Career
McCune in 2004 became president of Integrated Wave Technologies, Incorporated., a company founded in 1992 to combine the talents of Silicon Valley pioneer John H. Hall with former Soviet scientists who had worked with speech recognition. McCune traveled extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan to complete testing and development of IWT’s flagship product, the Voice Response Translator (VRT). In 2008, Incorporated Magazine named IWT the 200th Fastest Growing Company in the United States. In 2010, McCune was named as sole inventor in a patent related to IWT’s work for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, United States Patent 7,707,035.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency subsequently awarded IWT with a contract for the purchase of 2,000 licenses for the digital version of the highly successful VRT application for Android systems
