08 Focus Area In development
A damaged aircraft that has to ship back to a depot is an aircraft your operation does not have. Every airframe we build is fixed wing, printed in house, and designed so a broken boom, tail, or wing section is replaced from a printer near the flight line, and the aircraft is back up the same day.
01 Airframes
We build fixed wing aircraft only. No multirotors, no hybrids. What changes between the three is span, launch method, and endurance; the printed structure and the payload interface are common, so a sensor moves between airframes without a redesign. These are design targets for current development articles rather than delivered performance.
| Airframe | Type | Design emphasis | Typical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND-S | Fixed wing, hand launched | Low weight, launched and recovered by one operator | Small area survey, rapid response imagery, dismounted teams |
| ND-W | Fixed wing, catapult launched | Range and endurance per unit of energy | Long corridor survey, area reconnaissance, patrol |
| ND-M | Fixed wing, shipboard launch and recovery | Catapult launch and arrested recovery, no prepared strip | Maritime and remote operations from a vessel or a clearing |
Optical, thermal, and RF packages on a common interface, so a mission change is a payload swap rather than a different aircraft.
Autonomous survey and patrol routing with supervised control. Behavior on link loss is defined, tested, and documented.
Authenticated command and telemetry, signed firmware, and a ground station built by our software team.
Hand launch, catapult, and arrested recovery. Nothing in the fleet needs a runway, and nothing in it trades cruise efficiency for a vertical takeoff.
02 Missions
The pattern is the same in each case: coverage that is currently too expensive to run often enough to be useful.
Transmission corridors, pipelines, rail, levees, and coastline, inspected on a schedule instead of after a failure, and with imagery that can be compared against the last pass.
Area coverage for perimeter security, site protection, and situational awareness, flown autonomously with an operator supervising rather than piloting.
After a storm, a spill, or an incident, decisions get made on whatever imagery exists. Getting current imagery in the first hours changes the decision.
Aircraft operating from or alongside our uncrewed surface vessels, extending sensor reach beyond what a hull-mounted sensor can see.
03 Principles
The same three commitments govern our satellite and maritime programs.
Printing the structure collapses the distance between a design change and a flying article. Short build cycles keep the fleet current instead of frozen at the date it was ordered, and a print file with a spool at the operating location replaces a depot return and a shipping window.
These platforms are collection assets. What they gather lands in the same evidence store and command view that runs our cyber operations work, so imagery and signal reach an analyst in usable form.
We build these as a security company. Firmware, command links, and supply chain are treated as attack surface from the first print rather than patched after delivery.
Program status The aerial program is in active development. We are talking with agencies, utilities, infrastructure operators, and integrators about pilot programs, payload requirements, and the regulatory path for the operations they have in mind.
Talk to the Program Team→ Next Step
Tell us the area, the sensor, and how often it needs looking at. We will be clear about where the program stands.
