Mission

To advance the nation’s technological advantage by delivering secure, intelligent, and scalable solutions that meet real-world operational challenges.

Vision

To be the premier innovation partner for national security, defense modernization, and applied AI.

Who We Are

Founded by Army Cyber Warfare Officer Sheriff Bangura, Aplus Capabilities brings together experts in software engineering, cybersecurity, AI/ML, and government operations. Our team blends military precision with academic rigor to build trustworthy, effective technology.

Core Values

  • Timely Innovation

  • Integrity

  • Mission Focus

  • Operational Readiness

Sheriff leads Aplus Capabilities’ technical portfolio spanning multimodal AI, autonomous systems, mission-driven analytics, and cyber-physical security. His work focuses on transitioning early-stage research into deployable prototypes, accelerating TRL progression, and aligning novel technologies with DoD, intelligence, and critical-infrastructure needs.

He maintains active research engagements with academic partners, including The Citadel and multiple U.S. universities, and is completing doctoral work in AI applications for autonomous vehicles and AI decision support system. Sheriff also founded the Richard O. Honeycutt Foundation, where he directs national cyber education and workforce initiatives in collaboration with industry and government partners.

His leadership centers on building secure, resilient, and operationally relevant technologies that strengthen national security, enhance decision advantage, and enable the rapid adoption of emerging capabilities across defense and civilian sector.

-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Deepti Joshi is a Professor of Computer Science at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina where she had taught a variety of computer science, data science and AI-related courses. Dr. Joshi is passionate about undergraduate research having supervised more than 40 students on a diverse set of topics such as text classification for social unrest detection, big data analytics, building social unrest vocabulary through text and images using data-driven approaches, and twitter data analysis for social sensing. Dr. Joshi has been awarded several internal research grants from The Citadel Foundation, Swain Family School of Science and Mathematics, and the provost grant awards. She has also received approximately 8 million dollars in funding through research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. She is currently conducting research with open data sources, including news sources, and other regional and national level statistics-based datasets to develop algorithms and a system to anticipate social unrest within a geographic context.  Dr. Joshi also works extensively with the STEM center on in-service teacher professional development projects where her goal is to enable all teachers to teach computational thinking, computer science, and artificial intelligence within their K-12 classrooms.

Sheriff Bangura
Chief Executive Officer

John Black advises Aplus Capabilities on defense innovation strategy, commercialization, and product-market fit. As founder and CEO of OFFSET3, he brings experience in cyber capability development, SBIR pathways, government acquisition, and military innovation coaching, helping the team translate promising research into fundable, operationally relevant products.

John Black
Offset3
Business Advisor

Dr. Deepti Joshi
Research and Development

Adriana Palacios supports Aplus Consulting as an execution-focused advisor and coordination coach. She helps convert strategic intent into disciplined follow-through by organizing workstreams, meeting cadence, stakeholder communication, and project-management structure so the team can maintain momentum across proposals, customer discovery, and prototype development

Adriana Palacios
Offset3
Business Advisor

Dr. Leen-Kiat Soh is a Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His research interests are in multiagent systems, intelligent data analytics, and computer science education. He has developed intelligent systems to improve teaching and learning, to support online collaboration, and to facilitate adaptive decision making. He has also modeled smart grids, human learning, and social unrest to better investigate emergent behaviors through computational simulations

Dr. Leen-Kiat Soh
Research and Development

Dr. Askok Samal is a Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His research interests are in computer vision and spatial data mining.

Dr. Ashok Samal
Research and Development