Management Team

Ada F. Petitt
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 

Ada F. Petitt is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dynamic Technology Systems, Incorporated (DTS). She is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the company by working with the Board of Directors and the Executive Management Team to establish long range goals, strategies, plans and policies. Ada Petitt is a high-energy, customer-focused, goal-driven executive. Ada approaches each new day and new business challenge with an instinctive flair for innovation, creative problem solving and drive. During her tenure as CEO, the company’s revenue has grown to the highest level in over 15 years, while employee morale and retention have maintained at an all-time high.

Ada Petitt assumed the positions of DTS Chairman and CEO in 2011 after having spent over 20 years with the company in various Senior and Executive Management positions. Prior to becoming CEO, Ada’s most recent role in the company was Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, a position she held for 15 years. Ada Petitt is widely recognized for her sweeping improvements to employee job security and moral, both significant factors in DTS’ continued rise to prominence in the industry. Regarding DTS’s employees, collectively, as the firm’s most valuable asset, she believes that high employee morale and job satisfaction are key to corporate success.

Ada Petitt has conceptualized and created revenue opportunities in the IT services space by leveraging her “Strength thru Integrity, Retention thru Compassion, Growth thru Innovation” theme. As a primary part of this corporate theme, Ada has directed the DTS Executive Management Team to actively “identify, recognize and reward” individual employees for exemplary work.

Ada began her career as a secondary school teacher. During her 30 years of involvement in the educational community, Ada was also a student counselor and a supervisory teacher in several public and U.S. DoD schools throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan. For over 25 years of this period, Ada stood lock-step with her husband, COL Homer Petitt, Jr., USA, Ret., as an Active Duty Army spouse, where she learned, first-hand, the importance of supporting the many veterans and families of veterans produced as a result of military service to the country. In 1986, Ada co-founded DTS with her husband and her son, Brian K. Petitt. Continuing in her educational profession for an additional 4 years, she ended her successful teaching career in 1990 to join her husband and son at DTS as a full-time manager.

Ada Petitt holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Prairie View A&M University, and has further professional education through graduate studies at the State University of New Jersey, the University of Virginia and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Ada remains active in supporting Veteran and Service-Disabled Veteran causes, and has been a leading supporter of legislation designed to more effectively provide for transition of ownership of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business companies from the service-disabled member to the eligible surviving spouse.

Brian K. Petitt
President and Chief Operating Officer 

Mr. Brian K. Petitt is President and Chief Operating Officer for Dynamic Technology Systems, Incorporated (DTS) where he brings over 23 years of technical and business management experience in providing professional support services (including application development, system integration, and systems analysis) to private industry clients and government operations. A co-founder of DTS, Mr. Petitt has the experience, knowledge, and abilities that accrue to those successful persons who achieve viable, dynamic results. Responsible for the management of all revenue-generating activities, Mr. Petitt assisted the president of DTS in corporate operations and business development.

With his experience in the information technology industry, Mr. Petitt's former roles include a broad spectrum from Junior Programmer to Senior Systems Analyst to owning and operating small and large businesses. He has developed and managed projects for a wide variety of customers both large and small. Mr. Petitt was senior DTS manager and was personally involved in the design and analysis phases of the DirecTrack. Given this technical background and his management perspective, he is a valuable resource to the DirecTrack team.

Mr. Petitt is well-versed in assessing software requirements to manage and develop systems that satisfy customers' requirements. He has significant experience and abilities in relating with customers and managing employees and required resources. He designed and/or programmed interactive and other systems in both micro and mainframe environments. Mr. Petitt's technical experience enables him to quickly analyze a requirement and design a customized system on a wide variety of platforms while maintaining high quality control standards. He works with major organizations such as Loral, Department of Defense, IBM, Merill Lynch, Lockheed-Martin, General Motors, and Bechtel.

Mr. Petitt believes that all systems and system designs should start with the end-user. On each project, Mr. Petitt seeks to work directly with the customer, on-site, observing the customer's day-to-day operations to solve unique problems by computerizing and simplifying all tasks in order to enhance productivity. He states that, "understanding technology is our business, solutions are our product, and lessons-learned are our value-added experience; that is DTS's dynamic difference."

John W. Richmond
Executive Vice President, Operations & Contracts 

Mr. Richmond is an accomplished Manager with over 28 years of specialized experience in contracts & procurement management, technology development, manufacturing, acquisitions, and new business start-ups. He possesses extensive experience in programs involving U.S. and foreign governments, commercial entities and universities. He is a former Government Contracting Officer and Retired Navy Captain, with an undergraduate degree in Political Science and U.S. Government certifications in Contract Law, Contract Management and Program Management. Mr. Richmond is a Category-III Certified Acquisition Government Executive.

Mr. Richmond served 23 years in the US Navy and retired as Captain from the Naval Reserve in 2001. While in the Reserves, Mr. Richmond was employed by Aerojet Ordnance Company where he managed the Procurement & Subcontracts department, and subsequently started and managed a new business division to provide remediation services for low-level radioactive waste contaminated sites.

Following that, he became the Contracts & Procurement Manager for the Babcock & Wilcox Company, Ordnance Systems Operations Division, and then held successive positions as: Manager, Contracts, Planning & Administration – MAST Division; General Manager - Torpedo Warhead Division; General Manager - Missile Systems Division; General Manager - Mine Warfare Division; and then Director - Emerging Programs. In each of these positions, significant responsibility was assigned including Division Profit & Loss.

As Director of Emerging Programs, he was responsible for the start-up of a new company, Hydrogen Systems Company, where certain technology relating to the conversion of source fuels – gasoline, diesel, natural gas – to H2 was developed for use in fuel cell power generating systems. This company was created, and eventually launched as an Initial Public Offering (IPO) under his leadership.

As Executive Vice President of Operations & Contracts for DTS, Mr. Richmond has direct operational responsibility for the three Divisions of the Company, as well as responsibility for the budgeting, planning, financial, and business development areas. Additionally, he has responsibility for negotiating contracts with major governmental and nongovernmental entities, managing development and submission of major proposals, providing contract and procurement services for complex communications systems, and for negotiating Teaming Agreements and other bilateral agreements related to Proprietary Information, Intellectual Property, and Joint Non-Disclosure of Information.