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Autonomous Systems / Mission Software / Defense Hardware
DERECHO develops autonomous platforms, rocket hardware, responder systems, subsea technologies, and mission software for demanding and disconnected operating environments.
Capability reel · Concept segments AI-generated and illustrative · Includes development and test footage · No government endorsement or operational fielding implied.
01 / Autonomous Air System
STRIX
One common airframe, multiple mission configurations, hot-swappable propulsion stacks. Designed to fly as a group. First flight-test articles in fabrication.
Portfolio
01
A modular autonomous aircraft designed for distributed sensing, communications relay, and mission-configurable payload integration.
View STRIX
02
A modular rocket hardware program focused on rapid development, manufacturability, and mission-configurable system design.
View FARSIDE
03
A connected responder system designed to improve firefighter awareness, equipment status, and team-level coordination in demanding environments.
View SENTINEL V
04
An AI pilot and autonomy layer intended to support supervised flight, mission execution, and coordinated operation across compatible platforms.
View PERCH
05
Subsea mission and autonomy software designed to support sensing, navigation, coordination, and operator awareness below the surface.
View ABYSSAL
06
A resilient networking and coordination layer for distributed platforms, sensors, and mission systems.
View FORGEMESH
07
A distributed communications architecture intended to extend connectivity between platforms, operators, and sensing layers across wide operating areas.
View ASTERISM
08
Squad Ammunition Awareness
A tactical armament-awareness family, passive weapon sensing designed to give operators, leaders, and armories live ammunition and usage truth from the individual weapon to the formation.
View SAA
Products, configurations, capabilities, and mission imagery shown may be developmental, illustrative, or notional and are subject to change.
Integrated Architecture
DERECHO is developing shared autonomy and networking layers intended to connect compatible platforms, sensors, and operators, so sensing, decision, and reach compound instead of fragmenting across vendors.
Network governance designed to move on board the spacecraft.
Resilient mesh governance across platforms, sensors, and operators.
Physical systems and worn sensing at the edge of the network.
Operating Domains
Runway-independent autonomous aircraft operating as distributed groups.
STRIX · PERCH
Modular rocket hardware built for rapid iteration.
FARSIDE
Body-worn sensing and team awareness for firefighters and first responders.
SENTINEL V
Weapon-integrated sensing that gives leaders awareness without new burden.
SAA · BHC
Mission autonomy designed for the most disconnected domain there is.
ABYSSAL
Network governance designed to move on board the spacecraft.
ASTERISM
A resilient mesh layer that assumes degradation is inevitable.
FORGEMESH · OVERWATCH
Quantum / Cyber
Field-disturbance motif, illustrative. Research and integration architecture; no quantum payload exists.
DERECHO is developing modular airborne integration, sensor fusion, resilient networking, and space-extension architectures for emerging quantum sensing and timing technologies, with STRIX as the airborne integration platform, FORGEMESH as the mission cyber and network layer, and ASTERISM as the space extension.
The integration wedge
Sensor → Platform → Fusion → Network → Operator → Space
Quantum sensors excel in laboratories and struggle on aircraft. DERECHO’s work is the architecture in between.
Research & integration architecture · Systems in development
Space / Cislunar
DERECHO is developing rocket hardware and an extended-network architecture for focused cislunar mission concepts, including relay governance for the lunar far side, where no direct line of sight to Earth exists.
Concept mission thread
FARSIDE → RELAY
A notional pathway from FARSIDE rocket hardware to an ASTERISM-governed relay layer. Design intent, not a service.
Notional architecture · Systems in development · Not to scale
Build Evidence
DERECHO builds physical hardware. Rocket articles and sensor prototypes exist as objects you can hold, not only as renders.
Armament Intelligence
Air
Ground
Maritime
Representative host systems · U.S. government photographs · No endorsement implied · DERECHO technology not shown installed.
Passive external sensing, edge classification, and resilient data movement for armament readiness; ammunition awareness, condition-based maintenance, usage records, and munitions sustainment across air, ground, maritime, and stockpile environments.
SAA
Tactical armament awareness
BHC-81
81mm tube-health collar
Sense · Classify · Move. Nothing inside the bore, no fire-control interface. Systems in development.
Mission Software
An AI pilot and autonomy layer intended to support supervised flight, mission execution, and coordinated operation across compatible platforms.
View PERCH
Subsea mission and autonomy software designed to support sensing, navigation, coordination, and operator awareness below the surface.
View ABYSSAL
A resilient networking and coordination layer for distributed platforms, sensors, and mission systems.
View FORGEMESH
A distributed communications architecture intended to extend connectivity between platforms, operators, and sensing layers across wide operating areas.
View ASTERISM
Mission Context
Some imagery on this website is rendered, illustrative, or produced with AI-assisted tools and may depict concepts rather than completed capabilities, conducted tests, or actual operations.
Mission
DERECHO builds integrated hardware and software intended to increase the speed, awareness, reach, and resilience of operators in demanding environments.
Platforms and the software that governs them are designed as one portfolio, not assembled from separate vendors.
Every product assumes denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited connectivity as the baseline, not the exception.
Development status is stated honestly. Concept, prototype, and fabrication are labeled as what they are.
Design-build-test loops measured in days, using manufacturing methods chosen for change.
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