In her 21-year U.S. Army career, LTC Marie Grimmer witnessed unnecessarily delayed or altogether lacking cutting-edge technology in the hands of soldiers. Burdensome acquisition timelines and failures to rapidly and effectively integrate Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities, and now Policy (DOTMLPF-P) requirements into the acquisition and fielding process caused significant delays. By the time the "new" technology reached the soldier, it was no longer cutting-edge and lacked any discernible advantage.

In 2007, the Army Chief Information Officer briefed Marie’s pre-command class on the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Joint Network Node (JNN) technology, which was fielded well ahead of the DOTMLPF-P process to meet urgent operational needs. Training and maintenance manuals weren't available, and instead field units were dependent on field service representatives and contractor teams for advisement. All of this kept soldiers from doing what they do best—expertly employ, operate, and maintain their equipment. What an extremely taxing lesson on our soldiers.

In 2009, Marie Grimmer stepped into civilian life, taking those lessons from the field, and founded GTOi to operationalize new technologies faster and more effectively – getting it into the hands of soldiers while seamlessly maintaining operations. Today, Marie serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer, leading teams national-wide in our mission to empower Federal customers with new innovative technologies that grow, strengthen and protect their capabilities through the delivery of Enterprise IT, Cyber Security and Professional Services.