CoAspire’s Team

CoAspire has a robust team of employees and consultants. This team has been responsible for the rapid growth of the company. They have positioned the company for significant growth this year and in future years. CoAspire’s headquarters is in Fairfax, Virginia. CoAspire provides both Services and Products to the U.S. Government, including part-time F-16 pilots who fly the QF-16s in the photo above.

There is a very long list of people who have directly helped CoAspire: as civilian, government and military leaders who chose to contract with us, as senior advisors, friends, family, and others who have advocated for their companies to subcontract to us for work, who helped us grow. This list of people have inspired us, and helped us grow. You know who you are, and thanks.

Founder, Owner and CEO Doug Denneny

Doug has had a very successful career as a naval officer, industry executive, technology innovator and entrepreneur.

Doug served as a naval flight officer flying in the backseat of the F-14 Tomcat as a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) and F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft as a Weapon Systems Officer (WSO). He was a TOPGUN instructor and commanded a Tomcat and Super Hornet Squadron. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for valor in combat and had over 3300 hours in Tomcats and Super Hornets. Doug worked for the Joint Staff in the Pentagon, as a Military Legislative Fellow for a US Senator, a national finalist for the White House Fellowship program and after his command tour, he served as a Special Assistant and then Legislative Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was selected to the rank of Captain prior to retirement from the Navy.

Upon retiring from active duty, Doug worked for The Boeing Company in DC on the Super Hornet and Growler programs and with their weapon programs.

Doug was hired in 2009 by MBDA Inc., the US subsidiary of MBDA, a global tactical missile company where Doug spent six years as a Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors.

In 2015, Doug left MBDA, Inc. to build CoAspire into a prime missile contractor specializing in manufacturing affordable missiles, with a goal to disrupt the missile industry to provide affordable missiles to help deter threats to the United States and its allies.

Doug has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the US Naval Academy, an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service where he studied in part at Oxford University in England. He has an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Doug was a member of MIT’s Seminar XXI national security program and is a graduate of the Naval War College. He is a life member of the Tailhook Association, the TOPGUN Association and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Senior Vice President RADM Greg Harris, USN (ret.)

Rear Admiral Greg Harris, USN, Ret., joined CoAspire in 2022 and is our Senior Vice President. Since completing his Navy career in 2021, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Harris has served as Vice President of Navy Systems for The Boeing Company.

In his current role, Greg Harris as Senior Vice President of the Company has wide responsibilities touching every aspect of daily operations, business development and program management.

Rear Admiral (Ret.) Harris was an active-duty naval officer for over thirty-four years, where he held numerous positions of increased responsibility, ultimately serving as Director, Air Warfare (OPNAV N98) from 2019 to 2021, where he was responsible for resources and requirements for the entire naval aviation portfolio for the U.S. Navy.

Before assuming command of N98, he was the commander of Carrier Strike Group 11 (CSG-11) embarked on USS Nimitz (CVN 68), and before that served in multiple leadership roles a Strike Fighter Pilot and Naval Aviator, including Battle director in the Combined Air and Space Operating Center, command of two squadrons, a Carrier Air Wing, Commander of the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC), and the Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA).

A 1987 graduate of the US Naval Academy, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Harris accumulated over 4,300 flight hours, 1,046 arrested landings and has flown over 100 combat missions in direct support of Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Inherent Resolve, primarily in the F/A-18 Hornet.

Vice President of Engineering Matthew Fisher

Matthew Fisher has over 30 years of engineering expertise in the fields of software engineering, system engineering architectures and technical leadership across a series of start-ups, mid-sized companies and Fortune 50 corporations.

Before joining CoAspire in 2024, he worked at General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) as a Principal Investigator over multiple Department of Defense contracts and oversaw the technical direction of $50M worth of department-wide programs. GDMS completed the acquisition of Progeny Systems in the last year where Matt had served as Senior Director of Engineering. It was during this time that he focused on delivering IaaS and SaaS solutions in cloud environments, distributed and complex data transformation architectures and an advanced mission planning/execution/management system, spanning R&D and production programs.

Matt's book, Semantic Web Programming, was the first Java-based textbook for Semantic Web developers (now known as Linked Data) and he has authored over twenty papers and conference talks throughout his career. He has held various chair and member positions for multiple academic conferences, mostly centered on Semantic Web/Linked Data efforts. He was awarded a US patent for an automated distributed software download/installation architecture with two additional patents pending.

Starting as a software developer with a BSCS degree from Penn State, Matt went on to earn his MSCS degree from George Mason University (GMU) and has remained active in the Northern Virginia technical ecosystem, alternating between defense and commercial sectors. He was recently elected to the IEEE’s Northern Virginia Executive Committee as a Director for Region 2, with a focus on expanding collegiate participation and membership growth. Matt participates as a Program Evaluator Volunteer for ABET serving on Computer Science program accreditation teams for colleges and universities around the world. He is a founder and board member with GMU’s AI-in-Gov Council that provides thought leadership by bridging industry and academia on AI approaches, governance, technologies, and guardrails in the development and deployment of AI technologies within government. He founded two tutoring businesses and is currently leading a new online math preparatory business.

Technical Director Kypp Wetmore

Kypp Wetmore joined CoAspire in 2025 as the Technical Director, where he directs all technical/performance aspects of the various weapon programs of the company. He is also leading programs as a Chief Engineer. Kypp brings over 25 years of Engineering Senior Leadership experience for major USAF Weapons Acquisition programs with him to the CoAspire leadership team. Throughout his career, Kypp has led multi-disciplined/multi-functional technical teams to develop, test, produce, field and sustain the world’s most lethal weapon systems.  He has demonstrated excellence in managing multi-billion-dollar weapons programs, ensuring on-time and on-budget completion.  This proven track record has been based on his extensive systems engineering expertise encompassing all phases of the product lifecycle. 

Before joining CoAspire, Kypp served as a civilian engineer supporting the United States Air Force for 25 years (Edwards AFB & Eglin AFB), and industry for 2 years prior to that.  During his career, he has worked on various aircraft and weapons programs such as the VISTA F-16, weapons Test and Integration: on all blocks of F-16’s (as well as F-15C/D/E, F-22, B-1, B-2 B-52); air delivered weapons development/test & integration/production/sustainment:  Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), Universal Armament Interface (UAI), Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), Aerial Targets (QF-4, QF-16, BQM-167A), Counter-Air S&T (AFRL), Advanced Weapon Concepts S&T (AFRL), Disruptive Futures Division and Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM).

Since 2004 Kypp has been an engineer working in various Weapon System Program Offices for the Armament Directorate, as well as AFRL Munitions Directorate at Eglin AFB, FL, where he finished his 25 year USAF career as the Chief Engineer for the USAF Armament Directorate Air Dominance Division, where he led all technical aspects of the USAF Air-to-Air weapons portfolio.

Kypp earned his BS in Aerospace Engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 1999, and earned his MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Florida in 2008 (where he was inducted into Tau Beta Pi the National Engineering Honor Society.  Kypp continued his professional Leadership education with the completion USAF Air War College in 2015 and USAF Civilian Leadership Course in 2018.  Kypp also holds multiple DoD Acquisition Education certificates in Engineering, Test & Evaluation, and Program Management.

During his Air Force career, Kypp has been award numerous awards; Meritorious Civil Service Award, Armament Directorate Chief Engineer of the Year, Exemplary Civil Service Award, USAF Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics-Engineering Achievement Award, Special Act or Service Award, as well as the OSD DAE Packard Award.