Joe Vacek

Josef Vacek is Vice President of Production and Maintenance at Volansi. In this role, Josef and his team manage the manufacturing, procurement, and quality of Volansi’s products.  

Prior to joining Volansi, Josef spent 11 years at Insitu performing multiple roles within the company. In his last role Josef served as Senior Hardware Manager, a cross functional role where he oversaw people, processes, and tools for mechanical, propulsion, electronics, and aerospace engineering. At Insitu Josef also Identified business gaps within the functional teams and provided leadership with solutions to overcome these gaps. He conducted technical review boards as a subject matter expert and led the technical ScanEagle proposal team on 8 Request for Proposals (RFP) and 3 Requests for Information (RFI). He served as Chief Engineer for ScanEagle, the UAS that invented the agile ISR category, and was SUAV Project Engineer that productized the ScanEagle dual bay aircraft. Prior to that Josef was Director of Program Management for Leviathan Security Group, where he led and managed the DARPA customer CYNDER 1 & 2 programs. 

Josef holds a Bachelor of Science, in Aerospace Electronics from Embry Riddle Aeronautical.