Life at Systel

2025 Halloween Costume Contest

We held our annual Halloween costume contest and the team pulled out all the stops, showcasing their creativity with some terrific costumes. Thanks to everyone for their participation and congrats to the winners for Most Creative Costume (Chris Landin, Technical Project Manager, as Guy Fieri), Funniest Costume (Jacob Evans, VP of Operations, as Westley/ the Dread Pirate Roberts ), and Best Overall Costume (Jacob Salas, IT Manager, as Jason Voorhees)!

October 31, 2025

Celebrating Macielle's upcoming wedding!

We held a surprise wedding shower for Macielle Hernandez (a member of our EE team). Congratulations, Macielle on your upcoming nuptials and wishing you all the best!

October 14, 2025

Introducing the new Systel Fun Committee!

Lisa Rodriguez (Office Manager) and Jacob Salas (IT Manager) are the inaugural members of the new Systel Fun Committee with a mandate to spread cheer and fun throughout the office. Laissez les bons temps rouler!

September 30, 2025

DSEI 2025 - Across the Pond

Aaron Murray, International Sales Manager, representing Systel across the pond at the DSEI global defense conference in London.

September 9, 2025

Cheers to our 2025 Summer Interns!

Our Summer 2025 Engineering Interns, Kenna Sanders and Maya Koppikar wrapped up their time with us today, successfully completing their internships. Over the past few months, they’ve worked on meaningful design projects, tackled real-world engineering challenges, and contributed to cross-functional initiatives across our Engineering and Operations teams.

August 7, 2025

Eureka!

Nathan Kyle, Director of Design Engineering, whiteboarding an automated mechanical test device.

July 29, 2025

Happy 20 Year Work Anniversary, Alejandra!

We celebrated Alejandra Romo (Quality Control) for 20 wonderful years (and counting) of service at Systel!

July 10, 2025

All Shook Up at SOF Week!

Our Sales team hit the ground running with Operation Find Elvis at the 2025 SOF Week conference in Tampa, FL. We’re proud to support the international special operations forces community!

May 7, 2025

Celebrating Operational Excellence with a little magic!

We achieved an On-Time Delivery (OTD) rate of 92.5% for the month of February, a testament to our customer-centric focus and consistent execution across the team. Our Operations team celebrated with a well-deserved team lunch and a surprise visit from a magician who brought some fun and wonder to the day! Big thanks to our Ops crew for their continued commitment to excellence and for making the magic happen every day.

March 14, 2025

2024 Halloween Costume Contest

We held our first annual Halloween costume contest and the team pulled out all the stops, showcasing their creativity with some terrific costumes. Thanks to everyone for their participation and congrats to the costume contest winners!

October 31, 2024

Engineering Prototyping

Levi Tips (Mechanical Engineering) and Loc Hua (Production Assembly) collaborating to prototype a new Kite-Strike II configuration.

August 27, 2024

Gage Johnson Summer Internship

Gage Johnson completed his engineering summer internship at Systel with a final presentation. Gage contributed to hardware and software engineering projects over the summer and was a valuable member of the team.

August 16, 2024

Happy 25 Year Work Anniversary, Hopie!

We celebrated Hopie Hopkins (Finance and Sales Administrator) for 25 wonderful years (and counting) of service at Systel! We were so happy that her husband Mark could join us for this momentous occasion.

August 15, 2024

Solar Eclipse Watching

We took a break to (safely) watch the solar eclipse with Moon Pies and Sun Chips!

April 8, 2024

Congratulations to Our 2023 Core Values Winners!

The essence of our company is defined by our core values: Fanatical Customer Service, Absolute Ownership, Passion for Improvement, and Uncompromising Integrity. We talk about our core values constantly, with a peer nominating system, monthly company-wide recognition and awards, and the selection of five annual winners who are deemed to best represent these values. Congratulations to our 2023 Core Values winners, recognized by their peers throughout the year and selected by our Leadership team for consistently embodying our core values and putting them into action in support of our customers’ missions. Our 2023 Core Values winners are (pictured L to R) Lisa Rodriguez, Sean Fontenot, Loc Hua, David Elias, Chase McMillan, Bill Johnson, and Yongcheng Tai. Each winner receives a $1000 award and the title of 2023 Systel Core Values winner. Congrats!

December 1, 2023

Happy Thanksgiving!

We held our annual Thanksgiving potluck luncheon, enjoying great food and each other’s company! We have a lot to be thankful for this year as a company and we thank our customers, suppliers, partners, and of course our amazing employees for all that they do.

November 16, 2023

Cheers to a Great AUSA 2023 Trade Show!

Team Systel enjoying a pre-show dinner before the start of the 2023 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition.

October 8, 2023

Dialing in the Programming for Our New PCB Conformal Coating Machine

Member of our production team working on finalizing the programming of our conformal coating machine for a critical customer program.

August 25, 2023

Cheers to a Great Summer Internship

Kyle Nguyen joined our electrical engineering team this summer for an internship. His main project was to successfully design and test a remote sense circuit board for a DC-DC converter module. He spent the summer collaborating with the team as well as working independently to achieve his objectives. Great work this summer, Kyle!

August 18, 2023

2023 National Sales Meeting

We held our annual national sales meeting, hosting our manufacturer sales reps from around the country. It was an engaging and energizing two days, with terrific discussion and strategic planning on how we can better support our customers and their missions with world-class products and customer service. We enjoyed some great Texas bbq and a fun (and hot!) evening at Topgolf.

August 8, 2023

Hooah!

Team Systel is all smiles with “Sergeant Hero” at the 2023 AUSA Global Force Symposium and Exposition.

March 28, 2023

Happy Retirement to Linda Alvarez!

Happy Retirement to Linda Alvarez! Linda retires after 16 years at Systel, consistently demonstrating the highest caliber of service as a member of our Purchasing team. Linda exemplified our first core value of Fanatical Customer Service and will be greatly missed. Congratulations on your retirement, Linda! *Linda pictured with company CEO, Vimal Kothari, at the Systel 2022 Holiday Luncheon*

January 13, 2023

Proud to Support Mission-Critical Reindeer Nav Compute Cold-Weather Applications!

ANY MISSION. ANYWHERE. Systel is proud to support mission-critical cold-weather all-terrain rapid cargo deployments with Kite-Strike II, a rugged AI compute solution purpose-built for Extreme Mission Arctic Systems (XMAS). Kite-Strike II is built on open standards with Sleigh Accelerated Navigation and Timing Augmentation (SANTA) enabling capabilities, reducing the cognitive burden on the driver and nine flight support personnel. Kite-Strike II is engineered for the polar edge, and is available in CARC white and red finish options.

December 25, 2022

Congratulations to Our 2022 Core Values Winners!

The essence of our company is defined by our core values: Fanatical Customer Service, Absolute Ownership, Passion for Improvement, and Uncompromising Integrity. We talk about our core values constantly with a peer nominating system, monthly company-wide recognition and awards, and the selection of five annual winners who are deemed to best represent these values. Congratulations to our 2022 Core Values winners, recognized by their peers throughout the year and selected by our Leadership team for consistently embodying our core values and putting them into action in support of our customers’ missions. Our 2022 Core Values winners are (pictured L to R) Jeremy Reyes, Mel Phengsikeo, Chase McMillan, David Elias, and Brandon Hawthorne Each winner receives a $1000 award and the title of 2022 Core Values winner. Congrats!

December 6, 2022

Holiday Luncheon 2022

We held our annual company holiday luncheon, getting into the festive spirit with christmas carols, an ugly xmas sweater contest, a lively game of white elephant, and some great tex-mex food!

December 2, 2022

Thanksgiving Luncheon 2022

We held our annual Thanksgiving feast, with our team coming together to enjoy a great meal and each others company.

November 17, 2022

Pumpkin Carving Contest

We got into the Halloween spirit with a pumpkin carving contest. Great job by all of the contestants and congrats to our superstar inside sales team for the winning pumpkin!

October 28, 2022

Thermal Camera Fun

Teledyne Flir bailed us their new Ranged HDC MR surveillance system to use at the AUSA 2022 conference for an in-booth AI demo with our new Kite-Strike II embedded edge mission computer. Our team had some fun configuring and testing out the camera in our lab. The resolution is incredible!

September 28, 2022

Cabling Fun

Our master technician, Hoang Dao, still having fun after a long day painstakingly making prototype test cables to support our latest IRAD effort.

September 2, 2022

Finally Getting Our Hands on the New Jetson Orin Dev Kits

Our Product team is excited to unbox the new NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin developer kits!

April 21, 2022

Going the Extra Mile with Rapid Prototype Shock Testing

Our team is always looking to go the extra mile to support our customers and their missions. To support an extreme MIL-STD shock requirement for a US DoD program, we thought outside the box with a quick-turn proof of concept shock test bed. Innovation is in our DNA!

April 14, 2022