DESTROY THE KILL CHAIN.
At the human, not the hardware.
Passive RF targeting capability for small UAS.
Passive RF Targeting
A passive sensor tunable across multiple bands of interest. No emissions. Picks out emitter signatures of interest in cluttered environments.
Operator-Level Targeting
Direction-of-arrival pushed to the autopilot. The pilot sees a live bearing cue and signal strength. Detection and targeting collapse into one motion.
Host-Agnostic Integration
Group 1-3 SWaP-compatible. UART / MAVLink / ArduPilot. Fits the airframes the maneuver unit already flies, plus tethered hosts for RF-denied environments.
Compact. Host-agnostic. Passive.
Helicon's payload lives on the airframes the maneuver unit already flies. Passive front-end. On-board signal processing. Real-time bearing to source. The aircraft stays silent in the RF spectrum — there is nothing to triangulate against.
Field-tested payload. Qualified partners welcome. Technical detail — frequency coverage, mass and power, target signature set, integration data — is available to qualified U.S. government and prime-contractor partners under non-disclosure.
Vehicle-organic. Maneuver-organic. UAV-organic.
Designed to live where the maneuver unit lives. Small-UAS host overhead. Tethered host for RF-denied environments. Vehicle-mast deployments where the airframe is the persistent layer above the ground vehicle.
U.S. Marine Corps photo · public domain.
For qualified DoD program offices, primes, and partners.
Engagement
We engage with qualified DoD program offices, prime contractors, and partners on evaluation, integration, and co-development at sponsor facilities.
DoD acquisition vehicles available to Phase II performers. Path to additional bands of interest in coordination with sponsor.
Compliance & control
ITAR-aware. Qualified partners only. SAM.gov / CAGE registration in progress for direct standing. DoD acquisition framework aligned.
Public-facing material only. Technical detail — including capability brief, one-pager, and integration data — is available to qualified partners under non-disclosure. Request access →
Built by operators who’ve done it before.
Helicon Defense is led by David Sherrer, founder and CEO. David is a deep-tech operator with two prior defense-electronics exits: NuvoTronics (founder & CEO, 2008–2018, acquired by Cubic Corporation) and Haleos (acquired by Rohm & Haas, 2002). He holds 125+ issued U.S. patents across RF, microwave packaging, and advanced materials.
Helicon’s technical team brings deep RF systems engineering, autopilot integration experience, and operational test backgrounds. Detailed team backgrounds and capability provenance are available under non-disclosure to qualified U.S. government and prime-contractor partners.
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