By Light was founded in 2002 by a group of telecommunications industry veterans. By Light is a Service-Disabled Veteran Small Business (although not VA verified) specializing in IT engineering services. Most business is with U.S. Defense, Civilian and Intelligence Agencies. The current headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia.

Leadership

Bob Donahue Jr., Founder

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

 & President

President

A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...

: Prior to founding By Light, Bob served as the Program Manager for the DISN Expansion Program.

LTG (Ret) Robert Donahue Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

: Prior to joining By Light, Donahue served as Lieutenant General

Lieutenant General

Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....

 for the US Army. He is the father to the President of By Light, Bob Donahue Jr.

GIG-BE

Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion

Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion

The Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion Program was a major United States Department of Defense net-centric transformational initiative executed by DISA. GIG-BE created a ubiquitous "bandwidth-available" environment to improve national security intelligence, surveillance and...

 (GIG-BE) is a network owned by DISA whose claim is to be the largest network of the US government. By Light was awarded the sub-contract from SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering and technology applications company headquartered in the United States with numerous federal, state, and private sector clients...

 to install and maintain the infrastructure at each of the network nodes.

USSOCOM SCAMPI

USSOCOM SCAMPI Network that provides tactical communications to USSOCOM. This network delivers voice, data and video teleconferencing services via ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a standard switching technique designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing, and it encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells. This differs from approaches such as the Internet Protocol or Ethernet that...

 and Time-division multiplexing

Time-division multiplexing

Time-division multiplexing is a type of digital multiplexing in which two or more bit streams or signals are transferred apparently simultaneously as sub-channels in one communication channel, but are physically taking turns on the channel. The time domain is divided into several recurrent...

 (TDM) technology. By Light provides the engineering design, and equipment installation.

PEO EIS Technology Applications Office (TAO)

PEO

Program Executive Officer

A Program Executive Officer, or PEO, is one of a few key individuals in the United States military acquisition process. As can be seen from the examples below, a Program Executive Officer may be responsible for a specific program , or for an entire portfolio of similar programs A Program Executive...

 EIS

Enterprise Information System

An Enterprise Information System is generally any kind of computing system that is of "enterprise class". This means typically offering high quality of service, dealing with large volumes of data and capable of supporting some large organization .Enterprise Information Systems provide a technology...

TAO is a lab specializing in life-cycling network engineering. By Light provided a large set of the design/build services within the office.

Recognition

By Light has received a number of awards and recognition:

• Top 25 successful Small Business in Set-Aside category by Var Business
• Bob Donahue received 2006 Virginia Businessman of the Year award presented by The National Republican Congressional Committee's Business Advisory Council
• Top 5 Service-Disabled Veteran Small Business by DiversityBusiness.com 2006
• Military Information Technology magazine interview with CEO of By Light LTG (ret) Bob Donahue Sr. and President, Bob Donahue Jr.