Who We Are
Your business has risks.
Our team isn’t one of them.
We’re often asked what differentiates us from other engineering teams and why our customers return year after year. Of course, our staff has deep technical engineering R&D expertise across a variety of disciplines. However, the feedback is most often related to our passion, process, and thoughtfulness. Our engineers have a passion for unsolved problems. We do this for fun… it’s our Happy Place. That means we’re persistent at solving the toughest problems for our Customers often when others have failed.
We follow a First Principles Process of breaking down obstacles into their most fundamental pieces then Design, Prototype, & Test solutions one at a time before putting it all back together. Finally, we look at design details thoughtfully from different perspectives, how they integrate with other aspects of the product, and how they might affect everything from the material selection, manufacturing cost, assembly, reliability, user experience, and beyond which ultimately leads to a quality product for our customers… and theirs.
Credentials for regulated and controlled work
Our engineering experts bring decades of experience from regulated industries:
- ITAR Registration - Cleared to handle export-controlled defense hardware and data.
- CMMC Level 2, DFARS 252.204-7012, NIST 800-171 v2 - Compliant with DoD federal cybersecurity requirements for CUI.
- Maryland Professional Engineering Firm - State-licensed to provide engineering design consulting; PE-led designs accountable for regulatory safety and compliance.
- Named Inventor on Patents - 16 & Counting - Repeated track-record of turning complex ideas into novel, working hardware.
For medical, aerospace, defense, and other high‑stakes devices, these credentials mean you can hire us without creating new compliance or safety risk. Most US states, including Maryland, require consulting firms who provide engineering services (including product development) to be licensed Professional Engineering Firms led by licensed Professional Engineers.
Want the technical details behind our licenses and acronyms? See how our PE licenses and security credentials reduce project risk.
Meet the Team
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Our prototyping workshop
Half of our facility here at Root3 Labs is comprised of an extensive and versatile fabrication workshop. Todd takes you on a video tour and gives some insight into why we have all these tools and how we use them throughout our product development process. Our Workshop is optimized for quick-turn prototype iteration using a variety of materials, equipment, and techniques, and our engineers fully understand how a part can best be made because they’re familiar with the tools to make it. We have in-house fabrication capabilities in SLA 3D printing, laser-cutting, CNC and manual machining, welding, woodworking, metalworking, and electronics, as well as vinyl cutting, sewing, thermoforming, and molding equipment. And, it’s always expanding. Come by to see our CNC Vertical Machining Center, new sewing and soldering tools, and probably more grinders.
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