Twenty-five years of the same work,
under a new name.
Sky5 Labs was formed in 2026 to carry forward software and technology development work our team has been doing since 2001. The name is new. The systems, the customers and the people are not.
What we have actually done
Described rather than name-dropped — see the note below on why. Every engagement here can be discussed properly in a reference call.
2001 onward
ERMS goes into production
Built for a thermoelectric component manufacturer to run product configuration management and quality control. It ran their operation for years, until the company was acquired and its systems consolidated into the parent’s.
Since 2004 · still running
Twenty years in defense electronics
ERMS has run continuously in defense electronics manufacturing for more than twenty years — through two decades of audits, staff turnover, ownership changes and facility moves. It is in use today. For operational software, a twenty-year service life is the strongest statement that can be made about it.
Alongside the software
Compliance, infrastructure and the IT director’s chair
CMMC Level 1 and Level 2 readiness for a defense supplier, with the ERMS hooks built to support it. Full IT infrastructure design and build for a new 80,000 ft² manufacturing facility. Managed services — help desk, network security and IT director duties — running for over twenty years and continuing. ERP selection and implementation for a major customer of a managed-services provider.
Businesses, not just projects
Started one, and it was acquired
After 9/11 we launched a security-products business unit focused on biometric access control devices; it was later acquired by a barcode and asset-tracking company. We have installed access control and video surveillance for several organizations, including a US national park. We wrote the results section of a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award application, and managed a design-automation project for a conveyor systems manufacturer.
2026 forward
Sky5 Labs, and what comes next
Two platforms in production and more to build. Our strategic direction is to use AI as the primary enabler for the next generation of products — in the same spirit as the two we already run: ERMS replaced ten disconnected systems with one data model, and Sky5 Toolkit puts a bookkeeper in a cleaner’s pocket. Both took something that used to require a specialist and made it ordinary.
Why no customer is named here
Some of the work above was done for companies whose names would be recognised. We do not print them, and the reason is worth stating rather than leaving to look like modesty.
It is their information, not ours
Publishing that a particular defense supplier was working toward CMMC compliance says something about their security posture. That is theirs to disclose, not ours, and we have not asked for permission to do it on a marketing page.
A name on a page implies an endorsement
Using a company’s mark suggests they have endorsed us. Where a customer is willing to say so themselves, that carries far more weight than a logo we placed without asking — and we would rather earn the first than assume the second.
In a reference conversation, where a decision is actually made, we say whatever the customer is happy for us to say. Ask.