Gordon Hunt, Co-Founder of Skayl LLC and a retired U.S. Navy Engineering Duty Officer Captain with more than 30 years of experience leading complex defense, embedded, and distributed systems programs. Gordon is a recognized expert in Modular Open Systems Approaches, data-centric architectures, and real-time system integration, with deep experience connecting standards, engineering practice, and deployed mission capability. He has been an active contributor to open architecture standards for more than two decades, including significant work with the FACE Technical Standard (Domain Interoperability Working Group Chair) and the Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) Architecture Standing Committee CoChair. Gordon holds aerospace engineering degrees from Purdue University and Stanford University, and brings a practical, mission-focused perspective on interoperability, integration risk reduction, and accelerating capability to the warfighter.