Corporate Member Profile:
Founded: 1989
Website: www.trentonsystems.com
CEO: Michael Bowling
What are your company’s main products and services offered to the sea services?
Bowling: Trenton Systems has provided and continues to provide the sea services with cybersecure, high-performance, rugged computer systems designed, manufactured, assembled, tested and supported in the United States.
The sea services have always greatly appreciated that we make our own boards right here at home, in beautiful, sunny Georgia, USA, where we’ve remained since we opened our doors in 1989.
How does your company believe it can help further the United States’ defense and security sectors?
Bowling: Trenton Systems is uniquely positioned to satisfy today’s defense and security requirements for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the single most important reason is this: We manufacture our servers and workstations with hardware, firmware, and software cybersecurity, supply chain security, and protection of sensitive data in mind from the moment our engineers begin whiteboarding, not to mention that we design, manufacture, assemble, test and provide technical support for our solutions in our secure facility, located right here in the USA.
Daily, brilliant minds working for our nation’s sea services are tasked with upholding the integrity of our country’s national security programs and initiatives. Our dedication to creating secure, made-in-USA computers provides these personnel, and our other security-conscious customers, with a certain degree of assurance that the computing solutions they’re acquiring to help defend the nation and support its critical infrastructure processes are, in fact, originating from a trusted, secure, uncompromised source.
What differentiates your company from similar players in your market?
Bowling: Trenton Systems’ competitive differentiators are numerous, but I’ll focus on the five we believe to be the most important and relevant to the sea services:
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- We have a Counterfeit Protection Program (CPP). The CPP detects, identifies, reports and disposes of suspected counterfeit electronic parts, ensuring that our customers receive vetted, untampered, uncompromised computing solutions.
- We secure our supply chain. Our strict revision control process, supplier vetting procedures, and partnerships with manufacturers that implement similar and identical practices helps ensure the security and integrity of our supply chain, and thus, our computers.
- We design and manufacture our own boards in Atlanta, Georgia. The fact that we design and manufacture our own boards in the United States provides security and customization benefits to the customer. We own the design, and we own the build, which means we can modify our solutions from the board up to satisfy unique requirements and create innovative, never-before-seen servers and workstations that, quite literally, belong only to our customers.
- We’ve been in business for 32 years. Trenton Systems is not a newcomer to the industry. For 31 years now, we’ve supplied major aerospace and defense customers with the computing solutions they need to defend, detect, deter, engage, neutralize, mitigate and recover.
- We provide strong anti-tamper support. Trenton Systems employs a strong anti-tamper (AT) program intended to prevent and delay exploitation of critical technologies in United States weapon systems, training devices and maintenance support equipment. Of particular interest are our firmware security technologies, including Intel PFR, TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and Secure Flash.
What do you think is one of the biggest challenges addressing the sea services today?
Bowling: The biggest challenge facing the sea services today is designing a force structure that meets a new era of great uncertainty using the right supportive high-performance computing architectures built around a mission-focused, threat-resilient command that doesn’t rely on offshored high-performance computers.
What made your company decide to join the Navy League of the United States? How do you see your company participating or working with the Navy League to further their mission?
Bowling: We believe the Navy League’s mission of supporting and enhancing the morale of sea service personnel and their families is aligned with our continued support of sea service personnel relative to the provision of reliable, secure, high-performance computing architectures that power their daily tasks.
We joined not only as a show of support for the furtherance of these goals but as a commitment in allegiance to the brave sea services personnel who defend, tirelessly and diligently, our liberty, our safety and our comfortability as Americans.
Like the Navy League, Trenton Systems serves those who serve others, and we’ve done so since opening our doors 31 years ago.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Trenton Systems’ secure, rugged, high-performance computers are powering numerous sea services programs and applications right now, including, but not limited to:
- The Aegis Combat System.
- Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
- The U.S.S. Gerald Ford’s Jet Launch Command System.
Given recent high-profile cyberattacks on both government and industry, it’s evident that procurers of high-performance computing solutions within the defense and aerospace industries are developing a novel pain point: high-performance computers that are not only cybersecure but built from the board up in the United States with trusted, counterfeit-resistant components originating from a vetted and secure supply chain.
That’s the secret sauce, and Trenton Systems, considering its locale, commitment to cybersecurity and complete control over the manufacturing process, has proven time and time and again that it is, indeed, the chef.