Parry Labs Names Scott DeVona Chief Revenue Officer to Scale Defense Software Growth

Parry Labs has appointed defense software executive Scott DeVona chief revenue officer, putting him in charge of revenue strategy and execution as the company works to expand its interoperability technology across U.S. and allied defense programs. DeVona brings two decades of experience building defense software businesses and pursuing software-centric programs for U.S. combatant commands, military command posts and vehicle-based command-and-control systems. He has led multiple contract captures valued at more than $100 million and secured work across the Army, Air Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense, DARPA and allied nations. At Alexandria, Virginia-based Parry Labs, his mandate will center on expanding deployment of technology designed to connect platforms, sensors, networks, artificial intelligence and mission data at the tactical edge without requiring customers to adopt a single proprietary ecosystem. The appointment comes as defense programs face a growing integration challenge: connecting existing platforms and command systems with newer autonomous systems, sensors and software while preserving the ability to work across vendors and technology generations. 'Scott knows how to win programs, and he knows how to build a product business around the software that delivers them,' CEO Don Claussen said. 'Other companies want to be the ecosystem. We enable the ecosystem to operate as one, and that is what this next phase requires.' DeVona joins Parry Labs from Research Innovations Inc., where he led a commercial software organization serving U.S. and allied defense customers. His responsibilities extended across the product portfolio, engineering, sales and profit-and-loss management. At Research Innovations, DeVona worked to convert mission software into licensed products generating recurring revenue. He also rebuilt forecasting and margin management processes, giving him experience with both winning government programs and creating a repeatable commercial model around the software deployed through them. That combination is particularly relevant in defense technology, where companies can grow through individual program awards but must establish reusable products, licensing models and implementation processes to scale software across multiple customers and missions. DeVona began his career as a software engineer at Fort Monmouth, working alongside Army program offices and military leaders involved in defining technical requirements and making program decisions. He subsequently moved through technical program management, business development and executive operating roles. During his career, DeVona has twice helped scale defense software companies from early-stage teams into established providers. At one company, he joined as its seventh employee. At another, he became the first business development hire, built the corporate growth organization and helped increase the company's size by more than tenfold. His experience gives Parry Labs a revenue leader familiar with the full path from technical requirements and product development through contract capture, program execution and recurring software revenue. 'Programs are being asked to connect the systems they have today with the autonomous systems arriving tomorrow, and to do it without being locked into any one vendor,' DeVona said. 'My focus is getting that capability into more programs, faster.' Parry Labs' technology addresses interoperability at the tactical edge, where military organizations may need to exchange data between platforms and systems developed by different manufacturers and deployed at different points in time. The company positions its architecture as vendor-independent, allowing existing and future technologies to operate together without requiring a common proprietary platform. That interoperability becomes increasingly important as defense organizations introduce AI-enabled systems and autonomous platforms alongside existing vehicles, sensors, communications networks and command infrastructure. Deploying those capabilities effectively depends not only on acquiring new technology but also on integrating it with systems already operating in the field. For Parry Labs, the commercial opportunity therefore centers on making that integration capability repeatable across programs rather than solving interoperability independently for each platform. DeVona's appointment places an executive with experience winning large defense programs and building licensed software businesses behind that strategy. His role will focus on expanding Parry Labs into additional programs while developing the revenue processes needed to scale its interoperability software across U.S. and allied defense customers.