Overview
Hardware Systems
We do more than integrate commercial compute and RF technology. We design purpose-built hardware—sensor front-ends, signal-processing accelerators, secure computing systems, and payloads built for orbit—informed by emerging threats and hardened for the conditions it will meet. The best become building blocks that our next program starts from We build on open architectures as the fast path from mission need to fielded capability.
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We Own the Board-Level Story
Designing at the margins
The physics is unforgiving—RF interference is real, power budgets are tight, and signal integrity matters at speed. These constraints are where we find the wins. One choice at the board level can unlock a tenfold speedup in an algorithm or cut power consumption in half, and that choice compounds across every program that reuses the design.
Building blocks, not one-offs
Little of what we design serves only one program. A sensor front-end, a signal-processing accelerator, a secure computing system, a payload that has to survive launch and then run on a few watts—each is built to open architectures so the next project can start from it rather than from scratch, across sensing, electronic warfare, and communications.
Hardware/software co-design
We implement DSP pipelines on FPGAs, bring up firmware on real-time operating systems, and lay out mixed-signal boards where the analog section and the digital logic must coexist without crosstalk. What the algorithm needs shapes the board, and what the board measures changes the algorithm. The trade gets made at the interface, by the engineers who own both sides of it.
Measure twice, theorize once
We spend real time in the lab: in anechoic chambers, on oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and protocol analyzers, across more than 100 classified labs and secure test facilities. We use equipment most startups cannot afford and that most primes would not put in a mid-level engineer’s hands. Sometimes we characterize against live signals we cannot discuss.
Who Does this work
Hardware Engineering and Program Management on One Bench
Hardware Engineers
who carry a design from Verilog and board layout through bring-up and characterization, and can say exactly what it costs in power, area, and heat.
Program Managers
who understand what a respin costs, how long a part takes to arrive, and why a power or thermal margin is worth defending
Products
What We Can Tell You
Small Form Factor
Multi-Function RF System
The core of our MFRF is a high-capability custom back-end software-defined radio that can be tailored to a wide range of missions through COTS components.
Ideal for multiple classes of unmanned aerial and surface systems
Modular design supports integration with a wide range of apertures and platforms
Advanced ADC/DAC architecture uses COTS components to create a cost-effective mission system
Accelerating the Generation of Assured Patches
AI systems can find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can analyze and patch them. Our Axle static code analyzer uses lightweight formal methods to prove assurance properties of generated patches, reducing the gap from discovery to patch.
Tailorable correctness definitions separate useful findings from noise
Users can tune the scope and formalization level of defined properties
Query language prioritizes efficient formal verification
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