We help aerospace clients define and pursue their pathways to success in commercial and government markets with high technological barriers. Whether it's pursuing a market adjacency, winning work with a new customer, or fielding a new product or service, we can maximize your Pwin or minimize your product's time-to-market and risk.
We build strategies on strong data foundations, and then act on them with urgency, honor, and curiosity.
About Us
We thrive on taking the good – good people, good ideas, good products, good market positions – and helping to make them great. We get energized by finding the winning angle for their challenge, by studying the requirements and the players and the possible pathways to arrive at the best route, and then helping them to pursue it relentlessly for the win. We seek meaningful missions with honorable people where we can change the world together, and have fun doing it.
“In hindsight, we would’ve had zero chance of successfully proposing for U.S. government public-private partnership funding without them.”
Using our decades of collective aerospace technical & management experience at major aerospace companies, along with our global network of government and industry contacts, we help you with the front end of your business no matter how big or small you are:
Market / Opportunity Analysis and Competitive Assessment
Business Development (capture strategy, campaign management)
Product Development
Export Strategy (EAR or ITAR via DCS/FMS/FMF, Industrial Offsets, In-Country Partnerships, U.S. Government coordination)
Proposal Win Strategy & Production (in both commercial and FAR-compliant environments)
Sales Representation & Product Advocacy
Introductions
We are big-company capability for you without the burden of full-time SME staff; when the project ends, we simply move on to the next client's work. We've helped companies large and small develop products and win business for commercial, civil, and military applications. We know what it takes to be successful in aerospace and defense, be it UNCLASS or SECRET, Commerce or State Department regulated. To date, our collective direct win tally is $1.4 billion (USD) from U.S. Government agencies, military services, laboratories, FFRDCs, government agencies & ministries outside of the U.S., and commercial customers.
Unmanned Systems
UAVs, USVs, UUVs, Loitering Munitions, Robotic Satellite Servicers, Planetary Robots. Whether they fly, crawl, swim, or explore other planets, this is our space.
Robotics
We work with brilliant robotic systems engineers in the industry. Sometimes the ground stations of their systems can fit in the breast pocket of an operator, but other times they are as big as a global network of antennas and control centers. We've worked with systems at each extreme, and in between.
Through our successes, our customers have fielded new launch vehicles, deployed satellites and space probes, delivered fleets of aircraft both manned and unmanned, developed special payloads for military missions in the air and undersea, integrated weapons systems into ground-based and airborne platforms, and even developed NATO-interoperable unmanned hunter-killer teams. One small company even took a large U.S. government contract one of our principals helped them win and went public 18 months later, with a market capitalization today of $2.5 billion USD.
We helped define the aircraft/stores interface for a new class of miniature smart munition, the Small Diameter Bomb (GBU-39 & -53), a weapon that blurs the lines between a guided munition and a drone. Defining the interface was a challenge, since this new weapon and bomb racks had to facilitate unfettered use by all legacy smart bomb-capable NATO fighter and bomber aircraft.
We support activity in OTA consortiums such as NAMC, DOTC, and UTIC, cooperating with U.S. government and industry partners to develop rapid solutions for unmanned systems on land/sea/air applications. We also lead approved imports and exports for specific UGV and UAV products and services solutions.
Ongoing advancements in AI/ML & autonomy, augmented reality, IoT, power generation, energy storage, sensors, 3D printing, and GPS-independent navigation continue to feed the insatiable needs of industry and the military. US DoD is already waist-deep pivoting from assumed air dominance conflict conditions to near-peer scenarios in multiple COCOM AORs, driving capabilities development in unmanned systems (swarming, ATR, interoperability) in multiple domains, often coordinated with key allies. For more scientific endeavors such as the search for life off Earth, robotic development efforts continue with missions to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Titan, Venus, and the ocean worlds of Europa, Enceladus, and Ceres. These efforts are also coordinated amongst participating space agencies, including NASA, ESA, JAXA, ROSCOSMOS, CSA, CNSA, KARI, and UAESA.
Back on Earth, there are actually multiple technology development races currently underway, including for autonomous cars, autonomous air taxis, drone delivery services, robotic satellite services (including orbit adjustment & on-orbit repairs), robotic lunar mining, and collaborative industrial robotics. Developers must solve the technical challenges of systems integration, safety, and security, while navigating all the expected business and regulatory challenges.
PLANETARY ROBOTICS: We've helped to win Mars 2020 robotics work with JPL, as well as multi-divisional engineering services contracts there. We've also worked with staff at other NASA facilities including Johnson, Goddard, Ames, Langley, and NASA HQ. ’Perseverance’ and ‘Ingenuity’ photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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We are
a U.S. Small Business, originally established as a California Corporation but now a Washington State Limited Liability Company, with affiliates in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
We are a DDTC-registered broker & exporter of defense articles, related technical data, and defense services for multiple categories on the U.S. Munitions List (ITAR Part 121). We have staff cleared to U.S. DoD SECRET; higher / other clearance is obtainable with sponsorship. DUNS: 081231779 CAGE Code: 842S5
