Defense tech startups in El Segundo

Mass-produces low-cost Archer FPV strike drones and the Bandit interceptor with a vertically integrated, NDAA-compliant component stack.

Runs highly automated precision machining factories that produce aerospace, missile and submarine components for primes and the US Navy.

Develops a low-cost, ground-launched missile interceptor to defeat drones and missiles, building most subsystems in house.

Builds Legion, an open integration and data fusion layer that connects sensors, effectors and autonomous systems from different vendors.

Develops uncrewed high-Mach aircraft and turbine-based combined cycle propulsion, flying the Quarterhorse series toward supersonic and Mach 3 flight for defense customers.

Develops high-temperature resins, carbon-carbon thermal protection and composite materials for hypersonic glide bodies, rocket motors and aircraft.

Builds orbital capsules that reenter Earth's atmosphere, used for in-space manufacturing and as recoverable hypersonic flight testbeds for the Air Force.

Builds software-defined electronic warfare hardware and software, including the Wraith airborne EW platform, to contest the electromagnetic spectrum.

Provides space domain awareness data, a global optical sensor network and the Beacon coordination tool for government and commercial satellite operators.

Runs a digital investment casting foundry that prints casting patterns from design files to make superalloy parts without hard tooling.