Madison Living March 2015

IN THE BIZ

Tough technology Madison’s MaxVision creates computers ready for the front lines.

WRITTEN BY CHARLES MOLINEAUX PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEN FOUTS-DETULLEO

“A

soldier can be a pretty rugged guy,” said Tim Kavanagh, noting that in the high-technology world of the 21st century, soldiers end up in primitive battles against some pretty familiar old enemies: heat, cold, dust, dirt, grit … moisture!

“They can make it tough on electronic systems and they’ll fail. So they want something that won’t fail.”

“Something that won’t fail” became the objective of Madison’s MaxVision Computers as it works to provide military computer solutions applicable not just inside the air conditioned walls of Redstone Arsenal, or the Pentagon, but in the field, thousands of miles from home.

As MaxVision’s Vice President of Sales, Kavanaugh found the company’s niche a logical one as modern military forces sought durable hardware for increasingly complex tasks, such as reviewing complex satellite imagery, or operating unmanned aircraft.

“These are deployable,” Kavanagh said, “going forward, downrange in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, places where regular computers can’t handle the harsh environments.”

With products like MaxVision’s MaxPac 8261 XL Dual Xeon Modular Multi-Screen Workstation, the company courts highly specialized military clients like the U.S. Army’s Shadow unmanned

ABOVE: MaxVision CEO Bruce Imsand (right) with Vice President of Sales Tim Kavanaugh (left).

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