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NineTwelve develops and delivers mission-critical capabilities to solve the nation’s top national security and defense challenges. We bring together government, academia, and industry to design and operate world class, first-of-their-kind facilities that enable cross-sector collaboration to accelerate technological innovation to advance national security. Our focus areas include trusted microelectronics, hypersonic development, advanced manufacturing, and 5G/advanced communications.
We are a team of dynamic, mission-driven leaders and subject matter experts with diverse experience in the military, state and federal government, information technology, manufacturing, and real estate development.
NineTwelve is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, with a diverse network of staff and strategic partners throughout the country.
President
Chad Pittman leverages more than twenty years of experience in technology commercialization, real estate development, economic development, and as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army to help drive technology commercialization for the betterment of humankind.
Pittman previously served as the Vice President of the Purdue Research Foundation’s National Security & Defense Program Office where he managed the development and implementation of strategies to leverage Purdue’s research and workforce capabilities in the National Security Community and served as an engagement leader to the business community. He also served as the Vice President of the Office of Technology Commercialization where he led the transformation of that organization resulting in sustained record- producing years for Purdue in technology commercialization.
Pittman is a cofounder and chairman of the Battery Innovation Center which focuses on advancing economic development while providing development, testing and evaluation services for new energy storage technologies from innovators across the United States. He serves as a board member of the Indy Innovation Challenge which hosts the Indy Autonomous Challenge. He previously served as the Chief of Staff and Executive Vice President for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), which is the state’s leading economic development agency. Pittman started his career as a land use attorney at Bose McKinney and Evans before joining a large homebuilder where he led their land development and market development teams in Indiana and the Carolinas.
Pittman is a Colonel in the Indiana Army National Guard and currently serves as the Deputy Commander of the 54th Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB). He served as a rifle platoon leader and rifle company commander in 2003 and 2008 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pittman also served as a detachment chief and team lead for Task Force Echo 1 at Fort Meade, MD. His military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal, and the Combat Infantryman Badge.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University Kelley School of Business, a J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and a master’s in national security and strategy with distinction from the Naval War College and a member of the Halsey Bravo Program. He maintains his Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification.
Chief Manufacturing Officer
Kent Anderson is an experienced international operations leader and manager with emphasis on manufacturing and logistics. Anderson is Chief Manufacturing Officer at NineTwelve and Director of the Emerging Manufacturing Collaboration Center (EMC2). He specializes in supply chain design, implementation and management, packaging corrosion protection integration, line feeding planning and implementation, logistical capacity planning, transportation planning, and custom packaging design.
Anderson was an officer of the U.S. Army National Guard, with seventeen years of service as a Multifunctional Logistician and Medical Service Corp Officer with the 38TH Infantry Division of the Indiana Army National Guard.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the United States Naval Academy, a master’s degree in international business studies from Darla Moore School of Business, and a certificate for advanced manufacturing machinery technician from Vincennes University.
Chief Innovation Officer
Brian Hibbeln is currently the Chief Innovation Officer for NineTwelve. Prior to joining NineTwelve, Hibbeln served over 20 years as a senior civilian in the U.S. Government. His final assignment was the Director of the Remote Sensing Center – National Capital Region (RSC-NCR), where he managed over $8B in U.S. Government contracts. The RSC-NCR supported the DoD and U.S. intelligence community with technology demonstrations and operational support to combatant commanders around the world.
Hibbeln is a retired Air Force Reserve Officer with over 23 years of service. His final assignment was to the Mission Support Directorate of the National Reconnaissance Office. Hibbeln also served as the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Special Capabilities in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as the Chief Scientist and Chief Systems Engineer of the Measurement and Signatures Intelligence Staff at the National Reconnaissance Office.
VP, National Security & Defense
Alison French oversees the entire portfolio of federal contracts supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and other national security programs for NineTwelve. As Vice President of National Security and Defense, she works across all NineTwelve focus areas and initiatives to deliver mission critical solutions for the government. French manages the national security and defense team, facilitates collaboration with subject matter experts and key partners, works directly with government customers and stakeholders to ensure the team is meeting objectives, manages the technology test and assessments process, and conducts strategic planning and business development for future innovation projects.
French has eight years of experience working for the Department of Defense and certifications in acquisition, engineering, and test and evaluation (T&E) from Defense Acquisition University. Seven of those years were spent working as a federal civilian for the Department of the Navy (DoN), where she received the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for shaping DoD and DoN Acquisition Policy and proliferating T&E best practices that improved program planning, execution, and accelerated delivery of warfighter capability.
French holds a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in biotechnology from Brown University.
VP, Strategic Engagements
Jason Gorey, Vice President of Strategic Engagements, brings nearly two decades of experience in national security innovation, defense industrial base, hypersonics, microelectronics, cyber, and foreign affairs. While serving in the Pentagon, he was Executive Secretary for the Defense Production Act Committee, coordinating across multiple agencies on actions to safeguard and strengthen national defense supply chains.
Previously, Gorey held a career in human intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency and was appointed by the White House as a Senior Foreign Affairs Officer at the Department of State. As a military officer, he is currently a Reserve Defense Attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency. Previously, he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as the Officer in Charge of Computer Network Defense for U.S. Army networks.
Gorey earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from Georgetown University and a post-graduate diploma in National Security and Intelligence Studies from National Intelligence University.
Director, Advanced Manufacturing
As Director of Advanced Manufacturing, Georgian Simion works across all NineTwelve initiatives related to manufacturing operations. He supports the State of Indiana Manufacturing Readiness Program and provides professional consulting services to companies across the State Core competencies: manufacturing, production and engineering leadership, process flow design, lean manufacturing, 6 sigma, quality control, supply chain, new product introduction, change management, succession plans and personality assessments.
Georgian has 25 years of experience in manufacturing and engineering leadership. Sixteen of these years were with companies that provided critical electronic assemblies for DoD programs across air, land, sea, and space.
In addition to a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Transilvania University in Romania – Europe, Georgian is a Black Belt Lean/6 Sigma Team leader with hundreds of hours of training in operations, engineering and technology leadership, process design and improvement, people development and succession plans.