2018 Distinguished Alumni Award
College of Science
Steven Wear
MS '90
Founder and Board of Directors Member, Integrity Applications, Inc.
Steven Wear MS ’90 is one of the founders of Integrity Application Incorporated (IAI), an engineering firm with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. IAI has offices across the United States, all providing its customers in the intelligence and defense communities with engineering expertise focused on the entire end-to-end systems and mission view. Providing services such as: modeling and simulation of complex systems that aid customers’ understanding of design capabilities; analyzing product chains to verify performance, then developing technical algorithms for enhancing system performance, if needed; implementing complete systems engineering functionality (e.g., requirements development, verification and validation, cost analysis, etc.) to ensure customers’ needs are met; developing image analysis and photogrammetric software programs to improve end user insight—all of these leading to IAI’s ultimate goal of ensuring its customers’ mission success.
IAI has been conducting business since February 1999, ending the year with eight employees (including Steve and his three partners) and annual gross revenue of $1.4 million. IAI grew, by the end of 2017, to over 770 employees with $206 million in annual gross revenue. Over that time span, the total revenue earned by the company was over $1.5 billion. The company has won multiple awards for being a “best employer,” as well as awards recognizing its rapid year-to-year growth. In February 2018, IAI was acquired by Arlington Capital Partners (ACP), a Washington, D.C. area private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum.
Steven Wear is a graduate of RIT’s College of Science, from its School of Imaging Science, receiving a master’s degree in 1990. While working on his graduate thesis, Steve participated in an Education-with-Industry position at Eastman Kodak, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, as an optical systems engineer. Upon graduation he went to work in the U.S.A.F.’s Office of Special Projects, its preeminent organization delegated with the responsibility for developing key intelligence assets to support national security. Steve’s technical experience spans the full spectrum of satellite system acquisition from concept development and requirements definition through program initialization and operations. He has 32 years of high technology program acquisition experience, playing key systems engineering and technical analysis roles in support of several U.S. government agencies acquiring or operating multi-billion dollar space systems. He is a subject matter expert for satellite ground processing systems and flight and ground software development and acquisitions.
2018 Distinguished Alumni Award
College of Science
Steven Wear
MS '90
Founder and Board of Directors Member, Integrity Applications, Inc.
Steven Wear MS ’90 is one of the founders of Integrity Application Incorporated (IAI), an engineering firm with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. IAI has offices across the United States, all providing its customers in the intelligence and defense communities with engineering expertise focused on the entire end-to-end systems and mission view. Providing services such as: modeling and simulation of complex systems that aid customers’ understanding of design capabilities; analyzing product chains to verify performance, then developing technical algorithms for enhancing system performance, if needed; implementing complete systems engineering functionality (e.g., requirements development, verification and validation, cost analysis, etc.) to ensure customers’ needs are met; developing image analysis and photogrammetric software programs to improve end user insight—all of these leading to IAI’s ultimate goal of ensuring its customers’ mission success.
IAI has been conducting business since February 1999, ending the year with eight employees (including Steve and his three partners) and annual gross revenue of $1.4 million. IAI grew, by the end of 2017, to over 770 employees with $206 million in annual gross revenue. Over that time span, the total revenue earned by the company was over $1.5 billion. The company has won multiple awards for being a “best employer,” as well as awards recognizing its rapid year-to-year growth. In February 2018, IAI was acquired by Arlington Capital Partners (ACP), a Washington, D.C. area private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum.
Steven Wear is a graduate of RIT’s College of Science, from its School of Imaging Science, receiving a master’s degree in 1990. While working on his graduate thesis, Steve participated in an Education-with-Industry position at Eastman Kodak, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, as an optical systems engineer. Upon graduation he went to work in the U.S.A.F.’s Office of Special Projects, its preeminent organization delegated with the responsibility for developing key intelligence assets to support national security. Steve’s technical experience spans the full spectrum of satellite system acquisition from concept development and requirements definition through program initialization and operations. He has 32 years of high technology program acquisition experience, playing key systems engineering and technical analysis roles in support of several U.S. government agencies acquiring or operating multi-billion dollar space systems. He is a subject matter expert for satellite ground processing systems and flight and ground software development and acquisitions.