Mile Two’s home on the second floor of 444 E. Second St. in the Webster Station neighborhood puts them close to Ascend.
Mile Two signed an agreement to move into the building before the Air Force Logistics Lab-Wright Brothers Institute partnership, which is moving into the building’s first floor.
Graley has a history with AFRL, and Mile Two was born from that. He served as an executive to Les McFawn when McFawn was AFRL executive director.
“We came from the human factors directorate,” Graley said. “The people were always up front and center for us, even in the technology solutions that we were providing to the warfighter at that time.”
The company has commercial clients and still has a connection to AFRL.
“How do we take that science that AFRL is doing in their labs and apply that and get it out to the work in a mobile application,” Graley said.
Human performance tech is what the company’s 12 employees focus on. He expects the firm’s second-floor space to fill up in the next couple of years, and he hopes to make announcements in the near future about new products.
For the company’s first six to nine months, employees worked out of Graley’s home, then out of the Entrepreneurs Center on Monument Avenue.
Within six months, it was ready for a bigger space.
The business works for the Department of Defense, which is about half of its revenue. Commercial clients, including other start-ups, is another area of focus.
Commercial products have not yet brought in revenue, Mile Two partners acknowledge. But the company has a detailed plan.
“We do have projections for the next four years or so, where we do have a growth plan,” said partner Jorge Sanchez. “It’s not just shooting from the hip. But things have to line up.”
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