1979
DFM Engineering opens for business
1981
DFM Sets up Meade Instruments optical shop
1982
Designs and Builds 18” Telescope for Colorado University using Apple 2e control system
1983
Design and commissions 2.4M Telescope
Design and builds first CCT-24 Telescope
Design and builds first LIDAR scanner
Begins retrofits of older telescopes
1985
Designs and builds first CCT-16 Telescope
Designs and builds first Guide Acquire Module (GAM)
1986
Designs and builds first 0.8M Beam Director Tracker (BDT) for AMOS AVCO/Textron
1987
Designs and builds first Cassegrain Spectrograph
1988
Designs and builds first CCT-32 Telescope with PC based control system
1989
Keck Telescope design and review
32-inch Beam Director Tracker (BDT) software with pointing model adapted to other telescopes
1990
Designs and builds first 48" Telescope
Rebuilds Keck Telescope motors
1991
Designs and builds Optics In a Box
Designs and builds Keck Telescope F25 Offset Guider
1992
Designs and builds first X-Y Guider for Lunar Ranging
1993
Designs and builds first 10-inch Laser Beam Director
1994
Designs and builds first Photometer
Designs and builds first Heliostat
Designs and builds first Siderostat
Designs and builds first 3-axis Shipborn LIDAR Scanner
1997
Designs and builds first Coelostat
1999
Designs and builds first computer controlled Filterwheel (FW82)
2001
Designs and builds first Slide Mirror (SM125)
2004
Designs and builds first Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM)
Designs and builds first Articulated Relay Eye-piece (ARE-125)
2005
Designs and deploys first Satellite Tracking Software
2008
Designs and builds first 1-meter 40-inch CCT-40 Telescope
2009
Designs and builds first 1.6-meter 63" Solar Telescope
Designs and builds larger version of Articulated Relay Eye-piece (ARE-125EX)
DFM Optical Shop opens producing 1.3M mirrors
2012
Designs the Galileo Mobile Interferometric Telescope
Begins Integrated Observatory Design and Consulting Service
2013
Designs and builds first 1.3-meter Double Horse Shoe Mount with Hydrostatic Bearing Telescope (alt-alt) / (low-lattitude equatorial)
2014
Introduces 3rd Generation Telescope Control System: TCS Galil
2015
Designs and ships first Integrated Dome Design
2016
Designs and builds first Lunar Instrument
2017
Designs and builds first Killer Asteroid ATLAS OTA
Designs and builds Large Aperture Shutter
Designs and builds 8-Cassette Filter Changer for large filters
2018
Refurbishes Optical Tube Assembly for US Spaceforce's Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System (GEODSS)
Designs and builds first Collimated Beam Projector for LSST
2019
Upgrades the Modular Precision Absolute Control System (MPACS) for US Spaceforce's Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System (GEODSS)
2022
Designs and builds world's finest commercially available Fast Wide-field Prime Focus Telescope/Camera for Satellite Tracking and Laser Communications
2024
Designs and builds first Multiple Instrument Adapter (MIA)
