Moebius Solutions

Robert Hastings has 21 years of software development experience, including 16 years in leadership roles in all phases of the software development life-cycle. In addition to his current position as President of Moebius Solutions, Inc., he has been the Principal Engineer for CCG (Controlled C2PC Gateway Accelerator), CJB (C2PC Java Bindings), and CII... L (C2PC ICSF Interface Layer) for the last 9 years. Robert was the Lead Software Architect for the GCCS 4.X visualization segments (JMV, AFW IFL, TMSV) for one year (1998-1999), and Chief Software Architect for C2PC for 2 years (1996-1998), Software Lead for 1 year of GCCS-M 3.X (1996), Software Lead for 3 years of Tactical Object Manager. Mr. Robert Hastings has been the Software Lead for the Open Track Manager project for the past two years. My early experiences with software development within the Department of Defense (DoD) community were challenging and rewarding. But, one thing that has always troubled me is how "closed source" the development was. The company that I worked for maintained the "INRI force field", restricting access to technical data to its employees. However, all the development was funded by tax payer dollars, so it seemed that we should have actually been required to share all of the technical data with the DoD and authorized DoD contractors. Thus, when I had the opportunity to found Moebius Solutions, Inc. I had a vision that we would be as "open as possible". At this point, I think we have been pretty successful building an opensource culture. For example, Common Track Manager has over 100 committers, which is nearly double the number of Moebius developers. I wanted to found a company that gathered and maintained software development technical excellence. That vision has served Moebius Solutions well. We are not the fastest growing company around, but we have a reputation with our customers of being a software development powerhouse. I recently had one of our customers tell me: Moebius Solutions prides itself on being an open-source ...Read More