Built on Years of Experience

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Proven Track Record in Mission-Critical Communications

Since 2014, Automation Innovations (Team AI) has delivered Microwave Line of Sight (MLoS) infrastructure and Field Service Representative (FSR) support across some of the most demanding operational environments in the world. Our work ensures that the warfighter has reliable, secure, and high-capacity communications whenever and wherever the mission requires.

Global Operations

Team AI has successfully executed tower climbing, installations, and MLoS deployments across: Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Sinai, UAE, Romania, Greece, Germany, Turkey, and the United States.

Our ability to operate globally comes from years of experience in the Southwest Asia (SWA) area of operations, coupled with cultural understanding and host-nation coordination.

Tower Climbing Expertise

Our tower climbing team brings unmatched expertise, combining certified personnel, rigorous in-house training, and operational experience to ensure safety, compliance, and mission readiness in even the most challenging environments.

  • 100% Tower Certified Workforce: All Team AI employees are tower climber/rescuers
  • U.S. Cleared Personnel: Minimum SECRET clearance for all climbers and FSRs
  • In-House Training: Certified safety, rescue, and rigging instructors ensure compliance and readiness in-theater
  • Risk Management: Extensive experience mitigating hazards on towers not governed by OSHA/ANSI standards

Cambium Networks Certified Partner

Automation Innovations is a Cambium Networks Certified Defense Partner, and the only company in SWA with this distinction. Our certified team includes:

  • Cambium Certified Design Architects
  • Cambium Installation & Configuration Instructors
  • Cambium Certified RF Experts

This deep partnership ensures our solutions meet the highest standards of reliability and performance.

The “3 Key Zeros” –

Performance You Can Trust

For more than five years, Team AI has maintained:

  • 1.

    Zero outage time attributed to Team AI work.

  • 2.

    Zero incidents or accidents.

  • 3.

    Zero mission-critical failures.

This record demonstrates our unwavering commitment to safety, reliability, and mission success.

With Dr. Frost leading Team AI for over five years — and every one of our employees returning to continue the mission — customers can be confident that Team AI delivers proven performance, zero risk, and the stellar service that has become our trademark.

Supported Military Units & Operations

Team AI is proud to have supported a wide range of U.S. and coalition units across multiple theaters of operation, including:

  • Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR)
  • U.S. Army Central (ARCENT)
  • 160th Signal Brigade
  • Special Operations Joint Task Force – OIR (SOJTF-OIR)
  • Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC)
  • Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT)
  • Air Forces Central (AFCENT)
  • ADA Patriot Battery – Top Notch

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Leadership Team

Dr. Maxville Lew Van Frost

He has over 35 years of expertise in the field of Information Technology. For the last 10 years, Dr. Frost has been specifically working on expanding the use of MLoS technology as a means of building reliable network infrastructure. In 2012, Dr. Frost developed a solution that expanded the utilization of the existing MLoS capability beyond its original use of exchange and routing of ISR video and began transmitting data and voice making networks available to sites and units that otherwise had no connectivity to military SIPR and NIPR networks or the internet. Initial field-testing conducted at Camp Leatherneck in Southwest Afghanistan resulted in a solution broadening the pipeline capacity and expanding utilization beyond just being a relay of ISR video information.

In 2015, Dr. Frost led the first team to begin fielding MLoS into the CJTF-OIR AO conducting field tests and demonstrations at Camp Arifjan, and shortly thereafter, beginning fielding across Iraq. His experience, knowledge, innovation and commitment to this project have taken the MLoS technology from being an afterthought to the forefront of solutions to extend Tier 1 and Tier 2 networks. This innovation has led MLoS to become a preferred solution to fill network infrastructure requirements over other less reliable, more expensive solutions such as Teck-V, SNAP, and in many cases fiber. Even within the Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Patriot Battery Commands, Dr. Frost’s work with MLoS has led to the Missile Defense System Command shift in technology away from TROPO and ULTRA-TROPO to MLoS.

In addition to the direct support and leadership to the OIR MLoS efforts, Dr. Frost has also been a keynote speaker on the benefits and capabilities of MLoS technology to the warfighter at the AFRICOM Infrastructure Symposiums in Stuttgart, Germany (twice), and the DISA Telecommunication Critical Infrastructure Symposium in Manama, Bahrain (once). As such, he has become the recognized Subject Matter Expert for all things MLoS at USCENTCOM at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, and across multiple Combatant Commands (COCOM). He has served within the SWA Theater of operations for the last 6 years in Kuwait as the Deployed MLoS Program Manager. Dr. Frost is also an Advanced (“Competent”) Tower Climbing Safety/Rescuer and Tower Climbing Instructor.

Vision Realized: Helping Clients Achieve Theirs

Why us?

We are a Mission-Oriented, Customer-Focused Culture. Automation Innovations Values, Vision, and Mission are critical to our success and the success of our customers, our partners, our people, and most importantly, our Warfighters upholding our Freedoms around the world. Our commitment to their missions, our relentless pursuit of innovation and economic solutioning, our respect for our profession, and our pledge to uphold the highest ethical standards are the principles by which our company succeeds.

Corporate values

To achieve our Vision, we know that we must uphold the highest standards to earn the trust and respect of others. We do this by focusing on the following:
  • Integrity — Know and do the right thing for our customers, our team, and our company
  • Teamwork — Work collaboratively to always deliver the best value and accomplish the mission
  • Dedication — Always commit to do whatever it takes to get the job done
  • Excellence — Provide the highest quality of services and solutions at every level of performance

Team Member "I" Values

At Automation Innovations, we don’t subscribe to, “there is no ‘I’ in Team”. Collectively, we are the sum of all our I’s. And when we perform well as a Team, we are greater than the sum of all our I’s. However, this begins by recognizing that every single ‘I’ is important. Every ‘I’ is an essential part of our team. We depend on every “I” to perform to their utmost.

 

We instill this in all our team members by impressing the following “I” values:

  • Integrity — Maintain the trust and confidence of our customers and teammates
  • Innovation — Think out of the box
  • Initiative — Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done
  • Involvement — Participate in our customer’s pain
  • Immersion — Deep dive into all aspects of a challenge
  • Input — Contribute with your thoughts and actions
  • Intelligence — Make timely and well-reasoned decisions

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