WT 360: The market from all angles
Jul 20, 2026 · 36 min · 12 segments
LMI touts itself as a provider of “commercial-grade, mission-ready technology” as a description of its goal to bring fast-moving technology into federal environments with strict requirements on…
Alex AdamczykGuest
Ross WilkersHost
LMI centers its strategy and vision around being a provider of what it calls commercial-grade, mission-ready technology.
But of course, it takes more than just having an inventive tool to make government missions go.
Alex Adamczyk is LMI's Vice President for Sales Engineering and Rapid Prototyping.
He's here with me, Ross Wilkers, to connect the company's tech and innovation approach with its business blueprint and the blueprint of its government customers, too.
Alex, commercial-grade, mission-ready technology, what do you all mean in saying that?
Yeah, as a couple of pieces to it, I think a lot of this is we've just accepted too little for too long in the government.
We've been just willing to accept clunky user interfaces that take a ton of training to learn how to use that continue 10 clicks to get anything done.
And that's just how we've always accepted like, yep, that that's just what we're going to have in the government.
And so for this commercial grade, And Mission Ready is holding ourselves to a higher standard of what we're building for our customers.
So on the commercial grade side, it should look and feel like all of the other stuff that you're going to have everywhere else in your life.
No one sat there and taught you how to use Google Maps or how to use your iPhone or all these other things.
And so commercial grade to us is it should solve the mission, but needs to look and feel and be as easy to use as any other application that you're going to have from anywhere else.
I think the other part we've accepted for way too long in the federal government is, okay, there's this solution out there that's being used in industry or in the commercial space.
I'm going to bring that in and it's going to take, 18, 36 months until that system is up and riding in the federal government.
There's no reason why this technology shouldn't be working out of the box on day one, and it should just be easy to seamlessly roll out across an organization.
And so that's really the two of us, our mantra around that is holding ourselves to a much, much higher standard than I think we've been willing to accept across the government for a long time.
LMI centers its strategy and vision around being a provider of what it calls commercial-grade, mission-ready technology.
But of course, it takes more than just having an inventive tool to make government missions go.
Alex Adamczyk is LMI's Vice President for Sales Engineering and Rapid Prototyping.
He's here with me, Ross Wilkers, to connect the company's tech and innovation approach with its business blueprint and the blueprint of its government customers, too.
Alex, commercial-grade, mission-ready technology, what do you all mean in saying that?
Yeah, as a couple of pieces to it, I think a lot of this is we've just accepted too little for too long in the government.
We've been just willing to accept clunky user interfaces that take a ton of training to learn how to use that continue 10 clicks to get anything done.
And that's just how we've always accepted like, yep, that that's just what we're going to have in the government.
And so for this commercial grade, And Mission Ready is holding ourselves to a higher standard of what we're building for our customers.
So on the commercial grade side, it should look and feel like all of the other stuff that you're going to have everywhere else in your life.
No one sat there and taught you how to use Google Maps or how to use your iPhone or all these other things.
And so commercial grade to us is it should solve the mission, but needs to look and feel and be as easy to use as any other application that you're going to have from anywhere else.
I think the other part we've accepted for way too long in the federal government is, okay, there's this solution out there that's being used in industry or in the commercial space.
I'm going to bring that in and it's going to take, 18, 36 months until that system is up and riding in the federal government.
There's no reason why this technology shouldn't be working out of the box on day one, and it should just be easy to seamlessly roll out across an organization.
And so that's really the two of us, our mantra around that is holding ourselves to a much, much higher standard than I think we've been willing to accept across the government for a long time.
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