One operator. Five disciplines. One standard.
Cingilek Precision, LLC is built around a single principle: regulated programs deserve advice from someone who has run them. Calibration. Quality systems. Federal contracting. Austere operations. Same operator. Same standard.
Jason Wagner, MRED, DML
Owner & Principal Consultant
- Owner, Cingilek Precision, LLC
- Chief Operating Officer, Field Calibrations, Inc.
- President & CEO, Emmonak Corporation
Practitioner first, consultant second
Jason Wagner is a service-disabled retired U.S. Army Major whose career began as an enlisted TMDE calibration technician. He rose to serve as Senior Team Chief of a TMDE laboratory as an E-7 Sergeant First Class with the 82nd Airborne Division before commissioning as a logistics officer. Upon commissioning, he transitioned directly into the 10th Special Forces Group. There, he earned the rare distinction of permanent wear of the Special Forces Regimental Distinctive Insignia and was awarded the K9 Additional Skill Identifier — the Army's Special Operations Logistician designator — honors granted to very few logisticians in the world. He was later recognized as a Demonstrated Master Logistician (DML) by the International Society of Logistics, an accolade reserved for those who have demonstrated true mastery in the profession.
Guided by the Special Forces mottos ‘De Oppresso Liber’ (‘to free the oppressed’) and the ‘Tip of the Spear,’ he developed a distinctive approach to problem-solving — applying the precision, measurement, and root-cause discipline of metrology to complex logistics and operational challenges.
Today, Jason serves as COO of Field Calibrations, Inc., an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited calibration asset management and calibration service provider (IAS CL-112), and as President & CEO of Emmonak Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation. Following his leadership at Emmonak, the Yup’ik people adopted him into the tribe and bestowed upon him the name ‘Cingilek’ — spearpoint. Cingilek Precision (spearpoint precision) is named in their honor.
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Jason remains personally engaged in every client engagement. When a project requires additional support, he draws on a trusted network of professionals. Cingilek exists to deliver that depth of experience directly to clients — with the precision of a metrologist and the agility of a lean, relationship-driven firm.
Seven advanced and undergraduate degrees, including a Master of Real Estate Development. Full credentials available on request.
When the brief calls for AI, the principal builds it personally and runs it first on his own companies. Emmonak Corporation, Field Calibrations and Cingilek operate on the same model he delivers to clients. Agents work inside the real systems of record, every change waits for a named approver before it goes live, and each entity keeps its own access and evidence. He also runs a multi-node home AI lab on Apple Silicon and edge-inference hardware. Every Cingilek engagement that touches AI ships with a train-the-trainer plan so the operator team owns the system, not the consultant.
Thirty years from the calibration bench to the corner office
Three decades of the same discipline applied at four different altitudes — from a torque-wrench check to a federal sole-source negotiation.
Enlisted TMDE calibration technician
Started where everyone in this trade should start: at the bench. Troubleshooting precision instruments to the micro level taught a way of thinking — measurement, traceability, root cause — that everything that came after was built on.
Logistics officer serving with U.S. Army Special Forces
Commissioned as a logistics officer and assigned to U.S. Army Special Forces. Awarded permanent wear of the Special Forces Regimental Distinctive Insignia and the K9 Additional Skill Identifier — the Army's Special Operations Logistician designator, held by very few logisticians. Solved SF logistics problems the way a metrologist troubleshoots an instrument: precision, discipline, and accountability for the result.
COO, Field Calibrations · President & CEO, Emmonak Corporation
Took over an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited calibration laboratory in turnaround, and the parent ANCSA Village Corporation that owns it. Brought calibration discipline to corporate operations, federal contracting, and shareholder governance.
Cingilek — spearpoint
The Yup'ik people of Emmonak adopted our founder into their tribe and gave him the name Cingilek for what they observed in his work. This firm is named in their honor.
Bronze Star Medal (×2) · Demonstrated Master Logistician · 20 years active duty (1996–2016).
Three rules. No exceptions.
Cingilek's tagline is the firm. These are the operator — three working mottos the principal has led by long before the firm carried his name.
“No issues. Just solutions.”
Bring me the problem with the option set, not the obstacle without it. Engineering, not editorializing.
“One team. One fight.”
Client, vendor, prime, sub, board, crew — same standard, same direction, same outcome.
“Just do it. Right.”
Speed matters. So does the standard. We refuse the choice between them.
Cingilek means spearpoint.
It is not a brand chosen out of a thesaurus. It is the Yup'ik name given to our founder by the people of Emmonak, on the Yukon Delta, when they adopted him into the tribe after he became their President & CEO.
The naming was an unusually personal recognition — and a surreal one. Before any of this work in calibration and federal contracting, our founder served with the U.S. Army Special Forces, whose motto is De Oppresso Liber — "free the oppressed" — and which is known worldwide as the Tip of the Spear. He had served as an enlisted TMDE calibration technician before commissioning as a logistics officer and being assigned to Special Forces, where he was awarded permanent wear of the Special Forces Regimental Distinctive Insignia and the K9 Additional Skill Identifier — the Army's Special Operations Logistician designator. When he solved logistics problems for SF, he did it differently — by applying calibration-grade troubleshooting and precision to operations.
The Yup'ik people of Emmonak had no knowledge of any of that history. They named him Cingilek for what they had observed in his work with Field Calibrations and Emmonak Corporation: a person dialed in to the micro details, solving problems with precision, committed to doing things right. That their independent observation produced a name that mirrored his Special Forces identity — the tip of the spear — was a profound and meaningful convergence.
This firm is named in honor of that recognition, and the people who gave it. It carries an obligation: to operate at the standard the name implies, on every engagement, for every client.
Quyana — thank you — to the people of Emmonak.
What we are accountable to
Four principles shape every engagement — and the name above the door.
Operator-grade
We hold ourselves to the standard of the people who have to live with the result — not the standard of the deck that closes the sale.
Independent
We sell advice, not product. No referral fees, no inventory, no white-labeled deliverables from someone else's firm. Independence is enforced.
Audit-tested
Every system we design is built to survive accreditation, customer audit, or contracting-officer review. If it can't be defended, it doesn't ship.
Train-the-trainer
Engagements end. Capability stays. We design every project so your team owns the system when we leave — and can teach the next people in.
Senior expertise, direct access, no conflicts
You work directly with the principal — not a rotating bench of junior staff. Because Cingilek sells advice and never product, our recommendations are never steered by what we have to sell. And as a small, focused firm, we move quickly and keep your information tightly held.
Talk to us- Direct engagement with a senior practitioner on every project
- Independent, vendor-neutral recommendations
- Real operating experience across regulated and austere environments
- Veteran-owned, with set-aside and teaming pathways available now
- Confidentiality agreements executed per engagement