An institution designed to make engineering knowledge compound.
MNEOS Systems emerges from a lesson repeated across three decades of building difficult physical technologies into intellectual property, funded programs, manufactured products, operating companies, and strategic acquisitions.
Technical capability does not compound automatically.
Modern technical work is fragmented. Physics is separated from biology. Artificial intelligence is separated from manufacturing. Simulation is separated from test data. Engineering judgment remains trapped in individual minds. Company knowledge disappears when people leave. Research becomes papers without becoming buildable systems. Teams repeat failures because the reasoning behind earlier decisions was never preserved.
The tools may improve. The institution forgets.
MNEOS exists to reverse that pattern — deliberately, over the long term, through architecture that is designed to preserve capability rather than let it dissipate.
How the ecosystem fits together.
Each entity has a specific role. Being clear about the boundary between them is part of how it operates.
Boundaries, permissions, confidentiality, export controls, and originator rights are represented explicitly across these entities.
An initial physical center.
MNEOS is being established with an initial operating center in Fairlawn, Virginia, near Virginia Tech and within reach of a strong regional engineering, manufacturing, materials, and research ecosystem.
Fairlawn is intended, over time, to include laboratories, engineering environments, advanced-manufacturing infrastructure, technical residencies, and interdisciplinary work spaces. Not all of these exist yet. The physical center is being developed alongside the intellectual and organizational one.
David Sherrer.
David Sherrer is a deep-technology founder, inventor, and operating executive whose career has focused on turning difficult physical technologies into intellectual property, funded programs, manufactured products, operating companies, and strategic acquisitions.
He founded Haleos (acquired by Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials in 2002; now part of Dow Chemical) and Nuvotronics (acquired by Cubic Corporation in 2019), led the commercialization of the PolyStrata® advanced RF and microsystems platform, executed DARPA-backed development through Phase I–III (including the DARPA Innovation Award on the 3D-MERFS program), built qualified manufacturing capability, and has more than 125 issued patents worldwide.
MNEOS emerges from a lesson repeated across those experiences: capability compounds only when people, evidence, tools, decisions, manufacturing knowledge, and institutional memory are intentionally connected and preserved.
Full track record: davidsherrer.com/track-record.
What MNEOS may become.
Over the long term, MNEOS may include:
- Research programs.
- Engineering laboratories.
- Technical residencies.
- Fellowships.
- University partnerships.
- Portfolio-company support.
- Robotic and automated laboratories.
- Manufacturing infrastructure.
- Publications and training.
- A durable Engineering Commons.
- A broader network of scientists, engineers, and institutions.
These items are stated as intent and long-term ambition, not present operational scale. The institution is being deliberately assembled.
Reunifying engineering.