The Combine
Defense-tech companies building for the mission. Filter by mission area, funding stage, and technology readiness.
83 companies
DataSoft Corp.
Secure wireless communications at tactical edge
Genesis Codes Inc
Move data faster (10X throughput, 10% latency), safer and more resiliently, in challenging networks.
RelayNexus
Exposure of submarines when needing to surface every 11 hours increase signature exposure and Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV) using tethered systems have limited depth and mobility capacity.
XR 2 LEAD LLC
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Cachai
They're making lots of drones, and they're making each individual drone very smart, but there's no distributed nervous system that turns a group of individual maneuvering drones into the problem-solving unit of adaptive capability that would constitute a swarm.
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Carolina Unmanned Vehicles Inc.
providing wide area (60 miles) persistent C3, EW, surveillance in a mobile configuration, with low manpower, logistics and C-130 transportabilty
Desert Rotor
Interoperability Across Platforms, Multi-Domain Operations (MDO), Next-Generation 5G / SATCOM, Operational Efficiency & Reduced Cognitive Load
Duality Systems
Inefficient manpower and resource allocation (complex scheduling)
Dunedain
AI accelerated workflows for staff and line units
Hadron Industries
Multi Domain Collaboration
Mythos AI
The US needs robust, field-proven systems that reduce reliance on large crews and improve real-time decision-making and resilience across the fleet.
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BestDefense, Inc
Slow, costly, and complex red team operations and long mean-time to remediation of critical vulnerabilities in mission critical software and infrastructure
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Confidencial Inc.
High-profile breaches show perimeter defenses aren't enough. Zero Trust helps, but adoption is slow and rarely focuses on the core issue - your data.
Flagged Inc.
Phishing, business email compromise, social engineering scams, and zero day vulnerabilities across multiple communication systems.
High Entropy Security
Securing cryptographic keys in jammed, Zero-Trust environments
Jericho Security
Defensive & Offensive Social Engineering
Kindo
Kindo’s Chat Actions automate workflows—no code or middleware needed. Agents act, not just watch, with built-in governance and auditability.
Lionfish Cyber Security
The DoD faces a 28,000-person cyber talent gap. Lionfish recruits and trains college students in CMMC/CCP, deploys them to help the DoD supply chain with compliance, then transitions them into DoD cyber roles — building the next generation of mission-ready defenders.
Lymbic AI
Deepfakes
NetCentrics Corporation
The lack of unified, real-time, and mission-relevant visibility across diverse and distributed assets — especially in low-bandwidth, intermittent, or denied communications environments.
ARES Security
Physical security for fixed / expeditionary sites is challenged by evolving threats (ie Ukrainian attack on 40 Russian A/C) and personnel shortages.
Corvus Industries
Group 1 and 2 drones that are impervious to EW and drone swarms
DigitalCM LLC
DOD training faces challenges with time, funding, standards, and consistency. Our solution ensures standardized, reliable access.
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EM Sektet
Propulsion in space. Refueling, maneuvering, space combat
Kinard Technologies
Small UAS and FPVs that threaten to tactically and strategically defeat the US
Nighthawk Integrated Solutions LLC
Deployable 3D Interior Tracking System for Personnel and Equipment to within structures with 1 meter accuracy
O Analytics
Limited capability to detect and classify unknown space objects in real-time.
Photon-X, Inc.
Passive threat detection and ranging and equipment inspection
Safire Technology Group
The modern battlefield is rapidly becoming more electrified—but the energy systems powering it are outdated.
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Swarmbotics AI
Attritable, Autonomous UGV Swarms
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X-Hab 3D, Inc.
The DoD lacks rapid construction capability for ACE in the Indo-Pacific; labor and logistics intensive, transport constraints.
Dev Technology Group
Any IT related problem
Intelligenic
The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is highly manual, resulting in inefficiencies, high costs, and long delivery times.
Kinnami
Kinnami AmiShare enables secure, resilient data sharing and access in contested, disconnected, and multi-domain defense environments.
Nooks
Classified access for startups and Defense Industrial Base overall
Radius Method
Most DoD programs lack a secure AI software factory capable of delivering compliant, governable agentic workflows at mission speed.
Trackable Health AI
Enhancing lethality
Anuma Aerospace Corporation
Limited endurance and loiter of aerial ISR sensors.
Ardent MC
Too much data for analysts to find what they're looking for and connect the dots
Decisive
Integration of disparate data sources, sensors, formats, and algorithms to empower decision advantage at the
Divergent Space Technologies
NTM Overhead is not widely available to the Warfighter. Access to USG paid for Commercial Proliferated Systems offer a "Persistent Stare" over the INDOPACOM AOR.
HI-Spectral
Traditional high-perf snapshot hyperspectral systems are too large to deploy on drones and cubesats
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LeVanta Tech Inc.
Persistent rough sea float combined with high speed flight
Leviathan Air
Moving cargo and mission specific payloads quickly long distance over oceans, esspecally in Indo Pacom. But without the need for runways.
Optimized Optics, Inc.
Designing better optical systems, from laser communications to sensors for self-driving cars
Stitch3D
Stitch3D brings 3D point clouds and geospatial data to the web with tools for storage, visualization, analytics, and collaboration.
Ulysses
Coasts/subsea assets are exploited/damaged; fleets lack affordable, persistent, scalable surface-and-subsea surveillance and intervention solutions.
Zephr.xyz Inc.
There is a lack of low bandwidth and low profile capabilities to map jamming/spoofing areas of impact and locate emitters for targeting.
Bayes Edge
The problem is to deliver ordinance accurately in offensive and insurgent operations. Single drones are more susceptible to known countermeasures.
BlackBox Energy Systems
Need for better, lighter, quiet, thermally efficient motors for drones made in the USA
Infinite Composites, Inc.
Enabling vehicles to travel further, faster, or carry more payload by reducing the weight and increasing capacity of pressurized fuel storage tanks.
Modular Misfits
Kill chains fail in contested environments because fires can’t be coordinated fast across services, systems, or degraded comms.
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Pulse Space
latency of data gathering in space and point-to-point transit time in delivering effects.
Sheridan Technologies
Warfighters in GPS-denied, RF-contested environments lack autonomous ISR and counter-UAS intercept capability that doesn’t rely on satellite navigation or remote piloting.
Spectrum Defense Systems
EW training and deception ops lack low-cost, modular emitters that flexibly emulate diverse RF signals. Current systems are expensive, rigid, and slow to deploy, limiting realistic, adaptive threat replication in dynamic environments.
ZeroMark, Inc.
America has overmatch everywhere but the trigger where our warfighters still fight peer-to-peer.
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AEROSENS
AEROSENS transform readiness with smart sensors, real-time tracking, tamper alerts, and instant digital inspections, even without connectivity.
Agventure Tech INC
We provide light duty autonomous utility vehicles for quick deploy perimeter defense, casualty med evac, and supply distribution.
Alitheon, Inc.
Eliminating counterfeits and gray market items from entering DoD; streamlining inventory management; reducing human error from misidentification
BKPK, Inc.
Silent, portable power for dispersed ops where generators are loud, fuel is risky, and legacy systems can’t keep up.
Dmaterial IP, LLC.
Most vehicles can’t quickly evacuate casualties or carry bulk cargo without pre-installed systems, delaying missions and endangering lives.
ElectricFish Energy Inc
Aging grid, soaring AI/eVTOL peak loads, and fuel-heavy genset stopgaps leave bases without rapid, resilient power.
EvoLux Transportation, LLC
Optimizing air mobility logistics and modernizing user experience interfaces for DoD Personnel to improve scheduling and efficiencies
Gallatin AI
Gallatin is aiming to establish logistics decision dominance for the US military and our allies.
Helical Solar
Extend generator to five 9's reliability (99.999%) uptime while minimizing fuel consumption/recurring maintenance and mitigating fuel shortage events.
Husmann Technolgies
Problem: Automate mechanical systems monitoring and understanding.
Quantum Research Sciences
Heuristics are ubiquitously used to guesstimate solutions. Our tech ends reliance on this inaccurate "guessing" to quickly deliver exact answers.
Rune Aero
Moving air cargo in contested in infrastructure-limited environments
Sentient Science
Implementation of additively manufactured parts for aerospace is significantly hampered by lack of process insight and in-situ quality controls
Skyline Nav AI, Inc.
Determining precise location is extremely challenging when GPS, cellular, and Wi-Fi signals are unavailable, unreliable, or jammed.
Sunnoo
In the electrified battlefield, fuel dependence, detectability, and power disruption are putting missions and lives at risk. Sunnoo solves this by delivering reliable, off-grid energy that keeps warfighters powered, protected, and operational and empowers decision-making superiority.
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300 Below Inc.
Reliability, double weapons life, double engine life, double brake life, double pump life, double electric motor life. 200% gains for 20% cost.
Airtrek Robotics
Wingwalking and FOD walks consume significant manpower, yet human errors in manual handling cause damage, impacting the defense fleet readiness.
Defense Unicorns
Software deployment from enterprise to DDIL edge environments
FibrX
FibrX solves the problem of hidden structural degradation—like corrosion and fatigue—by providing real-time fiber optic monitoring that prevents mission failures, reduces maintenance costs, and extends asset life across all domains
Motibera, Inc.
Motibera is addressing critical reliability and acoustic stealth limitations of electric motors by replacing conventional bearings with fully integrated magnetic levitation systems.
Redshred
Redshred improves readiness by using AI to enable digital transformation of documents into data for maintenance, sustainment, and operations.
SynapseMX
We help maintenance teams work better together to get assets back in the air sooner
Ultraview AI
Class A/B mishaps are up 10% as maintainer losses grow. Ultraview fills the gap with automated, expert-level aircraft inspections.