01 / The company
What we do
Defentect Group, Inc. (OTCID: DFTC) is a publicly traded Delaware corporation building software-defined emergency response for high-consequence environments. Our core platform, DM3, has been deployed since the mid-2000s at federal facilities, healthcare networks, university campuses, and critical-infrastructure sites — the operating environments where being wrong has real consequences.
Our customer-facing brand for the integrated platform is Defentect.ai, which serves enterprise, industrial, and municipal customers. Our personal-safety subsidiary DefenCall serves universities, K-12 schools, and healthcare facilities with smartphone duress and critical alerting.
02 / Operating history
Over twenty-five years of operating discipline
Defentect was founded in January 2000 to build software-defined detection and response for facilities that cannot afford to be wrong. The platform has evolved across federal, healthcare, education, and critical-infrastructure deployments, with each architectural decision shaped by what we learned in the field.
Founding
2000
James C. Ackerly founds the company to deliver software-defined emergency response for high-consequence environments.
DM3 Platform
2008
DM3™ software for sensor management, monitoring, and messaging deployed at federal facilities and critical-infrastructure pilots.
Personal Safety
2024
DefenCall personal-safety subsidiary integrated as the smartphone-duress extension for higher education, K-12, and healthcare.
Three-Layer Platform
2026
Blue Connect SmartBoitier industrial IoT and Kyvoo Assist AI verification join DM3 to complete the three-layer platform.
03 / Markets we serve
Markets we serve
Defentect serves the environments where being wrong has real consequences. Our customers operate facilities where a missed threat or a false alarm both carry direct cost, and where security infrastructure has to coexist with legacy systems, mixed sensor stacks, and hard regulatory constraints.
The platform was designed from the start for environments that cannot rip and replace. DM3 overlays on existing IP-based sensor networks, layered analytics run at the edge where bandwidth and latency are tight, and the verification layer keeps AI conclusions accountable in settings where escalation decisions affect real people.
Federal & Government
Defense and civilian agencies
Multi-decade deployments across federal facilities including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) detection programs. Operating environments where compliance, auditability, and chain-of-custody on alerts are non-negotiable.
Healthcare Networks
Hospitals and medical campuses
Personal-safety duress, infant security, behavioral health alerting, and integrated mass-notification across multi-building healthcare systems. Designed to layer on existing nurse-call, paging, and access-control infrastructure.
Education
Universities and K-12 districts
Campus-wide emergency notification, smartphone panic-button programs, and behavioral threat-assessment workflows. Compliant with Clery Act reporting and the operational realities of public-school and higher-ed security teams.
Critical Infrastructure
Industrial and utility sites
Energy, water, transit, and manufacturing operators using SmartBoitier industrial IoT for predictive monitoring, perimeter and access integration, and real-time situational awareness across geographically distributed assets.
04 / Leadership
Leadership
Defentect’s board and executive leadership combine decades of experience in counter-terrorism, homeland security, technology, and international operations.
President & Chief Executive Officer
James C. Ackerly
Founder · CEO since January 2000
James C. Ackerly is the founder of Defentect and has been President and CEO since January 2000. Prior to founding the company, Mr. Ackerly provided technology consulting and design services to AMR Corp., The Sabre Group, AT&T, and others while working as an independent consultant.
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Mr. Ackerly has served on the boards of Atari, Inc., Spectrum DNA S.A.R.L., ATL Communications, cFactorworks Inc., Watson Wireless, and the Human Services Council.
He earned an A.B. in Physics from Williams College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Chairman of the Board
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III
Chairman since 2008
Recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on crisis management, counter-terrorism, and homeland security, Ambassador Bremer’s service as an American diplomat spanned eight Presidents. President Reagan named him Ambassador to the Netherlands in 1983, where he served for three years. Ambassador Bremer was Ambassador at Large for Counter Terrorism in the second Reagan Administration, charged with formulating and implementing the nation’s counter-terrorism policies.
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In May 2003, President Bush appointed Bremer Presidential Envoy to Iraq, where he remained until June 2004. Prior to his assignment to Iraq, Ambassador Bremer had been Chairman and CEO of Marsh Crisis Consulting Company. From 1989 to 2000 he was Managing Director of Kissinger Associates, the strategic consulting firm headed by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
In June 2002 President Bush appointed Ambassador Bremer to the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. He chaired the Heritage Foundation study “Defending the Homeland” and participated in studies leading to the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security.
Ambassador Bremer has received numerous awards for his public service including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Department of Defense Award for Distinguished Public Service, the State Department Superior Honor Award, two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards, and the Distinguished Honor Award from the Secretary of State. He received his B.A. from Yale University, a CEP from the Institut D’Etudes Politiques of the University of Paris, and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He has an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Ave Maria University. His languages are French, Dutch, and Norwegian.
Vice President & Director
Edmund L. Resor
Director since January 2000
Edmund L. Resor has been a Vice President and a Director of Defentect since January 2000. Since 1990 Mr. Resor has been the Principal of Edmund Resor & Associates, a consulting business that provides advice on establishing information technology businesses in developing countries.
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Since 2000 he has also been Senior Consultant and a Principal of NextGen Strategies, a global strategy consulting firm specializing in converging telecommunications, Internet, and computer markets. Since 1992 he has been Vice President of International Operations and a founding partner of Somali Telecom Group, which has built a nationwide rural telephone service in Somalia.
He earned a B.A. in Anthropology from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management.
05 / How we operate
How we operate
Practical innovation
We build software that solves real operating problems. Every feature begins with whether it makes the person responding to a threat faster, better informed, and more confident in the call they are about to make.
Verified, not asserted
Trust is earned through evidence, not claimed through marketing. Our platform’s value rests on a verification layer that audits AI conclusions against customer-controlled information before any alert fires.
Operator-first design
The right answer in security is rarely the most sophisticated one. We build for the constraints of real environments — legacy infrastructure, mixed sensor stacks, and time pressure always in mind.