ALSO| Oklo’s Groves One Achieves Criticality; And the Race for Medical Isotopes Begins<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cHe was so pivotal because I think he might be the single most important factor, the tipping point, as it were, to the Army coming to Austin,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
Congressman John Carter also remembered Baer as someone who understood when his involvement could make a difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was smart enough to know when to lend his support to something important,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n
Gordon Daugherty, Capital Factory co-founder and chairman, said Baer understood early on that bringing technology companies and the military together could benefit the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cJosh was effective because he just knew deep down in his heart that the intersection of technology and innovation and our military was going to be the right thing for our country,\u201d Daugherty said.<\/p>\n
A legacy that continues<\/p>\n
The connection Baer helped build remains active today, with Austin technology companies continuing to work on national defense challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of their portfolio companies here at Capital Factory are supporting the Department of Defense or the Department of War as we speak today,\u201d said Ross T. Guieb, executive director of the Bush Combat Development Complex.<\/p>\n
During the ceremony, Baer\u2019s wife, Amy Baer, accepted two posthumous honors on his behalf: congressional recognition for his contributions and the Department of the Army Meritorious Public Service Medal.<\/p>\n
The honors recognized an impact that friends and colleagues said could be seen throughout Austin\u2019s technology and defense communities.<\/p>\n
Baer spent much of his career looking toward what was next \u2014 from rockets and autonomous systems to other emerging technologies. Those who knew him said his curiosity and instinct for solving problems were defining parts of who he was.<\/p>\n
Lt. Gen. Miles Brown offered his take on what Josh Baer may be doing now.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s probably somewhere on the other side of the galaxy fixing things that people don\u2019t know are broken yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the people who knew Josh Baer, that sounded about right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin remembered one of the people who helped establish the city as a major hub…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-403024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}