New Era Technology

In 1985, our founders recognized that the future of transportation would depend on something that didn't yet exist: comprehensive, accurate digital maps. Barry Karlin and Galen Collins pioneered the digitization of navigation with a vision to revolutionize how people and businesses understand and navigate the world. What began as Navteq evolved into HERE Technologies, now the world's #1 location platform powering over 180 million vehicles across more than 200 countries and territories. Today, HERE serves as the unified live map for the world's leading automakers and enterprises. Our location platform enables automotive innovations from automated driving and digital cockpits to advanced driver assistance systems, while also supporting logistics, navigation, and location intelligence across industries. We've been a pioneer in mapping and location technology for nearly four decades, creating the first digital map and continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible with spatial intelligence. Our open, secure platform puts privacy at the forefront, giving customers precision, flexibility, and control over their location data as they build safer, more efficient, and more intelligent solutions for the future of mobility.

Tier One Technologies is a national technical consulting and recruiting firm that partners with government organizations to deliver mission-critical IT solutions. With over 15 years of experience serving the Federal Government sector, the team specializes in staffing IT professionals for Federal, State, and Local clients. Their organizational pedigree spans custom software applications, business intelligence, systems engineering, infrastructure security, and web services - drawing expertise from distributed systems, mainframe environments, and process automation platforms. At Tier One, performance excellence and transparent communication define the client relationship. The team prioritizes deep understanding of organizational workflows and technology environments before integrating that knowledge into service delivery. This approach has earned lasting partnerships and positioned the company as a trusted advisor rather than a typical vendor. The culture emphasizes adaptability, technical precision, and collaborative problem-solving to support Civilian, Defense, Intelligence, and Security missions nationwide.

Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft professional services to the public sector, empowering government agencies with comprehensive cloud solutions and IT modernization strategies. With 14 Microsoft specializations and 27 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards, the company has established itself as an expert across the Microsoft stack. Planet delivers mission-critical solutions including GCC High and CMMC services that protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), Azure Government Secret (IL6) environments for classified workloads, and the YouAlreadyOwnIt® program that optimizes Microsoft licensing investments. The company serves over 1,200 government agency clients across federal, state, and local levels, providing secure, compliant cloud solutions that meet stringent federal requirements including CMMC 2.0, DFARS 7012, NIST 800-171, and ITAR. Planet's 26-year track record of trusted service is exemplified by their first client, the Department of Energy, remaining a customer today. Through their Evolve 365 learning and adoption solution, Planet helps organizations build AI-ready workforces and transform from AI-curious to AI-capable. The company employs talented Microsoft subject matter experts who work side-by-side with clients to rapidly scale solutions for their biggest priorities.

At 22nd Century Technologies, we believe that people are at the heart of everything we build. We treat employees as partners and true assets, creating a culture where everyone can thrive professionally while experiencing a high quality of life. Our limited hierarchy and flat, matrixed structure means we value initiative, creativity, and hard work over titles - these qualities can take employees as high as they want to go. We encourage new ideas, new approaches, and the development of new abilities, leveraging our entrepreneurial environment to make TSCTI a highly motivating place to work. Our corporate Centers of Excellence, including IT Transformation, Cloud, Cyber Security, and Infrastructure, provide ample space to learn and develop emerging competencies. We're a customer-focused, high-growth company that has been recognized among the "Best Software Companies to Work For" by Forbes. Our teams focus on the challenges of changing markets, customer needs, and evolving technologies. We value innovation, enterprise, and ambition in all our employees who get to grow rapidly in their area of interest under the mentorship of our principals and senior professionals.

Super Technologies builds what it calls the "future playstack" - infrastructure and platforms powering next-generation sports, gaming, and fan engagement experiences. The company operates through multiple commercial brands, including Superbet, which it positions as a multichannel champion across Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, and Napoleon Games, which it describes as leading the Belgian market. The company also runs the Super Foundation, a corporate vehicle focused on sports, health, and education initiatives in the communities where it operates. The technical scope spans sports technology, gaming platforms, fan engagement systems, and multichannel product operations - domains that inherently carry significant attack surface. Platform engineering at this scale means handling identity management, payment processing, real-time data flows, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions with varying data residency and privacy requirements. The geographic footprint across Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Belgium creates a complex threat landscape shaped by regional adversary capabilities, regulatory fragmentation, and cross-border infrastructure dependencies. The company maintains partnerships with sports clubs including R.S.C. Anderlecht, Wisla Krakow, and America Rio. These relationships extend the infrastructure perimeter into third-party ecosystems - a common vector for supply chain risk and lateral movement in both the sports tech and gaming verticals. The multichannel operating model means defending web, mobile, retail, and potentially API-driven partner integrations simultaneously, each with distinct threat profiles and varying levels of security maturity. For security practitioners, the environment presents challenges typical of high-velocity consumer platforms operating in regulated markets: defending real-time transactional systems, managing identity at scale, navigating evolving compliance frameworks, and securing integrations with external partners whose security posture may be opaque. The geographic diversity and multi-brand structure suggest federated security operations with the attendant coordination challenges around logging, incident response, and threat intelligence sharing across business units and borders.

Oben Technology operates as an IT strategy and consulting partner for global enterprises navigating digital transformation, with particular depth in manufacturing execution systems, Industry 4.0 deployments, and enterprise application support. The firm maintains a 97% client retention rate while delivering mission-critical solutions across three continents, impacting over 5 million corporate users. Their client base skews heavily toward European industry leaders who require rigorous, roadmap-driven execution rather than speculative consulting theater. The technical practice spans cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS, Azure), enterprise application operational support (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, ServiceNow), and manufacturing-specific systems where uptime and integration quality matter more than feature velocity. This isn't a generalist shop - the focus on MES and Industry 4.0 suggests they're solving actual production floor problems where misconfiguration has material consequences. Their stack reflects enterprise reality: VMware for virtualization, Jira and Confluence for operational coordination, and the major ERP and cloud platforms that Fortune 500s actually run. Headquartered in Romania, Oben positions itself as a strategic partner rather than a staff augmentation vendor, emphasizing innovation-focused advisory work alongside operational support. The model appears to be building long-term relationships with manufacturing and enterprise clients who need someone who understands both the technology and the operational constraints of running critical systems at scale.