Cross icon
Image stating Excel Technologies is now doing business as AetherForge. Same superheroes, different capes.

Excel Technologies is now doing business as AetherForge.

We’ve evolved—same trusted team, bold new identity. Still driven by mission. Still forging resilience. Just in a new cape.

AetherForge logo with transparent background
Working at the intersection of Humanity and Technology
Explore our vision
Arrow chevron pointing right
Organizational Resilience
Organizational Resilience

Culture, Continuity, and Change—Under Pressure. Resilience Forge Teams build strength from the inside out. These specialists combine leadership coaching, cultural diagnostics, and continuity planning to help organizations thrive in uncertainty. Whether surfacing blind spots or enabling strategic change, they operate with empathy, clarity, and an eye on mission performance. Every engagement is powered by the full AetherResilience suite—no added cost, no abstract consulting fluff. Just measurable progress toward operational readiness.

Incident and Disaster Response
Incident and Disaster Response

Field-Ready Experts in Mission Continuity. Response Forge Teams are trained to support mission operations in off-grid, infrastructure-limited, or rapidly changing environments. Backed by the AetherResponse suite and supported by mobile platforms like the AetherFleet, these teams deliver power, communications, and coordination where traditional systems fall short. They don’t just adapt to disruption—they operate through it, ensuring continuity when and where it matters most.

Human-Centered Modernization
Human-Centered Modernization

At AetherForge, Human-Centered Modernization means treating technology not as a department, but as an essential, invisible layer of how organizations think, move, and grow. We don’t upgrade systems—we upgrade mindsets. Our approach embeds IT into the very fabric of your business, making it a shared language across functions rather than a foreign tool wielded by a distant team. By centering people in the process—how they work, collaborate, and make decisions—we help organizations unlock speed, resilience, and creativity at every level. It’s not about keeping up with change. It’s about becoming the kind of organization that is change.

Ethical AI & Governance Solutions
Ethical AI & Governance Solutions

AetherForge's Ethical AI & Governance Solutions help organizations deploy artificial intelligence with purpose, accountability, and resilience. Integrated within our Modernization, Organizational Resilience, and Cybersecurity offerings, our solutions ensure your AI systems are transparent, secure, and aligned with evolving ethical and regulatory standards. From strategy and audits to responsible design and culture building, we embed trust directly into your AI lifecycle. Because real innovation doesn't cut corners.

Cybersecurity and Threat Readiness
Cybersecurity and Threat Readiness

At AetherForge, we don’t just deploy teams—we deploy precision. Our Cyber Forge Teams are built to deliver proactive cybersecurity and threat readiness, powered by the full AetherForge Stack. These specialized teams bring structure, speed, and clarity to even the most complex security environments, combining expert talent with our proprietary toolset to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and drive consistent execution. Every engagement includes our tools at no extra cost—because resilience shouldn't be an add-on.

Organizational Resilience
Organizational Resilience

Culture, Continuity, and Change—Under Pressure. Resilience Forge Teams build strength from the inside out. These specialists combine leadership coaching, cultural diagnostics, and continuity planning to help organizations thrive in uncertainty. Whether surfacing blind spots or enabling strategic change, they operate with empathy, clarity, and an eye on mission performance. Every engagement is powered by the full AetherResilience suite—no added cost, no abstract consulting fluff. Just measurable progress toward operational readiness.

Incident and Disaster Response
Incident and Disaster Response

Field-Ready Experts in Mission Continuity. Response Forge Teams are trained to support mission operations in off-grid, infrastructure-limited, or rapidly changing environments. Backed by the AetherResponse suite and supported by mobile platforms like the AetherFleet, these teams deliver power, communications, and coordination where traditional systems fall short. They don’t just adapt to disruption—they operate through it, ensuring continuity when and where it matters most.

Human-Centered Modernization
Human-Centered Modernization

At AetherForge, Human-Centered Modernization means treating technology not as a department, but as an essential, invisible layer of how organizations think, move, and grow. We don’t upgrade systems—we upgrade mindsets. Our approach embeds IT into the very fabric of your business, making it a shared language across functions rather than a foreign tool wielded by a distant team. By centering people in the process—how they work, collaborate, and make decisions—we help organizations unlock speed, resilience, and creativity at every level. It’s not about keeping up with change. It’s about becoming the kind of organization that is change.

Ethical AI & Governance Solutions
Ethical AI & Governance Solutions

AetherForge's Ethical AI & Governance Solutions help organizations deploy artificial intelligence with purpose, accountability, and resilience. Integrated within our Modernization, Organizational Resilience, and Cybersecurity offerings, our solutions ensure your AI systems are transparent, secure, and aligned with evolving ethical and regulatory standards. From strategy and audits to responsible design and culture building, we embed trust directly into your AI lifecycle. Because real innovation doesn't cut corners.

Cybersecurity and Threat Readiness
Cybersecurity and Threat Readiness

At AetherForge, we don’t just deploy teams—we deploy precision. Our Cyber Forge Teams are built to deliver proactive cybersecurity and threat readiness, powered by the full AetherForge Stack. These specialized teams bring structure, speed, and clarity to even the most complex security environments, combining expert talent with our proprietary toolset to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and drive consistent execution. Every engagement includes our tools at no extra cost—because resilience shouldn't be an add-on.

Why the Name?
Because we didn’t want to be called CyberCorpX-24 like a rejected Marvel villain.

AetherForge was born from the realization that what we do—cybersecurity, resilience, ethical AI—isn’t about the hardware. It’s about the invisible stuff that actually makes systems run: trust, logic, judgment, and all those behind-the-scenes digital ghost particles that keep your world from catching fire (literally and metaphorically).
Aether

The old-school term for the divine upper air. The stuff that filled the cosmos, carried light, and made philosophers feel smug. In our world, it’s the digital atmosphere: networks, dataflows, algorithms, and vibes.

An image of a flame above an atom or a planet with rings to signify Aether
Forge

Where transformation happens. Under heat. Under pressure. With intent. It's what you do when you take raw inputs—like a compliance checklist, a data breach, or a mild existential crisis—and turn them into strategy, strength, and readiness.

Image or an anvil with a flame above it
AetherForge

Put them together and you get AetherForge: A place where we shape the intangible, tame the chaos, and temper tomorrow’s tech into something that actually works for human beings.

AetherForge logo with transparent background
We don’t just build systems. We smith the future. (And sometimes we bring dogs.)
Moxie Award 2021 logo
SECAF 2021 Award Logo
SBA WOSB Certified logo
ISO 9001 Registered Company logo

Value Propositions

Cybersecurity | Resilience | Ethical AI

A shield with a key lock depicting cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

At AetherForge, we don’t just deploy teams—we deploy precision. Our Cyber Forge Teams are built to deliver proactive cybersecurity and threat readiness, powered by the full AetherForge Stack.

A picket fence to show resilience

Resilience

Culture, Continuity, and Change—Under Pressure. Resilience Forge Teams build strength from the inside out. These specialists combine leadership coaching, cultural diagnostics, and continuity planning to help organizations thrive in uncertainty.

Scales with AI in the middle to depict Ethical AI

Ethical AI

AetherForge's Ethical AI & Governance Services help organizations deploy artificial intelligence with purpose, accountability, and resilience. From strategy and audits to responsible design and culture building, we embed trust directly into your AI lifecycle. Because real innovation doesn't cut corners.

What our peers think of aetherforge

Our Achievements/ Awards

2021
SECAF 2021 Award Logo

AetherForge received this award for exemplary financial performance, significant value to the federal government, and for having a strong focus on providing class-leading services and solutions.

2021
Moxie Award 2021 logo

AetherForge is a finalist for this award for having demonstrated boldness and innovation in Government Contracting as an integral part of our growth strategy.

2024
ISO 9001 Registered Company logo

AetherForge is committed to providing high-quality products and services that consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. We are dedicated to continually improving our processes and performance to enhance customer satisfaction and maintain our competitive edge.