Q&A with Michele Kochoff Platt, CEO
AVNIK was founded in 2006 and has 25 employees.
What does innovation mean to you?
Innovation means the creation of products and/or services for which there is great benefit.
What ways has your company innovated and/or created meaningful impact?
AVNIK has innovated products, such as a hand-held intelligent cable X-ray to instantaneously find damage in a wire to within one inch of its location. AVNIK has innovated services and software products to reduce manual labor and time to process data and provide meaningful insights to users.
What else do you want people to know about your company?
AVNIK Defense Solutions Inc., located in Huntsville, is a prime contractor for Army and Navy small business innovation research Phase I and Phase II projects and a subcontractor for Army Aviation engineering services.
AVNIK specializes in technical, logistics and programmatic management services, is privately held and is classified as a woman-owned, small business. AVNIK personnel have strong engineering and military backgrounds supporting United States Department of Defense weapons systems lifecycle management.
AVNIK employees have strong experience supporting various programmatic, technical and logistics initiatives for Army Aviation, Naval Air Systems, Missile and Space systems and NASA manned and unmanned systems.
