About.

Cognitics was founded by seasoned software design and development professionals with a strong business background, Cognitics recognizes that technology must work hand-in-hand with the realities of business. Our mission is to provide innovative solutions that are feasible within the constraints of the business as much as the technical environment.
Cognitics is a small business  that meets the requirements set forth in 13 C.F.R. § 121.702. 

Secure and Reliable

We highly value security and Information Assurance (IA). Cognitics staff receive regular training in Cyber Security, Operational Security, Counter Intelligence, and more. We implement the latest Cyber Security processes and standards including NIST SP 800-171 to protect sensitive information.

Cognitics has a US Government approved job cost accounting system in place, allowing us to expedite the contracting process.

Our Management Team

Kevin Bentley
Founder, President

Mr. Bentley has over 25 years of experience in the design, development, and management of complex software and systems. His past experience includes embedded systems, game development, Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and more. 
At Cognitics, he has worked as a software architect and consultant for the Army SE Core DVED project, providing software design, development, and support services for the Master Database and Runtime Database Generation Toolset for the project. Previously, he worked for TERREX, where, in addition to R&D work for an Army SE Core BAA, he performed software development for Terra Vista and the Common Database format for SOCOM. Mr. Bentley has extensive experience developing software on multiple platforms in C/C++, C#, Java, and other languages.

Aaron Brinton
Vice President

Mr. Brinton served as a nuclear engineer in the United States Navy and is a veteran of Desert Storm. He has over 20 years of experience performing software development and integrating complex information systems. In addition to working with Fortune 500 companies such as Sprint and ADP, he has been involved as a principle and primary software architect in several startups, including companies focused on network services, data mining and reporting, and customer relationship management. Additionally, he has designed and deployed several large-scale high availability network and system infrastructures. This diversity spanning two major computer technology fields provides him with a unique perspective on architecting scalable data-driven software solutions. Mr. Brinton is the co-founder and Vice President of Cognitics. He has extensive experience in developing software for geospatial data management and analysis. This has included architecting and developing cross-platform, standards-compliant libraries for working with feature, coverage, and projection data, relational database libraries for storing and retrieving geospatial data, and tools for testing, analysis, and visualization.​