Verus Research, an Albuquerque-based research and development company and wholly owned subsidiary of Alabama-based Radiance Technologies, has been awarded a 4-year, $6 million effort to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) via the Naval Surface Technology & Innovation Consortium (NSTIC).

Under this award, Verus Research will implement its novel concept referred to as Adaptive Radio Frequency Chamber and Hardware in the loop for Integrated Missile subsystem Evaluation and assessmentS (ARCHIMES). This endeavor begins with test and data analysis support for the Navy’s DEFEND and METEOR programs and is a follow-on effort to Verus Research’s Airborne High Power Microwave Instrumentation (AirHI) project.

ARCHIMES’s versatile design enables comprehensive radio frequency stress testing applications—including electronic warfare, communications, and high-power microwave directed energy—to evaluate hypersonic tracking, guidance, and communications subsystems for preflight test and evaluation (T&E). This includes full T&E system builds, novel antenna development, sensor development, and integration efforts on airborne hypersonic hardware surrogates.

According to Verus Research Chief Technology Officer Dr. J. Mark DelGrande, “This is our first NSTIC award directly supporting our Navy customer and opens a whole new front in direct collaboration to meeting the Navy’s emerging directed energy test needs.”

Verus Research, a New Mexico-based leader in advanced research and technology development and wholly owned subsidiary of Alabama-based Radiance Technologies, has secured a two-and-a-half year, $6.7 million award to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) in developing a data acquisition and processing system (DAS) for the U.S. Navy. This effort is funded by the Test Resource Management Center under the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX II) Other Transactional Authority.

This effort, referred to as the Ship Electromagnetic Acquisition System (SEAS), seeks to enable ship-board data acquisition of low-level continuous wave illumination (LLCWI) and high-level direct-drive pulses for electromagnetic pulse (EMP) survivability assessments. Verus Research will provide a capability to assess survivability of ships to nuclear threat induced environments, specifically EMP.

“The team will integrate data acquisition hardware and software for LLCWI and high-level direct drive pulses for EMP, and the software will enable control of DAS from the test center,” stated Dr. J. Mark Del Grande, chief technology officer for Verus Research. “This award further extends Verus Research’s long history in providing critical nuclear test domain capabilities to the Nation.”

NEW YORK, August 12, 2025 – Inc., the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future, today announced that Verus Research is No. 3,947 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list provides a data-driven snapshot of the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent, entrepreneurial businesses. Past honorees include companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Under Armour, Timberland, Oracle, and Patagonia.

With three-year revenue growth of 93 percent, this marks Verus Research’s fifth consecutive year on the list.

This year’s Inc. 5000 honorees have demonstrated exceptional growth while navigating economic uncertainty, inflationary pressure, and a fluctuating labor market. Among the top 500 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate reached 1,552 percent, and those companies have collectively added more than 48,678 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past three years.

For the full list, company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, visit: www.inc.com/inc5000.

“Making the Inc. 5000 is always a remarkable achievement, but earning a spot this year speaks volumes about a company’s tenacity and clarity of vision,” says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “These businesses have thrived amid rising costs, shifting global dynamics, and constant change. They didn’t just weather the storm—they grew through it, and their stories are a powerful reminder that the entrepreneurial spirit is the engine of the U.S. economy.”

Albuquerque Business First has announced that Verus Research is again one of New Mexico’s fastest growing private companies.  This marks Verus Research’s 8th consecutive appearance on this list.

To qualify, applicants must have a large percentage annual revenue growth over the three-year period, 2022-2024 with sales or revenue of at least $500,000 in 2021.  They must also be privately held, for-profit companies, including wholly owned subsidiaries, be locally owned and based in New Mexico, and been in business all 12 months of 2021, 2022 and 2023.  Rankings were determined by companies’ percentage revenue growth.

Rankings were determined by companies’ percentage revenue growth.

Albuquerque Business First has again recognized Verus Research as a New Mexico “top private company” on the publication’s 2025 list, coming in at #16 overall.

This marks the fifth consecutive year for Verus Research to earn this honor.

To make this prestigious list, a company must be a privately owned and for-profit enterprise with a substantial employee count and revenue base in New Mexico.

Albuquerque, N.M. – (June 2, 2025) – Verus® Research, a New Mexico-based team of scientists and engineers specializing in advanced research and development, announces it has been acquired by Radiance Technologies (Radiance), an Alabama-based, 100 percent employee-owned prime contractor that delivers innovative solutions to the Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community. Verus Research will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Radiance while maintaining its operations in Albuquerque, N.M.

For more than 11 years, Verus Research has provided analysis, design, and proof of concept systems across the DoD in support of the U.S military. The company has developed and delivered cutting-edge solutions in high-power microwaves, radiation effects, electronic warfare, and autonomous controls for a variety of applications. The acquisition by Radiance Technologies allows Verus Research to deliver the same level of technical expertise and customer service while leveraging new capabilities in hypersonics, cyber, and high-energy lasers.

“Becoming a subsidiary of Radiance brings an unmatched depth of capability to our customers whose mission is to protect our great nation. Our companies have aligned values and mission-mindedness that serve our customers’ interests,” said Grady Patterson, CEO of Verus Research. “Based on our strong cultural similarities and the clear path to provide even more technical breadth and depth to our customers, we are confident this acquisition will create even more opportunities to support the nation’s defense.”

The acquisition aligns with Radiance’s mission to provide tailored scientific and engineering solutions that empower our warfighters and support national security. By integrating Verus Research’s expertise and resources, Radiance is better positioned to address its customers’ unique challenges while delivering innovative solutions that uphold the highest standards of precision and reliability.

“Radiance continues to invest in our future and the future of our customers,” said Bill Bailey, CEO of Radiance. “By joining forces with Verus Research, we add richer capability in a range of cutting-edge defense technologies while fostering our employee-ownership culture.”

Together, the two companies have extensive capabilities across multiple domains including directed energy, space, test and training, prototyping, cybersecurity, data science, and AI and machine learning. The addition of Verus Research’s nuclear science capabilities represents a significant enhancement to Radiance’s portfolio of advanced defense solutions.

By bringing together two established contractors with deep relationships across multiple DoD agencies and programs, the acquisition significantly expands Radiance’s customer base. This broader customer portfolio creates new opportunities for cross-collaboration and enhanced service delivery.

As a wholly owned subsidiary, Verus Research will maintain operations in Albuquerque ensuring continuity of service for existing customers while leveraging the combined organization’s enhanced capabilities and national presence. It recently opened 27,000 square feet of newly remodeled office and laboratory space, providing cutting-edge capabilities in robotics and radio frequency design. “We’re excited about this new chapter in our history of continuing to create solutions that matter,” Patterson said.

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About Verus® Research

Headquartered in Albuquerque, N.M., Verus Research is a team of scientists and engineers specializing in the research and development of electromagnetic technology, lasers, microwaves, radio frequency communication, multidisciplinary systems integration, and nuclear systems analysis. The company’s services include advanced research and technology, modeling and simulation architecture, tactical systems development and testing and strategic systems engineering. Performing in-depth analysis of current and future technologies and transforming complex theory into real-world solutions, Verus Research’s clients include defense contractors, military organizations and the armed services, aerospace organizations, technology companies and the national laboratories. Visit Verus Research’s website at Verusresearch.net and follow the company on LinkedIn and Facebook.

About Radiance Technologies:

Radiance Technologies is an employee-owned prime contractor founded in 1999. Radiance has over 1000 employee-owners across the United States serving the Department of Defense, the national intelligence community, and other government agencies. From concepts to capabilities, Radiance leads the way in developing customer-focused solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, systems engineering, prototyping, and integration, as well as operational and strategic intelligence, including scientific and technical intelligence. For more information, please visit radiancetech.com.

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Verus Research has secured a four-and-a-half year, $5.8 million award for science and technology developments in the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center’s (TRMC) Electronic Warfare Test Technology Area.

Under this award, Verus Research has proposed Cognitive Information-Theoretic Attack-pod for Dynamic ELectronic-attack engagementS (CITADELS). CITADELS will support the TRMC’s need for the development of an airborne, adaptive electronic attack system that utilizes cutting-edge cognitive techniques to increase the effectiveness of electronic attack threat simulators against sophisticated “blue radar” systems during flight test events.

Dr. J. Mark DelGrande, Verus Research chief technology officer, said, “This effort, involving both cognitive signal processing and hardware realization, represents a substantial step for Verus Research into the domain of cognitive electronic warfare and intelligent waveform effectors.”

Verus Research has received a $1.2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award to support the Air Force Research Laboratory’s High Power Microwave Division.

This Phase II win is for the Microwave Source with Frequency Tuning (MISFT), a novel concept for a tunable backward wave oscillator design customizable for many different center frequencies.

“The effort will involve fabrication, integration, and demonstration of the Phase I design,” according to Dr. J. Mark DelGrande, Verus Research chief technology officer. “MISFT represents another Verus Research high-power microwave design that will see first light in the company’s electromagnetics lab.”

Verus Research has secured a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to expand on its multi-phase effort. This project is in partnership with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).

Verus Research specializes in the research and development of radio frequency communications for high-power microwave (HPM) systems and nuclear engineering, with extensive modeling, simulation, testing and design work.

Under this one-year, $1.8 million contract, Verus Research will partner with NRL to continue its work on the Waveform Agile RF Directed ENergy (WARDEN) project, which began in 2021. To meet DARPA’s needs, the WARDEN contract seeks to develop agile waveform techniques for operational HPM use and demonstrate the application of agile HPM waveforms to dramatically reduce the HPM susceptibility of candidate electronic targets.

“This program was a multi-phase effort competed between various technology companies to see which solution best meets DARPA’s needs,” said J. Mark DelGrande, Verus Research chief technology officer. “Verus Research’s track record of providing superior solutions for our customers is why they return to us for further support.”

This award brings the DARPA WARDEN total to $5 million over the three phases.