As we now move into 2026, I did not want to let 2025 pass by without thanking all of our customers, business partners, suppliers, and employees for making 2025 our best year in the history of our company dating back to our inception in 2007 – 19 years and counting! When we started CCS our initial focus was going to be on our home state of Texas just attempting to serve what we considered local agencies, many of which I had already been working with during my 21-year stint with AT&T/Lucent/Avaya. What I did not realize at the time is that what we do is such a niche market that the demand for these mobile communication platforms we provide has a global reach and there are not many companies that do what we do.
Today CCS has customers from the East Coast to the West Coast and in 13 countries around the globe. From the Central Republic of Africa to the jungles of Panama to our Canadian neighbors to the north, CCS clients are deploying our MERC satcom trailers and PERC Go Kits to help keep their citizens safe. At last count we have over 300 MERC mobile command centers deployed worldwide with more units being built out every day.
In 2025 we invested much more resources and physical space on new product development. All our product development projects are based on feedback from our customers where they share a specific need that they have and need a manufacturer’s help to meet that need. This feedback led to the development of our new Skymast product which is a 20-foot portable battery powered mast or tower system that allows customers to quickly put antennas, cameras, or other equipment in the air to assist in their deployments. We also rolled out our new MERC-Tailgator product which is basically a compact hybrid powered mobile command center in a compact wheeled enclosure that can slide into the receiver on most standard vehicles. Through our relationship with AT&T FirstNet both of these products are available through their direct sales team, and they have their own version of the Tailgator specific to their design called the FirstNet Mobile Connectivity HUB. You will see much more on these products in 2026.
Special thanks to some of our more active 2025 customers including Pasadena Texas Office of Emergency Management, Ft. Bend County Texas Office of Emergency Management, Texas Dept of Emergency Management, Texas Dept. of Public Safety, Denton County Texas Office of Emergency Management, Florida City Florida Police Dept., Lee County Florida Healthcare, Cochise County Arizona Sheriff’s Office, Harris County Texas, City of Houston, Charter Communications (Spectrum), AT&T FirstNet, City of Irving Texas Police Dept. , Verizon Wireless, Country of Chile, Dominican Republic, and many more. The men and women at these agencies and companies are using this equipment in emergency response situations and for security and their work is greatly appreciated.
Our partnerships with companies like IP Access International, Frontier Communications, Fireco Pneumatic Masts, Peplink, Ericsson, Synnex, Dejero, Kymeta, Starlink, One Web, Intellian, AT&T, Verizon, Cummins, Get Wireless, Freightliner, Zumro Air Shelters, Multi-Quip, Engine Power Source, Victron, and several more enable us to stay on the cutting edge of technology to make sure we are properly serving our customers. Their help and support are very important to our continued success and is very much appreciated.
And last but not least, I want to thank all of our CCS employees from Texas to Maryland to Florida. A company is only as good as it’s people and we would not be able to accomplish what we do without them. Cliff Haynes our Operations Manager and Paul Aguero our Shop Manager do a great job of managing the day to day production. Bryan Rudel our sales manager for South Texas had a phenomenal 2025 and his best year to date and his hard work is very much appreciated. Mike Butler was a recent hire we brought in to help us grow our product development team and we are expecting big things from him in 2026. Brian Stevenson was added mid-year out of Maryland to help us grow our focus on the Federal Market and he has already done some great work for us.
We have some more new products in the works for early 2026 so stay tuned for some future announcements. Hope everyone had a great Holiday Season, and we look forward to working with you in 2026! God is good.