Vali is a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business comprised of an amazing team of professionals brought together by th ... e merger of Vali, Inc and Defense Acquisition, Inc. DAi was formed in March 2002 in Huntsville, Alabama by Rich Jones, to provide engineering and acquisition support to the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program. Vali was formed in August 2017 in Huntsville, Alabama by Steve Smith and Kim Rose, to provide Business Operations, System Engineering, Software Engineering, Training, and Logistics support to Army Aviation. read more