2001; senior vice president and manager of the Intelligence Systems Group; president from January 15, 2013; chief executive officer start: '2001' type: employed_by with: '[[Radiance Technologies]]' - fn: 2 role: director listed on the Alabama Secretary of State record (restated articles entered May 19, 2014); defendant as chief executive and board member in Berry v. Bailey (2024) start: '2014-05-19' type: director_of with: '[[Radiance Technologies]]' - fn: 17 role: listed member of the 2026 board of directors start: '2026' type: member_of with: '[[Business Council of Alabama]]' - fn: 18 role: member of the campaign finance committee announced the week of February 12, 2026 start: '2026-02-11' type: member_of with: '[[Tuberville for Senate]]' - end: '2025-09-18' fn: 3 role: named defendant; all claims dismissed without prejudice September 18, 2025 start: '2024-04-25' type: subject_of with: '[[Berry v. Bailey]]' - end: '2026-06-30' fn: 6 role: five itemized contributions totaling $270,000 start: '2024-05-03' type: funded with: '[[Grow the Majority]]' - end: '2026-04-27' fn: 6 role: eight itemized contributions totaling $115,000 start: '2021-05-04' type: funded with: '[[Scalise Leadership Fund]]' summary: William C. Bailey Jr. is chief executive of Radiance Technologies, a former Air Force engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and lead defendant in the dismissed ESOP suit Berry v. Bailey. tags: - Person - DefenseContractor - USAirForceVeteran - HuntsvilleAlabama - TechnicalIntelligence - ForeignMaterielExploitation - EmployeeOwned - PoliticalDonor updated: 2026-10-04 --- ### Identity William C. Bailey Jr. is the chief executive officer of [Radiance Technologies](/organizations/radiance-technologies/) of Huntsville, Alabama. The company's own biography names him "William C. Bailey, Jr.", states that he joined Radiance in 2001, and gives his background as fourteen years of military service as "a B-52 aircraft maintenance technician and as a Research and Development Engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and the Phillips Laboratory, now the Air Force Research Laboratory." It lists a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Louisiana Tech University.[^1] The Alabama Secretary of State record for Radiance lists "William C Bailey" among the five directors entered with the corporation's restated articles on May 19, 2014.[^2] The defendant named "William C. Bailey" in the 2024 suit Berry v. Bailey is described in the pleadings as chief executive officer of Radiance and a member of its board; the identity of the defendant, the company officer and the October 2024 vice chairman of [Radiance Ignite Technologies](/organizations/radiance-ignite-technologies/) rests on the same name and office.[^3][^4] A William Bailey who directs the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (a Notre Dame graduate and test pilot) is a different person.[^5] A William C. Bailey III appears in FEC records with occupations unrelated to the chief executive's; those rows are excluded from the donation figures below.[^6] ### Air Force service and early industry career The company biography gives the military portion as fourteen years that began in B-52 maintenance and moved to research and development engineering at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) and at Phillips Laboratory, now the Air Force Research Laboratory.[^1] NASIC is the successor to the [Foreign Technology Division](/organizations/foreign-technology-division/) at [Wright-Patterson Air Force Base](/places/wright-patterson-air-force-base/). A 2017 Business Council of Alabama member profile states that his career began in the [United States Air Force](/organizations/us-air-force/) as a "B-52 mechanic."[^7] Radiance's own December 2001 and September 2002 web pages on foreign materiel exploitation (the 2002 page lists "Hardware Reverse Engineering" and "ELINT, COMINT, FISINT, and MASINT Analysis") name Bill Bailey as the contact for the Intelligence Community support area.[^8] ### Radiance Technologies Radiance began operating on March 15, 1999 under the founders George Clark, John Dennis and Scott Dublin.[^9] On January 29, 2013 the company announced that its board had appointed Bailey president effective January 15, 2013; he had been a Radiance employee for twelve years and had moved up from senior vice president and manager of the Intelligence Systems Group. George Clark, one of the original founders, remained chairman of the board, and the company had ended 2012 with approximately $140 million in revenue.[^10] A later company biography describes Bailey as chief executive of a "$200M 100% employee-owned small business" with "core competencies in developing advanced technologies, integrating systems, performing technical intelligence, and providing engineering services to the Department of Defense."[^1] Under his tenure the company won the NOVASTAR contract from NASIC (announced August 19, 2022; a five-award indefinite delivery vehicle, with Radiance's vehicle FA860422DB008 carrying a $4,797,000,000 ceiling to August 18, 2027). Bailey said the award reflected "20 years of hard work" with "our customer, NASIC."[^11] On April 22, 2022 Radiance hired Travis Taylor; Bailey was quoted calling Taylor "an outstanding and highly qualified scientist."[^12] On May 12, 2022 the company announced [Jay Stratton](/people/jay-stratton/) as "SME for Intel Strategy" and member of "the CEO's Strategy Team", noting that he had most recently been the first director of the [UAP Task Force](/organizations/uap-task-force/).[^13] On March 17, 2025 Radiance opened a Research and Innovation Center in Cummings Research Park; Bailey said there was "no better place to start a company in this world than Huntsville, Alabama," credited the congressional delegation by name (Richard Shelby, Robert Aderholt, Dale Strong, Katie Britt, Tommy Tuberville), and described the 100 percent employee ownership as "the rocket fuel."[^14] On April 21, 2026 he was quoted announcing Darien Hammett's promotion to chief operating officer.[^15] ### Radiance Ignite Technologies The October 14, 2024 announcement of the joint venture of Radiance and [Ignite Fueling Innovation](/organizations/ignite-fueling-innovation/) names [Clayton Hinchman](/people/clayton-hinchman/) president and chairman and Bailey vice chairman.[^4] The Alabama Secretary of State record shows the venture's formation on July 10, 2024.[^4] ### Louisiana ties Radiance operates in Shreveport and Baton Rouge. On August 25, 2025 Louisiana Economic Development announced a $370.65 million secure microchip packaging facility in Lincoln Parish with Radiance, Louisiana Tech University and the Louisiana Tech University Foundation; the state committed $20 million in matching funds to the foundation and $17 million to Louisiana Tech. Bailey said the partnership was "a win-win opportunity that will benefit Radiance, Tech, Ruston and the entire state."[^16] Bailey gave $25,000 to Conservative Louisiana on March 31, 2026 and $27,100 in four contributions to the Letlow Victory Fund (August 12, 2022 to March 19, 2026).[^6] ### Berry v. Bailey Heath Berry and four other former Radiance employees sued Bailey, the Radiance directors Robert E. (Bud) Cramer, Jim Scanlon, Jed Deason, Jim Poss, Carol Tevepaugh and John F. Thompson, Argent Trust Company, Argent Financial Group and an Argent officer. The suit was begun in Madison County, Alabama, and removed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on April 25, 2024 as case 5:24-cv-00522 (Judge Corey L. Maze).[^3] The plaintiffs filed a second amended verified complaint on August 21, 2024, pleading eight counts: direct and derivative breach of fiduciary duty against Bailey (Counts I and III), against the board members (II and IV) and against the Argent defendants (V and VI), and two ERISA counts against all defendants (VII and VIII), on behalf of participants in the Radiance Employee Stock Ownership Plan and holders of stock appreciation rights.[^3] The plaintiffs alleged that in early 2023 Bailey began exploring a sale of Radiance; that after offers from Axient and BlueHalo the board retained Jefferies, producing about fourteen offers narrowed to five, each "in a range of two times (2X) the ESOP's last appraised value"; that Bailey did not want a sale because he would not remain chief executive; that he fired Radiance president Tim Tinsley in the middle of due diligence; and that he told the board that "product(s) and programs" would lift the valuation when those products and programs "did not even exist." The complaint alleges the board then voted to table the sale and that a "brain-drain" of senior staff followed.[^3] These are the plaintiffs' allegations in a case dismissed without a ruling on the facts. The Radiance defendants moved to dismiss on September 4, 2024, calling the suit "a nuisance suit from five former Radiance Technologies, Inc. employees" who now work for competitors, and stating that Radiance had sued two of them (Radiance Technologies, Inc. v. Berry, 47-CV-2024-90092, Madison County Circuit Court; Radiance Technologies, Inc. v. Baker, 5:24-cv-00794, N.D. Ala.).[^3] On September 18, 2025 the court granted the motions to dismiss: the plaintiffs lacked standing for the direct state-law claims, ERISA preempted the remaining state-law claims, and the ERISA claims failed for non-exhaustion of the plan's administrative remedies. The court dismissed all claims without prejudice and closed the case.[^3] ### Political contributions The FEC records itemized contributions under the name William C. Bailey, with employer Radiance Technologies and occupations of chief executive, president, chairman, vice president or senior vice president, from April 24, 2006 (a $1,000 contribution to Mike DeWine's U.S. Senate committee) through June 30, 2026: 137 itemized rows totaling $818,118.51. Annual totals run $2,500 (2006), $3,000 (2008), $2,400 (2009), $3,500 (2010), $6,900 (2011), nothing itemized from 2012 through 2017, $4,000 (2018), $12,400 (2019), $14,550 (2020), $26,700 (2021), $64,557 (2022), $106,965 (2023), $108,876 (2024), $253,271 (2025) and $208,500 (January through June 2026).[^6] By committee, the largest totals are Grow the Majority ($270,000, five rows, May 3, 2024 to June 30, 2026); Steve Scalise's Scalise Leadership Fund ($115,000, eight rows, May 4, 2021 to April 27, 2026); the Tuberville Victory Fund ($35,000, three rows, October 21, 2023 to March 31, 2025); the Letlow Victory Fund of Julia Letlow ($27,100, four rows, August 12, 2022 to March 19, 2026); Britt Senate Victory ($26,000, April 28, 2025); Conservative Louisiana ($25,000, March 31, 2026); the Johnson Leadership Fund of Mike Johnson ($20,000, December 31, 2023); the Strong Victory Fund ($17,000, two rows, February 28 and April 27, 2026); and Jerry Carl for Congress ($15,570.71, three rows, May 22, 2022 to September 26, 2025).[^6] Contributions to members of Congress and senators with intelligence, armed services or appropriations roles are itemized as follows: Mike Rogers for Congress, $14,500 (seven rows, June 29, 2020 to March 18, 2025) and Mike Rogers Victory, $1,000 (October 10, 2023); Dale Strong for Congress, $14,100 (five rows, June 11, 2021 to March 19, 2024); Katie Britt, Britt for Alabama Inc., $11,200 (five rows, December 31, 2021 to May 2, 2023), Team Katie, $5,800 (October 26, 2022) and Britt Senate Victory, $5,000 (September 27, 2024); Tommy Tuberville, Tuberville for Senate Inc., $9,500 (three rows, March 29, 2021 to July 25, 2025); Mike Turner, Citizens for Turner, $9,200 (four rows, June 30, 2008 to July 31, 2024); Robert Aderholt for Congress, $7,057 (three rows, June 21, 2021 to September 30, 2025); Mo Brooks for Congress, $5,300 (two rows, April 25, 2019 and October 5, 2020); and Richard Shelby, Shelby for U.S. Senate, $2,400 (April 2, 2009). Earlier recipients include Jeff Sessions (Friends of Sessions Senate Committee, $5,000, January 8, 2020) and Doug Jones (Doug Jones for Senate Committee, fifteen rows totaling $3,200, August 14, 2019 to October 31, 2020).[^6] The Radiance PAC (committee C00372979, first filed February 12, 2002) has listed E. Scott Dublin (2002 to 2018), Seth Crochet (2020 to 2024) and Robert Seth Brasher (2026) as treasurer; Bailey is not listed as treasurer. The PAC's own itemized gifts include $37,100 to Rogers, $51,250 to Turner and $25,000 to the Turner Victory Fund.[^6] The Business Council of Alabama lists Bailey on its 2026 board, and 256 Today reported on February 12, 2026 that he is a member of the campaign finance committee of Tuberville's campaign.[^17][^18] ### UAP-related claims touching Radiance Radiance's president Tim Tinsley told KLAS-TV's George Knapp on October 13, 2022, about a hypothetical request to take apart a UFO, "Why not. I'm waiting for one of those," and "No, we provide customer solutions"; Taylor said "Jay and I are working on growing the capabilities, doing reverse engineering of foreign materials." The report states that Radiance "isn't able to confirm the allegations" about crash-retrieval briefings.[^19] The report does not quote Bailey. On December 3, 2023 Liberation Times published Daniel Sheehan's statement that Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and "now Radiance Technologies" were "given particular discrete aspects of the technology to try to figure it out." The same article states that the outlet was unable to substantiate the claim, that multiple sources described it as untrue, and that Stratton and Taylor were "in no way involved in any coverup."[^20] [^1]: Radiance Technologies, Inc., "William C. Bailey, Jr., Chief Executive Officer" (leadership page), Wayback capture of November 14, 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20251114213806/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/leadership/bill-bailey/ [^2]: Alabama Secretary of State, business entity record for Radiance Technologies, Inc., ID 000-195-724 (restated articles, directors, entered May 19, 2014). https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=000195724&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= [^3]: Berry v. Bailey, No. 5:24-cv-00522-CLM (N.D. Ala.): Doc. 33, second amended and restated verified complaint (August 21, 2024); Doc. 42, Radiance defendants' motion to dismiss (September 4, 2024); Doc. 68, memorandum opinion (September 18, 2025); CourtListener docket 68716598 (filed 2024-04-25, terminated 2025-09-18). https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.alnd.189482/gov.uscourts.alnd.189482.68.0.pdf ; https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68716598/berry-v-bailey/ [^4]: PR Newswire, "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," October 14, 2024 (release 302275375); Alabama Secretary of State, Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC, ID 001-144-448. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture-302275375.html [^5]: Potomac Officers Club, speaker profile of William Bailey (Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office). https://potomacofficersclub.com/speakers/william-bailey-3/ [^6]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A (individual contributions, employer Radiance Technologies) and committee record C00372979, retrieved through the FEC API in October 2026. Itemized rows counted: contributor name William or Bill Bailey (excluding "III"), occupations chief executive, president, executive, chairman, vice president or senior vice president; memo entries excluded. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committee/C00372979/ [^7]: Business Council of Alabama, "Radiance Technologies Shines in the Employee-Owned World," September 7, 2017. https://www.bcatoday.org/tag/bill-bailey/ [^8]: Radiance Technologies web pages "Foreign Materiel Exploitation" (Wayback, October 27, 2001) and "Intelligence Community Support" (Wayback, September 27, 2002). https://web.archive.org/web/20020927213934/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/ServicesForeignMaterialExp.html [^9]: Radiance Technologies, "About Us," Wayback capture of July 11, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170711221013/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/ [^10]: Radiance Technologies, Inc., "William C. 'Bill' Bailey, Jr. Appointed President of Radiance Technologies," January 29, 2013. https://www.radiancetech.com/william-c-bill-bailey-appointed-president-of-radiance-technologies [^11]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Wins NOVASTAR Contract for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center," August 2022; USAspending, IDV FA860422DB008. https://www.radiancetech.com/radiance-technologies-wins-novastar-contract-for-the-national-air-and-space-intelligence-center/ [^12]: ExecutiveGov, April 22, 2022, on the hiring of Travis Taylor. https://www.executivegov.com/?p=233066 [^13]: PR Newswire, "John F. Stratton Jr. Joins Radiance Technologies as SME for Intel Strategy," May 12, 2022 (release 301546258), Wayback capture. https://web.archive.org/web/20220512145721id_/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/john-f-stratton-jr-joins-radiance-technologies-as-sme-for-intel-strategy-301546258.html [^14]: Huntsville Business Journal, "The right stuff: local defense company celebrates success," March 19, 2025. https://huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/news/2025/03/19/the-right-stuff-local-defense-company-celebrates-success [^15]: 256 Today, "Radiance Technologies promotes Darien Hammett to chief operating officer," April 21, 2026. https://256today.com/radiance-technologies-promotes-darien-hammett-to-chief-operating-officer/ [^16]: Louisiana Economic Development, "Radiance Technologies Announces $370 Million Microchip Facility in North Louisiana," August 25, 2025. https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/radiance-technologies-announces-370-million-microchip-facility-in-north-louisiana-to-bolster-and-secure-national-supply-chains [^17]: Business Council of Alabama, 2026 Board of Directors. https://www.bcatoday.org/bca-board-of-directors [^18]: 256 Today, "North Alabama business leaders anchor Tuberville's campaign finance committee," February 12, 2026. https://256today.com/north-alabama-business-leaders-anchor-tubervilles-campaign-finance-committee/ [^19]: KLAS-TV 8 News Now (George Knapp), "Is this company working with alien technology in Nevada?" October 13, 2022. https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/is-this-company-working-with-alien-technology-in-nevada/ [^20]: Liberation Times, Daniel Sheehan interview, December 3, 2023. Sole source for the Sheehan passages so cited. https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/daniel-sheehan-exposes-five-powerful-republicans-blocking-ufo-disclosure-act-as-the-clock-ticks-down