Proven leaders with outstanding past performance credentials.  Adaptive, creative, and solutions oriented.  JANUS understands how to work with our customers and pride ourselves in exceeding their expectations.

Mrs Jeannette Cruz Loop

Chairwoman of the Board

Jeannette Cruz Loop is the Founder and Chairwoman of JANUS Research Group, Inc, (JANUS) headquartered in Evans, Georgia.  Jeannette is married to Tony L. Loop and has two sons, Samuel and Jonathan.  A long time resident of the Augusta Georgia area, Jeannette was born in 1962 to Ramon and Teresa Cruz Sabater and is one of nine children.  Jeannette has spent most of her life being associated with the U.S. Army because her father served almost thirty years as an Infantry soldier and her husband, Tony, also served in the Signal Corps and retired from the Army.
 
Jeannette has worked in and for the Federal Government for over twenty-five years beginning her career as a Department of Defense contracting specialist where she became an expert in developing and managing Government contracts.  She founded JANUS in April of 1997 after recognizing the Federal Government trend of outsourcing the Engineering and Information Technology support to Department of Defense Software, Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contractors.  Jeannette believed that if she was ever given the opportunity, she could bring a strong military work ethic and desire to provide superior support to the business community while being able to continue serving her country.
 
Under Jeannette’s leadership and vision, JANUS has grown to over 210 employees located throughout the United States.  JANUS is now considered an industry leader in SETA support and currently supports six DoD ACAT 1 Acquisition Programs.  In 2003, Jeannette Cruz Loop was recognized by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for being the SBA’s Minority Small Business Person of the Year for Georgia and the Southeast Region.  Jeannette is a believer in volunteering and is giving back to the local military community.  She is involved in many local and national charities as well as serving as an Industry Board Member for the Augusta National Science Center.  She attributes her success and the success of JANUS as the result of being fortunate enough to be living in the greatest country in the world – the United States of America.

Mr. Tony Loop

Chief Executive Officer

Tony L. Loop is the CEO of JANUS Research Group, Inc. and leads a team of technical, software, engineering, intelligence, and training professionals with approximately $150M in contracts specializing in enterprise efforts primarily within the Department of Defense. Major efforts include developing and supporting 6 major ACAT 1 and 10 ACAT 1D Department of Defense programs such as the Joint Tactical Radio System and the US Army’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical. Mr. Loop is a corporate leader and specialist in tactical and strategic Department of Defense Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Sensors, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems with over 32 years of business, tactical operations and global information systems experience. He is personally versed in combat and materiel development, acquisition and fielding, enterprise operational and system architecture, concepts of operations, concept design, operational management, long range planning, and business operations. He authored and was the principal architect for the US Army’s Warfighter Information Network. Mr. Loop served over 20 years in the United States Armed Forces with numerous key assignments at the tactical, operational, and strategic level. Mr. Loop is an Industrial Board Member of the National Science Center.

Mr. Brian D. Lesieur

President (COL, USA Ret.)

Brian Lesieur has over 26 years of military service culminating with his last assignment at Joint Task Force North (JTF-North J2), NORTHCOM, where he served as the Senior Intelligence Officer (J2/SIO) and lead integrator of DoD Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in direct support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) responsible for monitoring and securing the U.S. Homeland.  Mr. Lesieur has an unparalleled level of expertise in the use and integration of leading edge technologies and procedures designed to enhance security relating to critical infrastructure, border security, counterterrorism, counterdrug, counter-smuggling, and maritime domain awareness.  During his career, he served in numerous key command and staff positions at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels within the United States Armed Forces and is a combat veteran.

Mr. Charlie Hof

Operations Officer (CW4, USA Ret.)

Mr. Charlie Hof has over 25 Years of military experience in leading, organizing, managing, and producing all-source intelligence products to support national, strategic, operational, and tactical level decision makers.  Throughout his distinguished career, he developed innovative intelligence workflow and engineering procedures to improve information fusion tasks in support of the United States Special Operations Forces community. Mr. Hof is a recognized leader and subject matter expert in intelligence fusion, data mining, collection management and the integration of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR - SIGINT, MASINT, HUMINT, and IMINT) capabilities.  Mr. Hof is one of the primary designers of the Combine Joint Special Operations Task Force’s campaign plans for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and is a combat veteran. 

Mr. John K. Dewey

Executive Vice President Communications Enterprise Division (COL, USA Ret.)

John Dewey has over 24 years of military service culminating with his last assignment at the US Army Signal Center as the TRADOC Capability Manager for Tactical Radios where he was the Army’s centralized manager for combat development of tactical radios.  Mr. Dewey is a tactical communications expert with unmatched experience in combat development.  He possesses two Masters Degrees:  Electrical Engineering and Strategic Studies.  Mr. Dewey commanded and deployed with a tactical signal battalion for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.  During his career, he served in numerous key command and staff positions at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels within the United States Armed Forces and is a combat veteran.

Mr. Scott Martin

Executive Vice President, Engineering and Innovation Division

J. Scott Martin, Vice President Engineering: Mr. Martin has been with JANUS since September of 2000. Mr. Martin currently manages technical, engineering and training professionals working contracts specializing in simulation and training efforts primarily within the Department of Defense, and other U.S. Government Agencies.  Prior to joining JANUS, he worked for the MITRE Corporation.  He was the site leader for MITRE’s presence at the U.S. Army Signal Center at Ft Gordon, Georgia and acted as a technical representative for the Commanding General and Command Staff.  While at Ft Gordon he worked closely with the Director of Combat Developments in the architectural design of emerging U.S. Army conceptual architectures to include the First Digitized Division and the Interim Brigade Combat Teams.  While working at MITRE he also supported numerous Army and Air Force Research and Development projects.  Mr. Martin holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering with specialty in Communications Theory from the George Washington University and two undergraduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mr. Jay Griffith

Executive Vice President, Intelligence and Security Solutions Division (COL, USA Ret.)

Jay Griffith has over 26 years of military service culminating with his last assignment as the Chief of Force Development Intelligence Division, Department of the Army, G8, where he served as the lead for Planning Programming and Budgeting for all Army Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and Electronic Warfare material solutions.  Mr. Griffith has an unparalleled level of expertise in the use and integration of leading edge technologies, operational and tactical employment of intelligence collection capabilities, and training.  During his career, he served in numerous key command and staff positions at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels within the United States Armed Forces and is a combat veteran.

Dr. Frank Lazzara

Director of Business Development

Dr. Frank Lazzara is a former Armor Officer originally from the Columbus, Georgia and east Alabama area.  Since coming to JANUS, he has been a Proposal Writer / Manager in Business Development and currently is the Vice-Chair for the Alliant Small Business Industry Council (ASBIC) which is a leadership group for the Alliant Small Business GWAC.  Prior to coming to JANUS, Dr. Lazzara was the Director of Technology and a Faculty member for the Columbus State University’s College of Business where he was involved in Economic and Workforce Development, Information Technology consulting, and research analysis.  He has worked over the years with regional civilian, local and state governmental and military consulting roles with the City of Columbus, Georgia Tech, Georgia Department of Tourism and Trade, and Fort Benning, in particular with the BRAC realignment project at Fort Benning.  He is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Officer Candidate School, Armor Officer Basic Course, Infantry Officer Advanced Course, Logistics Course, and CAS3.  He had two company commands and various staff and leadership positions during his military tenure.  Dr. Lazzara holds a Bachelors degree from Auburn University, an MBA from Columbus State University, and a Ph.D in Organization and Management with a Specialization in Information Technology Management from Capella University.

Mr. Mark Crawford

Vice President, South East Operations

Mr. Crawford manages the day-to-day operations of the JANUS Research Group Combat Development teams at Fort Gordon.   For the past twenty five years, Mr. Crawford has worked in improving digitization of tactical network services to the combat user.   Mr. Crawford has worked as a lead technical network adviser for the Future Combat Systems (FCS), providing integration of Warfighter Information Network Tactical (WIN-T) , Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) and LandWarNet for the U.S. Army Signal Center.  Mr. Crawford retired from the Army in 1997.

Mr. Anthony Garcia

Vice President, Washington D.C.

Mr. Anthony M. Garcia is Janus Research Group’s Vice President of Washington DC Operations. As a VP, Mr. Garcia serves as the primary corporate interface between JANUS and both our government and commercial clients in the DC region. He is responsible for managing the execution and quality of JANUS’ day-to-day operations in the DC metropolitan area as well as those of regional support activities in San Diego, CA, Ft. Gordon, GA, White Sands Missile Range, NM and Ft. Monmouth, NJ. Mr. Garcia joined JANUS in the fall of 1998 as a Systems Engineer. Since then, he has progressed in positions of increasing responsibility. Mr. Garcia holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology from George Mason University and is a summa cum laude graduate of the Keller Graduate School of Management where he received his Masters of Business Administration (MBA). Mr. Garcia is a professional member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).

Ms. Carole Wuesthof

Vice President, Northeast Region

Carole Wuesthoffs' 30 years of contractor support has been to US Army at Ft. Monmouth, NJ.  Carole has supported PM Scott, PM Milstar, PM Milsatcom and PM WIN-T. She holds extensive background knowledge of each PM evolving to the next and program background knowledge for SCAMP, SMART-T, GBS, HC3 and WIN-T. Carole has extensive knowledge of the CDRL tracking system used for all WIN-T project offices.  In addition, Carole is the on-site supervisor for the Janus Ft. Monmouth 6 ACAT I, 10 ACAT ID programs, and responsible for all contractual activities within the PM.

Mr. David F. Sales

Regional Operations Director, LTC, USA (Ret)

David Sales’ 21 years of military service included assignments at the National Guard Bureau, the Professional Education Center’s Chief of Operations and Training, and the Chief of the Installations, Logistics, and Environmental Training Center where he was responsible for the training of 30,000 full-time National Guard Soldiers.  David has extensive knowledge of logistics applications that manage the U.S. Army’s maintenance and supply chains.  Additionally, he was also responsible for the Enterprise Architecture business process blueprint of the 54 states and territories within the Installation and Logistics communities.  He has knowledge in SAP and ARIS software suites.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Arkansas State University and a master degree in General Administration from Central Michigan.

John Adams

Regional Director, Information Technology/National Guard (MAJ, USA Ret.)

John Adams has over 23 years of military service culminating his last assignment with the National Guard Bureau Professional Education Center as the Chief of the Information Technology Training Center, where he was responsible for all information technology sustainment training for the Army National Guard. Throughout his career as an enlisted, warrant, and commissioned officer, John has been a recognized leader in tactical communications and information technology. He has served in numerous positions from tactical communications, software engineer, systems integration and analyst, data processing, and signal operations. John has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Information Systems.