Oct 12, 2026 · 56 min · 31 segments
Colorado Springs is home to some of the nation's most innovative defense and technology companies, and Bluestaq is helping demonstrate the region's growing influence in secure data infrastructure…
It's good to have somebody from Blue Stack in the house because you've got to admit, this has probably been a pretty amazing ride.
It's been definitely a hold on tight and let's see how long we can hang on for.
And man, it's been a ride since 2020 when I joined Blue Stack, but it's been a lot of fun.
You are a graduate of the Air Force Academy, but give us a little background on you all the way up to Blue Stack.
And I felt like it was an omen that the sky was sunny because growing up in upstate New York, we see the sun about twice a year.
And so the fact that it was sunny two days in a row, man, I must be in the right place.
And I felt like by the time I graduated, I could solve any homework problem, figure out some complex equation.
And then I became an engineer in the Air Force and realized it was all about PowerPoint slides and understanding the federal acquisition regulations.
And so that was a humbling moment for me, Dirk, when I realized that my hands weren't really going to get dirty like I thought they were.
Lots of far looking plans for what satellites we should be putting on orbit a decade out.
and then got to be the chief engineer out at the National Space Defense Center, where I finally got a taste of getting my hands dirty again.
It was figuring out how to put up two layers of drywall instead of one to make sure a room could be really quiet from the outside.
It's good to have somebody from Blue Stack in the house because you've got to admit, this has probably been a pretty amazing ride.
It's been definitely a hold on tight and let's see how long we can hang on for.
And man, it's been a ride since 2020 when I joined Blue Stack, but it's been a lot of fun.
You are a graduate of the Air Force Academy, but give us a little background on you all the way up to Blue Stack.
And I felt like it was an omen that the sky was sunny because growing up in upstate New York, we see the sun about twice a year.
And so the fact that it was sunny two days in a row, man, I must be in the right place.
And I felt like by the time I graduated, I could solve any homework problem, figure out some complex equation.
And then I became an engineer in the Air Force and realized it was all about PowerPoint slides and understanding the federal acquisition regulations.
And so that was a humbling moment for me, Dirk, when I realized that my hands weren't really going to get dirty like I thought they were.
Lots of far looking plans for what satellites we should be putting on orbit a decade out.
and then got to be the chief engineer out at the National Space Defense Center, where I finally got a taste of getting my hands dirty again.
It was figuring out how to put up two layers of drywall instead of one to make sure a room could be really quiet from the outside.
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