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The Story of IES

IES’s 27-year history began in 1987 when Dan Abshire retired from AFRL’s Fuze Lab with the vision of creating a data recorder that could survive hardened target weapons testing. Dan recruited then-Lt Scott Ager, a colleague from the Fuze Lab, and together they successfully marketed a high-shock data recorder within IES’s first year. Over the next 10 years, Dan and…