Overview

Our First Contract
Was Classified

Platforms will endure because they enable force projection at scale, but their requirements are set years before threats emerge. National security advantage now depends on rapid adaptation. STR builds classified information-processing systems that enable fielded platforms to adapt to novel threats. The platform silhouette doesn’t change, but the capability does.

By the Numbers

700

ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS

57%

ADVANCED DEGREES

16

YEARS OF INNOVATION

7

LOCATIONS

VALUES

Impact, Craftsmanship, and Teamwork

Impact

STR exists to create a lasting impact on national security. The potential for impact is how we choose what we work on, from the programs we pursue to the tasks we pick up each morning.

Craftsmanship

We set a high bar for our work because our customers deploy what we build. Getting better at hard things is why people stay.

Teamwork

People do their best work when they know their teammates have their back, so we build interdisciplinary teams on a foundation of mutual respect.

History & Future

Founded to Have
an Impact

STR started in 2010 with six founders working out of their homes. Our first two contracts focused on processing of airborne radar data and airborne video data, including fusion of the video data with airborne signals intelligence, an early start toward what remains central to our work today: transforming sensor data into military decisions and effects.

Classified programs were part of STR from the beginning. In 2011, we leased our first office, and in 2012 we built our first secure facility: a 10-by-10-foot room with a classified information system. From that first 100 square feet, we have grown to more than 40,000 square feet of secure laboratory, development, and integration facilities supporting some of the nation's most sensitive mission needs.

Our mission and capabilities expanded steadily. We began developing cyber capabilities in 2012, undersea systems in 2014, space systems in 2015, land systems in 2017, and surface and maritime systems in 2019. What began with airborne information processing now spans every major operating domain, with cleared teams developing classified information-processing and decision systems that enable platforms and operators to adapt to rapidly evolving threats.

As STR continues to grow, we intend to build on what brought us here: taking on important problems, doing the work with exceptional craftsmanship, and bringing together teams capable of solving problems none of us could solve alone. The technologies and threats will change, but our commitment to impact, craftsmanship, and teamwork will not.

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STR began with a handful of researchers and an audacious idea: apply hard technology to the problems that keep a free society safe.

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Origins

STR started in 2010 with six founders working out of their homes. Our first two contracts focused on processing of airborne radar data and airborne video data, including fusion of the video data with airborne signals intelligence, an early start toward what remains central to our work today: transforming sensor data into military decisions and effects.

Getting to Work

Classified programs were part of STR from the beginning. In 2011, we leased our first office, and in 2012 we built our first secure facility: a 10-by-10-foot room with a classified information system. From that first 100 square feet, we have grown to more than 40,000 square feet of secure laboratory, development, and integration facilities supporting some of the nation's most sensitive mission needs.

Expansion

Our mission and capabilities expanded steadily. We began developing cyber capabilities in 2012, undersea systems in 2014, space systems in 2015, land systems in 2017, and surface and maritime systems in 2019. What began with airborne information processing now spans every major operating domain, with cleared teams developing classified information-processing and decision systems that enable platforms and operators to adapt to rapidly evolving threats.

Commitment

As STR continues to grow, we intend to build on what brought us here: taking on important problems, doing the work with exceptional craftsmanship, and bringing together teams capable of solving problems none of us could solve alone. The technologies and threats will change, but our commitment to impact, craftsmanship, and teamwork will not.

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