Author: William Knarr, Colonel, USA, Retired

Ybor city is known for its cigars, entertainment, nightclubs, artistry, galleries, and multi-ethnic origins, but did you know that in addition to those characteristics and attractions, it hosts a high-tech component as well? It is known as SOFWERX, a nonprofit organization chartered to accelerate the delivery of innovative capabilities to the United States Special Operations Command/USSOCOM, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base. But SOFWERX is not at MacDill, it is located in a brick nondescript former cigar box manufacturing facility on E 2nd Ave in Tampa. If you look close you will see a small sign to the left of…