Theta Informatics LLC is a fully-private, U.S. owned and operated small business organized in the state of Georgia. Theta was officially founded in June 2023.
Our OpenAthena™ software and its novel terrain-raycast technique began as an idea on a whiteboard in 2020. Born from this spark of inspiration, through over 5 years of constant development, empirical testing, and validation, OpenAthena has transitioned from an idea to a proven solution for the next generation of UAS remote sensing.
Early in our firm’s development, Theta recognized the clear capability gap in remote location sensing for drone users in time sensitive applications such search and rescue, public safety, and defense. In 2022, Russia’s senseless war of choice against Ukraine, and the way in which it unfolded, in many ways validated our theories on the disruptive effect of drones and network-centric warfare on the future of combined arms, high-intensity conflict.
We have been working tirelessly to ensure that free societies have access to the best possible technology in this area. We recognize though that technology alone is no silver bullet, and that warfighters can only make use of disruptive technology with sufficiently-mature operating concepts and adoption of new techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs). To that end, we have been constantly involved in field exercises, test and demonstration events, published research, expos, and solutions briefings to a broad DoD, public sector, and commercial audience.
Through our Dual Use approach, our technology has had an equal impact on the commercial sector. Drone operators across the world in search and rescue, public safety, industrial, and land management sectors have appreciated the OpenAthena software, its accessibility, and its intuitive and user-friendly approach.
Meet the Founders:
Theta’s founders include Matthew Krupczak and Dr. Robert Krupczak.
Matthew’s background includes computer science education at Georgia Tech focusing on systems programming and AI and university research on robotics, adversarial AI, and high performance computing. He has been the primary developer
of the OpenAthena software since 2020.
His works on UAS remote sensing and autonomy have been published in the Australian Army Research Centre’s Land Power forum. He has been invited to lecture on UAS technology for the Field Artillery Basic Officers Leadership Course at Fort Sill. He is a FAA-certified Part 107 UAS operator.
Dr. Robert (Bobby) Krupczak’s background includes over 40 years of career experience in computer science, software engineering, and entrepreneurship. In 1997 he attained a PhD in computer science at Georgia Tech for research on networking protocols and interoperability. He is the founder (‘92-’99) of Empire Technologies from garage-startup to successful shrink-wrap software company selling distributed systems management software to customers including major telecommunications providers, wall street, and the DoD. He successfully transitioned Empire and sold to a public firm with $100m/year in annual revenue. Bobby came out of retirement to co-found Theta, where he has become the primary developer of its OpenAthena Core MOSA variant and web API for developers.
Equipment, Facilities, and Capabilities
Theta Informatics owns its own Skydio X10D sUAS, which is used for its operations and demonstrations on U.S. military installations. It also owns a wide variety of civilian UAS hardware, all of which are compatible with its OpenAthena software.
Theta owns its own test equipment including RTK GPS surveying equipment, ground control point markers, and other tools for flight testing and empirical accuracy assessment. Theta routinely performs flight testing with various UAS hardware in permissive airspace near its official offices in Atlanta, GA.
Theta built, owns, and operates its own High Performance Computer with NVIDIA GPU hardware named ‘Zeus’ which is used for training and fine-tuning of AI object detection models. Theta operates its own on-premises computing facilities with fiber internet and battery and generator backup power available. This ensures that all AI training data used for projects remains secure and on-premises.
Theta and its agents and contractors have many hundreds of hours of experience in AI object detection image data labeling, infrastructure, and management. Theta has developed tools and procedures for issuing secure encrypted PC hardware to contractors for image data labeling in the U.S.
Theta has been certified and approved by the Joint Certification Program for handling Approved Militarily Critical Technical Data up to CUI (controlled unclassified information).