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 future years.

There is another very long list. And that is the list of folks 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 contracted with us, inspired us, and helped us grow. You know who you are, and thanks.

CoAspire’s headquarters is in Fairfax, Virginia, but our employees are located in twelve different states and DC serving many unique customers.

Founder 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-18 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, Senator McCain as a Military Legislative Fellow, and after his command tour, as a Special Assistant and Legislative Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was selected to the rank of Captain prior to retirement.

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

After running unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008, 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 premier company specializing in the federal space with expertise in Aerospace and Defense, Tactical Missiles, Services, Software, Government Relations and Business Development.

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 has a certificate in legislative studies from Georgetown University.

As a volunteer, Doug is the Co-Chair of the Legislative Committee of the Navy League of the United States and is a Vice President with the Navy League’s National Capital Council. He is on the Board of Directors for the TOPGUN Association. He is a life member of the Tailhook Association, the Navy League of the United States 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 almost thirty years of engineering expertise in the fields of software engineering, system architecture, 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 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 others currently in the approval process.

Starting as a software developer with a BSCS degree from Penn State, Matt went on to earn his MSCS degree from George Mason and has worked in and out of the defense industry in the Northern Virginia area.  He is the founder of two tutoring businesses and is currently leading a new online math preparatory business.