Top Austin, TX Defense Companies (9)
Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do. As a leading aerospace, defense, and security company, we work together to deliver a full range of products and services for air, land, space, and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. How we work is rooted in purpose – a purpose to protect those who protect us, to unite our community of colleagues and customers, and to drive forward the growth and development of our exceptional team members. It's where purpose connects.
AI is driving a new Industrial Revolution. But most AI tools only work when the world looks the same tomorrow as it did yesterday. That's rarely the case. Striveworks was formed to fix this problem. Our platform lets teams build AI models, deploy them into unpredictable environments, and watch them deliver trustworthy results—day after day. Our approach has transformed AI outcomes for organizations where failure is never an option. As a result, Striveworks was recognized as an exemplar in the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Final Report. In 2023, Striveworks placed on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as one of the most rapidly growing technology companies in North America. In 2024, Striveworks was honored with a Built In Best Places to Work award—for the third year running.
York provides complete solutions for mission design, spacecraft, launch, ground, and operations. York offers complete mission solutions for both government and Fortune 500 companies from cyber-secure globally connected communications, to earth observation, and dedicated analytics platform streams. Today, York is one of the most innovative aerospace companies, specializing in both end-to-end customer solutions and the manufacturing of spacecraft platforms.
Dispel's flagship product, the Dispel Zero Trust Engine (ZTE), simplifies secure remote access, data streaming, micro-segmentation, and ongoing threat detection for industrial control systems and cyber-physical environments. An award-winning platform, Dispel has also received industry recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and Forrester New Wave Leader. Founded in 2015, Dispel pioneered the first network-level moving target defense SD-WANs and holds over 42 patents across networking, access control, managed attribution, and zero trust. Today Dispel has grown to enable the every day; protecting over 50% of the baby formula made in the U.S., 1 in 5 non-alcoholic beverages in America, utilities for over 54 million people, and over $500 billion in annual manufacturing globally. We work with industrials, utilities, manufacturing, military and government markets around the world through partner channels. Over the past nine years, Dispel has developed a mature and well-tested zero trust platform for cyber physical system (CPS) with over 2 million hours of successful operations. Dispel’s all-in-one platform supports clients aligning their processes with cybersecurity frameworks including IEC 62443; NIST 800-53, 800-82, 800-160 Volume 2; NERC-CIP; and CMMC. Available in SaaS, customer cloud, or fully on-premises deployments, Dispel includes simple, robust, and secure features including: multi-factor authentication, zero trust architecture, moving target defense, time-based access, end-to-end encryption, granular access controls, real time monitoring and alerts, session recording & dual sessions, and password vaulting. Clients receive support through our U.S. operations team. At the [Dispel Enterprise Academy](https://dispel.com/training) users, administrators, and partners earn Dispel Certifications and receive comprehensive training. For more details on our platform, please visit: https://dispel.com/products/zero-trust-access
Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform.
Mach Industries is a defense manufacturing company that deploys advanced aircraft to greatly increase military capability. Headquartered in Huntington Beach, California and backed by leading venture firms such as Sequoia Capital and Bedrock Capital, Mach Industries is an engineering-obsessed team pursuing focused product bets to create value for the defense customer. They are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security. Mach Industries is committed to vertically integrated manufacturing that ensures supply chain resiliency and accelerates the pace of defense innovation.
Allen Control Systems is a defense technology company for a new era of drone warfare and to completely change battlefield economics. ACS is developing counter-drone robotic gun systems targeted at neutralizing attacking drone swarms, drones that are pre-programmed with AI, and drones that are non-jammable. ACS was created to lower the cost per kill of a drone to a few dollars. We do this by combining cutting-edge hardware and software that allows us to point an inexpensive gun that already exists in the field more accurately than anyone ever has before. ACS is a remote organization, with our HQ in Austin, Texas, and an office in Alexandria, Va. If you're passionate about our mission, we’d love to hear from you.
ATX Defense is the first management consultancy focused on serving the defense and national security community in Austin, Texas. Founded by two former Texas National Guard combat veterans, we have over 50 years of national security experience across the Army, Navy, Air Force, NSA and CIA. We combine this with over 25 years of management consulting experience to give us unique “dual-fluency” in both the private sector and government. This allows us to transform mission-critical government operations with industry best practices.
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Umbra builds next-generation space systems that observe the Earth in unprecedented fidelity. Our mission: Deliver global omniscience. To stay ahead of climate change, geopolitical risk, and other major crises and issues, we need a global understanding of what is changing, where, and how fast. Umbra provides easy access to the highest quality commercial satellite data available, which is an indispensable tool for the growing number of organizations monitoring the Earth. We empower our customers to create the solutions that inform, inspire, and address our planet’s most pressing needs. We’re helping to create a brand new industry that has never meaningfully existed before.
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