Aalyria names co-founder brian Barritt CEO to advance product growth strategy. July 2, 2026 Dr. Brian Barritt Aalyria Technologies has appointed co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Brian Barritt as chief executive officer, completing a planned leadership transition as the networking technology company shifts its focus toward product commercialization and long-term growth. Barritt succeeds Chris Taylor, who has led the company since its founding and is departing alongside former Chief Strategy Officer Donald "Chip" Ashworth Cox III to pursue other opportunities. The leadership change comes as Aalyria expands its portfolio of government and commercial programs and increases its emphasis on bringing its networking technologies to broader markets. As CEO, Barritt will lead the company's next phase of growth while continuing to build on the development of its Spacetime network orchestration platform and Tightbeam laser communications technology. Barritt co-founded Aalyria in 2022 and has served as its chief technology officer since launch. He led the product strategy behind both Spacetime and Tightbeam, helping move the technologies from early concepts to operational deployments supporting mission-critical communications. In his new role, he will focus on scaling those platforms commercially while advancing the company's product roadmap. Arthur Patterson, founder of Accel and an Aalyria seed investor, credited outgoing CEO Chris Taylor with building the company through its early stages, including its Series B financing. Patterson said the board believes Barritt's combination of technical expertise, customer relationships and commercial perspective positions him to lead Aalyria through its next stage of expansion. Before co-founding Aalyria, Barritt led the development of networking technologies at Google, where he worked on systems that evolved into the company's Spacetime platform. He also held leadership positions at Meta and Cisco and worked on NASA's Space Communications and Navigation program, giving him experience across commercial networking, cloud infrastructure and space communications. Barritt said the company's mission has been to create networking technology capable of operating seamlessly across land, sea, air and space. He noted that Aalyria has demonstrated those capabilities through field deployments of Spacetime and Tightbeam and will now prioritize accelerating product innovation alongside commercial execution. Aalyria develops software and communications technologies for high-performance networking in dynamic operating environments. Its portfolio combines AI-powered network orchestration software with laser communications terminals designed to provide secure, resilient connectivity across terrestrial, airborne and space-based networks. The company serves government organizations and commercial satellite operators as demand grows for integrated communications infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly complex multi-domain operations.

Aalyria has been selected by NASA to support enterprise service orchestration for the Space Communications and Navigation Programme, beginning with the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) mission. The company will deploy its Spacetime platform in NASA's operational cloud environment to provide network scheduling, planning and resource management. PExT, which launched in July 2025, demonstrates spacecraft's ability to seamlessly roam between government and commercial communications networks. Under the contract, Aalyria will deploy Spacetime to NASA's Cloud Hosting platform, provide engineering support for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and partner with commercial networks to extend scheduling capabilities. The agreement builds on Aalyria's existing NASA relationship, including a contract awarded in October 2024 for a Network Orchestration and Management System study.

SpinLaunch has partnered with Aalyria Technologies to develop infrastructure for its Meridian low-Earth orbit communications constellation. Aalyria will provide technical and commercial support, integrating its Spacetime network orchestration platform into Meridian's architecture. The collaboration focuses on enabling Meridian's fractional ownership model, allowing government, defence and telecommunications customers to operate dedicated portions of the global LEO network whilst maintaining data sovereignty. Spacetime's AI-powered software will dynamically manage the multi-domain network across ground, air and space in real time. Founded in 2014, SpinLaunch introduced Meridian Space in 2025 as a platform to reduce satellite infrastructure deployment costs. Aalyria, built on technology originally developed at Google, provides laser communications terminals and network orchestration software for satellite operators and government missions worldwide.